Publications

Wyatt CL, Suh JW. Deforable Registration of Supine and Prone Colons Using 

Using Centerline Analysis, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on 

Biomedical Imaging, April 2007.

James Kimberly, MD, Richard Bloomfeld, MD, Ben Pineau, MD, Kim Phillips, 

PhD, Bob Bechtold, MD, Dave Vining, MD, and Pete Santago, PhD. 

“Evaluation of Extra-Colonic Findings from Virtual Colonoscopy Will Add 

Considerable Cost: An Important Consideration in Asymptomatic Colorectal 

Cancer Screening,” College of Gastroenterology 71st Annual Scientific 

Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20-25, 2006.

Suh JW, Wyatt CL. Deformable Registration of Prone and Supine 

Colons for CT Colonography, Proceedings of IEEE Engineering in Medicine

 and Biology Conference. August 2006.

Wyatt CL, Bayram E, Ge Y.  Minimum Reliable Scale Selection in 3D, IEEE 

Trans. On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 28(3): 481-U1 March 

2006.

Wyatt CL, Ge Y, Vining D. Segmentation in Virtual Colonoscopy Using 

a Geometric Deformable Model, Computerized Medical Imaging and 

Graphics. 30(1): 17-30 Jan 2006.

Xiao YD; Clauset AJ; Harris R; Bayram E ; Santago II  P; Schmitt JD. 

Supervised SOMs in Drug Discovery II: Improvements in Feature Selection 

and Model Validation. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 2006; 

46(1): 137-144.

Li H and Santago P, “Automatic colon segmentation with dual scan CT 

colonography.” Journal of Digital Imaging, March, 2005; 18(1), pp. 42-54.

Li H, Pineau B, Santago P, “Efficient computerized polyp detection for CT 

colonography.” Journal of Digital Imaging, March, 2005; 17(3), pp. 55-65.

Bayram E, Santago II P, Harris R, Xiao Y, Clauset AJ, and Schmitt JD. 

Genetic Algorithms and Self-Organizing Maps: A Powerful Combination for 

Modeling Complex QSAR and QSPR Problems. “Journal of Computer-Aided 

Molecular Design.” July, 2004; 18(7):483-493.

Hong Li and Pete Santago. Using LAMP in Computer-aided Diagnosis Research. 
The Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and 

Sciences 3rd Student Research Symposium. Winston-Salem, NC. April 24, 2004.

Li H, Santago II P. A Practical Automated Polyp Detection Scheme for CT 

Colonography. SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging, San 

Diego, California, February 14-19, 2004.

Wyatt CL, Ge Y, Vining DJ.  Automatic Segmentation of the Colon for Virtual 

Colonoscopy.  Jan-Feb 2000; 24(1): 1-9.

Wyatt CL, Ge Y, Vining DJ. A Geometric Deformable Colon Model for Polyp 

Detection. “Proc. Of SPIE Vol. 3978, Physiology and Function from 

Multidimensional Images, eds. C. Chen, A. Clough. Feb. 2000; 172-182.

Santago P, Gage HD.  Statistical models of partial volume effect.   IEEE 

Transactions on Imaging Processing. 1995; 4(11):1531-1540.

Santago P, Gage HD.  Statistical models of partial volume effect.  IEEE 

Transactions on Image Processing. 1994; 13:221.

Gage HD, Hinson WH, Santago P.  Image resolution: the impact on finite 

mixture density models in medical applications.  SPIE Medical Imaging VIII. 

Image Processing, SPIE Proceedings, 1994.