Subsurface Scattering

Research

Recently we built our computer science labs from scratch.

Below are examples of previous research projects I've worked on with a visual component:

Peer Reviewed Journals

  1. Reconstruction of Cellular Biological Structures from Optical Microscopy Data. K. Mosaliganti, L. Cooper, R. Sharp, R. Machiraju, K. Huang and G. Leone. To appear in IEEE Transactions in Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2008. PDF
  2. An Imaging Workflow for Characterizing Phenotypical Change in Terabyte Sized Mouse Model Datasets. K. Mosaliganti, T. Pan, R. Ridgway, R. Sharp, L. Cooper, A. Gulacy, A. Sharma, O. Irfanoglu, R. Machiraju, T. Kurc, P. Wenzel, A. deBruin, G. Leone, J. Saltz, K. Huang. To appear in Journal of Bioinformatics, 2008. Submitted PDF
  3. Detection and Visualization of Surface-Pockets to enable Phenotyping Studies. K. Mosaliganti, F. Janoos, R. Sharp, R. Ridgway, R. Machiraju, K. Huang, P. Wenzel, A. de Bruin, G. Leone and J. Saltz. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 26(9):1283-1290, Sep 2007. PDF
  4. Physics-based subsurface visualization of human tissue.R. Sharp, J. Adams, R. Lee, and R. Crane. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(3):620-629, 2007.PDF
  5. Rb is critical in a mammalian tissue stem cell population. P. L. Wenzel, L. Wu, A. de Bruin, W. Chen, G. Dureska, E. Sites, T. Pan, A. Sharma, K. Huang, R. Ridgway, K. Mosaliganti, R. Sharp, R. Machiraju, J. Saltz, H. Yamamoto, J. C. Cross, M. L. Robinson and G. Leone. In Journal of Genetics and Development, volume 21 (1), pages 85-97, Jan 2007. PDF
  6. Volume Rendering Phenotype Differences in Mouse Placenta Microscopy Data. R. Sharp, R. Ridgway, K. Mosaliganti, P. Wenzel, T. Pan, A. Bruin, R. Machiraju, K. Huang, G. Leone and J. Saltz. Special Issue on Anatomic Rendering and Visualization, Journal of Computing in Science and Engineering, volume 9 (1), pages 38-47, Jan/ Feb 2007. PDF
  7. Accelerating subsurface scattering using Cholesky factorization. R. Sharp and R. Machiraju. The Visual Computer, volume 22(8), pages 541-549, August 2006. PDF

Peer Reviewed Conferences

  1. Design and Construction of General Purpose Computing Resources for Linux Based Computer Science Education.R. Sharp, E. Harcourt. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northwestern Conference, October 8-9, 2010. DOCX (To appear)
  2. Examining Phenotype Differences in Mouse Placenta with Volume Rendering and Segmentation.R. Sharp, R. Ridgway, K. Mosaliganti, O. Irfanoglu, P. Wenzel, R. Machiraju, A. deBruin, G. Leone, T. Pan, K. Huang, and J. Saltz. In Proceedings of the IEEE/NLM Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, Bethesda, MD, USA, July 13-14, 2006. PDF
  3. Registration and 3D Visualization of Large Light Microscopy Images. K. Mosaliganti, T. Pan, R. Sharp, R. Ridgway, S. Iyengar, A. Gulacy, P. Wenzel, A. deBruin, R. Machiraju, K. Huang, G. Leone and J. Saltz. In Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging: Image Processing, San Diego, volume 6144, pages 923-934, February 13-16, 2006. PDF
  4. Interactive exploration of uml sequence diagrams. R. Sharp and N. Rountev. In Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT. 05), pages 8.13, September 2005. PDF
  5. A simplified model for inhomogeneous subsurface scattering. R. Sharp and R. Machiraju. In Proceedings of Volume Graphics, pages 63-72. EuroGraphics/IEEE Computer Society VGTC, 2005. PDF

Other

  1. MRI-R2: Acquisition of High Performance Computer and Microarray Scanner for Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Science and Biology at St. Lawrence University R. Sharp, E. Harcourt, E. Humprhey-Dixon, L. Olendzenski, and A. Estevez. National Science Foundation, Award ID 0959713, MRI-R2, 2010. (Funded, $179k)
  2. Computational approaches for diffusive light transport: finite-elements, grid adaption, and error estimation. R. Sharp. PhD thesis, Columbus, OH, USA, 2006. Advisers: Raghu Machiraju and Robert Lee. PDF
  3. Virtual Placenta: Computational Phenotyping Through Image Analysis. T. Pan, K. Mosaliganti, R. Sharp, R. Ridgway, R. Machiraju, D. Cowden and J. Saltz. In Advancing Practice, Instruction and Innovation Through Informatics (APIII), Frontiers in Oncology and Pathology Informatics, (Aug, 24-Aug, 26), Lake Tahoe, CA, 2005. (Poster)