Matthew M. McCormick, Ph.D.
Kitware, Inc. Attn: Matt McCormick 101 East Weaver St. Carrboro, NC 27510 USA Voice: (919) 869-8853 E-mail: matt@mmmccormick.com WWW: http://mmmccormick.com
Medical image analysis research with open source software. Diagnostic ultrasound preferred, but also interested in other imaging modalities.
- Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, May 2011
- Dissertation Topic: “Carotid Plaque Characterization with Medical Ultrasound”
- GPA: 3.70/4.0
- M.S., Biomedical Engineering, May 2008
- B.S., Biomedical Engineering, May, 2005
- Minor: Mathematics, Biology
- Marquette University Honors Program
- GPA: 3.88/4.0
- Minnesota High School Post Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO), 1999-2001
- Graduated May, 2001
- Graduated May, 2001
Kitware, Inc
Technical Expert June 2011 - Present
Medical imaging software development with the Insight Toolkit (ITK).
Research Assistant June 2005 - June 2011
Research diagnostic medical ultrasound stiffness imaging methods for non-invasive assessment of the carotid artery.
Teaching Assistant January 2009 - May 2009
Prepared, taught, and graded laboratories for the Diagnostic Ultrasound Physics course.
Research Assistant May 2004 - May 2005
Electronic/mechanical hardware development for MRI compatible wrist robot, data processing and analysis for understanding of nervous system use of sensory information, adaptation, and control of the skeletal muscle system.
Research and Design Intern June 2003 - August 2003
Research and development on peripheral vascular self-expanding Nitinol stents.
Tutor August 2002 - May 2005
Tutor college students in courses such as biology, chemistry, and calculus.
Research Intern May 2000 - June 2000
Perform genetic sequence analysis on the tyrosinase gene of individuals with albinism to probe for mutations.
McCormick M. N-Dimensional Computation of Strain Tensor Images in the Insight Toolkit. The Insight Journal. 2017 January-December. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3573
Palmeri M., Glass T., Gupta R., McCormick M., Brown A., Polascik T., Rosenzweig S., Buck A., Nightingale K., "Comparison between 3D ARFI imaging and mpMRI in detecting clinically-significant prostate cancer lesions," 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Tours, 2016, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.7728618
Zukić D., Vicory J., McCormick M., Wisse L., Gerig G., Yushkevich P., Aylward S. n-D Morphological Contour Interpolation. Insight Journal. 2016 January-December. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3563.
Zukić D., McCormick M., Gerig G., Yushkevich P. RLEImage: run-length encoded memory compression scheme for an itk::Image. Insight Journal. 2016 January-December. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3562.
McCormick M., Kang H.J., Barre S. Performance Benchmarking the Insight Toolkit. Insight Journal. 2016 January-December. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3557.
Liu, X., Niethammer, M., Kwitt, R., McCormick M. and Aylward S., Low-Rank to the Rescue: Atlas-based Analyses in the Presence of Pathologies, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '14) 17 (3):97-104. 2014. PMID: 25320787.
McCormick, M., Liu, X., Jomier, J., Marion, C. Ibanez, L. ITK: Enabling Reproducible Research and Open Science. Front. Neuroinform. 8:13. 2014. doi: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00013. PMID: 24600387. PMCID: PMC3929840.
McCormick, M, and Varghese, T. An Approach to Unbiased Subsample Interpolation for Motion Tracking. Ultrasonic Imaging. 35(2):76-89. 2013. doi: 10.1177/0161734613476176. PMID: 23493609. PMCID: PMC3656167
Ibanez, L, Liu, X, McCormick, M. ITK Bar Camp: Growing the ITK Community. Kitware's The Source. Issue 24, January 2013. URL: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/92
McCormick, M. New Infrastructure for Easy Multi-threading in ITKv4. Kitware's The Source. Issue 24, January 2013. URL: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/94.
McCormick, M, Varghese, T, Wang, X, Mitchell, C, Kliewer, MA, Dempsey, RJ. Methods for robust in vivo strain estimation in the carotid artery. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 57 (2012) 7329-7353. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/22/7329. PMID: 23079725. PMCID: PMC3740562.
McCormick, M, Madsen, E; Deaner, M; Varghese, T. Absolute Backscatter of tissue-mimicking phantoms in the 5-50 MHz frequency range. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130(2):737-43. 2011. PMID: 21877789. PMCID: PMC3190655.
McCormick, M, Rubert, N and Varghese, T. Bayesian Regularization Applied to Ultrasound Strain Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 58 (6):1612-1620. 2011. PCMCID: PMC3092822.
Perrot-Audet, A, McCormick, M, Gelas, A, Rannou, N, Souhait, L, Mosaliganti, K, and Megason, S. A Lightweight Image Comparison Library. Kitware's The Source. Issue 16, January 2011. URL: http://www.kitware.com/products/html/ALightweightImageComparisonLibrary.html.
McCormick, M. Ultrasound and ITKv4. Kitware's The Source. Issue 16, January 2011. URL: http://www.kitware.com/products/html/UltrasoundAndITKv4.html.
Madsen, E; Frank, G; McCormick, M; Deaner, M. Anechoic Sphere Phantoms for Estimating 3-D Resolution of Very High Frequency Ultrasound Scanners. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 57 (10):2284-2292. 2010.
McCormick, M. Higher Order Accurate Derivative and Gradient Calculation in ITK. Insight Journal. 2010 July-December. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3231.
McCormick, M. Visual Debugging of ITK. Kitware’s The Source. Issue 13, April 2010.
McCormick, M. An Open Source, Fast Ultrasound B-Mode Implementation for Commodity Hardware. Insight Journal. 2010 January-June. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3159
Shi, H; Varghese, T; Mitchell, C; McCormick, M; Dempsey, RJ; Kliewer, MA. In-vivo Attenuation and Equivalent Scatter size parameters for Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaque: Preliminary Results. Ultrasonics 49 (8):779-785. 2009.
Shi, H; Mitchell, CC; McCormick, M; Kliewer, MA; Dempsey, RJ; Varghese, T. Preliminary in vivo atherosclerotic carotid plaque characterization using the accumulated axial strain and relative lateral shift strain indices. Phys Med Biol. 53 (22):6377-94. 2008. PMID: 18941278
Aylward, S. R., McCormick, M. M., Kang H. J., Razzaque, S., R. Kwitt, R., and M. Niethammer. Ultrasound spectroscopy. 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2016 - Proceedings. Prague, Czech Republic. 1013-1016. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493437.
Palmeri, M., Glass, T, Gupta, R., McCormick, M. M., Brown, A., Polascik, T., Rosenzweig, S., Buck, A., and Nightingale, K. Comparison Between 3D ARFI Imaging and mpMRI in Detecting Clinically-Significant Prostate Cancer Lesions. 2016 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). Tours, France. September, 2016.
McCormick, M and Varghese, T. Reduction of Reverberation Artifacts in Carotid Strain Images Using Bayesian Regularization. International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity. Oct 16, 2010. Snowbird, Utah.
McCormick, M and Varghese, T. Subsample Displacement Interpolation Using Windowed-Sinc Reconstruction with Numerical Optimization. International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity. Oct 16, 2010. Snowbird, Utah.
McCormick, M and Varghese, T. Open Technologies Applied to a Non-standard Medical Image Format for Innovative Research. MathBio2: IMAGE. November 2009. Madison, WI.
McCormick, M; Varghese, T; Dempsey, RJ; Zagzebski, J; Madsen, E. High Frequency Ultrasonic Characterization of Excised Atherosclerotic Carotid Plaque. Ultrasonic Imaging and Tissue Characterization Symposium. June 2009. Arlington, VA.
Madsen, E; McCormick, M; Frank, G. Phantoms for Assessing Intravascular (IVUS) Ultrasound Scanners. American Institutes in Ultrasound and Medicine Conference. April 2009. New York, NY.
McCormick, M; Shi, H; Mitchell C; Kliewer M; Dempsey R; Varghese T. Mechanical Viscoelastic Variations of in vivo Carotid Atheromas using External Ultrasound. Fifth International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity. Oct 8, 2006. Snowbird, Utah USA.
- Languages: C++, Python, Matlab, and Bash.
- Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
Patches submitted to and accepted at: • Awesome Window Manager http://awesome.naquadah.org/ • Bioimage Suite. Medical image processing and visualization. http://www.bioimagesuite.org/ • cgit. A fast web-interface for git repositories. http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/about/ • CMake. C and C++ configuration tool. http://www.cmake.org/ • gccxml. XML output for GCC. http://www.gccxml.org/ • Gentoo. Linux distribution. http://www.gentoo.org/ • InsightToolkit. Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit. http://itk.org/ • Pyclewn. Pyclewn allows using vim as a front end to a debugger. http://pyclewn.sourceforge.net/ • PLUS (Public software Library for UltraSound imaging research.) https://www.assembla.com/spaces/plus/wiki • QGoImageCompare. QGoImageCompare is a library aimed at simple comparison of images. https://github.com/gofigure2/QGoImageCompare/ • scikits-image. scikits-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing. http://scikits-image.org/ • TubeTK. TubeTK is an open-source toolkit for the segmentation, registration, and analysis of tubes and surfaces in images. http://tubetk.org/ • usimagtool. Medical ultrasound image processing tool. http://www.lpi.tel.uva.es/usimag/en/ContenidoEn.php?IdContenido=6/ • veusz. Veusz is a scientific plotting and graphing package written in Python. http://home.gna.org/veusz/ • vistrails. VisTrails is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system that provides support for data exploration and visualization. http://vistrails.org/ • VTK. The Visualization Toolkit is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. http://www.vtk.org/ • VXL. VXL (the Vision-something-Libraries) is a collection of C++ libraries designed for computer vision research and implementation. http://vxl.sourceforge.net/ • XDress. XDress is an automatic wrapper generator for C/C++ written in pure Python. http://xdress.org/
InSCIght. The Scientific Computing Podcast. • Moderator/Panelist. • http://insight.org/
IEEE Member.
SciPy: Scientific Computing With Python International Conference. Program Committee Co-chair. 2012 and 2013. Birds of a Feather Committee Chair, 2014. Vision, Visualization, and Imaging Symposium Chair, 2014.
UW-Madison The Hacker Within. A peer-teaching group whose purpose is to provide non-computer scientists with the practical skills required to perform research. • Organizing member of the 2011 Software Carpentry Bootcamp. • Arranged university-sponsored guest lecture of Dr. John D. Hunter from Chicago. • Organizing member of the 2010 Python Bootcamp. • Presentations on CMake and creating custom pretty-printers in GDB. • Representation at PyCon 2010.
2009 Department of Medical Physics Outstanding Teacher Award. • Nomination by students.
Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2009.
Marquette University Honors Program.
Alpha Eta Mu Beta, National Biomedical Engineering Honor Society. • Local Chapter Secretary, 2003 - 2004 • President, 2004 - 2005
Pi Mu Epsilon- National Mathematics Honor Society.
Marquette University Concert, Jazz, Doc C’s Combo, Orchestral, and Pep Bands.
Biomedical Engineering Society, BMES.
Marquette 2002 Engineering Outstanding Sophomore. • Graduated with High Scholastic Honors
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers on Accessible Medical Instrumentation. • First Place in category, Second Place overall for project on Accessible Syringe Dosing 2004-2005 • http://www.eng.mu.edu/wintersj/b18/