Academic Biography

As of Fall 2001, I am a part-time research scientist, working with Jim Brinkley in the Structural Informatics Group in the Department of Biological Structure at the University of Washington. My research interests are varied, but include computer graphics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and computer music.

From 1992-2000, I was a graduate student in UW's Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. I finished my master's degree here in 1994. I recently completed my Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Seeing Structure: Using Knowledge to Reconstruct and Illustrate Anatomy. (I defended on April 20th and handed in the final copy of the dissertation on May 3rd, 2000.)

Projects

At the moment, I am supporting several different projects, including the Image Manager, GAPP, and OQAFMA. I have also worked on the Dynamic Scene Generator.

My dissertation research involved analysis and visualization of anatomical structures. That's a pretty broad topic. Here are the specific pieces I was trying to tackle:

3D Reconstruction

Medical Illustration

My Dissertation

• Seeing Structure: Using Knowledge to Reconstruct and Illustrate Anatomy. KP Hinshaw, PhD dissertation, May 2000.

Publications

• Shape-based Cortical Surface Segmentation for Visualization Brain Mapping. KP Hinshaw, AV Poliakov, EB Moore, RF Martin, LG Shapiro, JF Brinkley, NeuroImage, June 2002.

• Design of an Anatomy Information System. JF Brinkley, BA Wong, KP Hinshaw, and C Rosse, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, May/June 1999.

• Incorporating Constraint-Based Shape Models Into an Interactive System For Functional Brain Mapping. KP Hinshaw and JF Brinkley, AMIA Fall Symposium 1998.

• Motivation and Organizational Principles for Anatomical Knowledge Representation: The Digital Anatomist Symbolic Knowledge Base. C Rosse, JL Mejino, BR Modayur, R Jakobovits, KP Hinshaw, and JF Brinkley, JAMIA, Jan/Feb 1998.

• Using 3-D Shape Models to Guide Segmentation of MR Brain Images. KP Hinshaw and JF Brinkley, AMIA Fall Symposium 1997.

• Shape-Based Interactive Three-Dimensional Medical Image Segmentation. KP Hinshaw and JF Brinkley, Medical Imaging 1997.

• Shape-Based Models For Interactive Segmentation Of Medical Images. KP Hinshaw, RB Altman, and JF Brinkley, Medical Imaging 1995.

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