Surgical Planning Laboratory - Brigham & Women's Hospital - Boston, Massachusetts USA - a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School

Surgical Planning Laboratory

Padma Sundaram Ph.D.

Research Interests:
Medical Image Analysis
Mathematics in Imaging
Image and Geometry Processing
Shape Understanding
Computer Vision

Publications:

1. Colon Polyp Detection using Smoothed Shape Operators P. Sundaram, A. Zomorodian, C. F. Beaulieu, S. Napel, Medical Image Analysis, Accepted July 2007, To Appear. [PDF]








2. CT Colonography: Influence of 3D Viewing and Polyp Candidate Features on Interpretation with Computer-aided Detection R. Shi, P. Schraedley-Desmond, S. Napel, E. Olcott, R. B. Jeffrey, Jr., J. Yee, M. E. Zalis, D. Margolis, D. S. Paik, A. Sherbondy, P. Sundaram, C. F. Beaulieu, Radiology 239(3): 768-776, 2006. [PDF]

3. CT Colonography: Does improved z resolution help computer-aided polyp detection? P. Sundaram, C. F. Beaulieu, D. S. Paik, P. Schraedley-Desmond, S. Napel, Medical Physics 30(10): 2663-2674, 2003. [PDF]





Miscellaneous:

A Physics-Based Method to Unfold the Colon With David Paik, Eftychis Sifakis, Ronald Fedkiw and Sandy Napel [PDF] [MPEG]

PhD Thesis:

Geometry Processing for Colon Polyp Detection, Thesis advisor: Prof. Sandy Napel
PhD Thesis (one sided) [PDF] (10.2 MB)
PhD Thesis (two sided) [PDF] (10.2 MB)

Curriculum Vitae:

CV [pdf] (09-2007)

Contact:

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115
Email: padma at bwh.harvard.edu