Nathan Cahill

Nathan Cahill's picture

Research Details

Research Interests
Image Computing
  • Image Alignment and Stitching
  • 3-D Medical Image Registration
  • Variational Techniques and Partial Differential Equations for Image Processing

Personal Information

Contact Information
nathan.cahill@mail.rit.edu
Room: 08-3350
585-475-5144
585-475-6627 (fax)

85 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
Title and Degrees
Associate Professor, RIT School of Mathematical Sciences
Extended Faculty, RIT Informatics PhD Program

DPhil Engineering Science, University of Oxford, 2009
MS Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2000
BS Applied Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1997
Personal Web Page
http://people.rit.edu/ndcsma/
Other details
Previous Work Experience
  • Principal Scientist, Eastman Kodak Company (1996-2007)
  • Principal Scientist, Carestream Health, Inc. (2007-2009)

Publications

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

    Chen, B.; Vodacek, A.; Cahill, N.D., A Novel Adaptive Scheme for Evaluating Spectral Similarity in High-resolution Urban Scenes., IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 6, 3, pp. 1376-1385 (2013)

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Cahill, N.D.; Kiehl, K...; Pearlson, G.; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., ICA-fNORM: spatial normalization of fMRI data using intrinsic group-ICA networks, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 5, 00093 (2011)

    Cahill, N.D.; Narayan, D.A., Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers as Tridiagonal Matrix Determinants, Fibonacci Quarterly, 42, 3, pp. 216-221 (2004)

    Chen; Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Toward Effectively Generating Environment Maps, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 12, 2, pp. 342-354 (2003)

    Cahill, N.D.; D'Errico, J.R.; Spence, J.P., Complex Factorizations of the Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers, Fibonacci Quarterly, 41, 1, pp. 13-19 (2003)

    Cahill, N.D.; D'Errico, J.R.; Narayan, D.A.; Narayan, J.Y., Fibonacci Determinants, College Mathematics Journal, 33, 3, pp. 221-225 (2002)


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

    Chen, B.; Vodacek, A.; Cahill, N.D., Novel spectral similarity measure for high resolution urban scene, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, IEEE, 2012 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Munich, Bavaria, Germany, July (2012)

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Cahill, N.D.; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., Functional Normalization through ICA (ICA-fNORM) with Intrinsic networks as Functional Templates, Organization for Human brain Mapping, 17th Annual meeting, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, June (2011)

    Khullar; Michael, A.M.; Correa; Adali; Cahill, N.D.; Baum, S.A.; Calhoun, V.D., A New Metric to Measure Shape Differences in fMRI Activity, Proceeding of SPIE, SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States, February (2011)

    May, B.B.; Cahill, N.D.; Rosen, M.R., Calibration of a multi-projector system for display on a cylindrical surface, Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Western New York, 2010 Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, New York, United States, pp. 6-9, November (2010)

    Cahill, N.D., Normalized Measures of Mutual Information with General Definitions of Entropy for Multimodal Image Registration, Proceedings of WBIR, Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2010, LNCS 6204, Lubeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, pp. 258-268, July (2010)

    Cahill, N.D.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., Accounting for Changing Overlap in Variational Image Registration, Proceedings of IEEE, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, From Nano to Macro, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, pp. 384-387, April (2010)

    Cahill, N.D.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., Extending the quadratic taxonomy of regularizers for nonparametric registration, Proceeding of SPIE, SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing, 7623, San Diego, California, United States, pp. 0B-1-0B-12, February (2010)

    Cahill, N.D.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., A Demons Algorithm for Image Registration with Locally Adaptive Regularization, Proceedings of MICCAI, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, LNCS 5761, London, England, United Kingdom, pp. 574-581, September (2009)

    Hofmann; Scholkopf; Bezrukov; Cahill, N.D., Incorporating Prior Knowledge on Class Probabilities into Intermodality Image Registration, Proceedings of MICCAI, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Workshop on Probabilistic Methods for Medical Image Analysis, London, England, United Kingdom, pp. 220-231, September (2009)

    Cahill, N.D.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., Demons Algorithms for Fluid and Curvature Registration, Proceedings of IEEE, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, From Nano to Macro, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, pp. 730-733, June (2009)

    Lee; Hofmann; Steinke; Altun; Cahill, N.D.; Scholkopf, Learning the Similarity Measure for Multi-modal Image Registration, Proceedings of IEEE, Computer Science Conference, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Miami Beach, Florida, United States, pp. 186-193, June (2009)

    Cahill, N.D.; Schnabel, J.A.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., Overlap invariance of cumulative residual entropy measures for multimodal image alignment, Proceeding of SPIE, SPIE Medical Imaging, Medical Imaging 2009: Image Processing, 7259, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States, pp. 0I-1-0I-12, February (2009)

    Vesom; Cahill, N.D.; Gorelick; Noble, J.A., Characterization of Anatomical Shape Based on Random Walk Hitting Times, Proceedings of MICCAI, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, London, England, United Kingdom, pp. 117-127, September (2008)

    Cahill, N.D.; Schnabel, J.A.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., Revisiting Overlap Invariance in Medical Image Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE, Computer Science Conference, CVPR Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, Anchorage, Alaska, United States, pp. 1-8, June (2008)

    Cahill, N.D.; Vesom; Gorelick; Brady; Noble, J.A.; Brady, J.M., Investigating Implicit Shape Representations for Alignment of Livers from Serial CT Examinations, Proceedings of IEEE, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, From Nano to Macro, Paris, Ile-De-France, France, pp. 776-779, May (2008)

    Cahill, N.D.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., Fourier Methods for Nonparametric Image Registration, Proceedings of IEEE, Computer Science Conference, CVPR Workshop on Image Registration and Fusion, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, pp. 1-8, June (2007)

    Cahill, N.D.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J.; Ray, L.A., Fast Fluid Registration with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions, Proceedings of IEEE, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, From Nano to Macro, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, pp. 712-715, April (2007)

    Cahill, N.D.; Noble, J.A.; Hawkes, D.J., Examining Numerical Solutions of the Discrete Navier-Lamé Equations for Nonrigid Image Registration, Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Western New York, 2006 Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, New York, United States, pp. 38-41, September (2006)

    Cahill, N.D.; Williams, C.M.; Chen; Ray, L.A.; Goodgame, M.M., Incorporating Spatial Information into Entropy Estimates to Improve Multimodal Image Registration, Proceedings of IEEE, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, From Nano to Macro, Arlington, Virginia, United States, pp. 832-835, April (2006)

    Cahill, N.D.; Gallagher, A.C., Automatic Global Alignment of Aerial Imagery, Proceedings of IEEE, EEE Western New York, 2004 Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, New York, United States, September (2004)

    Cahill, N.D., Comparing Fundamental Matrices with a Normalized F-Statistic, Proceedings of VI, Vision Interface, 16th International Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, pp. 215-220, June (2003)

    Chen; Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., A Practical Approach to Creating Environment Maps Using Digital Images, Proceedings of IEEE, ICIP, International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, United States, pp. 869-872, September (2002)

    Chen; Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Panoramic Depth Imaging with a Vertically Displaced Digital Camera System, Proceeding of JCIS, Joint Conference on Information Science, The Fifth Joint Conference, 2, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, pp. 188-191, February (2000)


PATENTS

    Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Method and System for Compositing Images to Produce a Cropped Image, 7,162,102 (2011)

    Gallagher, A.C.; Cahill, N.D.; Fielding; Ray, L.A.; Gindele, E.B., Adjusting Digital Image Exposure and Tone Scale, 7,821,570, October (2010)

    Cahill, N.D.; Chen, Method and System for Detection of Undesirable Images, 7,751,622, July (2010)

    Cahill, N.D.; Chen; Sun; Ray, L.A., Abnormality Detection in Medical Images, 7,738,683, June (2010)

    Cahill, N.D.; Goodgame, M.M.; Chen; Ray, L.A., Image Indexer for Indexing a Plurality of Images, 7,706,617, April (2010)

    Cahill, N.D.; Goodgame, M.M.; Chen; Ray, L.A., System and Method for Classifying In Vivo Images According to Anatomical Structure, 7,623,690, November (2009)

    Schildkraut, J.S.; Cahill, N.D.; Dhurjaty; Ray, L.A., Radiation Therapy Method with Target Detection, 7,453,983, November (2008)

    Chen; Ray, L.A.; Cahill, N.D.; Goodgame, M.M., Method and System for Multiple Passes Diagnostic Alignment for In Vivo Images, 7,319,781, January (2008)

    Chen; Ray, L.A.; Cahill, N.D.; Goodgame, M.M.; Williams, C.M., Method of Image Registration Using Mutual Information, 7,263,243, August (2007)

    Stubler, P.O.; Cahill, N.D., Method and System for Detecting a Geometrically Transformed Copy of an Image, 7,228,006, June (2007)

    Cahill, N.D.; Gallagher, A.C., Electronic Imaging System Having a Sensor for Correcting Perspective Projection Distortion, 7,224,392, May (2007)

    Chen; Cahill, N.D., Three Dimensional Spatial Panorama Formation with a Range Imaging System, 7,194,112, March (2007)

    Cahill, N.D.; Spence, J.P., Location of Extended Linear Defects, 7,113,627, September (2006)

    Cahill, N.D., Population Mixture Modeling with an Indeterminate Number of Subpopulations, 7,103,219, September (2006)

    Goodgame, M.M.; Chen; Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Method for Reconstructing Tomographic Images, 7,042,974, May (2006)

    Cahill, N.D.; Parulski, K.A.; Luo; Gindele, E.B., Method and System for Generating a Foreground Mask for a Composite Image, 7,024,054, April (2006)

    Cahill, N.D.; Bolin, M.R.; Ray, L.A., Method and Apparatus for Three-dimensional Scene Modeling and Reconstruction, 7,010,158, March (2006)

    Cahill, N.D., Method and System for Reconstructing and Image from Projection Data Acquired by a Cone Beam Computed Tomography System, 6,961,404, November (2005)

    Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A.; Revelli, Jr., J F., Stabilization of Three-dimensional Images in a Scannerless Range Imaging System, 6,925,195, August (2005)

    Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Formation of Three-dimensional Video Sequences with a Scannerless Range Imaging System, 6,856,382, February (2005)

    Cahill, N.D., Method and System for Reconstructing and Image from Projection Data Acquired by a Cone Beam Computed Tomography System, 6,850,586, February (2005)

    Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Method for Embedding Digital Information in a Three Dimensional Image from a Scannerless Range Imaging System, 6,823,076, November (2004)

    Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Method and System for Panoramic Image Morphing, 6,795,090, September (2004)

    Cahill, N.D.; Chen, Method for Creating Environment Map Containing Information Extracted from Stereo Image Pairs, 6,507,665, January (2003)

    Cahill, N.D.; Ray, L.A., Method for Unambiguous Range Estimation, 6,288,776, September (2001)

    Keech, J.T.; Bigelow, D.O.; Cahill, N.D.; Powers, T.F.; Spence, J.P., Reference Calibration Patch Arrangement to Minimize Exposure and Measurement Artifacts and Maximize Robustness to Defects, 6,284,445, September (2001)