Chia-Ling Tsai

Chia-Ling (Charlene) Tsai's Home Page

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chung Cheng University
Chiayi, Taiwan 621, R.O.C.

Tel: +886 5 272-0411 ext. 33124
Fax:+886 5 272-0859
Email: tsaic@cs.ccu.edu.tw

Education:

07/03 Ph.D., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dissertation: Feature-Based Retinal Image Registration: Algorithms and Validation
Thesis advisors: Chuck Stewart and Badri Roysam

12/95 BScHons Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Teaching:

Spring 2007

Fall 2006

Research Interests:
Biomedical image analysis, image registration, and computer vision

Research Experience:

02/05-present Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.

9/03-01/05 Visiting Research Scholar, Electrical, Computer, and System Engineering Dept., RPI. USA

Development of general registration toolkit for CenSSIS (Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems) for research in diverse disciplines.
Integration of the registration toolkit with ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit).
Assisting in teaching a course on registration in Fall 2004, and educating the collaborator of the CenSSIS on the registration toolkit.
Research on real-time retinal image registration for laser surgery.
Monitoring the development of the web-site for the Retina Project.

5/00-7/03 Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., RPI.

Retina project on automatic retinal image analysis for clinical trials, mass screening, monitoring progress of disease and effect of treatment, and surgical and diagnostic procedures.
A team work involving several students and some faculties.
Involving a broad study on ophthalmology, and related medical applications.
Thesis work on Dual-Bootstrap Retinal Image Registration handling images with spatial and temporal changes, with success rate of 99.5%.

8/98-5/00 Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., RPI.

Phytoplankton classification system for semi-automatic classification of the phytoplankton to make the process less labor-intensive.

1/98-7/98 Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., RPI.

Hip-replacement surgery project for registration between a preoperative CT model and intra-operative X-ray images with fewest implants possible.

1/95-12/95 Research Assistant Computer Science Dept., University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Prediction Strategies for Language-directed Editors to assist users with difficulties in typing.

Publications: (Copyright statement)

Conference Articles:

C-L. Tsai. Prediction Strategies for Language-directed Editors, Student Poster Forum, ACM Computing Week, 1996
A. Perera, C-L. Tsai, R.Y. Flatland, and C.V. Stewart. Maintaining valid topology with active contours: theory and application. In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000, Page(s): 496 -502 vol.1, [pdf]
C-L. Tsai, Charles V. Stewart, B. Roysam, and H.L. Tanenbaum. Covariance-driven retinal image registration initialized from small sets of landmark correspondences. In Proceedings IEEE International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging, 2002
C.V. Stewart, C.-L. Tsai and Amitha Perera, "A View-Based Approach to Registration: Theory and Application to Vascular Image Registratio", Proc. Int. Conf. on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI), 2003[pdf].
C.-L. Tsai, A. Majerovics, C.V. Stewart and B. Roysam, "Disease-Oriented Evaluation of Dual-Bootstrap Retinal Image Registration", Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, page(s) 754-761, Vol. 1, November 2003 [pdf].
C.V. Stewart, Y.-L Lee and C.-L Tsai, "An Uncertainty-Driven Hybrid of Intensity-Based and Feature-Based Registration with Application to Retinal and Lung CT Images", Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2004. [pdf]
C.-L Tsai, W. Warger II and C. DiMarzio, "Accurate Image Registration for Quadrature Tomographic Microscopy", Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, page(s) 935-942, Vol. 2, October 2005 [pdf].
G. Yang, C.V. Stewart, S. Michal, and C.-L. Tsai, "Automatic Robust Image REgistration System: Initialization, Estimation, and Decision", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems 2006.
C.-L. Tsai, C.V. Stewart, A. Perera, Y.-L. Lee, G. Yang, and M. Sofka, "A Correspondence-Based Software Toolkit for Image Registration", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2006. [pdf].
C.-L. Tsai, C.-Y. Li, and G. Yang, "The Edge-Driven Dual-Bootstrap Iterative Closest Point Algorithm for Multimodal Retinal Image Registration", SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging, 2008.

Journal Papers:

I. D. Sanders, and C-L. Tsai. Word Prediction Strategies in Program Editing Environments. South African Computer Journal, 18--24, number 20, December, 1997[ps]
C-L. Tsai, C.V. Stewart, B. Roysam, and H.L. Tanenbaum. Model-Based Method for Improving the Accuracy and Repeatability of Estimating Vascular Bifurcations and Crossovers from Retinal Fundus Images. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 8(2), 2004, Page(s): 122-130 [pdf]
C.V. Stewart, C-L. Tsai, and B. Roysam. The Bootstrap Iterative Closest Point Algorithm with Application to Retinal Image Registration. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 1379-1394, Vol. 22(11), Nov, 2003, [pdf, 6.2MB]
G. Yang, C.V. Stewart, S. Michal, and C.-L. Tsai, "Registration of Challenging Image Pairs: Initialization, Estimation, and Decision". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, accepted, 2006.
C.-L. Tsai, B. Madore, M. Leotta, M. Sofka, G. Yang, A. Majerovics, H. L. Tanenbaum, C. V. Stewart, B. Roysam, "Automated Retinal Image Analysis over the Internet". IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, accepted, 2007.

Chapters in Books:

K. Fritzsche, A. Can, H. Shen, C-L. Tsai, J. Turner, H.L. Tanenbuam, C.V. Stewart, and B. Roysam. Automated Model Based Segmentation, Tracing and Analysis of Retinal Vasculature from Digital Fundus Images. In J. S. Suri, and S. Laxminarayan, editors, State-of-The-Art Angiography, Applications and Plaque Imaging Using MR, CT, Ultrasound and X-rays, Academic Press, 2002

Patents:

(07/02) Patent Pending. Charles V. Stewart, Chia-Ling Tsai, and Badrinath Roysam. The Bootstrap Iterative Closest Point Algorithm with Application to Retinal Image Registration

Awards:

Altech Systems Prize, for the student who wrote the best Computer Science, Honours project. 1995, University of the Witswatersrand
Colin James Young Prize, for the best project in the application of the mathematical sciences to the real world. 1995, University of the Witswatersrand
The Top Woman Graduate, 1995, South African Association of University Women.

Activities/Assets

Member of IEEE
Member of IPPR Society

07/03	Ph.D., Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dissertation: Feature-Based Retinal Image Registration: Algorithms and Validation Thesis advisors: Chuck Stewart and Badri Roysam
12/95	BScHons Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

02/05-present	Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
9/03-01/05	Visiting Research Scholar, Electrical, Computer, and System Engineering Dept., RPI. USA Development of general registration toolkit for CenSSIS (Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems) for research in diverse disciplines. Integration of the registration toolkit with ITK (Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit). Assisting in teaching a course on registration in Fall 2004, and educating the collaborator of the CenSSIS on the registration toolkit. Research on real-time retinal image registration for laser surgery. Monitoring the development of the web-site for the Retina Project.
5/00-7/03	Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., RPI. Retina project on automatic retinal image analysis for clinical trials, mass screening, monitoring progress of disease and effect of treatment, and surgical and diagnostic procedures. A team work involving several students and some faculties. Involving a broad study on ophthalmology, and related medical applications. Thesis work on Dual-Bootstrap Retinal Image Registration handling images with spatial and temporal changes, with success rate of 99.5%.
8/98-5/00	Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., RPI. Phytoplankton classification system for semi-automatic classification of the phytoplankton to make the process less labor-intensive.
1/98-7/98	Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept., RPI. Hip-replacement surgery project for registration between a preoperative CT model and intra-operative X-ray images with fewest implants possible.
1/95-12/95	Research Assistant Computer Science Dept., University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Prediction Strategies for Language-directed Editors to assist users with difficulties in typing.