Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:
Application of adaptive estimation techniques in the analysis of
image sequences. Specifically, tracking the point-wise motion of
multi-dimensional surfaces over an entire image sequence using
suitable temporal and spatial models.
Background:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University. (1995-present)
Supervisor: Dr. James Duncan.
Doctoral of Philosophy, Yale University. (1992-1995)
Advisor: Dr. James Duncan.
Master of Philosophy, Yale University. (1990-1992)
Committee: J. Duncan, P. Shultheiss, A. Nehorai, R. Kuc.
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia. (1990)
Advisors: Dr. Ron Williams, Dr. Steve Wilson. Research in improved speech
synthesis through efficient modeling of the glottal pulse.
Part of a larger effort to develop a speech tool for individuals
afflicted with cerebral palsy.
U.S. Naval Officer, Naval Security Group. (1985 - 1990)
Chief of information systems development. Two years residence in Japan.
Linguist Certification, Defense Language Institute. (1985-1986)
Russian language.
Bachelor of Science, University of Notre Dame. (1981-1985)
Advisor: Dr. David Cohn. Research in Local Area Network applications.
Publications:
McEachen, J. C., Nehorai, A. and Duncan, J. S.
Analysis of Cardiac Motion with Recursive Comb Filtering,
SPIE Annual Meeting, Mathematical Methods in Medical Imaging III,
San Diego, CA, July, 1994.
McEachen, J. C., Nehorai, A. and Duncan, J. S.
A Recursive Filter for Temporal Analysis of Cardiac Motion,
IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Image Analysis,
Seattle, WA, June, 1994.
McEachen, J. C. and Duncan, J. S.
Shape-Based Tracking of Naturally Occurring Annuli in Image Sequences,
IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,
New York City, June, 1993.
McEachen, J. C. and Duncan, J. S.
A Constrained Analytic Solution for Tracking Non-Rigid Motion of the Left Ventricle,
IEEE 18th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference,
Univ. of Rhode Island, March, 1992. (Awarded best paper in Medical Imaging).
Additional:
Active U. S. Naval Reservist (Lieutenant Commander). Project manager
for system acquisiton and development.
Primary administrator and archivist of this WWW server.
(Positive comments are always graciously received!)
Non-professional/Web Interests.
mceachen@noodle.med.yale.edu