BioEngineering

Yongmin Kim, Professor

Joint with Electrical Engineering
Adjunct with Radiology and Computer Science & Engineering

Thrust Areas
Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy
Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare

Education
PhD (electrical engineering), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982
MS (electrical engineering), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
BS (electronics engineering), Seoul National University, Korea, 1975

SEE DR. KIM AGE 30 YEARS!

Research Interests
    •  Medical imaging and computing
    •  Multimodality imaging
    •  Nultimedia systems
    •  Computer architecture
    •  Modeling and instrumentation

Contact Information
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Box 355061
William H. Foege Building, Room N510G
Phone: 206-685-2271
Fax: 206-221-6837
E-mail: ykim@u.washington.edu

Honors and Awards

  • 1998-2001: Chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium
  • 1990-1999: Chair of the SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Display Conference
  • 1989: Conference Program Chairman of the 11th IEEE/EMBS Conference
  • 1988: IEEE/EMBS Early Career Achievement Award
  • 1991-current: IEEE/EMBS Distinguished Lecturer
  • 2001-current: Chair of IEEE/EMBS Awards Committee
  • 1982-1985: Physio Control Career Development Award
  • 1995: Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
  • 1996: Fellow of IEEE

Professional Experience

  • 1982-1986: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
  • 1984-present: Director of the Image Computing Systems Laboratory, University of Washington
  • 1986-1990: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
  • 1986-1995: Advisory Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • 1990-1996: Member (Chair from 1993-1994) of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • 1990-1998: Professor of Electrical Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, Radiology, and Computer Science and Engineering. University of Washington
  • 1991: Director of the Center for Imaging Systems Optimization
  • 1992-2002: ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) Program Evaluator of Bioengineering and Computer Engineering
  • 1995-present: Director of the University of Washington Image Computing Library Consortium
  • 1996-present: Member of the Advisory Board of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • Editorial Board Member of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Information Technology, IEEE Press Series on Biomedical Engineering, Telemedicine Journal, and Annual Reviews of Biomedical Engineering
  • 1999-June 2007: Chair of Bioengineering, University of Washington
  • 1998-present: Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee
  • 1999-present: Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Radiology, and Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
  • 71 Inventions
  • 69 Patents
  • 21 Commercial Licenses

Selected Publications

  • Ritchie, C. J., Godwin, J. D., Crawford, C. R., Stanford, W., Anno, H. and Kim, Y., "Minimum scan speeds for suppression of motion artifacts in computed tomography," Radiology, Vol. 185, pp. 37-42, 1992.
  • Leotta, D. F. and Kim, Y., "Requirements for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS)," IEEE/EMB Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 62-69, March 1993.
  • Lee, H., Kim, Y., Rowberg, A. H. and Riskin, E. A., "Statistical distributions of DCT coefficients and their application to an interframe compression algorithm for 3-D medical images," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 12, pp. 478-485, 1993.
  • Ritchie, C. J., Hsieh, J., Gard, M. F., Godwin, J. D., Kim, Y. and Crawford, C. R., Predictive respiratory gating: a new method to reduce motion artifacts on CT scans," Radiology, Vol. 190, pp. 847-852, 1994.
  • Lee, W., Kim, Y., Gove, R. J. and Read, C. J., "MediaStation 5000: Integrating video and audio," IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 50-61, 1994.
  • Lee, H., Kim, Y., Riskin, E. A., Rowberg, A. H. and Frank, M. S., "A predictive classified vector quantizer and its subjective quality evaluation for X-ray CT images," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 14, pp. 397-406, 1995.
  • Blilie Jorgenson, D., Haynor, D. R., Bardy, G. H. and Kim, Y., "Computational studies of transthoracic and transvenous defibrillation in a detailed 3D human thorax model," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 42, pp. 172-184, 1995.
  • Kim, J. and Kim, Y., "Efficient 2-D convolution algorithm with the single-data multiple kernel approach," CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 57, pp. 175-182, 1995.
  • Blilie Jorgenson, D., Schimpf, P. H., Shen, I., Johnson, G., Haynor, D. R., Bardy, G. H. and Kim, Y., "Predicting cardiothoracic voltages during high energy shocks: methodology and comparison of experimental to finite element model data," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 42, pp. 559-571, 1995.
  • Ritchie, C. J., Edwards, W. S., Mack, L. A., Cyr, D. R. and Kim, Y., "Three-dimensional ultrasonic angiography using power-mode Doppler," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 22, pp. 277-286, 1996.
  • Shrinidhi, N., Haynor, D. R., Blilie Jorgenson, D., Bardy, G. H. and Kim, Y., "An efficient tissue classifier for building patient-specific finite element models from X-ray CT images," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 43, pp. 333-337, 1996.
  • Lee, W. and Kim, Y., "Applying multimedia to medical imaging," IEEE/EMB Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 79-85, 1996.
  • Kim, Y. and Schimpf, P. H., "Electrical behavior of defibrillation and pacing electrodes," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 84, pp. 446-456, 1996.
  • Ritchie, C. J., Crawford, C. R., Godwin, J. D., King, K. F. and Kim, Y., "Correction of Computed Tomography motion artifacts using pixel-specific back-projection," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 15, pp. 333-342, 1996.
  • Chalana, V., Linker, D. T., Haynor, D. R. and Kim, Y., "A multiple active contour model for cardiac boundary detection on echocardiographic sequences," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 15, pp. 290-298, 1996.
  • Cabral, J. E. and Kim, Y., "Multimedia systems for telemedicine and their communications requirements," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 20-27, 1996.
  • Chalana, V., Winter, T. C., Cyr, D. R., Haynor, D. R. and Kim, Y., "Automatic fetal head measurements from ultrasound images," Academic Radiology, Vol. 3, pp. 628-635, 1996.
  • Kim, Y., Kim, J., Basoglu, C. and Winter, T. C., "Programmable ultrasound imaging using multimedia technologies: A next-generation ultrasound machine," IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 1, pp. 19-29, 1997.
  • Bartoo, G. T., Nochlin, D., Chang, D., Kim, Y. and Sumi, S. M., "The Ab load in the hippocampus correlates with duration and severity of dementia in subgroups of Alzheimer disease," Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, Vol. 56, pp. 531-540, 1997.
  • Pathak, S. D., Chalana, V. and Kim, Y., "Interactive automatic fetal head measurements from ultrasound images using multimedia computer technology," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 23, pp. 665-673, 1997.
  • Chalana, V. and Kim, Y., "A methodology for evaluation of boundary detection algorithms on medical images," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 16, pp. 642-652, 1997.
  • Basoglu, C., Managuli, R., York, G. and Kim, Y., "Computing requirements of modern medical diagnostic ultrasound machines," Parallel Computing, Vol. 24, pp. 1407-1431, 1998.
  • Pathak, S., Grimm, P. D., Chalana, V. and Kim, Y., "Pubic arch detection in transrectal ultrasound guided prostate cancer therapy," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 17, pp. 762-771, 1998.
  • Edwards, W. S., Deforge, C. and Kim, Y., "Interactive three-dimensional ultrasound using a programmable multimedia processor," International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Vol. 9, pp. 442-454, 1998.
  • York, G. and Kim, Y., "Ultrasound processing and computing: Review and future directions," Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 1, pp. 559-588, 1999.
  • Pagoulatos, N., Edwards, W. S., Haynor, D. R. and Kim, Y., "Interactive 3-D registration of ultrasound and magnetic resonance images based on a magnetic position sensor," IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 3, pp. 278-288, 1999.
  • Hilman, K., Park, H. W. and Kim, Y., "Using motion-compensated frame-rate conversion for the correction of 3:2 pulldown artifacts in video sequences," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, pp. 869-877, 2000.
  • Kim, Y. and Horii, S., Handbook of Medical Imaging Vol. 3: Display and PACS, SPIE Press, 2000.
  • Pathak, S. D., Chalana, V., Haynor, D. R. and Kim, Y., "Edge-guided boundary delineation in prostate ultrasound images," IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol. 19, pp. 1211-1219, 2000.
  • Kim, D., Managuli, R. and Kim, Y., "Data cache and direct memory access in programming mediaprocessors," IEEE Micro, Vol. 21, pp. 33-42, 2001.
  • Pagoulatos, N., Haynor, D. R. and Kim, Y., "A fast calibration method for 3D tracking of ultrasound images using a spatial localizer," Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 27, pp. 1219-1229, 2001.
  • Park, H., Schoepflin, T. and Kim, Y., "Active contour model with gradient directional information: directional snake," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 11, pp. 252-256, 2001.
  • Schoepflin, T., Chalana, V., Haynor, D. R. and Kim, Y., "Video object tracking with a sequential hierarchy of template deformations," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 11, pp. 1171-1182, 2001.
  • Wang, Y., Haynor, D. R. and Kim, Y., "An investigation of the importance of myocardial anisotropy in finite-element modeling of the heart: methodology and application to the estimation of defibrillation efficacy," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., Vol. 48, pp. 1377-1389, 2001.