Minerva homepage: Marc Niethammer

Brigham and Women's Hospital Surgical Planning Laboratory

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Location: Boston, MA

Email: marcn@ece.gatech.edu

Marc Niethammer

Alumnus

Areas of interest

Image Processing/Visual Tracking
Signal Processing
Laser Ultrasonics
Controls

Education Background

2004, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
2002, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
2000, Dipl.-Ing. in Engineering Cybernetics, Universitaet Stuttgart
1999, M.Sc. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Curriculum-Vitae

Articles in journal or book chapters

Marc Niethammer, Christopher Zach, John Melonakos, and Allen Tannenbaum. Volumetric Segmentation of Diffusion Weighted Images by Frame Reorientation: Application to the Segmentation of Approximately Tubular Fiber Bundles. Accepted - Neuroimage, 2008.

P. Vela, M. Niethammer, G. Pryor, A. Tannenbaum, R. Butts, and D. Washburn. Knowledge-based segmentation for tracking through deep turbulence. IEEE Trans. Control Technology, 2006. Note: In Submission.

M. Niethammer, S. Betelu, G. Sapiro, A. Tannenbaum, and P. J. Giblin. Area-based medial axis of planar curves. Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computer Vision, 2004.

M. Niethammer, A. Tannenbaum, and S. Angenent. Dynamic Geodesic Snakes for Visual Tracking. Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2004.

R. Benz, M. Niethammer, S. Hurlebaus, and L. J. Jacobs. Localization of notches with Lamb waves. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(2):677--685, 2003.

S. Hurlebaus, M. Niethammer, L. J. Jacobs, and C. Valle. Automated methodology to locate notches with Lamb waves. Acoustic Research Letters Online, 2(4):97--102, 2001.

M. Niethammer, L. J. Jacobs, J. Qu, and J. Jarzynski. Time-frequency representations of Lamb waves. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5):1841--1847, 2001.

C. Valle, M. Niethammer, J. Qu, and L. J. Jacobs. Crack characterization using guided circumferential waves. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110(3):1282--1290, 2001.

M. Niethammer, L. J. Jacobs, J. Qu, and J. Jarzynski. Time-frequency representation of Lamb waves using the reassigned spectrogram. Acoustic Research Letters Online, 107:L19--L24, 2000.

Conference articles

V. Mohan, G. Sundaramoorthi, J. Melonakos, M. Niethammer, M. Kubicki, and A. Tannenbaum. Tubular Surface Evolution for Segmentation of Tubular Structures with Applications to the Cingulum Bundle From DW-MRI. In Proceedings of MICCAI Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, 2008. [PDF ]

Marc Niethammer, Christopher Zach, John Melonakos, and Allen Tannenbaum. Tubular Fiber Bundles Segmentation for Diffusion Weighted Images. In MICCAI Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, 2008. [PDF ]

Y. Rathi, S. Dambreville, M. Niethammer, J. Malcolm, J. Levitt, M. Shenton, and A. Tannenbaum. Segmenting images analytically in shape space. In SPIE Medical Imaging, 2008. [PDF ]

S. Dambreville, A. Yezzi, M. Niethammer, and A. Tannenbaum. A variational framework combining level-sets and thresholding.. In BMVC, 2007. [PDF ]

S. Dambreville, A. Yezzi, M. Niethammer, and A. Tannenbaum. A variational segmentation framework using active contours and thresholding.. In Int. Conf. on Signal and Image Processing (SIP), 2007. [PDF ]

J. Melonakos, V. Mohan, M. Niethammer, K. Smith, M. Kubicki, and A. Tannenbaum. Finsler Tractography for White Matter Connectivity of the Cingulum Bundle. In MICCAI, 2007. Springer. [PDF ]

J. Melonakos, M. Niethammer, V. Mohan, M. Kubicki, J. Miller, and A. Tannenbaum. Locally-Constrained Region-Based Methods for DW-MRI Segmentation. In Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA), 2007. [PDF ]

V. Mohan, J. Melonakos, M. Niethammer, M. Kubicki, and A. Tannenbaum. Finsler Level Set Segmentation for Imagery in Oriented Domains. In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2007. [PDF ]

Eric Pichon, Delphine Nain, and Marc Niethammer. A Laplace Equation Approach for Shape Comparison. In SPIE Medical Imaging, 2006. [PDF ]

P. Vela, M. Niethammer, J. Malcolm, and A. Tannenbaum. Closed Loop Visual Tracking Using Observer-Based Dynamic Active Contours. In Conf. on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, 2005. [PDF ]

J. Ha, C. Alvino, G. Pryor, M. Niethammer, E. Johnson, and A. Tannenbaum. Active Contours and Optical Flow for Automatic Tracking of Flying Vehicles. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2004. IEEE. Note: Accepted.

M. Niethammer and A. Tannenbaum. Dynamic Geodesic Snakes for Visual Tracking. In Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition., 2004. IEEE. Note: Accepted.

M. Niethammer, E. Pichon, A. Tannenbaum, and P. J. Mucha. A Stokes flow boundary integral measurement of tubular structure cross sections in two dimensions. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, pages 825--828, 2003. IEEE. [PDF ]

M. Niethammer and A. Tannenbaum. Dynamic level sets for visual tracking. In Proceedings of the Conference on Decision and Control, 2003. IEEE. Note: Accepted.

Eric Pichon, Marc Niethammer, and Guillermo Sapiro. Color histogram equalization through mesh deformation. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), volume 2, pages 117-120, 2003. [PDF ]

M. Niethammer, A. N. Stein, W. D. Kalies, P. Pilarczyk, K. Mischaikow, and A. Tannenbaum. Analysis of blood vessel topology by cubical homology. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, volume 2, pages 969--972, 2002. IEEE.

M. Niethammer, P. H. Menold, and F. Allgöwer. Parameter and derivative estimation for nonlinear continuous-time system identification. In Proceedings of the 5 th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Systems, NOLCOS 01, St. Petersburg, Russia, pages 691--696, 2001.