Biography | Publications

Brad Davis received a B.A. in computer science from Carleton College in 2001, and an M.S. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005. He is currently a part-time Ph.D. student at UNC and a member of the Medical Image Display and Analysis Research Group (MIDAG). His research interests include medical image registration and atlas construction, atlas based segmentation, tracking organ motion for adaptive radiation therapy, and statistics of shape. Brad joined Kitware in June 2006 as an R&D Engineer.

At UNC, Brad published more than 15 peer-reviewed research papers and abstracts, taught Introduction to Scientific Programming, developed software libraries and tools for medical image analysis, and served as president of the Computer Science Student Association. In 2001 and 2002, Brad worked as a research assistant for the Department of Radiation Oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. There he developed software tools for detecting treatment set-up errors and measuring portal image distortion.

Publications - Peer Reviewed Journal Papers

Mark Foskey, Brad Davis, Lav Goyal, Sha Chang, Ed Chaney, Nathalie Strehl, Sandrine Tomei, Julian Rosenman, and Sarang Joshi, Large deformation 3D image registration in image-guided radiation therapy, Physics in Medicine and Biology, To Appear.

P. Lorenzen, M. Prastawa, B. Davis, G. Gerig, E. Bullitt, and S. Joshi, Multi-Modal Image Set Registration and Atlas Formation, to appear in Medical Image Analysis Journal (MedIA).

Sarang Joshi, Brad Davis, Matthieu Jomier, and Guido Gerig, Unbiased Diffeomorphic Atlas Construction for Computational Anatomy, NeuroImage; Supplemental issue on Mathematics in Brain Imaging, (PM Thompson, MI Miller, T Ratnanather, RA Poldrack, and TE Nichols, eds.), vol. 23, no. Supplement1, pp. S151-S160, Elsevier, Inc, 2004.

Publications - Peer Reviewed Full Length Conference Papers

Shun Xu, Martin Styner, Brad Davis, Sarang Joshi, and Guido Gerig, Group mean differences of voxel and surface objects via nonlinear averaging, In ISBI, 2006.

B. C. Davis, M. Foskey, J. Rosenman, L. Goyal, S. Chang, and S. Joshi, Automatic Segmentation of Intra-Treatment CT Images for Adaptive Radiation Therapy, In Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), October, 2005.

P. Lorenzen, B. Davis, and S. Joshi, Unbiased Atlas Formation via Large Deformations Metric Mapping, In Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), October, 2005.

P. Lorenzen, B. Davis, G. Gerig, E. Bullitt, and S. Joshi, Multi-class Posterior Atlas Formation via Unbiased Kullback-Leibler Template Estimation, In Proceedings of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS), Pages 95-102, September, 2004.

Brad Davis, Peter Lorenzen, and Sarang Joshi. Large deformation minimum mean squared error template estimation for computational anatomy. In ISBI, 2004.

Peter Lorenzen, Brad Davis, and Sarang Joshi. Model based symmetric information theoretic large deformation multi-modal image registration. In ISBI, 2004.

Publications - Abstracts

B. Davis, D. Prigent, J. Bechtel, J. Rosenman, D. M. Lovelock, and S. Joshi. Accommodating bowel gas in large deformation image registration for adaptive radiation therapy of the prostate. In AAPM 46th Annual Meeting, 2004.

S. Joshi, T. Cullip, B. Davis, S. Chang, P. Keall, Y. Erdi, S. Nehmeh, G. Mageras, and J Rosenman. 4d imrt optimization accomodating respiratory motion using image mapping. In AAPM 46th Annual Meeting, 2004.

P. Wang, D. Lovelock, S. Joshi, B. Davis, G. Mageras, and C. Ling. Evaluation of an automated deformable registration algorithm for localizing the prostate in serial ct image sets. In AAPM 46th Annual Meeting, 2004.

A. Pevsner, G. Mageras, S. Joshi, B. Davis, A. Hertanto, E. Yorke, K. Rosenzweig, Y. Erdi, S. Nehmeh, J. Humm, S. Larson, and C. Ling. Evaluation of a deformable matching algorithm for automatic segmentation of lung tumors from respiratory correlated ct data. In AAPM 46th Annual Meeting, 2004.

S. Samant, N. Parra, B. Davis, M. Sontag, and G. Narasimhan. A new multi-modality image registration algorithm. In AAPM 44th Annual Meeting, 2002.

S. Samant, J. Wu, B. Davis, A. Crouch, B. Crawford, D. Kahler, and M. Sontag. Supervised gradient edge detection for online mlc verification using epid imaging. In AAPM 44th Annual Meeting, 2002.