Lianrui Zuo

Teaching

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

— T. S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock” (1934)
Methods and ideas placed by the year of their primary source. Solid dots are written and link to their page; open dots are planned; diamonds are seminars. 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 k-means (MacQueen, 1967) k-means Mixtures and EM (Dempster, Laird and Rubin, 1977), planned Mixtures and EM Otsu thresholding (Otsu, 1979) Otsu thresholding Fuzzy c-means (Bezdek, 1981) Fuzzy c-means Optical flow (Horn and Schunck; Lucas and Kanade, 1981), planned Optical flow Multilevel thresholds (Reddi, Rudin and Keshavan, 1984), planned Multilevel thresholds Canny edges (Canny, 1986) Canny edges Snakes (Kass, Witkin and Terzopoulos, 1988) Snakes Level sets (Malladi, Sethian and Vemuri; Chan and Vese, 1995) Level sets Image similarity (Maes, Collignon et al.; Viola and Wells, 1997) Image similarity Gradient vector flow (Xu and Prince, 1998) Gradient vector flow Demons (Thirion, 1998), planned Demons Bias field correction (Van Leemput et al., 1999), planned Bias field correction Linear registration (Jenkinson and Smith, 2001) Linear registration Transformation and interpolation (Thévenaz, Blu and Unser, 2000) Transformation and interpolation Modern segmentation (U-Net and after, 2015), seminar Modern segmentation Evaluating segmentation (Carass et al., 2017), seminar Evaluating segmentation Modern registration (SyN to vector field attention, 2019), seminar Modern registration Evaluating registration (Medical Image Analysis, 2026), seminar Evaluating registration Image analysis in practice (Modern tools and quantitative modeling, 2026), seminar Image analysis in practice Radio (Marconi, 1895), planned Radio Ultrasonic echo ranging (Langevin, 1917), planned Ultrasonic echo ranging Theremin (Léon Theremin, 1920), planned Theremin Feedback control (Minorsky, 1922), planned Feedback control Tic-tac-toe on a computer (Douglas (OXO), 1952), planned Tic-tac-toe on a computer Curse of dimensionality (Bellman, 1957), planned Curse of dimensionality Magnetic stripe card (Parry (IBM), 1960), planned Magnetic stripe card A matchbox that learns (Michie (MENACE), 1961), planned A matchbox that learns TCP/IP (Cerf and Kahn, 1974), planned TCP/IP Public-key cryptography (Diffie and Hellman, 1976), planned Public-key cryptography Learning from reward (Sutton (temporal differences), 1988), planned Learning from reward Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Foundation, 2012), planned Raspberry Pi
Written Planned Seminar Placed by the year each idea first appeared.

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