Peter Tay, Ph.D.
Western Carolina University
• Belk 336 • Cullowhee, NC 28723 • (828)227-2161 • ptay@wcu.edu
Education
Post
Doctorate-Biomedical Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Jan. 2005-Sept. 2006
Doctorate
of Philosophy-Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec. 2003
Master of Arts-Mathematics July
1995
Bachelor of Science-Mathematics Aug.
1990
Research and Teaching Experience
August 2007-Present
Dept. of Engineering & Technology
Associate Professor (April 2013 – Present)
Assistant Professor (August 2007- April 2013)
I am responsible for providing lectures and management
of electrical and computer engineering courses, which are Computer Utilization,
Control Systems, Data Acquisition, Machine Learning, and Biometrics, Electrical
Engineering Design I & II, Computer Engineering Fundamentals,
Microcontrollers, Microcontroller Interface, and Digital Signal
Processing. Additionally, I am pursing
research on biomedical imaging, image processing, and system development for
medical applications.
February 2010-January 2012
Research Scientist
I
developed a novel radar related image formation method.
2007-2008
Alcorn State
University Lorman, MS
Dept. of Advanced Technologies-Systems Research
Institute
Research Scientist
I designed and developed a system that allows the user
to define contours around regions of interests (ROI) and allows American
2005-2006
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering:
Research Associate
I developed a 4-D (3-D over time) segmentation method
of a mouse heart using ultrasound cine data.
This method uses a novel despeckling technique
that I developed to remove unwanted speckle noise inherent to all ultrasound
imaging systems. Speckle noise removal
is required to achieve a robust segmentation of various anatomical structures. 3-D surface renderings of my segmentation
method produce a realistic visualization of the mouse heart as it contracts and
expands. The validation of my 4-D
segmentation relied on distance to manually segmented surface and visual
inspection of cross sectional contours.
The implementation of this proof of concept was accomplished in Matlab and C/C++.
2000-2002
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering:
Graduate Research Assistant
I developed a multiple vehicles pickup and drop off
routing algorithm that accounts for real time varying arc costs. The algorithm I developed groups the set of
stops into distinct clusters. The routes
in each cluster are determined by a simulated annealing optimization
method. After each stop is made the
routes of each vehicle are dynamically updated to avoid traffic congestion,
accidents, road constructions, etc. The
algorithm was tested on vehicle routing for the Oklahoma Food Bank, where food
is pick up at donating business and dropped off at homeless shelters and other
social service organizations. The real
time routing algorithm that was used in this application was implemented in
C/C++ and designed to be built on a wide range of operating systems (Linux,
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, etc.).
1998-2000
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Graduate Teaching Assistant
I was the grader and substitute lecturer for the
undergraduate digital signal processing, signal & systems, and graduate
digital signal processing and image processing courses.
1995-1999
Department of Mathematics: Graduate Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Lecturer
I was responsible for all aspects (lecturing, grading,
homework, exams, etc.) of undergraduate college algebra, trigonometry,
calculus, and math education courses.
Work Experience
2003-2005
National Weather
Service: Software Engineer
As
a software engineer on the open radar data acquisition (ORDA) project, it was
my duty to evaluate the feasibility of computer hardware and software for the
National Weather Service. I developed
algorithms that simulated the various conditions the ORDA system would
encounter. I also developed the
algorithms that recorded the ORDA system’s response to these simulations. The implementation was for a Linux and
Solaris environment and the code was written in C/C++.
1999-2003
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Research Participant
ORISE Graduate Fellow
My
duties as a research fellow were to explore novel methods to improve and
enhance signals acquired by the National Weather Service WSR-88D Doppler
weather radar system. Additionally, the
ORDA project required legacy Fortran code to be recoded into C++ code. I developed the algorithms to test the
functionality of the newly developed C++ code and other supporting algorithms.
Publications
Funded Grants and Contracts
M. Yeary (PI), R. Huck (Co-PI), J. Sluss
(Co-PI), S. Cheng (Co-PI), P. Verma (Co-PI), and P.
Tay (Co-PI), Fundamental Research and
Demonstration for Low-Cost IED Synthetic/Inverse Synthetic Aperture Imaging,
Department of Defense (U.S. Air Force) Contract FA8721-10-C-0004.
Grant Proposal:
Computer
Aided Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Software, submitted to the National
Institute of Health PAR08-010 on Sept. 22, 2010, Application Number: 1 R03
CA186188-01, under revision.
Database
of Digital Mammography and Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Software submitted to Department of Defense
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program 2009 Breast Cancer Research
Program on submitted April 10, 2009, Proposal Number: BC093607, under revision.
Book Chapter:
AM-FM
Image Models: Fundamental Techniques and
Emerging Trends,
Handbook of Image Processing Second Edition, A. C. Bovik (ed),
Elsevier Academic Press, 2005, pp. 377-395.
Journal:
Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., A Wavelet Thresholding Method to Reduce Ultrasound Artifacts, Elsevier Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, volume 35, number 1, January 2011, pp. 42-50, also available at PubMed Central.
Tay,
P. C., Garson, C. D., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J.
A., Ultrasound Despeckling for Contrast
Enhancement, IEEE Transactions on
Image Processing, volume 19, number 7, July 2010, pp. 1847- 1860, also
available at PubMed Central.
Tay,
P. C., Havlicek, J. P., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., Properties
of the Magnitude Terms of Orthogonal Scaling Functions, Elsevier Digital Signal Processing, volume 20,
number 5, Sept. 2010, pp. 1330-1340, also available at PubMed Central.
Tay,
P. C., Li, B., Garson, C. D., Acton, S. T., and Hossack,
J. A., Left Ventricle Segmentation Using Model Fitting and Active Surfaces, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, volume 55,
number 1, April 2009, pp. 139-156, also available at PubMed Central.
Conference:
Bailey,
K. M., Tay, P. C., and Karayaka, B., A filterbank method to determine ocean wave frequency,
accepted at 2016 IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, NM, March 6-8, 2016.
Tay, P. C., A
conjointly well localized quadrature mirror filterbank, accepted at 2015 IEEE ICIP, Quebec
City, Canada, Sept. 27-30, 2015.
Tay, P. C. and Yan, Y., Conjointly well localized modulated lapped orthogonal transform, accepted at 2015 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 8-11, 2015.
Tay,
P. C. and Yan, Y., Particle swarm optimization
to determine conjointly well localized MLTs, 2014 IEEE SSIAI, San Diego,
CA, April 6-8, 2014, pp. 133-136.
Tay, P. C., Shen, H., Adams, R. D., and Zhang, J. Z., A microcalcification
enhancement method for mammogram images, 2013 IEEE ICIP, Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 15-18,
2013, pp. 1232-1236.
Tay, P. C. and Shen, H., A novel background subtraction method to detect microcalcifications, 2012 IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, NM, April 22-24, 2012,
pp. 141-144.
Zhang, J. Z., Qin, Z., Tay, P. C., and Adams, R. D., Facial expression recognition using fast BEMD based
edge detection,
2010 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA,
Nov. 7-10, 2010.
Ma, Yiming, Tay, P. C., Adams, R.
D., and Zhang, J. Z., A novel
shape feature to classify microcalcifications, 2010 IEEE ICIP, Hong Kong, Sept.
26-29, 2010, pp. 2265-2268.
Zhang, J. Z., Tay, P. C., and Adams, R. D., A novel image edge detection method using linear
prediction,
2010 IEEE Int’l MWSCAS, Seattle, WA, Aug. 1-4, 2010, pp. 620-623.
Tay, P. C. and Ma, Yiming, A novel microcalcification
shape metric to classify regions of interests, 2010 IEEE SSIAI, Austin, TX, May
23-25, 2010, pp. 201-204.
Tay, P. C., Yeary, M. B., Huck, R.
C., Cheng, S., Sluss Jr., J. J., Taylor, J. L., and Phillips,
J., Tomographic approaches
towards focused SAR image development, 2010 IEEE SSIAI, Austin, TX, May 23-25, 2010, pp.
113-116, invited paper.
Zhang, J. Z., Mbitiru,
N., Tay, P. C., and Adams, R. D., Analysis
of stress in speech using adaptive empirical mode decomposition, 2009 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and
Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 1-4, 2009, pp. 361-365
Ma, Yiming and Tay, P. C., Ultrasound despeckling for
active contour segmentation, 2009 IEEE ICIP, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 7-11, 2009, pp.
3357-3360.
Tay, P. C., AM-FM
image analysis using the Hilbert Huang transform, 2008 IEEE SSIAI, Santa Fe, MN,
March 24-26, 2008, pp. 13-16.
Tay, P. C., Li, Bing, Garson, C. D., Acton, S. T., and Hossack, J. A., Multidimensional segmentation of a mouse left ventricle, 2006 IEEE Int’l Ultrasonics Sypm.,
Patil, A. V., Garson, C. D., Oberhardt, M. A., Tay, P. C., Hossack,
J. A., 3D prostate elastography: simulations and experiments, 2006 IEEE Int’l Ultrasonics Sypm.,
Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack,
J. A., Ultrasound despeckling using an adaptive window stochastic approach, 2006 IEEE ICIP, Atlanta, GA, Oct.
8-11, 2006, pp. 2549-2552.
Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack,
J. A., A stochastic approach to
ultrasound despeckling, 2006 IEEE Int’l Symposium on
Biomedical Imaging, Arlington, VA, Apr. 6-9, 2006, pp. 221-224.
Tay, P. C., Acton, S. T., and Hossack,
J., A transform method to remove
ultrasound artifacts, 2006 IEEE SSIAI, Denver, CO, Mar. 26-28, 2006, pp. 110-114.
Li, B., Tay, P., and Acton, S. T., Multi-assignment interacting multiple model for
tracking micro-bubbles, 2005 Conference Record of the Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2005, pp. 281-284
Tay, P. C. and Havlicek, J. P., JPEG 2000 scalar quantization using an optimally
frequency localized modulated lapped transform, 2005 IEEE ICIP, Genova, Italy, September
11-14, 2005, vol. I, pp. 93-96.
Tay, P. C. and Havlicek, J. P., Frequency implementation of discrete wavelet
transforms,
2004 IEEE SSIAI, Lake Tahoe, NV, March 28-30, 2004, pp. 167-171.
Tay, P. C. and Havlicek, J. P., Joint uncertainty measure for maximally decimated
M-channel prime factor cascaded wavelet filter banks, 2003 IEEE ICIP, Barcelona, Spain,
September 14-17, 2003, vol. I, pp. 1033-1036.
Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., Discrete
wavelet transform with optimal joint localization for determining the number of
image texture segments, 2002 IEEE ICIP, Rochester, NY, September 22-25, 2002, vol. III, pp.
281-284. (A Top Ten Student Paper)
Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., Image
watermarking using wavelets, 2002 IEEE MWSCAS, Tulsa, OK, August 4-7, 2002, vol. III,
pp. 258-261.
Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., A
novel translation and modulation invariant discrete-discrete uncertainty
measure, 2002
IEEE ICASSP, Orlando, FL, May 13-17, 2002, vol. II, pp. 1461-1464.
Tay, P., Havlicek, J. P., and DeBrunner, V., A
wavelet filter bank which minimizes a novel translation invariant discrete
uncertainty measure, 2002 IEEE SSIAI,
Tay, P. C., and Havliek, J. P., Determination of the number of texture segments using
wavelets, 2001
Conference on Applied Mathematics, Edmond, OK, Feb. 23-24, 2001, pp. 153-162.
Yap, T. B., Tangsukson, T., Tay,
P. C., Mamuya, N. D., Havlicek,
J. P., Unsupervised texture
segmentation using dominant image modulations, Conference Record of the
Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific
Grove, CA, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 911-915.
Havlicek, J. P., Tay, P. C., and Sluss Jr., J. J., Signals and systems: a consistent, unified approach, Frontiers in Education Conference
2000, vol. 2, pp. F4E/1-F4E/6.
Professional
Service
Journal Editorship
Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing 2015-2018
Reviewer for Grants and Contracts
Technical Evaluation Panel Member for NIH SBIR Topic 306
Organization Committee for Professional Conferences
Technical
Co-Chair of IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation 2014
& 2016
Reviewer for Professional Journals and Conferences
Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering
Journal
on Circuits, Systems, and Computer
Journal
on Signal, Image, and Video Processing
Springer
Journal on Systems and Software
Elsevier
Journal on Computer Medical Imaging and Graphics
Elsevier
Journal on Digital Signal Processing
IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing 2004-2006, 2012-15
IEEE
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2005-2012
IEEE
Southwest Symposium for Image Analysis and Interpretation 2008-2016
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IEEE Pattern Recognition Letters
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics,
Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing
Other Current Academic Appointment
Boise
State University (Adjunct Graduate Faculty) 2009-Present
Committee Membership
Kenyatta Fortune (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected May 2016, Western Carolina University)
Kyle
Bailey (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected
May 2016, Western Carolina University)
Harrison
Orr (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected
May 2016, Western Carolina University)
Stephen
McNeil (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, expected May 2016,
Western Carolina University)
Hongda Shen (Director, M.S. Electrical and
Computer Engineering Technology, May 2013, Western Carolina University,
currently a Ph.D. student in ECE at University of Alabama-Huntsville)
Andrew Kerfonta (Director, M.S.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2013, Western Carolina
University)
William Gall (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technology, May 2012, Western Carolina University)
Kirke Shouse (M.S. Electrical and
Computer Engineering Technology, August 2011, Western Carolina University)
Matthew Proffitt (M.S. Electrical
and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2011, Western Carolina University)
Andrew Punch (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technology, May 2011, Western Carolina University)
Yiming Ma (Director, M.S. Electrical and Computer
Engineering Technology, May 2010, Western Carolina University, current a Ph.D.
candidate in EE at University of California-Riverside)
Zijing “Ginger” Qin (M.S. Electrical and
Computer Engineering Technology, May 2010,
Nyaga Mbitiru
(M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, May 2009,
Jeffery Marston (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technology, May 2009,
Michael Grant (Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering,
August 2006,
Jing Cui (Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, May
2006,
Gang Dong (Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering, January 2006,
Robert L. Janiczek (M.S.
Electrical and Computer Engineering, January 2005,
Bing Li (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, August
2005,
John E. Pickard (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering,
May 2005,
Professional
Affiliations:
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Signal Processing Society-Senior Member