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Dr Neil Thacker 

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Senior Lecturer

 

Research

Medical Image analysis and Computer Vision. The results from the last 2 decades of research

including software and publications can be fornd at www.tina-vision.net.

 

Methodological Knowledge

Use of quantitative probability in the design and characterisation of image analysis algorithms. See the technical reports and tutorials on our web site.

 

Teaching

I currently teach the Advanced Computer Vision module on the MSc courses run by our division.

 

Collaborators and affiliated staff

I currently have 2 RA staff and 1 PhD student.

 

Publications

2010

  • N.A. Thacker, J.V. Manjon and P.A. Bromiley. (2010). A Statistical Interpretation of Non-Local Means. 4(3), 162-172. eScholarID:133809 | DOI:10.1049/iet-cvi.2008.0076

2009

  • Manjon JV, Thacker NA, Lull JJ, Garcia-Marto G, Marti-Bonmati L. (2009). Multicomponent MR Image Denoising. International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, (10), 1155-1180. eScholarID:133810 | DOI:10.1155/2009/756897
  • Scott MLJ, Bromiley PA, Thacker NA, Hutchinson C, Jackson A. (2009). A Fast, Model-Independent Method for Cerebral Cortical Thickness Estimation using MRI. Medical Image Analysis, 13(2), 269-285. eScholarID:133807 | DOI:10.1016/j.media.2008.10.006

2008

  • Bromiley PA, Thacker NA. (2008). Multi-Dimensional Medical Image Segmentation with Partial Volume and Gradient Modelling. Annals of the BMVA, (2), 22. eScholarID:133808
  • Miyajima F, Ollier WER, Mayes AR, Jackson A-, Thacker NA, Rabbitt P-, Pendleton N, Horan M A, Payton A. (2008). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor polymorphism Val66Met influences cognitive abilities in the elderly. Genes Brain Behav, 7(4), eScholarID:1d16824
  • Rabbitt P-, Ibrahim S, Lunn M, Scott M, Thacker NA, Hutchinson CE, Horan M A, Pendleton N, Jackson A-. (2008). Age-associated losses of brain volume predict longitudinal cognitive declines over 8 to 20 years. Neuropsychology, 22( 1), eScholarID:1d16911 | DOI:10.1037/0894-4105.22.1.3
  • Thacker, N., Clark, A., Barron, J., Beveridge, J., Courtney, P., Crum, W., Ramesh, V. & Clark, C (2008). Performance characterization in computer vision: A guide to best practices. Comput. Vis. Image Underst, 109(3), 305-334. eScholarID:1f70 | DOI:10.1016/j.cviu.2007.04.006

2007

  • Hou, S., Galata, A., Caillette, F., Thacker, N., Bromiley, P. & Ieee, I (2007). Real-time body tracking using a Gaussian process latent variable model. Presented at 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL: Ieee. eScholarID:2f153
  • Rabbitt P-, Mogapi O, Scott M, Thacker NA, Lowe C, Horan M A, Pendleton N, Jackson A-, Lunn D. (2007). Effects of global atrophy, white matter lesions, and cerebral blood flow on age-related changes in speed, memory, intelligence, vocabulary, and frontal function. Neuropsychology, 21( 6), eScholarID:1d16912
  • Rabbitt P-, Scott M, Lunn M, Thacker NA, Lowe C, Pendleton N, Horan M A, Jackson A-. (2007). White matter lesions account for all age-related declines in speed but not in intelligence. Neuropsychology, 21( 3), eScholarID:1d16915

2006

  • Rabbitt P-, Scott M, Thacker NA, Lowe C, Jackson A-, Horan M A, Pendleton N. (2006). Losses in gross brain volume and cerebral blood flow account for age-related differences in speed but not in fluid intelligence. Neuropsychology, 20( 5), eScholarID:1d16185
  • THACKER NA; NAYAK A; TRUCCO E. (2006). When are simple LS estimators enough? An empirical study of LS, TLS and GTLS. International Journal of Computer Vision, 68(2), 203-216. eScholarID:1a10349 | DOI:10.1007/s11263-006-6486-z

2005

  • THACKER NA; WILLIAMSON D; WILLIAMS S. (2005). Effects of Intramolecular Dipolar Coupling on the Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition of a Hard Spherocylinders Fluid. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 71(2), 021702/1-021702/15. eScholarID:1a10348 | DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021702

2003

  • THACKER NA; SCOTT M; JACKSON A. (2003). Can dynamic Susceptibility Perfusion Data be analysed using a model based upon directional flow? Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 17(2), 241-255. eScholarID:1a10347 | DOI:10.1002/jmri.10240

2002

  • Jackson A-, Hamied Haroon, Zhu X-, Li K-, Thacker NA, Jayson G-. (2002). Breath Hold Perfusion and Permeability Mapping of Hepatic Malignancies Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and a First-pass Leakage Profile Model. NMR in Biomedicine, 15, eScholarID:1d1918
  • Thacker NA, Jackson A-, Varma A, Bathgate D, Stivaros S, Snowden JS, Snowden JS, Neary D. (2002). Dementing disorders:volumetric measurement of cerebrospinal fluid to distinguish normal from pathologic findings - feasibility study. Radiology, eScholarID:1d27106 | DOI:10.1148/radiol.2241010419
  • Thacker NA, Varma AR, Bathgate D, Stivaros S, Snowden JS, Neary D. (2002). Dementing disorders: volumetric measurement of cerebrospinal fluid to distinguish normal from pathologic findings - feasibility study. Radiology, 224, eScholarID:1d2877
  • THACKER NA; VARMA A; SNOWDEN J; NEARY D; . (2002). Dementing disorders: volumetric measurement of cerebrospinal fluid to distinguish normal from pathologic findings - feasibility study. Radiology, 224(1), 278-285. eScholarID:1a10346 | DOI:10.1148/radiol.2241010419

2001

  • Thacker NA, Zhu X-, Jackson A-. (2001). Mathematical segmentation of grey matter, white matter and Cerebral Spinal Ffluid from MR image pairs. British Journal of Radiology, 74, eScholarID:1d1564

2000

  • Thacker NA, Lacey AJ, Vokurka B A, Hollander I, Zhu X-, Jackson A-. (2000). Extensions to the TINA MR Image Analysis Toolkit. eScholarID:2d1656
  • Thacker NA, Zhu X-, Jackson A-, Lacey AJ. (2000). A new approach for the Estimation of MTT in Bolus Passage Perfusion Techniques. eScholarID:2d1259
  • Zhu X-, Lacey AJ, Li K-, Thacker NA, Jackson A-. (2000). Parametric Mapping of Scaled Fitting Error in Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Enhanced MR Perfusion Imaging. eScholarID:2d1402

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