Selected publications

Books

1. Andrew P.Bradley, Yaniv Gal, Paul Jackway and Olivier Salvado (Editors), Proceedings of 2011Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA2011), 6-8 December 2011, Noosa Heads, Australia, IEEE Computer Society Publications, Los Alamitos, California, USA.

Refereed journal publications

2. Christopher Bell, Stephen Rose, Simon Puttick, Alex Pagnozzi, Christopher Poole, Yaniv Gal, Paul Thomas, Michael Fay, Rosalind Jeffree, Nicholas Dowson, �Dual acquisition of 18F-FMISO and 18F-FDOPA", accepted to IOP Physics in Medicine, May 2014

3. Yilun Fan, Yaniv Gal and Andrew P. Bradley, �An Algorithm for Microscopic Specimen Delineation and Focus Candidate Selection�, accepted to Micron, May 2014Ales Neubert, Jeurgen Fripp, Craig Engstrom, Yaniv Gal, Stuart Crozier and Michael Kingsley, �Validity and reliability of computerized measurement of lumbar intervertebral disc height and volume from magnetic resonance images�, accepted to The Spine Journal, May 2014.

4. Ales Neubert, Jeurgen Fripp, Craig Engstrom, Yaniv Gal, Stuart Crozier and Michael Kingsley, �Validity and reliability of computerized measurement of lumbar intervertebral disc height and volume from magnetic resonance images�, accepted to The Spine Journal, May 2014.Nicholas Dowson, Michael Fay, Paul Thomas, Rosalind Jeffree, Craig Winter, Alan Coulthard, Jye Smith, Yaniv Gal, Pierrick Bourgeat, Olivier Salvado, Stuart Crozier, Stephen Rose, �Contribution of FDOPA PET to radiotherapy planning for advanced glioma�, accepted to IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2013.

5. Nicholas Dowson, Michael Fay, Paul Thomas, Rosalind Jeffree, Craig Winter, Alan Coulthard, Jye Smith, Yaniv Gal, Pierrick Bourgeat, Olivier Salvado, Stuart Crozier, Stephen Rose, �Assessing local outcomes in heterogeneous gliomas�, accepted to IOP Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2013.

6. Nicholas Dowson, Paul Thomas, Michael Fay, Rosalind L. Jeffree, Yaniv Gal, Pierrick Bourgeat, Jye Smith, Craig Winter, Alan Coulthard, Olivier Salvado, Stuart Crozier, Stephen Rose, �Early Prediction of Treatment Response in High-Grade Gliomas with [18F] FDOPA Positron Emission Tomography�, Current Oncology vol. 21(1), pp.172-178, 2013

7. Christopher Bell, Nicholas Dowson, Mike Fay, Paul Thomas, Simon Puttick, Yaniv Gal, Stephen Rose, �Hypoxia imaging in gliomas with 18F-Fluoromisonidazole PET: Towards clinical translation�, accepted to Journal of Seminars in Nuclear Medicine 8/12/2013

8. Yaniv Gal, Nicholas Dowson, Pierrick Bourgeat, Olivier Salvado, Paul Thomas, Michael Fay, Stephen Rose, Rosalind L. Jeffery, Amir Fazlollahi, Stuart Crozier, �Amorphous regions-of-interest projection method for simplified longitudinal comparison of dynamic regions in cancer imaging�, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering on 13/09/2012

9. Nicholas Dowson, Paul Thomas, Michael Fay, Rosalind Jeffree, Yaniv Gal, Pierrick Bourgeat, Jye Smith, Craig Winter, Alan Coulthard, Olivier Salvado, Stuart Crozier, and Stephen Rose, �Early Prediction of Treatment Response in High-Grade Gliomas with [18F] FDOPA Positron Emission Tomography�, accepted to Journal of Current Oncology on 28/8/2013

10. Christopher Bell, Kerstin Pannek, Michael Fay, Paul Thomas, Pierrick Bourgeat, Nicholas Dowson, Olivier Salvado, Yaniv Gal, Alan Coulthard, Stuart Crozier, Stephen Rose, �Distance informed Track-Weighted Imaging (diTWI): A framework for sensitising streamlines information to neuropathology�, accepted to Neuroimage on 30/7/2013

11. Yaniv Gal, Matthew Browne and Christopher Lane, �A New Method For Automatically Estimating Near-shore Wave Height From Video�, IEEE Transactions On Remote Sensing and Geoscience, in press.

12. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Stephen Rose, Stuart Crozier, �Mutual information based binarization of multiple images of an object: An application in medical imaging�, IET Computer Vision, vol. 7(3), pp. 163-169.

13. Stephen Rose, Michael Fay, Paul Thomas, Pierrick Bourgeat, Nicholas Dowson, Olivier Salvado, Yaniv Gal, Alan Coulthard, Stuart Crozier, �Correlation of MRI Derived Apparent Diffusion Coefficients in Newly Diagnosed Gliomas with 6-18F-fluoro-L-Dopa PET: What are we really measuring with minimum ADC?�, American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR) ;34: pp. 758�64

14. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, �New spatio-temporal features for improved discrimination of benign and malignant lesions in DCE-MRI of the breast�, Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 35(5):645-652, 2011.

15. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, �Denoising of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Images Using Dynamic Non-Local Means�, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 29(2), p.302-310, 2010.

Refereed conference publications

16. Jeiran Choupan, Yaniv Gal, David Reuters and Zhengyi Yang, �The Effect of Temporal Feature Selection on the Prediction of Visual Stimulus From Functional MRI�, accepted to the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2014

17. Yilun Fan, Yaniv Gal and Andrew Bradley, �Microscopic Specimen Delineation Using the Auto Phase Correlation Index�, accepted to the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2014

18. Sze-Liang Stanley Chan, Yaniv Gal, Rosalind L. Jeffree, Michael Fay, Paul Thomas, Stuart Crozier and Zhengyi Yang , �Automated Classification of Bone and Air Volumes for Hybrid PET-MRI Brain Imaging�, accepted to Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Hobart, TAS, Australia 2013

19. Yilun Fan, Yaniv Gal and Andrew Peter Bradley, �Performance Analysis of Three Microscope Slide Scanning Techniques�, accepted to Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Hobart, TAS, Australia 2013

20. Farshid Sepehrband, Nyoman D. Kurniawan, Yaniv Gal, Katie McMahon, David C Reutens, Zhengyi Yang, �Improving Tractography by Filtering Diffusion Weighted Images in Spatial and Gradient Direction Domains�, accepted to the 21th Annual International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Podstrana, Croatia 2013

21. Farshid Sepehrband, Yaniv Gal, Nyoman D. Kurniawan, David C Reutens, Zhengyi Yang, �A Novel Framework for Axon Morphometry based on Periodic Spiral Sampling and Dictionary Learning�, accepted to the 21th Annual International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Podstrana, Croatia 2013

22. Sze Liang Stanley Chan and Yaniv Gal, �Automatic Detection of Arterial Voxels in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Images of the Brain�, accepted to Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA2012), 5-7 December 2012, Perth, Australia.

23. Yaniv Gal, Stephen Rose, Pierrick Bourgeat, Zeike Taylor, Mike Fay, Paul Thomas, Nicholas Dowson, Olivier Salvado, and Stuart Crozier, "Automatic classification of high grade brain tumour MRI for improved resection and therapy planning", the 20th Annual International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, 2012.

24. Yaniv Gal, Stephen Rose, Pierrick Bourgeat, Zeike Taylor, Mike Fay, Paul Thomas, Nicholas Dowson, Olivier Salvado, and Stuart Crozier, "Automatic assessment of high grade brain tumour tissue in MR images: What is tumour and what radiation injury.", the 20th Annual International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, 2012.

25. Yaniv Gal, Matthew Browne and Christopher Lane, �Automatic Estimation of Nearshore Wave Height from Video Timestacks�, Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2011, Noosa, Australia.

26. Amir Fazlollahi, Pierrick Bourgeat, Paul Thomas, Stephen Rose, Stuart Crozier, Yaniv Gal, Zeike Taylor, Craig Winter, Michael Fay, Alan Coultard, David MacFarlane, Nicholas Dowson, Fabrice Meriaudeau, �Automatic Brain Tumour Segmentation In 18 F-FDOPA PET using PET/MRI Fusion�, Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2011, Noosa, Australia.

27. Seyyed Adel Fazel, Yaniv Gal, Zhengyi Yang and Viktor Vegh, �Qualitative and quantitative analysis of six image fusion methods and their application to medical imaging�, Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2011, Noosa, Australia.

28. Christopher Lane, Yaniv Gal, Matthew Browne, Andrew Short, Darrell Strauss, Katherine Jackson and Clarence Tan, �A new system for breakzone location and the measurement of breaking wave heights and periods�, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2010.

29. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, �Feature and Classifier Selection for Automatic Classification of Lesions in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI of the breast�, Proceedings Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Melbourne, Australia, 2009.

30. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon, Dominic Kennedy, and Stuart Crozier, �A New Denoising Method for Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI�, IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2008, Vancouver, Canada.

31. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon & Stuart Crozier, �Automatic Segmentation of Enhancing Breast Tissue in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Images� , Conference on Digital Image Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2007, Adelaide, Australia, p.124-129.

32. Yaniv Gal, Andrew Mehnert, Andrew Bradley, Kerry McMahon & Stuart Crozier,An evaluation of four parametric models of contrast enhancement for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of the breast�, IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2007, p.71-74.

33. Daniel Keren, Rita Osdachy & Yaniv Gal, "Anti-Sequences: Event Detection by Frame Stacking", Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2001, p.46, volume 2.

Non-refereed conference publications

34. Farshid Sepehrband, Jeiran Choupan, Yaniv Gal, David C Reuten, and Zhengyi Yang, �Periodic Spherical Spiral Sampling in Gradrient Direction Domain Improves Diffusion MRI Accuracy�, the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), 2013.

35. Yaniv Gal, Stephen Rose, Nicholas Dowson, Paul Thomas, Pierrick Bourgeat, Zeike Taylor, Michael Fay, Rosalind L. Jeffree, Olivier Salvado, Stuart Crozier, �Automated detection of high grade brain tumour tissue using a tissue classification strategy based on MR images�, Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 2012.

36. Christopher Lane, Yaniv Gal, Matthew Browne, Andrew Short, Darrell Strauss, Rodger Tomlinsone, Katherine Jackson, Clarence Tan and Michael Blumenstein, �A new technique for measuring breaking wave dynamics, heights and periods�, Coastal and Ports, Perth, Australia, 2011.

Patents granted

37. Yaniv Gal, Alexander Sorin, Andrei Heilper and Eugene Wallach, �OCR-Based image compression algorithm�, (US/6487311).

38. Yaniv Gal, Jacob Oaknin, Shoulamit Shwartz and Israel Ohana, �Enhanced Planar Single Photon Emission Imaging�, (US/20070217666).

39. Yaniv Gal, �Adaptive image de-noising, by pixel relation maximization�, (US/20080285881, 60/649,917, EP1849310).