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Dr Michael Cree

Role: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: BSc(Hons) PhD Canterbury MACPSEM MNZIP SMIEEE Email: m.cree@waikato.ac.nz Location: DE.2.02 Contact: ph: [+64] (7) 838 4301 fax: [+64] (7) 4835

Research Interests:

Medical Physics, retinal imaging, image reconstruction and shape reconstruction, robotic vision

Selected Publications:

Streeter L., Burling-Claridge G.R., Cree M.J. and Künnemeyer R., "Optical Full Hadamard Matrix Multiplexing and Noise Effects", Applied Optics, vol. 48, pp. 2078-2085, 2009.

Payne A.D., Dorrington, A.A., Cree M.J. and Carnegie A.D., "Characterization of Modulated Time-of-Flight Range Image Sensors", Proc. SPIE, vol. 7239, pap. 723904-1, Invited paper to IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Three Dimensional Imaging Metrology, San Jose, CA, USA, 2009.

Schöner H., Moser B., Dorrington A.A., Payne A.D. Cree M.J., Heise B. and Bauer F., "A clustering based denoising technique for range images of time of flight cameras", International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, Vienna, Austria, pp. 999-1004, Dec 2008.

Payne A.D., Dorrington A.A., Cree J.J. and Carnegie A.D., "Characterizing an Image Intensifier in a Full-Field Range Imaging System", IEEE Sens. J., vol. 8, pp. 1763-1770, 2008.

Cree M.J. and Jelinek H.F., "The Effect of JPEG Compression on Automated Detection of Microaneurysms in Retinal Images", Proc. SPIE, vol. 6813, pap. 68130M, part of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications, San Jose, CA, USA, 2008.

Streeter L., Burling-Claridge G.R., Cree M.J. and Künnemeyer R., "Visible/Near Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging via Spatial Illumination Source Modulation", J. Near Infrared Spectrosc., vol. 15, pp. 395-399, 2007.

Dorrington A.A., Cree M.J., Payne A.D., Conroy R.M. and Carnegie A.D., "Achieving sub-millimetre precision with a solid-state full-field heterodyning range imaging camera", Meas. Sci. Technol., vol. 18, pp. 2809-2816, 2007.

Jelinek J.F., Cree M.J. Soares J.V.B, Leandro J.J.G, Cesa Jr R.M. and Luckie A., "Automated Segmentation of Retinal Blood Vessels and Identification of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy", J. Opt. soc. Am. A, 24, 1448-1456, 2007.

Cree M.J., Dorrington A.A., Conroy R.M., Payne A.D. and Carnegie D.A., "The Waikato Range Imager", Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ'06) pp. 233-238, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, November 2006.

Soares J.V.B., Leandro J.J.G, Cesar Jr, R.M., Jelinek H.F. and Cree M.J., "Retinal Vessel Segmentation Using the 2-D Morlet Wavelet and Supervised Clasification", IEEE Trans. Med. IM., 25, pp. 1214-1222, 2006.

Dorrington A.A, Carnegie D.A. and Cree M.J., "Towards 1 mm Depth Precision with a Solid-State Full-Field Range Imaging System", Proc. SPIE, 6068, pp. 60680K1, 60680K10, part of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Sensors, Camera and Systems for Scientific/Industrial Applications VIII, San Jose, CA, USA, 2006.

Payne A.D., Carnegie D.A., Dorrington A.A. and Cree M.J., "Full field image ranger hardware", Proceedings of the third IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications (DELTA '06), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 263-268, Jan 2006.

Carnegie D.A., Cree M.J. and Dorrington A.A., "A High Resolution Full-Field Range Imaging System", Rev. Sci. Instr. 76, 083702, 2005.

Cree M.J., Gamble E. and Cornforth D., "Colour Normalisation to Reduce Inter-Patient and Intra-Patient Variability in Microaneurysm Detection in Colour Retinal Images", WDIC2005 ARPS Workshop on Digital Image Computing, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 163-168, 2005.

Jelinek H.F., Leandro J.J.G., Cesar Jr. R.M. and Cree M.J., "Classification of Pathology in Diabetic Eye Disease", WDIC2005 ARPS Workshop on Digital Image Computing, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 9-13, 2005.

Cree M.J., Leandro J.J.G, Soares J.V.B, Cesar Jr. R.M., Tang G, Jelinek H.F. and Cornforth D.J., "Comparison of Various Methods to Delineate Blood Vessel in Retinal Images", Proceedings of the 16th National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra, Australia, 2005.

Cree M.J., Jefferies M.E. and Baker J.T., "Using 3D Visual Landmarks to Solve the Correspondence Problem in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping", Second International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents, Palmerston North, New Zealand, pp. 192-197, 2004.

Cornforth D.J., Jelinek H.J., Leandro J.J.G., Soares J.V.B, Cesar Jr. R.M., Cree M.J., Mitchell P., Bossamaier T., "Development of Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Methodolgy Using Wavelet Transforms Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy", Eighth Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Cairns, Australia, pp. 50-60, 2004.

Tang G. and Cree M.J., "Detection of Retinal Blood Vessesl in Colour Fundus Images", Proceedings Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2004, Akaroa, New Zealand, pp. 1-6, 2004.

Jeffries M.E., Cree M.J., Mayo M. and Baker J.T.,"Using 2D and 3D Landmarks to Solve the Correspondence Problem in Cognitive Robot Mapping", Spatial Cognition 2004 Conference, Frauenchiemsee, Germany. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3343, pp. 434-454, 2004.

Cree M.J., "Observations on Adaptive Filters for Noise Reduction in Color Images", IEEE Sig. Proc. Lett., vol. 11, pp. 140-143, 2004.

Goatman K.A., Cree M.J., Olson, J.A., Sharp P.F. and Forrester J.V.,"Automated Measurement of Microaneurysm Turnover", Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. vol.44, pp 5335-5341, 2003.

Streeter L. and Cree M.J. "Microaneurysm Detection in Colour Fundus Images", Proceedings of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2003,Palmerston North, New Zealand, 2003, pp 280 – 285.

Cree, M.J., Olson, J.A., McHardy, K.C., Sharp, P.F. and Forrester, J.V., "The preprocessing of retinal images for the detection of fluorescein leakage", Phys. Med. Biol. 44, 1999, pp 293 - 308.

Cree, M.J., Olson, J.A., McHardy, K.C., Sharp, P.F. and Forrester, J.V., "A fully automated comparative microaneurysm digital detection system", Eye 11, 1997, pp 622 - 628.

Cree, M.J. and Bones, P.J., "Towards direct reconstruction from a gamma camera based on Compton scattering", IEEE Trans. Med. Im. 13, 1994, pp 398-407

Research Publications:

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