Professor William E. Higgins
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Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering 209F Electrical Engineering West Telephone (814) 865-0186 E-MAIL weh2@psu.edu |
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Vitae
To see information on Dr. Higgins's laboratory, visit: Dr. Higgins works in the areas of image processing, computer vision, and scientific visualization. His work focuses on applications in 3D medical imaging, radiology, 3D cardiopulmonary imaging, and endoscopy. His current primary emphasis is on virtual endoscopy and image-guided therapy systems. His laboratory has received considerable funding from the National
Institutes of Health, the Whitaker Foundation, the National Science
Foundation, and private industry. The laboratory has developed a number of
interactive software systems for medical image analysis and image-guided intervention
system. These systems constitute an integrated environment for 3D medical
image analysis/visualization and virtual endoscopic exploration. These
efforts have led to many publications and have received national attention in
magazines such as Scientific American and Business Week. His group has also
done much fundamental work in the areas of image segmentation, texture
analysis, mathematical morphology, image registration, edge detection, volume
rendering, 3D image interpolation, and image enhancement. His laboratory also
maintains a collaboration with the Dr. Higgins came to Penn State in 1989. Prior to 1989, he was a principal
research fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (1987-1989), and he was a
principal research scientist at the Honeywell Systems and Research Center,
Minneapolis, MN (1984-1987). He received the B.S. degree in electrical
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, He is affiliated with the Computer Science and Engineering department and the Bioengineering program. He teaches courses in image processing, computer vision, and signal processing. |