Professor David Feng
ME SJTU MSc PhD UCLA, FACS, FATSE, FHKIE, FIEEE, FIET
Head, School of Information Technologies,Director (Research), Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
J12 - The School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
Biographical details
(David) Dagan Feng received his ME in Electrical Engineering & Computing Science (EECS) from Shanghai JiaoTong University in 1982, MSc in Biocybernetics and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1988 respectively. After briefly working as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, he joined the University of Sydney at the end of 1988, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science, School of Information Technologies. He is also Honorary Research Consultant, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the largest hospital in Australia; Chair-Professor of Information Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Advisory Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University; Guest Professor, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Northeastern University and Tsinghua University.
David has published over 300 scholarly research papers, pioneered several new research directions, made a number of landmark contributions in his field with significant scientific impact and social benefit, and received the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering from USA.He is a Fellow of ACS, ATSE, HKIE, IEE, and IEEE. Special Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, and is the current Chairman of IFAC-TC-BIOMED.
Research interests
Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology, Biological and Medical Systems Modeling and Quantification, Molecular Imaging, Multimedia Data Processing and Management
Teaching and supervision
COMP5114 - Digital Media Fundamentals
COMP5415 - Multimedia Authoring and Production
COMP5424 - Information Technology in Biomedicine
INFO5993 - IT Research Methods
Selected grants
2011
- Med-graphic avatar - a comprehensive, holistic and customizable model for personal health records; Feng D, Fulham M, Eberl S, Wang X, Cai W, Li S, Zhu W, Fulham M, Eberl S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
- Modelling of biomedical functions; Feng D; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
2010
- Large scale knowledge and image based biomedical modelling and derivation of PET-CT disease maps and treatment response; Feng D, Eberl S, Fulham M; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
- Integrated multi-level interpretation and its applications for intelligent multimodality biomedical image navigation, retrieval and tracking; Feng D, Wen L, Fulham M, Eberl S, Cai W, Fulham M, Eberl S, Wen L; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
2009
- A new generation of multi-modality biomedical image visualation and display; Feng D, Fulham M, Eberl S, Kim J, Fulham M, Eberl S; Australian Research Council/Linkage Projects (LP).
2006
- Quantitative Biomedical System Modelling And Visualisation For Whole Body Positron Emission Tomography; Feng D; DEST/Australia-China Fund for S&T Cooperation.
- Semantic Image Access with Intelligent User Interaction; Feng D, Wang Z, Takatsuka M, Li S, Warren J, Li S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage.
- Information Technology Aided Diagnosis of Dementia with PET-CT Imaging; Feng D, Fulham M, Eberl S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
- Multimedia Computing, Production, Management and Distribution for HDTV and its Applications; Feng D, Cai W, Wang Z, Everitt D, Eades P, Hoang D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/LIEF.
2005
- Linkage Round 2 2004 - An innovative multimedia framework for multidimensional PET-CT image navigati; Cai W, Kumar A, Feng D.
- An innovative multimedia framework for multidimensional PET-CT image navigation and communication; Fulham M, Eberl S, Cai W, Fulton R, Feng D, Fulham M, Fulton R, Eberl S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage.
2004
- Intelligent archiving and retrieving clinic laboratory records in pathology/radiology informatics study; Cai W, Feng D, Haren R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage.
- Smart information use for PET-CT quantitative molecular imaging; Feng D, Fulham M, Meikle S, Fulton R, Eberl S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
2003
- Intelligent biomedical system modeling and multi-modality image analysis to maximize diagnostic information from medical imaging; Feng D, Fulham M, Fulton R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Project.
- ARC research network in multimedia technology and applications(MTA); Feng D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Special Research Initiatives.
2002
- Eye Tracker Usability Laboratory; Kay J, Feng D, Eades P; University of Sydney/Equipment Grant.
2001
- Quantification of Functional Images for Whole Body PET; Feng D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Earlier schemes: Large Grants.
- A Web-based Mutimedia Tele-machine System for Functional Imaging Studies; Fulham M, Feng D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt Grants.
2000
- Quantitative functional imaging for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); Feng D, Eberl S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Earlier schemes: Large Grants.
- Non-invasive quantification of brain function with positron emission tomography; Feng D, Fulham M, Meikle S; National Health and Medical Research Council/Project Grants.
- Novel data storage and retrieval techniques for functional imaging; Feng D, Fulton R; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grant.
Selected publications
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Biomedical Information Technology (Academic Press Elsevier,2008)
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Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management - Technological Fundamentals and Applications (Springer,2003)
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PhD and master's project opportunities
- Content-based Retrieval and Management of Multi-dimensional Biomedical Imaging Data
- Object-based Volumetric Texture Feature Extraction for Biomedical Image Retrieval
- Advanced computer modelling of biological systems using insight knowledge
- Discovery of new image-derived features for computer-aided diagnosis
- Automated 3-Dimensional Biomedical Registration for Whole-body Images from Combined PET/CT Scanners - Automatic Registration for 3D Whole-body Images from Combined PET/CT Scanners
- Deformable Registration for Temporal Lung Volumes
- Kinetic Characterization and Mapping for Whole-body Molecular Image Retrieval
- Multi-dimensional Biomedical Data Visualization
- Image Representation using Multi-dimensional Biomedical Functional and Anatomical Features
- Automatic Image Content Annotation
- Web Image Annotation
- Data Management for Automated Identification and Classification of Plant Images
- Novel Image Retouching Techniques
- Automatic Video Content Annotation
- Intelligent Access to Digital TV Content
- Semantic Multimedia Information Retrieval
- Multimedia Streaming with Peer-to-Peer Techniques
- Intelligent Multimodality Molecular Image Segmentation
- Multimodality Medical Image Segmentation
- Medical Image Mining for Computer-Aided Diagnosis
- Functional Brain Image Understanding for Differential Diagnosis of Dementia


