David Foran Professor UMDNJ Department of Pathology Piscataway. NJ 08854 (732) 235-4858 FAX - 4825 foran@umdnj.edu Center for Biomedical Imaging & Informatics

Computer-assisted diagnostics. medical imaging. machine learning. data mining. medical informatics

Primary areas of interests include the design. development. and implementation of new approaches in diagnostic imaging and statistical pattern recognition for conducting investigative research and resolving challenging clinical problems in pathology. radiology. and oncology.

Selected Publications

Hall BH, Ianosi-Irimie M, Javidian P, Chen W, Ganesan S, Foran DJ. (2008) Computer-assisted assessment of the Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 immunohistochemical assay in imaged histologic sections using a membrane isolation algorithm and quantitative analysis of positive controls. BMC Med Imaging. 8(1):11.

Yang L, Chen W, Meer P, Salaru G, Feldman MD, Foran DJ. (2007) High throughput analysis of breast cancer specimens on the grid. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 10(Pt 1):617-25.

Hall B, Chen W, Reiss M, Foran DJ. (2007) A clinically motivated 2-fold framework for quantifying and classifying immunohistochemically stained specimens. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 10(Pt 2):287-94.

Niculescu G, Foran DJ, Nosher J. (2006) Non-rigid registration of the liver in consecutive CT studies for assessment of tumor response to radiofrequency ablation. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007; 2007:856-9.

Chen W, Foran DJ. (2006) Advances in cancer tissue microarray technology: Towards improved understanding and diagnostics. Anal Chim Acta. 564(1):74-81.

Parametric and Geometric Deformable Models: An Application in Biomaterials and Medical Imagery, Invited Book Chapter entitled, “Deformable Models and Their Application in Segmentation of Imaged Pathology Specimens”. Lin Yang and David J. Foran. Volume-II, Springer Publishers, Editors (Jasjit S. Suri and Aly Farag), ISBN: 0-387-31204-8, Release Date: May 2007.

Chen. W.. Meer,P.. Georgescu. B.. He. W.. Goodell. L.A.. Foran. D.J.. (2005) Image mining for investigative pathology using optimized feature extraction and data fusion. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 79(1):59-72.

Yang. L.. Meer. P.. Foran. D.J. (2005) Unsupervised analysis of imaged pathology specimens based on robust estimation and color active contour models. IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine. Vol. 9(3):475-486.

Chen. W.. Reiss. M.and Foran. D.J. (2004) Unsupervised tissue microarray analysis for cancer research and diagnostics. IEEE Trans. on Information Technology in Biomedicine. Vol. 8:2. 89-96.