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CV
Personal information
Name
Attila Tanács
Citizenship
Hungarian
Education
PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Szeged, Hungary, 2008
Thesis title: Registration Methods and Their Medical Applications
MS in Computer Science and Mathematics
Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 1997
BS in Computer Science and Mathematics
Jozsef Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, 1995
Faculty appointments
Assistant professor
2008 - present
Dept. of Image Processing and Computer Graphics, University of Szeged
Assistant lecturer
2003 - 2008
Dept. of Image Processing and Computer Graphics, University of Szeged
Assistant lecturer
2001 - 2003
Dept. of Applied Informatics, University of Szeged
Research associate
2000 - 2001
Dept. of Applied Informatics, University of Szeged
Visiting research engineer
2000-2002
ERC for CISST, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
PhD student in computer science
1997-2000
Dept. of Applied Informatics, University of Szeged
Consultant positions
Consultant (Part time), GE Hungary Ltd
05/2010 - 06/2011
Scholarships, study trips
CEEPUS, Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
03/19/2012-03/23/2012
CEEPUS, Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
06/21/2010-06/25/2010
CEEPUS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
05/25/2009-05/30/2009
Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston MA, USA
08/16/2000-08/30/2000
Slicer development (initial DICOM import)
Visiting Research Engineer at ERC for CISST, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA
08/10/2000-02/01/2002
Visualization in computer assisted surgery, Slicer development
CEEPUS, Zagreb, Croatia (SSIP'2000)
07/01/2000-07/21/2000
Summer School on Image Processing
TEMPUS, University College London, United Kingdom
02/01/1999-04/30/1999
Medical image registration
TEMPUS, University College London, United Kingdom
06/01/1998-08/31/1998
Medical image registration
CEEPUS, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria
09/01/1997-01/31/1998
Participated in the Mammography project
Current lectures
Fall 2015 (in Hungarian)
Computer architectures (BSc)
Mobile image acquisition and its applications (BSc)
Computer graphics (BSc)
Image registration (MSc)
Spring 2014 (in Hungarian)
Assembly programming (BSc)
Computer assisted design (BSc)
Image processing software packages (BSc)
Mobile image analysis and graphics (MSc)
Past lectures
Since Fall 1995 (in Hungarian)
As lecturer
Image Processing Software Packages
Spring 2015
Mobile Image Analysis and Graphics
Spring 2014, Spring 2015
Computer Architectures
Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015
Assembly Programming
Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
Mobile Image Acquisition and Its Applications
Fall 2014, Fall 2015
Mobile Image Processing
Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013
Data Visualization with VTK
Spring 2003
Image Registration and Its Medical Applications
Fall 1999, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Digital Image Processing I.
Fall 2002
Computer Assisted Design
Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
As lab instructor
Digital Image Processing (talent program)
Spring 2012
Computer Assisted Design
Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015
Graphics Systems (VRML, GLSL)
Spring 2008
Digital Image Processing I.
Fall 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008
Computer Graphics
Fall 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015
Algorithms and Data Structures
Fall 1998, Fall 1999
Programming Languages (C, C++)
Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2002, Spring 2003
Introduction to Informatics
Fall 1995, Fall 1996
Thesis topics (BSc, MSc)
The list of available topics is available at the Department's homepage.
Main topics of interest
Image processing, image analysis
Mobile application development (Android, iOS)
Computer vision
Applications of GPS and GIS, mapping, navigation
WebGL and mobile computer graphics
3D modeling and using in applications
Visualization
Awards
International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2014)
The APRS Best Paper Prize Awarded by the DICTA 2014 Committee and the APRS
Paper: Establishing Correspondences between Planar Image Patches
Authors: Attila Tanács, András Majdik, József Molnár, Atul Rai and Zoltan Kato
The Third Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science (2002)
Excellent Talk Award
Paper: A Fully Automatic Medical Image Registration Algorithm Based on Mutual Information
Informatics Section of the Students' National Scientific Conference (1997)
Award: Second Prize
Paper: Local parallel image processing system for 2D and 3D binary images
Paper: Displaying and point based registration of 3D medical images
Informatics Section of the Students' National Scientific Conference (1995)
Award: Certificate of Excellence
Paper: Defining and executing binary local parallel operators
Research and industrial projects
Collaborative Stereo Reconstruction of Planar Patches
Correspondences between Planar Image Patches
Car Recognition from Frontal Images in Mobile Environment
Analysis of dermatological images for teledermatology and diagnostic applications
Fast linear registration of binary objects
Segmentation of Pelvic Organs from MRI Scans
GE Medical Systems (Hungary), 2010-2011
Visual inspection of printed signs
Contitech Fluid Automotive Inc., 2008
Transforming CT studies of the pelvic region to a common reference frame
GE Medical Systems (Hungary), 2004-2005
Composition of Radiography Pictures of Whole Helicopter Rotor Blades
KFKI, 2002
Robotically assisted, image guided planning and execution of percutaneous therapies
CISST, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, 2000-2002
Voxel similarity based automatic image registration
University of Szeged, 1999-2003
Point-based registration and its error analysis
University of Szeged, 1997-2000
Selected papers
Journal papers
Attila Tanács, Joakim Lindblad, NataĊĦa Sladoje, Zoltan Kato, Estimation of Linear Deformations of 2D and 3D Fuzzy Objects, In Pattern Recognition, volume 48, no. 4, pp. 1391-1403, 2015, Elsevier.
Gabor Fichtinger, Everette C. Burdette, Attila Tanacs, Alexandru Patriciu, Dumitru Mazilu, Louis L. Whitcomb and Dan Stoianovici: Robotically assisted prostate brachytherapy with transrectal ultrasound guidance - Phantom experiments, Brachytherapy, Volume 5, Issue 1, January-March 2006, Pages 14-26
Árgyelán M., Szabó Z., Kanyó B., Tanács A., Kovács Zs., Janka Z., Pávics L.: Dopamine transporter availability in medication free and in bupropion treated depression: A 99mTc-TRODAT-1 SPECT study, Journal of Affective Disorders 89 (2005), pp. 115-123 (Elsevier)
Tanács Attila: Kijelölt pontpárokon alapuló képregisztrációs módszerek (Image registration methods based on interactively identified point pairs), Alkalmazott Matematikai Lapok 21 (2004), 237-260
Attila Tanács, Attila Kuba: Evaluation of a Fully Automatic Medical Image Registration Algorithm Based on Mutual Information, Acta Cybernetica 16 (2003) pp. 327-336
G. Fichtinger, T. L DeWeese, A. Patriciu, A. Tanacs, D. Mazilu, J. H. Anderson, K. Masamune, R H. Taylor, D. Stoianovici: Robotically Assisted Prostate Biopsy And Therapy With Intra-Operative CT Guidance. Journal of Academic Radiology, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 60-74, 2002
Tanacs A., Czedli G., Palagyi K., Kuba A.: Affine matching of two sets of points in arbitrary dimensions, Acta Cybernetica 15, 2001, pp. 101-106.
Robert C. Susil, Axel Krieger, J. Andrew Derbyshire, Attila Tanacs, Louis L. Whitcomb, Gabor Fichtinger, and Ergin Atalar: System for MR Image-guided Prostate Interventions: Canine Study. Journal Radiology (2003) 228: 886-894
Conference papers (selected)
Attila Tanács, András Majdik, Levente Hajder, József Molnár, Zsolt Sánta, Zoltan Kato, Collaborative Mobile 3D Reconstruction of Urban Scenes, In Proceedings of ACCV Workshop on Intelligent Mobile & Egocentric Vision, Springer, Singapore, pp. 1-16, 2014.
Attila Tanács, András Majdik, József Molnár, Atul Rai, Zoltan Kato, Establishing Correspondences between Planar Image Patches, In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, IEEE, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 1-7, 2014.
Viktor Varjas and Attila Tanács. Car Recognition from Frontal Images in Mobile Environment. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2013), pp. 812--816, 2013, IEEE.
Endre Juhász, Attila Tanács, and Zoltan Kato. Evaluation of Point Matching Methods for Wide-baseline Stereo Correspondence on Mobile Platforms. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2013), pp. 806--811, 2013, IEEE.
Attila Tanács, Zoltan Kato. Fast Linear Registration of 3D Objects Segmented from Medical Images. Proceedings of IEEE 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2011), October 15-17, 2011, Shanghai, China, pp. 299--303.
Attila Tanács, Joakim Lindlad, Natasa Sladoje, Zoltan Kato. Estimation of Linear Deformations of 3D Objects. Proceedings of 2010 IEEE 17th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), September 26-29, 2010, Hong Kong, pp. 153--156.
A. Hajdu, P. Veres, A. Tanacs, R. Harangozo. Object subsampling strategies to improve computational performance. IEEE 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA2009), 16-19 September 2009, Salzburg, Austria, pp. 448-453.
Attila Tanács, Csaba Domokos, Natasa Sladoje, Joakim Lindblad, and Zoltan Kato. Recovering affine deformations of fuzzy shapes. In Proceedings of the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, volume 5575 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Oslo, Norway, pages 735-744, June 2009. Springer Verlag.
György Bekes, Imre Papp, Attila Tanács, Márta Fidrich: Semi-automatic 3D segmentation toolkit and its application to pelvic organs. Int J CARS (2008) 3 (Suppl 1): page 389 (extended abstract).
Attila Tanács, Eörs Máté, Attila Kuba: Application of Automatic Image Registration in a Segmentation Framework for Pelvic CT Images. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3691, pp 628-635, Springer Verlag, 2005
M. Balaskó, Z. Balaskó, E. Balogh, A. Tanács, E. Katona, and A. Kuba: Composition of Radiography Pictures of Whole Helicopter Rotor Blades in Hungary, 7th World Conference on Neutron Radiography, Roma, Italy, pages 637-642, 2002
G. Fichtinger, K. Masamune, A. Patriciu, A. Tanacs, J. H. Anderson, T. L. DeWeese, R. H. Taylor, D. Stoianovici: Robotically Assisted Percutaneous Local Therapy and Biopsy, Workshop proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference of Advance Robotics, Budapest, 2001, pp. 133-151, ISBN 963-7154-043, 2001
Tanacs A., Czedli G., Palagyi K., Kuba A.: Point-based registration assuming affine motion, G. Sommer, Y.Y. Zeevi (Eds.), Proc. of the Int. Workshop Algebraic Frames for the Perception-Action Cycle, AFPAC 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1888, Springer, 2000, 329-338.
Tanacs. A., Palagyi K., Kuba A.: Target registration error of point-based methods assuming rigid-body and linear motions; Proceedings of the International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration WBIR'99, 223-233, 1999
Tanacs A., Palagyi K., Kuba A., Medical Image Registration Based on Interactively Identified Anatomical Landmarks Points, Int. J. of Machine Graphics & Vision 7, 1998, 151-158
Patents
Method and apparatus for three-dimensional interactive tools for semi-automatic segmentation and editing of image objects
Publication number: US2007116334
Publication date: 2007-05-24
Inventor: FIDRICH MARTA (HU); PAP IMRE (HU); TANACS ATTILA (HU)
Applicant: GEN ELECTRIC
Classification:
international: G06K9/00; G06K9/34; G06K9/00; G06K9/34;
Application number: US20050286540 20051122
Priority number(s): US20050286540 20051122
Method and System for Automatically Transforming CT Studies to a Common Reference Frame
Publication number: US2007002046
Publication date: 2007-01-04
Inventor: TANACS ATTILA (HU); MATE EORS (HU); KUBA ATTILA (HU)
Applicant: GEN ELECTRIC (US)
Classification:
international: G06T17/00; G06T17/00;
Application number: US20050160578 20050629
Priority number(s): US20050160578 20050629
Apparatus for insertion of a medical device during a medical imaging process
Publication number: US2006241368
Publication date: 2006-10-26
Inventor: FICHTINGER GABOR (US); ATALAR ERGIN (US); WHITCOMB LOUIS L (US); SUSIL ROBERT C (US); TANACS ATTILA (HU); KRIEGER AXEL (DE)
Applicant:
Classification:
international: A61B5/05; A61B5/05;
European: A61B5/055; A61B5/06; A61B6/12; A61B8/08H
Application number: US20060512150 20060130
Priority number(s): US20060512150 20060130; US20020374376P 20020422; WO2003US12253 20030422
Apparatus for Insertion of a Medical Device During a Medical Imaging Process
Publication number: WO03088833
Publication date: 2003-10-30
Inventor: FICHTINGER GABOR (US); ATALAR ERGIN (US); WHITCOMB LOUIS LICHTFIELD (US); SUSIL ROBERT CHARLES (US); KRIEGER AXEL (DE); TANACS ATTILA (HU)
Applicant: UNIV JOHNS HOPKINS (US); FICHTINGER GABOR (US); ATALAR ERGIN (US); WHITCOMB LOUIS LICHTFIELD (US); SUSIL ROBERT CHARLES (US); KRIEGER AXEL (DE); TANACS ATTILA (HU)
Classification:
international: A61B10/02; A61B5/055; A61B5/07; A61B10/00; A61B17/34; G01R33/28; A61B17/00; A61B19/00; A61B10/02; A61B5/055; A61B5/07; A61B10/00; A61B17/34; G01R33/28; A61B17/00; A61B19/00; (IPC1-7): A61B5/00
European: A61B10/02P2; A61B17/34D; A61B17/34Q; G01R33/28H
Application number: WO2003US12253 20030422
Priority number(s): US20020374376P 20020422