M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1990
Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1993

Thornton Hall - E309
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22908

acton@virginia.edu

Research Interests

Dr. Acton's areas of research include image analysis, with an emphasis on biomedical image analysis. His theoretical interests include multiscale image representations, diffusion algorithms, active contours, image morphology, and image correspondence problems. Applications include bioimaging, cell tracking, cardiovascular image analysis, military tracking, image classification/segmentation, and multimedia content-based retrieval.

Recent Publications

Gilliam AD, Epstein FH, Acton ST
Cardiac motion recovery via active trajectory field models.

Li B, Acton ST
Automatic active model initialization via Poisson inverse gradient.

Garson CD, Li B, Acton ST, Hossack JA
Guiding automated left ventricular chamber segmentation in cardiac imaging using the concept of conserved myocardial volume.

Yu Y, Acton ST
Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion.

Li B, Acton ST
Active contour external force using vector field convolution for image segmentation.

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