RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Cellular and wireless networks

Image processing and analysis

Pattern   classification

Data Compression

Advanced Computer Architectures

Networks-on-Chips

 

FUNDED PROJECTS

  1. Megavoltage Cargo Imaging, UNLV RF/DOE, 2006-2007  
  2. Microcalcification  Detection Based on Statistical Modeling for Computer-Aided Diagnostic  Prompting, American Cancer Society, PI, 2005.
  3. Introducing   NASA Information System Technology Projects to UNLV Computer Engineering Program, NASA through Nevada Space Grant., PI, 2005.(link)
  4. Eye Detection/Tracking system, ARI/IGT, PI, 2005.
  5. Virtual Input for Gaming Machines, ARI/IGT, co-PI, 2004
  6. Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research for Creating a New Analytical Protocol Based on Remote Sensing for Environmental Characterization, Seed Grant, NSF EPSCOR, PI, 2002. 
  7. Development of Content-Based Image Querying Tools: Towards Advanced Databases of Astronomical Images, NASA AISRP, I, 2001.
  8. Direct processing of Compressed Data, NSF DMI, I, 1999-2000

 

BOOK CHAPTER:

J. Zheng, Y. Zhang, E. Regentova, Millimeter-Wave Based IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN, in "Millimeter-Wave Technology in Wireless PAN, LAN and MAN",

 Eds: Shao-Qiu Xiao, Ming-Tuo Zhou, Yan Zhang, CRC press, Auerbach, ISBN: 0849382270

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

 

Jun Zheng and Emma Regentova,   Independent Component Analysis for Microcalcifications Detection in Digital Mammograms, AJICT, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2008, pp.59-64.

L.  Zhang, Y. Jiang, and E.E. Regentova, Fault Tolerance Routing for Wavelength Routed Optical Networking in ONoC, International Journal on Computers and Applications, vol. 30, 1, 2008, pp. 23-35.

E. Regentova ,L. Zhang , J Zheng, G. Veni, Microcalcification detection based on wavelet domain hidden Markov tree model: Study for inclusion to computer aided diagnostic prompting system, Medical Physics, June 2007, Volume 34, Issue 6, pp. 2206-2219

E. Regentova ,L. Zhang , G. Veni,  Automated Detection of Microcalcification Clusters in Digital Mammograms Based on Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Tree Modeling, International Journal on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery,vol.2, Suppl. 1, June 2007, pp. S338-340.

J Zheng, E. Regentova, Dynamic Channel Allocation for Quality of Service in GSM/GPRS Networks, Multimedia Cyberscape Journal, Volume 5 Number 1, 2007, pages 17-24.

E. E. Regentova, D.Yao, S. Latifi, J. Zheng, Image Segmentation Using Ncut in the Wavelet Domain, International Journal on Image and Graphics, v.6, N0.4, Sept 2, 2006, pp. 569-582.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, CAD system for detecting clustered microcalcifications in digital mammograms using independent component analysis and neural network, International Journal on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery,  Vol.1, supl., June 2006, pp. S517-518. 

V. Muthukumar, E. Regentova,  J. Zheng,  A. Ponzio, T. Wu,  Z. Devlin,  Non-Intrusive Eye Detection and Tracking System for Gaze Differentiation, International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory And Practice, vol.1, no. 1, June 2006. pp. 43-58.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, “I-Poll: improved polling scheme for augmenting voice support in IEEE 802.11 PCF,” IEICE Trans. On Communications, vol. E-89B, no. 6, Jun. 2006, pp. 1964-1967.

J. Zheng, Y. Zhang E. Regentova, Virtual Guard Channel for Handoff Calls in Integrated Voice/Data Wireless Networks, IEEE Communications Letters, vol.. 10, NO. 4, 2006, pp. 263-265.

E E. Regentova S Latifi,. De Chen, K.Taghva, D. Yao, Document Analysis by Processing JBIG- encoded Images, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Volume 7, Number 4 Sept. 2005, pp. 260 - 272.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, Hybrid Location Update Scheme for Future PCS Networks, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E88-B, No. 1, Jan. 2005, pp.388-391.

J. Zheng, S. Latifi, E. Regentova, K.Luo, X.Wu, Diagnosability of star graphs under the comparison diagnosis model, Information Processing Letters, Vol. 93, No. 1, Jan. 2005, pp. 29 - 36.

J. Zheng and E. Regentova, EDBLU: Enhanced Direction-Based Location Update Scheme for PCS Networks, IEE Electronics Letters, vol.40, 15, 22nd July, 2004, pp.946-948.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, Performance Analysis of Channel De-allocation Schemes for Dynamic Resource Allocation in GSM/GPRS Network', IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 40, No. 24, Nov. 25, 2004, pp. 1544-1545.

E. Regentova, S. Latifi and S. Deng, An Algorithm with Reduced Operations for Connected Components Detection in ITU-T 3/4 Coded Images, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, v.24, (8), pp.1039-1047, 2002.

E. Regentova, S. Latifi and S. Deng, Image Similarity Estimation by Processing Compressed Data, Image and Vision Computing, (19) 2001, pp. 485-500.

S. Deng, S. Latifi, E. Regentova, Document Segmentation Using Polynomial Spline-Wavelets, Pattern Recognition, 34(2001), pp.2533-2545

 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

 

G. Veni, E.E.Regentova, L.Zhang, Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications  with SUSAN Edge Detector, Adaptive   Contrast Thresholding and Spatial filters, Proceedings of ICIAR 2008, In Lecture Notes, pp.

G. Veni, E. E. Regentova, A.K. Mandava, A New Method of Detecting Microcalcification Clusters for Computer Aided Digital Mammography,  Nineteenth International Conference On Systems Engineering (ICSENG 2008), Las Vegas, August 19-21,2008, pp.

 

R. Varadarajan, E. Regentova, J. Zheng, Personalized Location Area Design with Genetic Algorithm for Future PCS Networks, Nineteenth International Conference On Systems Engineering (ICSENG 2008), Las Vegas, August 19-21,2008, pp.

 

G. Veni, E.E.Regentova, L.Zhang, Detection of Clustered Microcalcifications  using SUSAN Edge Detector, Adaptive Contrast Thresholding and Spatial filters, International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition June 23-28, Porto, Portugal, 2008, pp.

 

D.Zidek, N.Shlayan, E. E. Regentova, H. Selvaraj, Review of Packet Switching Technologies for Future NoC, Nineteenth International Conference On Systems Engineering (ICSENG 2008), Las Vegas, August 19-21,2008, pp.

X. Wu, J. Zheng, E. Regentova, and Y. Jiang, Analysis of the Effect of Channel Sub-rating in Unidirectional Call Overflow Scheme for Call Admission in Hierarchical Cellular Networks, IEEE 65th Semi-Annual Vehicular Technology Conference, Spring 2007, Dublin, Ireland.

V. Muthukumar, E. Regentova, An Efficient Eye tracking and Gaze Differentiation using ANN and Mean-shift Algorithms, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCA 2007, Jan.6-12, Hyderabad, India, pp. 39-46.

J. Zheng; E Regentova, Y. Jiang; Y. Zhang, Performance Analysis of Dynamic Resource Allocation with Channel De-allocation/Re-allocation in GSM/GPRS Networks, 2006 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems Proceedings, Volume 3,  June 2006, pp.1801 – 1805.

L. Zhang, M. Yang, Y. Jiang, E. Regentova, and E. Lu, Generalized wavelength routed optical micronetwork in network-on-chip," Proc. IASTED Int'l Conf. Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), 2006, Dallas, TX, pp. 698-703.

E.E. Regentova, L. Zhang,  J. Zheng, G. Veni, Detecting Microcalcificatoins in Digital Mammograms Using Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Model, The 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,  2006,  New York,  USA, pp.1972-1975.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, R. Varadarajan, Dynamic Planning of Personalized Location Areas for future PCS networks with Simulated Annealing, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTS-2006), Melbourne, Australia, May 8-10, 2006, pp.608-612.

E.E. Regentova, L. Zhang,  J. Zheng, G. Veni, Detecting Microcalcificatoins in Digital Mammograms Using Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Model, The 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,  2006,  New York,  USA, pp.1972-1975.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, R. Varadarajan, Dynamic Planning of Personalized Location Areas for future PCS networks with Simulated Annealing, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conferences (VTS-2006), Melbourne, Australia, May 8-10, 2006, pp. 608-612.

K. Taghva, M.Xu, E. Regentova, T. Nartker, Utilizing XML schema for Describing and Querying Still Image Database, in the Proceedings of 3rd International Conference of Information Technology: New Generations, April 10-12, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006, pp.595-600 .

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, QoS-based Dynamic Channel Allocation for GSM/GPRS Networks.  IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing 2005 , Nov.30-Dec2nd, Beijing, China, pp. 285-294.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova,  QoS-based Optimal Buffering for Short Message Transfer in GPRS/UMTS Networks, VTS 2005, Mobile Applications and Services, Stockholm, Sweden, May 30-June 2nd, 2005, pp. 2721-2725.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, An Improved Polling Scheme for Voice Support in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Network, ITCC 2005, April 4-6, Las Vegas, IEEE Computer Society, 2005, 603-608.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, and P. K. Srimani, Dynamic Location Management with Personalized Location Area for Future PCS Networks,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Distributed Computing, Proceedings, IWDC 2004: 6th International Workshop, Kolkata, India, Springer-Verlag, December 27-30, 2004, pp.495-501.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, An Enhanced Direction-Based Location Update  Scheme for PCS Networks,  IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2004-Fall, "Wireless Technologies for Global Security", September 26-29, 2004, Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles, CA., pp.3555-3559.

Zheng J, Regentova E, Probability-based Backoff Priority Scheme for Service Differentiation in IEEE 802.11, The 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics,  July 18 - 21, 2004 Orlando, Florida, USA, pp.537-542.

Istle J, Mandelbaum P, Regentova E, Online Compression of ASCII Files, Proceedings of  ITCC 2004, IEEE Computer Society,  pp.755-759.

A.A. M Grigoryan A M, S. Dursun S, and E E Regentova E E, Statistics Transfer Method of Lossless Encoding,   Proceedings of ITCC 2004, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 620-624.

K. Luo, S. Latifi,  K. Taghva, E.  Regentova, Recognition and Identification of Form Document Layouts, Proceedings of ITCC 2004, IEEE Computer Society,, pp.352-356.

K. Luo, S. Latifi,  E.  Regentova, K. Taghva, Form Type Identification Using Hierarchical Trees, Proceedings of CISST’04, pp.69-74.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, Microcalcification Detection Using Independent Component Analysis, Proceedings of MTMBS’04, pp. 64-68.

J. Zheng, E. Regentova, Optimal Partitioning Algorithm for Minimizing Signaling Cost under the Delay Constraint, Proceedings of ISWN’04, pp.624-627.

K. Kulakkunnath and E. Regentova, Intra-Domain Mobility Management for a Tree-Type Network Topology, CIIT’ 2003, 2003, Scottsdale, AZ, pp. 232-237.

De Chen, E., Regentova, K. Taghva Form, Co-registration, 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology, CISST’03, Las Vegas, June 2003, pp. 145-151.

J. Zheng and E. Regentova, Wavelet Based Feature Reduction Method for Accurate Classification of Hyperspectral Data, IEEE ITCC 2003, IEEE Computer Society,, LV 2003, pp.483-487.

J. Zheng, S, Latifi, E. Regentova, X. Wu, K. Luo, Diagnosabilty of Star Graphs Under the Comparison Diagnosis Model, PDPTA'03, LV, 2003, pp. 731-735.

A.M. Grigoryan and E.E. Regentova, A New Method of Optimal Coding, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Information Technologies: Coding and Computing (ITCC202, IEEE Computer Society,2, April 8-10, 2002, LV, NV, US, pp.378-382.

E. Regentova, S. Latifi, D. Yao, Document Segmentation Using Context Modeling and Base Resolution Layer of JBIG Compression Scheme, IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2002)2, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, August 12-14, 2002, pp.369-378.

E. Regentova, V. Muthukumar, H. Selvaraj, S. Latifi, Integrated Research/Educational Knowledge Base for a New Computer Engineering Curriculum, IASTED International Conference on Computer and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2002), Cancun, Mexico, May 20-22, 2002, pp.160-164.

Yao D., Regentova E. and Latifi S., The Wavelet Probing For Normalized Cuts Framework, Proceedings of CISST'2001, Las Vegas, July, 2001, pp.558-562.

Regentova E, Latifi S and Deng S, A Wavelet-Based Technique for Image Similarity Estimation, ITCC 2000, LV, NV, March 26-29, 2000, pp.207-212.

Regentova E., Latifi S., Yao D., Connected Components Labeling for ITU Group ¾ Encoded Document Images, Proceedings of SCI 2001,Orlando, Florida, vol.VI., (Aug) 2001,  pp. 384-389.

Deng S, Latifi S and Regentova E, The Effectiveness of Polynomial Wavelets in Text and Image Segmentation, IST/SPIE's 12th Annual International Symposium, Electronic Imaging Science 2000, 23 - 28 January 2000, San Jose, California, pp.259-266.

Sunata, J, Regentova, E, Latifi, S, A Line by Line on-board Compression Algorithm for Astronomical Images, Proceedings of CISST'99, Las Vegas, June 1999, pp. 541-546.