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Milan Sonka, PhD

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Positions

  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
  • Professor of Radiation Oncology
  • Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
  • Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
  • Co-director, Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging
  • Director, Iowa Initiative for Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • MS in Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University of Prague
  • PhD in Digital Image Analysis, Czech Technical University of Prague

Center, Program and Institute Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • Bedanova, H., Pazdernik, M., Sonka, M., Zhi, C., Krejci, J., Novakova, M., Dobsak, P. & Nemec, P. (2021). Effects of implanting a long-term left ventricle assist device on post-transplant outcomes. The International Journal of Artificial Organs 44 (1) 39-45.
  • Guo, Z., Zhang, H., Chen, Z., van der Plas, E., Gutmann, L., Thedens, D., Nopoulos, P. & Sonka, M. (2021). Fully automated 3D segmentation of MR-imaged calf muscle compartments: Neighborhood relationship enhanced fully convolutional network. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 87 101835.
  • van der Plas, E., Gutmann, L., Thedens, D., Shields, R. K., Langbehn, K., Guo, Z., Sonka, M. & Nopoulos, P. (2021). Quantitative muscle MRI as a sensitive marker of early muscle pathology in myotonic dystrophy type 1. Muscle & Nerve ePub ahead of print.
  • Saeedizadeh, N., Minaee, S., Kafieh, R., Yazdani, S. & Sonka, M. (2020). COVID TV-UNet: Segmenting COVID-19 Chest CT Images Using Connectivity Imposed U-Net. arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.12303 (ArXiv - not peer reviewed).
  • Minaee, S., Kafieh, R., Sonka, M., Yazdani, S. & Soufi, G. J. (2020). Deep-covid: Predicting covid-19 from chest x-ray images using deep transfer learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09363 (ArXiv - not peer reviewed).
  • Zhang, H., Lee, K., Chen, Z., Kashyap, S. & Sonka, M. (2020). LOGISMOS-JEI: Segmentation using optimal graph search and just-enough interaction. In Handbook of Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. pp. 249--272. Academic Press.
  • Guo, Z., Zhang, H., Chen, Z., van der Plas, E., Gutmann, L., Thedens, D., Nopoulos, P. & Sonka, M. (2020). FilterNet: A Neighborhood Relationship Enhanced Fully Convolutional Network for Calf Muscle Compartment Segmentation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.11930 (ArXiv - not peer reviewed).
  • Yazdani, S., Minaee, S., Kafieh, R., Saeedizadeh, N. & Sonka, M. (2020). Covid CT-NET: Predicting covid-19 from chest CT images using attentional convolutional network. arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.05096.
  • Yuan, Z., Yan, Y., Sonka, M. & Yang, T. (2020). Robust Deep AUC Maximization: A New Surrogate Loss and Empirical Studies on Medical Image Classification. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.03173.
  • Minaee, S., Kafieh, R., Sonka, M., Yazdani, S. & Soufi, G. J. (2020). Deep-Covid: Predicting Covid-19 from chest X-ray images using deep transfer learning. Medical image analysis 65 101794.