Xiaoning Qian, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor (Statistics)
Associate Research Scientist (Electrical Engineering)

Zachry Engineering Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128
Tel: (1) 979-862-8896
Email: xqian at stat.tamu.edu

Brief Biography

    I am currently in the Bioinformatics Training Program at the Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University.   Before joining Texas A&M University, I worked on biomedical image segmentation and shape-based image databases using statistical shape analysis in the Image Processing and Analysis Group (IPAG) at Yale University. I received my Ph.D. degree from Yale Unviersity.

 

Research Interests

·  Bioinformatics:
    - Cellular regulatory networks;
    - Functional data analysis on genomic and proteomic datasets.

·  Biomedical image processing and analysis:
    - Image segmentation and robust boundary finding;
    - Shape-based similarity retrieval in multimedia databases.

 

Teaching Experience

·  Teaching Assistant, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University:
    - Numerical Methods (1998, 1999)

·  Journal Club, IPAG, Yale University:
    - Statistical Learning Journal Club (Summer 2002)

 

·  Guest Lecturer, Probabilistic Graphical Models [Slides], Texas A&M University:
    - ECEN689-613: Probability Models and Applications (Fall 2008)

 

Selected Publications

  • Xiaoning Qian and Edward R. Dougherty,
    "    On the long-run sensitivity of probabilistic Boolean networks," [Paper]
    Journal of Theoretical Biology, 257(4): 560-577, 2009.
  • Xiaoning Qian , Sing-Hoi Sze, Byung-Jun Yoon,
    "Querying pathways in protein interaction networks based on hidden Markov models," [Paper]
    Journal of Computational Biology, 16(2):145--157, 2009.
  • Xiaoning Qian , Matthew P. Brennan, Donald P. Dione, Wawrzyniec L. Dobrucki, Marcel P. Jackowski,
    Christopher K. Breuer, Albert J. Sinusas, Xenophon Papademetris,
    "A nonparametric vessel detection method for complex vascular structures," [Paper]
    Medical Image Analysis, 13(1):49--61, 2009.
  • Xiaoning Qian and Edward R. Dougherty,
    "Effect of function perturbation on the steady state distribution of genetic regulatory networks: optimal structural intervention," [Paper]
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 56(10):4966--4976, 2008.
  • Alark Joshi, Xiaoning Qian , Donald P. Dione, Ketan R. Bulsara, Christopher K. Breuer, Albert J. Sinusas, Xenophon Papademetris,
    "Effective visualization of complex vascular structures using a non-parametric vessel detection method," [Paper]
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 14(6):1603--1610, 2008.
  • Xiaoning Qian , Hemant D. Tagare, Zhong Tao,
    "Segmentation of rat cardiac ultrasound images with large dropout regions," [Paper]
    in IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis (MMBIA),
    in conjunction with IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2006.
  • Xiaoning Qian and Hemant D. Tagare,
    "Optimal embedding for shape indexing in medical image databases," [Paper]
    in Proc. 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2005.
  • Xiaoning Qian and Hemant D. Tagare,
    "Optimal indexing trees for medical image databases ," [Paper]
    in IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2002.