Rob Janiczek

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VIVA Affiliation

Research Assistant
2002-Present

Personal Info

Curriculum Vitae: .pdf

Degrees

Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, expected January 2009
M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, January 2006
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, May 2003

Biographical Sketch

Rob Janiczek came to UVA in 1999 as an undergraduate student. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Systems Engineering. As a third-year at the University, Rob received the Miller Award from the EE Department for student excellence and also began working in Scott Acton's lab. He received his Master's degree in Electrical Engineering for his work entitled, "Gradient inverse coefficient of variation snakes for segmenting myocardial borders in mice." As a graduate student, Rob Janiczek became involved in university service. He served on the Dean search committee, Trustees' committee, co-founded the Virginia Engineering Research Symposium, and remains heavily invovled in graduate student recruitment. Followig his Master's work, Rob joined Dr. Fred Epstein's MRI research lab where he is studying atherosclerosis using vascular MRI.

Research Interests

For his doctoral work, Rob is developing techniques using phase contrast MRI and MR angiography to study the relationship between wall shear stress and atherosclerosis in small animals. Rob Janiczek's areas of research also include cardiac and vascular segmentation of magnetic resonance images. Rob Janiczek is supported in part through an American Heart Association Pre-doctoral fellowship.

Selected Publications

• Janiczek RL , Blackman BR, Acton ST, Gelfand BD, Roy RJ, Epstein FH. 3D MRA and 2D Phase Contrast Methods for Imaging the Aortic Arch in Mice. Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance; Rome, Italy: 2007.
• Aksel A, Janiczek RL , Hossack JA, Acton ST. Ultrasound myocardial tracking with speckle reducing anisotropic diffusion assisted initialization. International Conference on Image Processing; Atlanta, GA: 2006.
• Janiczek RL , Gilliam AD, Antkowiak P, Acton ST, Epstein FH. Automated Affine Registration of First-Pass Magnetic Resonance Images. Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers; Pacific Grove, CA: 2005. p. 269-71.
• Janiczek RL, Ray N, Acton ST, Roy RJ, French BA, Epstein FH. Markov chain Monte Carlo method for tracking myocardial borders. Computational Imaging III; San Jose, CA: 2005.