Drew Gilliam

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VIVA Affiliation

Research Assistant
2002, 2004 - 2008

Degrees

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia

Biographical Sketch

Drew Gilliam, a native of Northern Virginia, came to the University of Virginia (UVA) in 1998 as an undergraduate student. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UVA in 2002, while concurrently completing the requirements for a Mechanical Engineering degree. He then traveled to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2004. His Masters Thesis at UIUC was entitled "A networked control system testbed: bilateral teleoperation over the Internet." Drew then returned to the University of Virginia to join the VIVA group serving as a PhD research assistant. He completed his PhD in August 2008.

Research Interests

Drew's areas of research include 3D cardiac modeling and segmentation in ultrasound and MR imagery. His coursework focused on biomedical imaging techniques and digital image analysis.

Selected Publications

• A.D. Gilliam, J.A. Hossack and S.T Acton, "Freehand 3D ultrasound volume reconstruction via sub-pixel phase correlation," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Atlanta, Georgia, October 8-11, 2006.
• A. Aksel, A.D. Gilliam, J.A. Hossack and S.T. Acton, "Speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion for echocardiography," Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, October 29 - November 1, 2006.
• R.L. Janiczek, A.D. Gilliam, P. Antkowiak, S.T. Acton and F.H. Epstein, "Automated affine registration of first pass magnetic images," Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, October 30 - November 2, 2005.