NAME Matthew W. Jacobson CONTACT INFO 4415 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Bldg. 1301 Beal Ave. University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 USA Ph: (734) 730-3194 email: mwjacobs@eecs.umich.edu

CURRENT OCCUPATION
I am a post-doc in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department at the University of Michigan. My supervisor is Jeff Fessler and my research deals with statistical approaches to motion correction in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), with applications to lung cancer treatment. In the course of this work, I have also been developing a fairly broad convergence theory for Majorize-Minimize (MM) algorithms (also called iterative majorization or optimization transfer).

PUBLICATIONS

NOTE: For certain works below I provide an Author's Edition. The Author's Edition contains up-to-the-minute corrections and refinements that I put in, and so can differ from the published or submitted version. The Author's Edition may therefore be more correct/complete, but please refer to the published version for citation purposes.

Submitted Journal Papers

1. M W Jacobson, J A Fessler.
   An expanded theoretical treatment of iteration-dependent majorize-minimize algorithms.
   IEEE Tr. Im. Proc., 2006. Submitted.
   Author's Edition available here.
   Note: Specialists on this topic may also wish to read the extended technical report version of this paper (Author's Edition).
   

Published Journal Papers

1. M. Jacobson, N. Shimkin and A. Shwartz.
   Markov decision processes with slow-scale periodic decisions,
   Mathematics of Operations Research 28(4), Nov. 2003, pp. 777-800.
2. Jacobson M, Levkovitz R, Ben-Tal A, Thielemans K, Spinks T, Belluzzo D, Pagani E, Bettinardi V, Gilardi M C, Zverovich A, and Mitra G.
   Enhanced 3D PET OSEM Reconstruction using inter-update Metz filters,
   Phys. Med. Biol. 45(8):2417-39, 2000.
   

Conference Proceedings Papers

1. M W Jacobson, J A Fessler.
   Joint estimation of respiratory motion and activity in 4D PET using CT side information.
   Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. Biomed. Imag., 2006.
   
2. M W Jacobson, J A Fessler.
   Fast interpolation operations in non-rigid image registration.
   Proc. SPIE 5747, Medical Imaging 2005: Image Proc., pp. 764-74, 2005.
   Author's Edition available here.
3. M W Jacobson, J A Fessler.
   Joint estimation of image and deformation parameters in motion-corrected PET.
   Proc. IEEE Nuc. Sci. Symp. Med. Im. Conf., vol. 5, pp. 3290-4, 2003.
   
4. M W Jacobson, J A Fessler.
   Joint estimation of image and deformation parameters in tomographic image reconstruction.
   IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, pp. 149-52, 2003.
5. M Jacobson, J A Fessler.
   Simultaneous estimation of attenuation and activity images using optimization transfer.
   Proc. IEEE Nuc. Sci. Symp. Med. Im. Conf., vol. 4, pp. 2085-9, 2001.
   
6. K. Thielemans, C. Morel, M. W. Jacobson, J.H. Kaempf, S. Mustafovic,
   Normalisation of listmode data with application to HiDAC data.
   Proc. IEEE Nuc. Sci. Symp. Med. Im. Conf., vol. 3, pp.  1559-63, 2001.
7. V. Bettinardi, E. Pagani, S. Alenius, M. Teras, M.C.Gilardi, C.Labbe, M. Jacobson, K. Thielemans, M. Sadki, C. Morel, R. Levkovitz, A. Ben-Tal, T. Spinks, G. Mitra, F. Fazio
   Implementation and evaluation of a 3D Ordered Subsets Expectation Maximization and Median Root Prior (3D OSEM-MRP) reconstruction algorithm,
   Proc. IEEE Nuc. Sci. Symp. Med. Im. Conf., vol. 2, pp.  15/203-15/206, 2000.
8. Thielemans K, Jacobson M W, Belluzzo D,
   On various approximations for the projectors in iterative reconstruction algorithms for 3D-PET.
   Proc. Intl. Mtg. on Fully 3D Image Recon. in Rad. and Nuc. Med,  pp 232-5, 1999.
   
9. Labbé C, Thielemans K, Belluzzo D, Bettinardi V, Gilardi MC, Hague DS, Jacobson MW, Kaiser S, Levkovitz R, Margalit T, Mitra G, Morel C, Spinks T, Valente P, Zaidi H, Zverovich A,
   An Object-Oriented Library for 3D PET Reconstruction using Parallel Computing,
   Proc. of "Bildverarbeitung fuer die Medizin 1999, Algorithmen-Systeme-Anwendungen",
   Informatik aktuell, Springer, Eds. H. Evers, G. Glombitza, T. Lehmann, H.P. Meinzer, pp 268-72.
10. Belluzzo D, Bettinardi V, Gilardi MC, Fazio F, Spinks T, Thielemans K, Morel C, Labbé C, Zaidi H, Levkovitz R, Ben-Tal A, Jacobson MW, Mitra G, Hague DS, Valente P, Zverovich A, Wilk M, Kaiser S, Rietbrock C,
    Parallel PETSCAN system (PARAPET),  
    Proc. of "3o Convegno Nazionale dell'Istituto Nazionale Biostrutture e Biosistemi - Nuove prospettive Biostrutture e Biosistemi",Venezia 26-28 Novembre 1998, pp.V

Technical Reports

1. M W Jacobson, J A Fessler.
   Properties of MM algorithms on convex feasible sets: extended version.
   Technical Report 353, Comm. and Sign. Proc. Lab., Dept. of EECS, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2122, Nov. 2004.
   Author's Edition available here.

Thesis Work

1. Jacobson, M. W. 2006.
   Approaches to Motion-Corrected PET Image Reconstruction from Respiratory Gated Projection Data,
   Ph.D. thesis. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2. Jacobson, M. 1998.
   Asymptotic properties of two timescale Markov decision processes,
   M.Sc. thesis. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Last updated on: 01/29/2006