David E. Breen

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Associate Professor of Computer Science
Geometric Biomedical Computing Group
Faculty of Computer Science and School of Biomedical Engineering,
College of Computing and Informatics Science and Health Systems
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office : 143 University Crossings
3175 JFK Boulevard
Office # : (215) 895-1626
Dept. # : (215) 895-2669
FAX # : (215) 895-0545
david AT cs.drexel.edu

Office Hours - Mondays, 3:00PM → 5:30 PM
Other times by appointment

Here is some news about my latest US patent and
NSF grants: Math Images II, CAREER Award and Interactive Level Set Modeling.

My PhD student Linge Bai won a Best Poster Award at Drexel Research Day 2012 based on
the research she conducted at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany

Check out "Level Set Morphing Goes to Hollywood!"

I am affiliated with the Math Images Project, the REThink Project, and the Center for Visual and Decision Informatics.

I collaborate with four research groups:

Dr. Mark Zarella and Dr. Fernando Garcia of Drexel University College of Medicine's Advanced Pathology Imaging Laboratory
a joint project with Dr. Dan Marenda's Lab and Dr. Aleister Saunder's Lab in Drexel's Biology Department
a joint project with Dr. Frank Jülicher's Biological Physics Department at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and
Dr. Christian Dahmann's Group at the Dresden University of Technology
a joint project with Dr. Christian Kuehn of the Institute for Analysis and Scientific Computing at the Vienna University of Technology and
Dr. Robert Gilmore of Drexel's Physics Department

I am currently on the Program Committee of
the Generative and Developmental Systems Track of GECCO 2014, and
the IEEE 2014 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.

I am co-editing a special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications on Computer Graphics and Animation for Visual Effects, which will be published in July 2014.

I was the Local Organization Chair of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems, which was held at Drexel last September.

I have an opening for a CS PhD student, who has some training in biology, physics and/or 3D modeling, to work on a biological simulation / self-organization research project.
Please contact me if you have this kind of background and are interested in conducting this type of research.

Teaching

Research Interests

A central theme in my research is 3D geometry. I am exploring and developing the algorithms needed to specify, process, animate and analyze 3D geometric objects. The second component frequently found in my research is physics-based modeling. This work revolves around using physics and dynamic simulation to solve geometric and animation problems, as well as to model biological systems. Additionally, I am studying the dynamic processes that aggregate small-scale, local interactions to produce large-scale, self-organizing macroscopic behavior and structures.

With my background in computer graphics, animation and visualization, I am now focusing my research efforts on geometric biomedical computing. This is a research area that lies at the intersection of biology, medicine, engineering and computer science, and one that develops algorithms and software to solve geometry-related computing problems for a variety of biomedical applications.

I am currently involved in five research projects:

interactive, multiresolution level set modeling,

self-organizing geometric models,

shape and image analysis for computer-aided diagnosis of breast tumors,

video analysis for the characterization of fly behavior,

3D reconstruction of the developing Drosophila wing disc.

Here is an overview of my research activities/expertise.

My research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.