Dan Ruan
1301 Beal Ave.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
USA
druan [AT]eecs[DOT]umich[DOT]edu

I am a Ph.D candidate in the Electrical Engineering: Systems program at the University of Michigan. I work with Dr. Jeffrey A. Fessler and Dr. James M. Balter on medical image registration; analysis, estimation and prediction of breathing patterns; and their application to radiotherapy. I am also interested in general system identification, model fusion, and statistical learning. [Resume]

Publications
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[Journal papers]
D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, J. M. Balter, R. I. Berbeco, S. Nishioka, H. Shirato Inference of Hysteretic Respiratory Tumor Motion From External Surrogates: a State Augmentation Approach, Phys. Med. Biol., 53: 2923-36, 2008.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, J. M. Balter, Real-time Prediction of Respiratory Motion based on Local Regression Methods, Phys. Med. Biol., 52: 7137-52, 2007

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, J. M. Balter, Static and Recursive Estimation of Respiratory Motion with Instantaneous Phase Adjustment, Med. Phys,in preparation, 2007.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, J. M. Balter, Mean Position Tracking of Respiratory Motion, Med. Phys,35(2): 782-92, 2008.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, M. Robserson, J. Balter and M. Kessler, Nonrigid Registration with Regularization Incorporating Local Tissue Rigidity, Phys. Med. Biol.,in revision, 2007.

H. He, D. Ruan, K. C. Mehta, X. Gilliam and F. Wu, Nonparametric Independent Component Analysis for Detecting Pressure Fluctuation Induced by Roof Corner Vortex, J. Wind. Eng. & Ind. Aerodyn., 95(6):429-443, June 2007.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, J. M. Balter and J. J. Sonke, Exploring Breathing Pattern Irregularity with Projection-based Method, Med. Phys., 33(7):2491-2499, July 2006.

D. Ruan, H. He, D. A. Castañón, K. C. Mehta, Normalized Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (NPOD) for Building Pressure Data Compression, J. Wind. Eng. & Ind. Aerodyn., 94(6):447-461, June 2006.

[Selected Conference papers]
D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler and J. M. Balter, Tracking of Respiratory Motion with Real-time Phase Adjustment, presented, video1, video2, video3, AAPM, July 2007.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, M. Roberson, J. M. Balter and M. Kessler, Multi-modality Registration with Regularization that Accommodates Local Tissue Rigidity, AAPM, Aug. 2006, selected for long presentation at the John S. Laughlin Science Council Research Symposium.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler, M. Roberson, J. M. Balter and M. Kessler, Nonrigid Registration with Regularization to Account for Local Tissue Rigidity, , presented at SPIE, Feb. 2006.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler and J. M. Balter, J. Wolthaus and J. Sonke Analysis of Periodicity and Complexity of Breathing Pattern for Radiotherapy, poster AAPM, July 2005.

T. R. F. Fulford-Johns, D. Ruan, W. R. Chan, K. Hartman, A. M. Heafitz, A.C. Misra and T. B. Mloduchowski, The Mars Gravity Biosatellite: Innovations in Murine Motion Analysis and Life Support, SAE International, 2005.

D. Ruan, H. He, D. A. Smith and K. C. Mehta, A Semi-optimal Mode Selection Scheme for POD Based Compression of Building Pressure Data, , ASEM 2004.

D. Ruan, D. A. Castañón Real-time Tumor Tracking with Interactive Multiple Model Filter , CenSSIS 2003.

[Technical reports]
D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler Fundamental performance analysis in image registration problems: Cramer-Rao bound and its variations, Technical Report 386, Comm. & Sign. Proc. Lab., Dept. of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2122, Mar. 2008.

D. Ruan, J. A. Fessler Adaptive ellipse tracking and a convergence proof, Technical Report 382, Comm. & Sign. Proc. Lab., Dept. of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2122, May. 2007.

Miscellaneous
I had the pleasure to be the winner of Young Investigator Symposium AAPM-GLC ('05), and was honored to be the receipient of International Student Fellowship ('06) and Barbour Fellowship ('07-'08). These are recognitions for our proud team and program.

I love to be involed in extracurricular academic work. I was the leader of the video processing team in the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project during my previous study in Boston. I am also coordinating the Rackham Interdisciplinary workship on statistical topics for Spring/Summer 2007.

Last updated on: 05/14/2006