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overview: Zhigang Deng, University of Houston Moores Professor of computer science, was named a Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery. ACM named 63 Distinguished Members in 2021 for outstanding contributions to the field. All inductees are longstanding ACM members and were selected by their peers for a range of accomplishments that advance computing as a science and a profession.
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ItpCtrl-AI: End-to-end interpretable and controllable artificial intelligence by modeling radiologists' intentions.
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Bridging human and machine intelligence: Reverse-engineering radiologist intentions for clinical trust and adoption.
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A holographic telementoring system depicting surgical instrument movements for real-time guidance in open surgeries.
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Evaluation of user-interfaces for controlling movements of virtual minimally invasive surgical instruments.
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Preliminary design and evaluation of a remote tele-mentoring system for minimally invasive surgery.
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Teen reactions to a self-representational avatar: A qualitative exploration.
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Towards development of a tele-mentoring framework for minimally invasive surgeries.
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Photorealistic Avatar and Teen Physical Activity: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy.
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Development of A Teen-Focused Exergame.
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Marker optimization for facial motion acquisition and deformation.
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A framework for integrating real-time MRI with robot control: application to simulated transapical cardiac interventions.
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Live Speech Driven Head-and-Eye Motion Generators.
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A Statistical Quality Model for Data-Driven Speech Animation.
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MR-based real time path planning for cardiac operations with transapical access.
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A surface-based 3-D dendritic spine detection approach from confocal microscopy images.
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A novel virtual reality environment for preoperative planning and simulation of image guided intracardiac surgeries with robotic manipulators.
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A global spatial similarity optimization scheme to track large numbers of dendritic spines in time-lapse confocal microscopy.
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An interactive geometric technique for upper and lower teeth segmentation.
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Orthogonal-blendshape-based editing system for facial motion capture data.
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Expressive facial animation synthesis by learning speech coarticulation and expression spaces.
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Imaging, Three-Dimensional
MeSH DescriptorUI: D021621
MeSH semantic group name: Objects
MeSH semantic group name: Procedures
number of authors: 30
number of publications: 73
uniqueness weight: 0.932794
type: Concept