Dr. Zhijie Wang, Ph.D.

Zhijie Affiliation
Imaging Research Scientist
GE Healthcare
Research Interests
Medical image analysis, target detection/tracking, and computer vision.
Education
2006 - 2012 Doctor of Philosophy, Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada.
2003 - 2005 Master, Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
1999 - 2003 Bachelor, Computer Science, Nantong Institute of Technology, China.
Publications
Journal Articles
1. Bin Gu, Victor S. Sheng, Zhijie Wang, Derek Ho, Said Osman, and Shuo Li. Incremental Learning for Support Vector Regression. Neural Networks, 2014 (In communication).
2. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Bin Gu, Ali Islam, Aashish Goela, and Shuo Li. Direct Estimation of Cardiac Bi-ventricular Volumes with an Adapted Bayesian Formulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2013.
3. Steven Leigh, Zhijie Wang, David Clausi. Automated Ice-Water Classification Using Dual Polarization SAR Satellite Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2013.
4. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Hong Zhang. Object Joint Detection and Tracking Using Adaptively Multiple Motion Models. The Visual Computer, March, 2013.
5. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Hong Zhang, and Nilanjan Ray. Shape Based Appearance Model for Kernel Tracking. Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier, April, 2012.
6. Zheng Kuang, Zhijie Wang.A Modified Ant Colony Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. Computer Engineering And Applications, Vol. 42, No. 16, pp. 89- 91, 2006.
Conference Proceedings
1. Xiantong Zhen, Zhijie Wang, Ali Islam, Mousumi Bhaduri, Ian Chan, and Shuo Li. (2014) A comparative Study of Methods for Cardiac Ventricular Volume Estimation. Radiological Society of North America.
2. Steven Leigh, Zhijie Wang, and David Clausi. (2014) Evaluation of MAGIC Sea Ice Classifier on 61 Dual Polarization RADARSAT-2 Scenes. Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing.
3. Xiantong Zhen, ZhijieWang, and Shuo Li. (2014) Direct Estimation of Cardiac Bi-ventricular Volumes with Regression Forests. MICCAI.
4. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, Ismail Ben Ayed, Ali Islam, Aashish Goela, and Shuo Li. (2013) Bi-ventricular Volume Estimation for Cardiac Functional Assessment. Oral presentation in Radiological Society of North America.
5. Steven Leigh, Zhijie Wang, and David Clausi. (22-Apr-2013) Automated Ice-Water Classification using Dual Polarization SAR Imagery. Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing.
6. Zhijie Wang, Mohamed Ben Salah, and Hong Zhang. (2012) DWT Based Steam Detection with Adaboost. Oral presentation in IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation. 542-547.
7. Mohamed Ben Salah, Ismail Ben Ayed, Jing Yuan, Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. (2012) Convex Relaxation for Image Segmentation by Kernel Mapping. Poster presen- tation in International Conference on Image Processing. 289-292.
8. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. (2009) Object Detection with Multiple Motion Models. Poster presentation in Asian Conference on Computer Vision. 5996: 183-192.
9. Zhijie Wang, Hong Zhang, and Nilanjan Ray. (2009) Tracking of Multiple Interacting Objects Using a Novel Prediction Model. Poster presentation in International Conference on Image Processing. 869-872.
10. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. (2009) Joint Detection and Tracking of Multiple Objects in Occlusion Situations. Oral presentation in International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition. 30-36.
11. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. (2009) Lump Detection Using a Particle Filter of Hybrid State Variable. Oral presentation in International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition. 14-17. (Invited Paper).
12. Zhijie Wang, and Hong Zhang. (2008) Edge Linking Using Geodesic Distance and Neighborhood Information. Oral presentation in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics. 151-155. (Best Student Paper).
13. K. Punithakumar, T. Kirubarajan and A. Sinha (2006) A distributed implementation of a sequential Monte Carlo probability hypothesis density filter for sensor networks. Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion and Target Recognition XV 6235, Orlando, FL
14. Malek Mouboub, and Zhijie Wang. (2008) Improving the Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. Poster presentation in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 250-257.
15. Malek Mouboub, and Zhijie Wang. (2006) Ant Colony with Stochastic Local Search for the Quadratic Assignment Problem. Poster presentation in IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. 127-131.
Patent Submitted
1. Zhijie Wang, Shuo Li, Ali Islam, and Aashish Goela. Automated Bi-ventrical Functional Assessment Workflow in PACS environment. US Patent Application No. 14/092,453.
Contact Information
Office Phone 519-646-6000 (ext. 64626)
Email zhijie@ualberta.ca
Website http://dig.lhsc.on.ca/members/zhijie.php