Dr Kevin Wells
Lecturer
Email: k.wells@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 6036
Room no: 28 AB 05
Further information
Publications
Highlights
- . (2010) 'The spatial resolution of silicon-based electron detectors in beta-autoradiography'. IOP PUBLISHING LTD PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, 55 (6), pp. 1677-1699.
- . (2009) 'Characterization and Testing of LAS: A Prototype 'Large Area Sensor' With Performance Characteristics Suitable for Medical Imaging Applications'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, 56 (5), pp. 2938-2946.
- . (2008) 'Adaptive partial volume classification of MRI data'. IOP PUBLISHING LTD PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, 53 (20), pp. 5577-5594.
- . (2008) 'Measurement of glomerular filtration rate with magnetic resonance imaging: Principles, limitations, and expectations'. W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC SEMINARS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE, Antalya, TURKEY: 38 (1), pp. 47-55.
- . (2007) 'Digital autoradiography using room temperature CCD and CMOS imaging technology.'. Phys Med Biol, England: 52 (16), pp. 4993-5011.
Journal articles
- . (2013) 'Biomedical applications reviewed: Hot topic areas'. Radiation Physics and Chemistry,
- . (2012) 'A review of X-ray explosives detection techniques for checked baggage'. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 70 (8), pp. 1729-1746.
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(2012) 'Conversion of mammographic images to appear with the noise and sharpness characteristics of a different detector and x-ray system.'. Med Phys, United States: 39 (5), pp. 2721-2734.doi: 10.1118/1.4704525
- . (2011) 'Image resampling effects in mammographic image simulation.'. Physics in Medicine and Biology, England: 56 (22), pp. N275-N286.
- . (2011) 'Photon signature analysis using template matching'. Elsevier Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 652 (1), pp. 466-469.
- . (2011) 'DynAMITe: A wafer scale sensor for biomedical applications'. IOP Publishing Journal of Instrumentation, 6 (12) Article number C12064
- . (2011) 'A particle filter approach to respiratory motion estimation in nuclear medicine imaging'. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 58 (5 PART 1), pp. 2276-2285.
- . (2010) 'Partial volume effects in dynamic contrast magnetic resonance renal studies'. European Journal of Radiology, 75 (2), pp. 221-229.
- . (2010) 'Partial volume effects in dynamic contrast magnetic resonance renal studies'. ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD EUR J RADIOL, 75 (2), pp. 221-229.
- . (2010) 'Photon-induced positron annihilation for standoff bomb detection'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA: 619 (1-3), pp. 415-418.
- . (2010) 'The spatial resolution of silicon-based electron detectors in beta-autoradiography'. IOP PUBLISHING LTD PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, 55 (6), pp. 1677-1699.
- . (2010) 'Partial volume effects in dynamic contrast magnetic resonance renal studies'. European Journal of Radiology, 75 (2), pp. 221-229.
- . (2010) 'Phase contrast imaging: Effect of increased object-detector distances at X-ray diagnostic and megavoltage energies'. Elsevier Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 652 (1), pp. 625-629.
- . (2009) 'Characterization and Testing of LAS: A Prototype 'Large Area Sensor' With Performance Characteristics Suitable for Medical Imaging Applications'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, 56 (5), pp. 2938-2946.
- . (2009) 'The Multidimensional Integrated Intelligent Imaging project (MI-3)'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, Univ Glasgow, Glasgow, SCOTLAND: 604 (1-2), pp. 196-198.
- . (2008) 'Adaptive partial volume classification of MRI data'. IOP PUBLISHING LTD PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY, 53 (20), pp. 5577-5594.
- . (2008) 'Measurement of glomerular filtration rate with magnetic resonance imaging: Principles, limitations, and expectations'. W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC SEMINARS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE, Antalya, TURKEY: 38 (1), pp. 47-55.
- . (2007) 'Quantifying the partial volume effect in PET using Benford's law'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, 54 (5), pp. 1616-1625.
- . (2007) 'Design of a wire-mesh collimator for gamma cameras.'. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, United States: 54 (9), pp. 1598-1612.
- . (2007) 'Digital autoradiography using room temperature CCD and CMOS imaging technology.'. Phys Med Biol, England: 52 (16), pp. 4993-5011.
- . (2007) 'Preliminary Monte Carlo study of coded aperture imaging with a CZT gamma camera system for scintimammography'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, Univ Liverpool, Liverpool, ENGLAND: 573 (1-2), pp. 122-125.
- . (2007) 'Statistical morphological skull stripping of adult and infant MRI data.'. Comput Biol Med, United States: 37 (3), pp. 342-357.
- . (2006) 'Preliminary results from a Monte Carlo study of breast tumour imaging with low-energy high-resolution collimator and a modified uniformly-redundant array-coded aperture'. ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT, Grenoble, FRANCE: 563 (1), pp. 146-149.
- . (2006) 'Mixture effects in FIR low-pass filtered signals'. IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, 13 (6), pp. 369-372.
Conference papers
- . (2012) 'Study of the Optimisation of the CT Transmission Parameters for the Attenuation Correction of PET Data'. SPRINGER EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING, Milan, ITALY: 25th Annual Congress of the European-Association-of-Nuclear-Medicine (EANM) 39, pp. S368-S368.
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(2012) 'Using a large area CMOS APS for direct chemiluminescence
detection in Western Blotting Electrophoresis'. Proceedings of SPIE, San Diego, USA: SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 8317doi: 10.1117/12.911615
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(2012) 'A fast scatter field estimator for digital breast tomosynthesis'. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 8313doi: 10.1117/12.911494
- . (2012) 'Internal motion prediction using kernel density estimation and general canonical correlation model'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 3772-3776.
- . (2012) 'Respiratory motion estimation in nuclear medicine imaging using a kernel model-based particle filter framework'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 2928-2932.
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(2012) 'Realistic simulation of breast mass appearance using random walk'. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 8313doi: 10.1117/12.911641
- . (2012) 'Mosaics of polynomial transformations giving a patient specific registration to reduce breathing motion artefacts'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 3066-3072.
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(2012) 'A quantitative assessment of using the Kinect for Xbox360™ for respiratory surface motion tracking'. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 8316doi: 10.1117/12.911463
- . (2012) 'Mosaics of polynomial transformations giving a patient specific registration to reduce breathing motion artefacts'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 3066-3072.
- . (2012) 'Respiratory motion estimation in nuclear medicine imaging using a kernel model-based particle filter framework'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 2928-2932.
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(2012) 'Modeling realistic breast lesions using diffusion limited aggregation'. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 8313doi: 10.1117/12.911512
- . (2012) 'A modelling framework for evaluation of 2D-mammography and breast tomosynthesis systems'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 7361 LNCS, pp. 338-345.
- . (2011) 'DynAMITe: a Large Area Sensor for Biomedical Applications with Bimodal Dynamic Range and Resolution'. Valencia, Spain: Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference
- . (2011) 'Western Blotting Electrophoretic Sequencing: First Images with a Room Temperature CMOS Detector'. IEEE Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Valencia, Spain: 2011 NSS/MIC Conference, pp. 2491-2494.
- . (2011) 'DynAMITe: A Wafer Scale Sensor for Biomedical Applications'. Aberystwyth, U.K.: Position sensitive detector conference
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(2011) 'Validation of a method to convert an image to appear as if acquired using a different digital detector'. Proceedings of SPIE: Poster Session: X-ray Imaging, Lake Buena Vista, USA: Medical Imaging 2011: Physics of Medical Imaging 7961doi: 10.1117/12.878756
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(2011) 'An Iterative Particle Filter Approach for Respiratory Motion Estimation in Nuclear Medicine Imaging'. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING MEDICAL IMAGING 2011: IMAGE PROCESSING, Lake Buena Vista, FL: Conference on Medical Imaging 2011 - Image Processing 7962doi: 10.1117/12.878086
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(2011) 'An iterative particle filter approach for respiratory motion estimation in nuclear medicine imaging'. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 7962doi: 10.1117/12.878086
- . (2010) 'Inter- and intra-subject variation of abdominal vs. thoracic respiratory motion using kernel density estimation'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Knoxville, USA: Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 2921-2924.
- . (2010) 'Performance evaluation of a particle filter framework for respiratory motion estimation in Nuclear Medicine imaging'. IEEE IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Knoxville, USA: Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 2676-2680.
- . (2010) 'Marker-less tracking for respiratory motion correction in nuclear medicine'. IEEE IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Knoxville, USA: Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 3118-3121.
- . (2010) 'Respiratory motion modelling and prediction using probability density estimation'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Knoxville, USA: Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 2465-2469.
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(2010) 'Development of a Particle Filter Framework for Respiratory Motion Correction in Nuclear Medicine Imaging'. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING MEDICAL IMAGING 2010: IMAGE PROCESSING, San Diego, CA: Conference on Medical Imaging 2010 - Image Processing 7623doi: 10.1117/12.844424
- . (2010) 'Monte Carlo simulation of scatter field for calculation of contrast of discs in synthetic CDMAM images'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6136 LNCS, pp. 628-635.
- . (2010) 'Adapting clinical images to appear with different noise and sharpness to model a different detector'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6136 LNCS, pp. 319-326.
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(2010) 'An Observation Model for Motion Correction in Nuclear Medicine'. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING MEDICAL IMAGING 2010: IMAGE PROCESSING, San Diego, CA: Conference on Medical Imaging 2010 - Image Processing 7623doi: 10.1117/12.844376
- . (2010) 'Validation of a simulated dose reduction methodology using digital mammography CDMAM images and mastectomy images'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6136 LNCS, pp. 78-85.
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(2009) 'Segmentation of low contrast-to-noise ratio images applied to functional imaging using adaptive region growing'. Proceedings of SPIE: Posters: Segmentation, Lake Buena Vista, USA: Medical Imaging 2009: Image Processing 7259doi: 10.1117/12.811325
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(2009) 'Betacam: A commercial approach to β- Autoradiography'. Proceedings of SPIE: Poster Session: Detectors, Lake Buena Bista: Medical Imaging 2009: Physics of Medical Imaging 7258doi: 10.1117/12.811326
- . (2009) 'Elastic atlas registration of β- autoradiograms using scattered data interpolators'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 3700-3704.
- . (2009) 'A flexible approach to motion correction in nuclear medicine'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 2534-2539.
- . (2009) 'A virtual dissection based registration to model patient-specific respiratory motion'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 3571-3576.
- . (2009) 'A Monte Carlo study on the spatial resolution of uncollimated β particles with silicon-based detectors for autoradiography'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, , pp. 2877-2881.
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(2009) 'Automated scoring method for the CDMAM phantom'. Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 7263doi: 10.1117/12.811657
- . (2008) 'Validation of a digital mammography image simulation chain with automated scoring of CDMAM images'. SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY, PROCEEDINGS, Tucson, AZ: 9th International Workshop on Digital Mammography 5116, pp. 409-416.
- . (2007) 'A simulation framework for the comparison of digital mammography imaging technology'. IEEE 2007 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE RECORD, VOLS 1-11, Honolulu, HI: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 3635-3639.
- . (2007) 'A Monte Carlo investigation into the fundamental limitations of digital beta-autoradiography: Considerations for detector design'. IEEE 2007 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE RECORD, VOLS 1-11, Honolulu, HI: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 3625-3630.
- . (2007) 'Digital autoradiography using CCD and CMOS imaging technology'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 4, pp. 2607-2612.
- . (2007) 'Near field corrections for coded aperture imaging in scintimammography'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 5, pp. 2948-2953.
- . (2007) 'MR-based renography as a replacement for radionuclide diagnostic studies'. IEEE 2007 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE RECORD, VOLS 1-11, Honolulu, HI: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 4556-4563.
- . (2007) 'Semi-automatic elastic registration applied to a beta-autoradiography brain atlas'. IEEE 2007 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE RECORD, VOLS 1-11, Honolulu, HI: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 4303-4307.
- . (2007) 'Ultra low dose CT attenuation correction maps for emission computed tomography'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 4, pp. 2123-2127.
- . (2007) 'Partial volume correction for image-generated arterial input functions'. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 4, pp. 2091-2094.
- . (2007) 'Digital Autoradiography imaging using CMOS technology: First Tritium Autoradiography with a back-thinned CMOS detector and comparison of CMOS imaging performance with autoradiography film'. IEEE 2007 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE RECORD, VOLS 1-11, Honolulu, HI: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 3743-3746.
- . (2006) 'A Combined Noise Reduction and Partial Volume Estimation Method for Image Quantitation'. IEEE 2006 IEEE NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM CONFERENCE RECORD, VOL 1-6, San Diego, CA: 15th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors/ 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, pp. 3221-3228.
- . (2005) 'The partial volume effect in PET/SPECT and Benford's law'. IEEE 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vols 1-5, Fajardo, PR: Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 1804-1808.
- . (2005) 'Optimal energy window selection for scintigraphy & emission computed tomography'. IEEE 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vols 1-5, Fajardo, PR: Nuclear Science Symposium/Medical Imaging Conference, pp. 2049-2053.
