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Maria HelgueraResearch Interests

Maria HelgueraMedical imaging system characterization

Ultrasound tissue characterization

Digital image processing

Non-destructive evaluation techniques



Assistant Professor

BS Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1984
MS Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester, 1990
PhD Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1999


Room 76-2100


585-475-7053
585-475-4568 (fax)



54 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623


Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 March 2008 )

Publications

  • Baum, K.G., Helguera, M., Krol, A. Development of a Tool for Multimodality Fusion Visualization and Dynamic Range Adjustment Journal of Digital Imaging, In Press. (2008)
  • Baum, K. G.; Helguera, M.; Krol, A. A New Application for Displaying and Fusing Multimodal Data Sets Multimodal Biomedical Imaging II, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6431, 64310Y (2007)
  • Krol, A.; Lisi, M.; Joy, S.; Kort, K.; Feiglin, D. H.; Magri, A.; Tiwari, N.S.; Fawcett, J.; Baum, K. G.; Helguera, M. Fusion of SPECT and MRI Images for Improved Localization of Parathyroid Adenomas in Patients with Persistent or Recurrent Hyperparathyroidism Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 48, Supplement 2, pp. 155 (abstract) (2007)
  • Baum, K. G.; Helguera, M. Distributed Wrapper for SimSET Monte Carlo PET/SPECT Simulator Journal of Digital Imaging, Vol. 20, Supplement 1, 72-82 (2007)
  • Rafferty, K.; Baum, K. G.; Schmidt, E.; Krol, A.; Helguera, M. Multimodal Display Techniques with Application to Breast Imaging RIT Digital Medial Library (2007)
  • Baum, K. G.; Schmidt, E.; Rafferty, K.; Helguera, M.; Feiglin, D. H.; Krol, A. Investigation of PET/MRI Image Fusion Schemes for Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, IEEE, Vol. 5, pp. 3774-3780 (2007)
  • Panandiker, R. P.; Helguera, M.; Varela, B.; Rao, N. A. H. K.; Phillips, D.; Arney, J. Ultrasonic Characterization of the Curing of Powder Coating Films Based on their tan(d) Ultrasonics Symposium, Proceedings of IEEE, pp. 42-46 (2007)
  • Baum, K.G., Helguera, M. Distributed Wrapper for SimSet Monte-Carlo PET/SPECT Simulator Journal of Digital Imaging, September (2007)
  • Arney, J.; Helguera, M.; Pelz, J.; Pow, J. Imaging in the Physical Sciences Kendall/Hunt (2006)
  • Helguera, M Rotational Transform Assisted Correlation Filtering for Feature Extraction in Medical Imaging Applications Course material developed for Derek Walvoord, 1st and 2nd quarters (2006)
  • Helguera, M. Medical Imaging and What Lies Ahead Advanced Imaging Magazine, September 2006 (2006)
  • Helguera, M.; Arney, J.; Zollo, D. Non-Contact Ultrasound Characterization of Paper Substrates 9th. European NDT conference, Proceedings of the (2006)
  • Baum, K. G.; Helguera, M.; Krol, A. Genetic Algorithm Automated Generation of Multivariate Color Tables for Visualization of Multimodal Medical Data Sets Fourteenth Color Imaging Conference, Proceedings IS&T/SID’s, pp. 138-143 (2006)
  • Panandiker, R. P.; Rao, N. A. H. K.; Helguera, M. Post Curing Characterization of Powder Coated Plates Using Non-Contact and High Frequency Immersion Ultrasound Proceedings 3 rd. U.S.-Japan Symposium on Advancing Applications and Capabilities in NDE (2005)
  • Helguera, M; Rao, N.A.H.K On the Role of Narrow Bandwidth Excitation and Resolution Cell Volume in the Study of Tissue Microstructure Analysis with Ultrasound Submitted to Physics in Medicine and Biology (2003). (2003)
  • Rao, N; Barbu-McInnis, M; Helguera, M Diffraction Limited 3D Cell Volume Derivation for Scattering Data Analysis Medical Imaging 2002: Ultrasonic Imaging and Signal Processing, SPIE, Vol. 4687, pp. 334-344 (2002) (2002)
  • Rao, N; Helguera, M Tissue Microstructure Analysis with Multiple Bandwidth Ultrasound Excitation Signals IIT-Madras Conf. Proc., Ed. M. Singh, pp.284-293 (2000) (2000)
  • Rao, N;Venkatraman, S; Helguera, M On understanding the relationship between ultrasound speckle and scattering microstructure Acoustical Imaging, Vol. 23, pp.391-398 (1997) (1997)
  • Rao, N; Helguera, M A Multibandwidth Probing Method for Tissue Scattering Microstructure Characterization IEEE International Ultrason. Symp. Proc., 2, pp.1193-1196(1997) (1997)
  • Helguera, M.; Castro, T. et al. Direct measurements of NO2 Photolysis rates for Mexico City Atmósfera, UNAM, 1995. (1995)
  • Helguera, M.; Castro, T. et al. Experimental determination of the photolysis constant of nitrogen dioxide for Mexico City Pollution Control and Monitoring. Air Pollution II, Vol. 2, Computational Mechanics Publications, pp. 277-282. Sept. (1994)
  • Helguera, M.; et al. Quantitative Measures of Backscatter from Human Skeletal Muscle: Changes with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 13 (abstract) (1991)
  • Helguera, M.; Mottley, J. Quantitative Change in Ultrasonic Backscatter from Human Skeletal Muscle with Contraction Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 12, (abstract) (1990)
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