Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Office location: GP South (Building 78, Room 530), University of Queensland, St. Lucia campus

Email: ygal@itee.uq.edu.au

 

Fields of interest:

Image Processing, Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis, Statistical Pattern Recognition, Event detection in video sequences, automated surveillance and automated technical analysis of stock markets.

 

Selected publications:

1.      Andrew P. Bradley, Yaniv Gal, Paul Jackway and Olivier Salvado (Editors), Proceedings of 2011 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA2011), 6-8 December 2011, Noosa Heads, Australia, IEEE Computer Society Publications, Los Alamitos, California, USA.

2.      Christopher Lane, Yaniv Gal, Matthew Browne, Andrew Short, Darrell Strauss, Rodger Tomlinson, Kathryn Jackson, Clarence Tan  & Michael Blumenstein, “A New Technique for Measuring Breaking Wave Dynamics, Heights and Periods”, The 20th Australasian Coastal and Ocean Engineering conference and the 13th Australasian Port and Harbour Conference, 2011, Perth, Australia.

3.      Yaniv Gal , Matthew Browne and Christopher Lane, “Automatic Estimation of Nearshore Wave Height from Video Timestacks”, Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2011, Noosa, Australia.

4.      Amir Fazlollahi, Pierrick Bourgeat, Paul Thomas, Stephen Rose, Stuart Crozier, Yaniv Gal, Zeike Taylor, Craig Winter, Michael Fay, Alan Coultard, David MacFarlane, Nicholas Dowson, Fabrice Meriaudeau, “Automatic Brain Tumour Segmentation In 18 F-FDOPA PET using PET/MRI Fusion”, Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2011, Noosa, Australia.

5.      Seyyed Adel Fazel, Yaniv Gal, Zhengyi Yang and Viktor Vegh, “Qualitative and quantitave analysis of six image fusion methods and their application to medical imaging”, Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2011, Noosa, Australia.

6. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, “New spatio-temporal features for improved discrimination of benign and malignant lesions in DCE-MRI of the breast”, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 35(5):645-652, 2011.
7. Christopher Lane, Yaniv Gal, Matthew Browne, Andrew Short, Darrell Strauss, Katherine Jackson and Clarence Tan, “A new system for breakzone location and the measurement of breaking wave heights and periods”, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2010.
8. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, “Denoising of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Images Using Dynamic Non-Local Means”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 29(2), p.302-310, 2010.
9. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, “Feature and Classifier Selection for Automatic Classification of Lesions in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI of the breast”, Proceedings Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Melbourne, Australia, 2009.
10. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, “A New Denoising Method for Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI”, IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
11. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon & Stuart Crozier, “Automatic Segmentation of Enhancing Breast Tissue in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Images” , Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2007, Adelaide, Australia, p.124-129.
12. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon & Stuart Crozier,  “An evaluation of four parametric models of contrast enhancement for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of the breast”, IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2007, p.71-74.
13. Daniel Keren, Rita Osdachy & Yaniv Gal, "Anti-Sequences: Event Detection by Frame Stacking", Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2001, p.46, volume 2.

 

Patents granted:

1. “OCR-Based image compression algorithm”, (US/6487311).
2. “Enhanced Planar Single Photon Emission Imaging”, (US/20070217666).
3. “Adaptive image de-noising, by pixel relation maximization”, (US/20080285881, 60/649,917, EP1849310).

 

Other academic activities

General chair of “Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications” (DICTA) 2011, Noosa, QLD, Australia

 

Education

2006-2010	Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering (medical image analysis). School of ITEE, University of Queensland, Australia (PhD thesis).
2008-2009	GCResComm (Graduate Certification in Research Commercialisation). School of business, University of Queensland, Australia.
1999-2002	M.A Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Haifa, Israel.
1996-1999	B.A Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Haifa, Israel.

 

Employment History (briefly)

5/2010-Today: University of Queensland – Brisbane, QLD, Australia (full time)

Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Teaching: “Introduction to Image Formation” (ELEC3601/7608)

 

2/2010-6/2011: University of Queensland – Brisbane, QLD, Australia (casual)

Position: Tutor of “Project management” (ENGG4800).

 

01/2009-5/2010: CoastalCOMS Pty Ltd – Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (casual)

Position: Image Processing Scientist.

 

11/2008-12/2008: University of Queensland – Brisbane, QLD, Australia (casual)

Position: Lecturer of “Introduction to Aviation” (AERO1000).

 

2/2008-6/2008: University of Queensland – Brisbane, QLD, Australia (casual)

Position: Tutor of “Project management” (ENGG4800).

 

2/2000-7/2006: UltraSPECT ltd - Haifa, Israel (full time).

Positions:

Projects / program Manager.

Software team leader and algorithm specialist.

 

5/1998-2/2000: IBM research lab - Haifa, Israel (part time).

Position: software and algorithms developer.

 

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Hobbies and General Interests:

Shotokan Karate (JKA certified instructor), General Aviation (single motor PPL), Photography, Scuba Diving.