Journal Publications
S. Azizi, F. Imani, S. Ghavidel, A. Tahmasebi, J.T. Kwak, S. Xu, B. Turkbey, P. Choyke, P.A. Pinto, B.J. Wood, P. Mousavi, P. Abolmaesumi, “Detection of prostate cancer using temporal sequences of ultrasound data: a large clinical feasibility study”. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2016, pp. 1-10.
J.T. Kwak, S. Sankineni, S. Xu, B. Turkbey, P. Choyke, P.A. Pinto, M. Merino, B.J. Wood, “Correlation of magnetic resonance imaging with digital histopathology in prostate”. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2015, pp. 1-10.
J.T. Kwak, S. Xu, B.J. Wood, B. Turkbey, P. Choyke, P.A. Pinto, S. Wang, R.M. Summers, “Automated prostate cancer detection using T2-weighted and high-b-value diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging”. Medical Physics, 2015, vol. 42, pp. 2368-2378.
J.T. Kwak, A. Balla, V. Marcias, M. Walsh, S. Sinha, R. Bhargava, “Improving prediction of prostate cancer recurrence using chemical imaging”. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5(8758).
J.T. Kwak, S. Xu, B.J. Wood, “Efficient data mining for local binary pattern in texture image analysis”. Expert Systems with Applications, 2015, 42(9), pp. 4529-4539.
J.T. Kwak, C. W. Hong, P. A. Pinto, M. Williams, S. Xu, J. Kruecker, P. Yan, B. Turkbey, P. Choyke, B.J. Wood, “Is visual registration equivalent to semiautomated registration in prostate biopsy?”. BioMed Research International, 2015, 2015.
F. Imani, B. Zhuang, A. Tahmasebi, J.T. Kwak, S. Xu, H. Agarwal, S. Bharat, N. Uniyal, B. Turkbey, P. Choyke, P.A. Pinto, B.J. Wood, M. Moradi, P. Mousavi, P. Abolmaesumi, “Augmenting MRI-transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy with temporal ultrasound data: a clinical feasibility study”. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2015, 10(6), pp. 727-735.
S. Xu, H. Amalou, J.T. Kwak, T. Lynch, H. Agarwal, B. Turkbey, P.A. Pinto, P. Choyke, B.J. Wood, “ABSTRACT - Fusion guidance system with ablate-able phantom for prostate laser ablation”. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2015, 26(2), S119.
M.A. Qayyum, J.T. Kwak, M.F. Insana, “Stromal-epithelial responses to fractional radiotherapy in a breast cancer microenvironment”. Cancer Cell International, 2015, 15:67.
J.T. Kwak, R. Reddy, S. Sinha, R. Bhargava, “Analysis of variance in spectroscopic imaging data from human tissues.” Analytical Chemistry, 2012, 84(2), pp.1063-1069.
J.T. Kwak, S. Hewitt, S. Sinha, R. Bhargava, “Multimodal microscopy for automated histologic analysis of prostate cancer.” BMC Cancer, 2011, 11. 62.
Conference Proceedings
J.T. Kwak, S. Xu, B. Turkbey, P. Choyke, P.A. Pinto, B.J. Wood, “Do clinical variables augment multi-parametric MRI computer-aided diagnosis?”. World Conference on Interventional Oncology 2016, June 9-12 2016. (Accepted)
T.P. Wrobel, J.T. Kwak, A. Balla, R. Bhargava, "High-definition Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic imaging of prostate tissue". Proc. SPIE 9791, Medical Imaging 2016: Digital Pathology, 97911D, March 23, 2016
S. Azizi, F. Imani, B. Zhuang, A. Tahmasebi, J.T. Kwak, S. Xu, N. Uniyal, B. Turkbey, P. Choyke, P.A. Pinto, B.J. Wood, M. Moradi, P. Mousavi, P. Abolmaesumi, “Ultrasound-based detection of prostate cancer using automatic feature selection with deep belief networks”. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention-MICCAI 2015, October 5-9, Springer International Publishing, pp. 70-77, 2015.
J.T. Kwak, S.M. Hewitt, S. Xu, B.J. Wood, “Multiview boosting for prostate cancer diagnosis”. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. August 25-29 2015.
J.T. Kwak, S.M. Hewitt, S. Xu, P.A. Pinto, B.J. Wood, “Nucleus detection using gradient orientation information and linear least squares regression”. SPIE Medical Imaging, International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2015.
N. Uniyal, F. Imani, A. Tahmasebi, P. Choyke, B. Turkbey, P.A. Pinto, B.J. Wood, S. Xu, J.T. Kwak, P. Yan, J. Kruecker, S. Bharat, H. Agarwal, P. Abolmaesumi, P. Mousavi, M. Moradi, “Ultrasound-based prediction of prostate cancer in MRI-guided biopsy”. Clinical Image-based Procedures. Translational Research in Medical Imaging. 2014. (Best paper award, 3rd place)
S. Xu, J. Kruecker, H. Amalou, J.T. Kwak, B.J. Wood, “Real-time treatment iterative planning for composite ablations”. Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, June 25-28 2014.
J.T. Kwak, S. Xu, P.A. Pinto, B. Turkbey, M. Bernardo, P.L. Choyke, B.J. Wood, “A multiview boosting approach to tissue segmentation”. SPIE Medical Imaging, International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2014. (Cum Laude poster award, 1st place).
J.T. Kwak, S. Sinha, R. Bhargava, “A new segmentation framework for infrared spectroscopic imaging using frequent pattern mining”. Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on, pp.452-455, March 30 2011-April 2 2011. (Travel Award)
Patents
R. Bhargava, S. Sinha, and J.T. Kwak, “Automated prostate tissue referencing for cancer detection and diagnosis.” Jan. 2016, US9230063.