Curriculum vitae


D. B. Karron, Ph.D.

Personal
300 East 33rd th Street
Apartment 4N
New York, New York 10016
E-mail: karron@casi.net or casi@thorn.net

Web Site: http://www.casi.net/

Phone: 1+ (212) 686 8748
Fax:     1+ (212) 448 0261

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York
Daughter, Sarah Hope Karron: 12 years old

Academic

Ph.D. Applied Science (Bio-Engineering) NYU Jan 1993
M.S. Applied Science Earth Systems Science NYU June 1988
B.A. Physiological  Psychology NYU June 1984


Representative and Selected Publications

Cox, J, and Karron, D. B. (in press) Digital Morse Theory with Selected Applications. Submitted to Graphical Models and Image Processing (GIMP) .

E. Jovanov, K. Wegner, V. Radivojevic, D. Starcevic, M. S. Quinn, and D. B. Karron. Tactical Audio and Acoustic Rendering in Biomedical Applications. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN  BIOMEDICINE   A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY  SOCIETY  June 1999, Volume 03, Number 02  pp. 109-118.

Karron, D.; Cox, James; and Mishra, B.(1999) : System and Method for Surface Rendering of Internal Structures within the Interior of a Solid Object. (U.S. Patent application 08/046,245, GRANTED Patent #5,898,793).

Jovanov, E.; Starcevic, D.; Wegner, Kristen; Karron, D.B.; Radivojevic, V. "Acoustic Rendering as Support for Sustained Attention during Biomedical Procedures." In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Glasgow, UK, Nov. 1-4, 1998.

Potter, S.D.; Wegner, Kristen; Karron, D.B.; Hoffert, M.I. "Teleoperation Strategies for Exploring and Utilizing the Resources of Space." In Proceedings of the Space Studies Institute (SSI) Conference on Space Manufacturing, Princeton, NJ, May 8-11, 1997.

Wegner, Kristen and Karron, D.B. "Surgical Navigation Using Audio Feedback." In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, San Diego, Jan. 1997, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 1997.

Wegner, Kristen and Karron, D.B. "Surgical Navigation System and Method Using Audio Feedback.", PCT International Patent Application PCT/US98/01251, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Box PCT, Washington D.C., Jan. 1998.

Wegner, Kristen and Karron, D.B. (2000) "Surgical Navigation System and Method Using Audio Feedback.", U.S. Patent Application, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Washington D.C., Patent #6,083,163

Karron, D. B. and Cox, James; (1995) Extracting 3D Objects from Volume Data using Digital Morse Theory. In Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine, Nicholas Ayache, Editor. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 905,  Pages 481 -- 486.

Cansano, Selene; Williamson, Sam ; Karron, D. B.; (1995) Tonotopic Organization of Human Auditory Association Cortex. Brain Research 663:38--50.

Karron, D; New Findings from the SpiderWeb Algorithm: Toward a Digital Morse Theory. Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC) '94.

Karron, D.; Grossi, Eugene ; Weinreb, Jeffery; Stephenson, Jeffery ; Porte, Blaise; (1994) The SpiderWeb algorithm applied in 4D: Using a topologically correct isosurface tracking algorithm to follow the moving surfaces of the heart. 1994 Society of Nuclear Medicine Computer and Instrumentation Council Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, February 7 -- 9, on ``Dedicated Instruments and Computer Processing Techniques for Cardiac and Brain Imaging.''

Williamson, Samuel; Wang; Jia-Zhu, Liu, Zhong - Lin ; Karron, D. (1993) : Registration and Localization of ``Alphons'' in Human Cortex. Recent Advances In Bio-magnetism: 9th International Conference on Bio-magnetism. Vienna, August 14 - 20, 1993.

Karron, D.; Cox, James; and Mishra, B.(1993) : System and Method for Surface Rendering of Internal Structures within the Interior of a Solid Object. (U.S. Patent application 08/046,245, GRANTED Patent  #5,898,793).

Cox, James; Karron, D.; and Mishra, B. (1993) : The SpiderWeb Surface rendering algorithm. Innovation and Technology in Biology and Medicine (ITBM Volume 14, Number 6, Page 634 - 655. December 1993

Karron, D.; and L{\"u}, Zhong--Lin; and Williamson, Samuel J.  Pointer: An Accurate Method for Registering Anatomical and Functional Images of the Head. NYU Physics Department Technical Report

Karron, D. and Williamson, Samuel J.  Localization of Alphons in the Human Brain Cortex. NYU Physics Department Technical Report

Karron, D. (1993) Novel Surface Rendering and Object Registration Methods for Three Dimensional Medical Imaging: The ``SpiderWeb'' Surface Algorithm and the ``Pointers'' Technique for Integrating Multimodal Images. Ph.D. Dissertation.

Karron, D. and Cox, James (1992) Mathematical Analysis of ``SpiderWeb'' Surface Construction Algorithm. Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, J. P. Morucci, R. Plonsey, J. L. Coatrieux, and S. Laxminarayan, Editors. pages 1250--1252.

Karron, D. (1992) The ``SpiderWeb'' Surface Construction Algorithm for Building Triangle Mesh Surfaces in Noisy Volume Data. Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society", J. P. Morucci, R. Plonsey, J. L. Coatrieux, and S. Laxminarayan, Editors. pages 2084--2086".

Karron, D. (1992) The ``SpiderWeb'' algorithm for surface construction in noisy volume data. Proceedings of the Visualization in Biomedical Computing Conference '92, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Richard A. Robb, Editor. Society of Photo--Optical Instrumentation Engineers. Proceedings Volume 1808, Pages 462--576.

Karron, D. (1992) The ``SpiderWeb'' algorithm for surface construction in noisy volume data. NYU, Department of Robotics Technical Report.

Karron, D. (1991) A novel algorithm for calculating the closest approach of skew lines using singular value decomposition. NYU, Department of Robotics Technical Report.

Cox, James , Karron, D., and Mishra, Bud (1992) The SpiderWeb Surface Construction Algorithm for Medical Imaging: Properties of Its Surface. City University of New York, Brooklyn College Computer Science Department Technical Report.

Williamson, Samuel J., L\"u, Zhong--Lin, Karron, D., and Kaufman, Lloyd (1991) Advantages and Limitations of Magnetic Source Imaging. Brain Topography, 4(2) Pages 169--180.

Cutting, Court B. and McCarthy, Joseph G. and Karron, D. B. (1988) Three--Dimensional Input of Body Surface Data Using a Laser Light Scanner, Annals of Plastic Surgery, 21:1 (July), Pages 38--45.


Selected Invited Lectures

Computational Geometry Graduate Seminar Class. Feb 2001, with Jim Cox, Invited by Janos Pach.

DARPA ACMP Principal Investigator Meeting. San Francisco. Summer 2000

CCNY/CUNY BioEngineing Fair, CCNY Oct 1999

ISIS Pharmaceuticals. Carlsbad, Ca. Jan 1999

MMVR: San Francisco, and DARPA ABMT PI's Meeting 1999

JASONS 1997. San Diego. Classified Briefing at General Atomics.

NASA Ames Research. 1997. Mountainview, CA. Invited by Muriel Ross

DARPA ABMT PI's Meeting 1997

International College of Surgery: Surgical Sonification (With Chris Wegner) April 1995 Invited by Virtual Reality in Medicine Journal.

Liberty Science Center: Brain Imaging and Function Exhibition April 1995 Invited by Lightspeed Design.

Virtual Reality and Medicine: The Cutting Edge. Invited by Dr. Baxter Garcia. September 11, 1994

Digital Topology Day at Queens College. Invited by Dr. Yung Kong, Dr. Gabor Herman, and Dr. Ralph Kopperman. August 1, 1994

Brain Imaging Group, McGill University. Invited by Dr. Allan Evans. July 6, 1994

Earth Systems Science, NYU. Invited by Dr. Seth Potter. March 2, 1994.

Medical Image Processing Group, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania. With James Cox. Invited by Dr. Gabor Herman. Feb 29, 1994, and numerous times since.

New York Venture Capital Forum. Invited by Dr. Jack Schwartz and Mr. Patrick Franc. Dec 7. 1993.

City College, CUNY, Department of Computer Science. Invited by Dr. Gary Bloom and Dr. Yanush Pach. Nov 29. 1993.

City University of New York Graduate Center, Department of Computer Science. Invited by Dr. James Cox. Oct 18. 1993.

Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Department of Computer Science. Invited by Dr. Boris Aronov. Nov 1. 1993.

New York Hospital, Department of Psychiatry. Invited by Dr. Sam Perry. Sept 30. 1993.

SIGGRAPH 93. Video presentation invited by Dr. Ken Perlin, August 1993

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Medical Physics. New York, New York. Invited by Dr. Clifford Ling. May 1993.

University of Pennsylvania, Medical Image Processing Group. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Invited by Dr. Jay Udupa. January 18, 1993.

General Electric, Corporate Research and Development. Schenectady, New York. October 1992. Invited by Dr. Robert Tatar.

Visualization 92 Conference. Boston. Poster session invited by Dr. Roni Yagel.

Visualization 92 Conference. Boston. How to Lie with Scientific Visualization session. Invited by Dr. Nahum Gershon.

Louis Pasteur Institute, Strasbourg, France. Invited by Dr. Pascal Frey. October 1992.

Brooklyn College, Computer Science Department. Brooklyn, New York. Invited by Dr. James Cox. October 1992.

Vital Images, Inc. Fairfield, Iowa. Invited by Dr. Vincent Argiro to the Vital Images Users Group, August 1992.

Columbia University, Orthopedics Research Laboratory. Invited by Dr. Gerard A. Ateshian. September 25, 1992.

State University of New York at Stony Brook. Invited by Dr. Ari Kaufman. August 1992. (With James Cox)

Siemens Quantum, Inc. Three Dimensional reconstruction from irregularly oriented slice data. Invited by Dr. Benjamin Zorin. April 1992.

Silicon Graphics Expo and Developers Forum. Santa Clara, California. April 1992.

Applied Science Department seminar series. Center for Neural Science, Neuromagnetism Laboratory seminar series.


Employment History

2000 - present: Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at CCNY, teaching Bio-Informatics and Bio-Engineering survey course in CS Department.
2001 - present: subcontractor PI, NIH VHP NGI Project at U of Michigan.
1996 - 2000 PI contractor, DARPA ABMT and DARPA ACMP programs.
1995 - present Computer Aided Surgery, Inc. President and Chief Technical Officer
1994 - 1996 Dept. of Surgery, NYU Medical Center Research Assistant Professor in Computer Aided Surgery
1993 - 1994 Dept. of Surgery, NYU Medical Center Research Associate, 3D Ultrasound for Computer Aided Surgery
1993 - 1995 Neuromagnetism Lab.Center for Neural Science, NYU Postdoctoral Associate
1990 - 1993 Dept. of Applied Science, NYU & Graduate Fellow
1991 - 1995 Dept. of Surgery, NYU Medical Center & Computer Network Consultant
1983 - 1991 Inst. Of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Scientific Graphics Programmer and Computer system administrator
1984 - 1990 Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured Database administrator
1982 - 1984 Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Computer systems analyst
1980 - 1982 Courant Institute, NYU Computer graphics programmer and Consultant
1975 - 1978 Dept. of Experimental Psychology Technician and Student
1973 - 1974 Backster Research Foundation, Technician and Student Intern.


Professional Memberships
  1. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Member # 01794395, (member since 1976).
  2. American Institute of Physics (AIP);
  3. American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
  4. American Statistical Association (ASA);
  5. Biometrics Society;
  6. Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).
  7. American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, (AIUM) Member Number 33084;
  8. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member Number 3400660;
  9. ACM Special Interest Group for Graphics (SIGGRAPH).
  10. Institute of Electrical And Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Member number M0273128;
  11. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS);
  12. Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, Magnetics Society,
  13. Signal Processing Society, Computer Society.
  14. American Mathematical Association (AMS) Member number KRDNBA;
  15. Mathematical Association of America (MAA). 10 year member.
  16. New York Academy of Science (NYAS), Member Number 253961.
  17. Society for Magnetic Resonance (SMR), Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR).
  18. The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS\&T);
  19. The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Member Number 358722.
  20. The Society of the Sigma Xi ($\Sigma \Xi$)
  21. The C Users Group (CUG).
  22. Tex Users Group (TUG).
  23. NYC Chapter of the X Users Group (NYCXUG), Secretary of chapter.

Hobbies, Activities

Swing, Aerobics and Athletic Dance. Bodybuilding,  Sailing. Figure Skating. Bicycleing.
Jazz and Rag Piano.
PADI Certified Open Water Scuba Diver, Certificate C56,393.
BMW Motorcycle Owners Association of America (BMWMOA).

Research Contracts
 

  1. Department of Defense, Defense Research Projects Administration Phase 1 SBIR Grant 1996.1
  2. Computer Aided Surgery Simulation and Planning: Technology Application Demonstration with Dental Implant Surgery. $ 99,950
  3. Department of Defense, Defense Research Projects Administration Phase 2 SBIR Grant 1997.1
  4. Computer Aided Surgery Simulation and Planning: Technology Application Demonstration with Dental Implant Surgery. $ 744,000
  5. Yale University Medical Center, Advanced Biomedical Technology development grant. $15,000
  6. Sheppard Patterson, Inc. Hand - Ear navigation by virtual audio $ 25,000
  7. Department of Defense, Defense Research Projects Administration Phase 3 SBIR Grant 1998.2 Exploring Data Space using Digital Morse Theory. $ 100,000
  8. University of Michigan, NIH VHP NGI Project ongoing subcontract 50K  Rapid 3D RGB Segmentation for the VHP dataset.