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DR LEIGH JOHNSTON



Contact Details

Organization: Engineering
Position: SENIOR LECTURER IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
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Work: 8344 1940
Room: 321
Level: 03
Building: Alan Gilbert Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
ENGINEERING University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1996
SCIENCE University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1996
PhD University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2000

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australian Neuroscience Society Member, Australian Neuroscience Society 01-Jan-2008
Member Organisation for Brain Mapping Member, Organisation for Brain Mapping 02-Jan-2006

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 01-Jan-1998

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Extending Communication for Patients with Post-Coma Unresponsiveness Chief Investigator HELEN MACPHERSON SMITH TRUST Research Grants 02/08/2008
Investigating evidence of control system dynamics in visuomotor skill acquisition using multimodal functional magnetic resonance imaging. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • A software tool to generate simulated white matter structures for the assessment of fibre-tracking algorithms
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 1288-1300
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  • Biomechanisms for modelling cerebral cortical folding
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Medical Image Analysis
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 920-930
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  • Optic nerve diffusion changes and atrophy jointly predict visual dysfunction after optic neuritis
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 679-686
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  • Revisiting excitation pattern design for magnetic resonance imaging through optimisation of the signal contrast efficiency
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 317-328
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  • The Stochastic Search Dynamics of Interneuron Migration
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Biophysical Journal
    Volume: 97
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 699-709
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Nonlinear estimation of the BOLD signal
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neuroimage
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 504-514
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  • The Power of Spectral Density Analysis for Mapping Endogenous BOLD Signal Fluctuations
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Human Brain Mapping
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 778-790
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A method for Shape Analysis and Segmentation in MRI
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2008)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings. Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2008)
    Page numbers: 335-342
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • A multistage parallel magnetic resonance image reconstruction method
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2008)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings. Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2008)
    Page numbers: 327-334
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • Challenging the optimality of the pulse excitation in magnetic resonance imaging
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 10301-10306
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Magnetic resonance described in the excitation dependent rotating frame of reference
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: 'Personalized Healthcare through Technology'
    Page numbers: 5769-5773
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Revisiting the Bloch Equation through Averaging
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Page numbers: 4121-4126
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Voxelwise regularisation of high angular resolution diffusion imaging data
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: 'Personalized Healthcare through Technology'
    Page numbers: 90-93
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Modelling cerebral cortical folding
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MICCAI 2007: Computational Biomechanics for Medicine II
    Conference Publication: MICCAI 2007 Workshop Proceedings: Computational Biomechanics for Medicine II
    Page numbers: 55-64
    Publisher: MICCAI(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Opportunistic file transfer over a fading channel - A POMDP search theory formulation with optimal threshold policies
    Year: 2006
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 394-405
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Particle filtering for nonlinear BOLD signal analysis
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
    Page numbers: 308-315
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A tracking approach to parcellation of the cerebral cortex.
    Year: 2005
    Event name: MICCAI 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from MICCAI 2005 Conference.
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Efficient computation of closed contours using modified Baum-Welch updating
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2004 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop
    Page numbers: 48
    Publisher: IEEE Press(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Contour grouping with prior models
    Year: 2003
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 661-674
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Optimality of threshold transmission policies in Gilbert Elliott fading channels
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications
    Conference Publication: Frontiers in Telecommunications: 2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Performance analysis of dynamic programming track before detect algorithm
    Year: 2002
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 228-242
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • An improvement to the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2909-2923
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  • Derivation of a sawtooth iterated extended kalman smoother via the AECM algorithm
    Year: 2001
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1899-1909
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • On the formation of extrinsic information in Turbo decoding
    Year: 2001
    Event name: 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
    Page numbers: 192
    Publisher: IEEE Press(New Jersey)
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