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Peter J. Yim, PhD

Assistant Professor

B.A. – PHYSICS, SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
M.S. –UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
PH.D. –UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
Post-doctoral training –NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Research Background and Interests:

Dr. Yim received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the (1997) after having received an undergraduate degree in physics from Swarthmore College in 1986 and a M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from UNC in 1992. He received post-doctoral training in the Imaging Sciences Program at the National Institutes of Health from 1998-2002. He then joined the faculty of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in the Dept. of Radiology. Dr. Yim is interested in vascular disease and the development of novel radiologic methods for assessing vascular function. His research emphasizes the role of computational methodology in diagnostic imaging. He is particularly interested in the hemodynamic aspects of vascular disease and the use of magnetic resonance imaging for making hemodynamic measurements. Potential implications for this include improvement in radiologic evaluation of carotid artery disease and renovascular disease. He is also interested in broader applications of computational methods in diagnostic imaging including improvement in the evaluation of cancer.

Publications:

Volumetric Analysis of Liver Metastases in Computed Tomography with the Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm, Peter J. Yim, Amit V. Vora, Deepak Raghavan, Ravi Prasad, Matthew McAullife, Pamela Ohman-Strickland, John L. Nosher, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Volume 30, p. 212-220, 2006.

Characterization of shear stress on the wall of the carotid artery using magnetic resonance imaging and computational fluid dynamics, Peter J. Yim, Kevin DeMarco, Marcelo A. Castro, Juan R. Cebral, Studies in Health Technologies and Informatics, Volume 113, p. 412-442, 2005.

Measurement of carotid artery stenosis with magnetic resonance imaging, Peter J. Yim, in Medical Imaging Systems Technology and Applications, edited by Leondes, CT, World Scientific Publishing Company, p. 331-350, 2005.

Metrics of carotid surface morphology, Peter J. Yim, J. Kevin DeMarco, SPIE Medical Imaging, Volume 5746, p. 792-795, 2005.

Automated detection of blood vessels using dynamic programming, Peter J. Yim, Mark Kayton, Walter Miller, S. Libutti, Peter L. Choyke, Pattern Recognition Letters, volume 24(14), p. 2471-2478, 2003

Flow and distension in the carotid artery from magnetic resonance imaging, Peter J. Yim, J. K. Demarco, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2004, vol 5369, pp. 524-528.

Multimodality image-based models of carotid artery hemodynamics (Cum Laude Poster Award) Juan R. Cebral, Christopher Putman, Richard Pergolizzi, James Burgess, Peter J. Yim, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2004, vol 5369, pp. 529-528.

Volumetry of Hepatic Metastases in Computed Tomography using the Watershed and Active Contour Algorithms, Peter J. Yim, David J. Foran, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, New York, New York, 26-27 June, 2003, pp. 329-335.

Finite element modeling of the Circle of Willis from magnetic resonance data, Juan R. Cebral, Marcelo Castro, Orlando Soto, Rainald Loehner, Peter J. Yim, Noam Alperin, Proceedings of SPIE 2003, volume 5031, pp. 11-21.

The Watershed and Skeletonization of Angiography, Peter J. Yim, Desok Kim, Peter L. Choyke, Proceedings of SPIE 2003, volume 5032, pp. 1685-1698.

Blood Flow Modeling in Carotid Arteries with Computational Fluid Dynamics and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Juan R. Cebral, Peter J. Yim, Rainald Löhner, Orlando Soto, Peter L. Choyke, Academic Radiology, Volume 9, p. 1286, 2002

Vessel Surface Reconstruction with a Tubular Deformable Model, Yim PJ, Cebral J, Mullick R, Choyke PJ., IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 20: 1411-1421, 2001.

Merging of Intersecting Triangulations for Finite Element Modeling, Cebral J, Lohner R, Choyke P, Yim PJ. Journal of Biomechanics, Volume 34:815-819,2001.

Hepatic MR Angiography: A Multiobserver Comparison of Visualization Methods, Choyke PL, Yim PJ, Marcos H, Mullick R, Summers R, Ho V, American Journal of Roentgenology, Volume 176:465-470, 2001.

Gray-scale skeletonization of small vessels in magnetic resonance angiograms, Yim PJ, Summers RM, Choyke PL, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Volume 19(6), p568-576, 2000.

Diastolic shape of the right ventricle of the heart, Yim PJ, Ha B, Branch CA, Henry GW, Johnson TA, Lucas CL, The Anatomical Record, Volume 250, pages 316-324, 1998.

Helical CT of Von Hippel-Lindau: Semi Automated Segmentation of Renal Lesions, Summers RM, Agcaoili CML, McAuliffe MJ, Dalal SS, Yim PJ, Choyke PL., Walther MM, Linehan M., IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, Thessalonika, Greece.

New Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics of Carotid Artery From Magnetic Resosnance Angiography, Cebral JR, Yim PJ, Lohner R, Soto O, Marcos H and Choyke PL, Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging, Vol. 4321, pp. 177-187, 2001.

Patient-Specific Simulation of Carotid Artery Stenting Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Cebral JR, Lohner R, Soto O, Choyke PL and Yim PJ, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 153-160, 2001.

Accurate Reconstruction of Vessels from MR Images, Cebral JR, Lohner R, Yim PJ, International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, Volume 3, (2) 2001 http://www.ee.tut.fi/rgi/ijbem/volume3/number2/cebral/index.htm.

Detection of Blood Vessels for Radio-Frequency Ablation Treatment Planning, Yim PJ, Marcos HB, Choyke PL, Hvizda JL, Libutti SK, Wood BJ, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 123-126, 2001.

Registration of Time-Series Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Images for Renography, Yim PJ, Marcos HB, McAuliffe, McGarry D, Heaton I, Choyke PL, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, pp. 516-520, 2001.

On the Modeling of Carotid Artery Blood Flow From Magnetic Resonance Images, Cebral JR, Lohner R, Soto O and Yim PJ, Proc. ASME-BED Bioengineering Conference, vol. 50, 2001.

Interpretation of Arterial Velocity Waveforms, Yim PJ, Cebral JR, Löhner R, Soto O, Marcos H, Choyke PL, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 4321, pp. 81-91, 2001.

Vesselize:A system for analysis and visualization of magnetic resonance angiography, Yim PJ, Mullick R, Choyke PL, Journal of Digital Imaging, Volume 13, (S-1), pp. 219-220, 2000.

Measurement of stenosis from magnetic resonance angiography using vessel skeletons, Yim, PJ, Mullick R, Summers RM, Marcos H, Cebral JR, Lohner R, Choyke PL, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 3978, pp. 245-255, 2000.

Analytic surface reconstruction by local threshold estimation in the case of simple intensity contrasts, Yim PJ, Summers RM, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 3660, pp. 288-300, 1999.

High-resolution four-dimensional surface reconstruction of the right ventricle and pulmonary arteries, Yim PJ, Kim D, Lucas CL, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 3038, pp.726-738, 1998.

Intuitive modeling of right ventricular shape, Yim PJ, Ha B, Branch CA, Henry GW, Johnson TA, Lucas CL, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 3033, pp. 373-382, 1997.