Adrian S. Barb

Penn State University - Great Valley Campus
Information Science Department
30 E Swedesford Road
Malvern, PA

Phone: (610) 725-5349

E-mail: adrian@psu.edu

I am an Assistant Professor Information Science in the Engineering and Information Science Division at Penn State Great Valley.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Missouri, MO, USA.
M.B.A. in Finance, University of Missouri, MO, USA.
B.S. in Industrial Engineering, University of Bucharest, Romania.

IN SC 521/531 - Database Design Concepts.
SWENG 541 - Advanced Database Design Concepts.

My primary research interest lies in the investigating methods of knowledge discovery, management, and exchange in content-based retrieval systems for large-scale biomedical media. In this area, I focus on providing researchers and experts with computer-based methods to:

• acquire knowledge from different sources,
• encode tacit knowledge into individual expertise settings,
• make computer-generated knowledge available for peers’ reference.

With the latest advances in science and technology, research projects need to address problems that cross the boundaries of traditional research disciplines. Over the past years I worked with collaborators from other domains and I have successfully applied my research methods to medical informatics for studying patterns of pulmonary diseases found in high-resolution computed tomography images; agronomy for modeling the phenotype-genotype correlations of maize mutants; and geospatial intelligence for discovering relevant knowledge from satellite images. In this context, my research interests are grounded in the need to reduce the semantic gap between human and computer models of representing visual patterns and to develop a knowledge framework that is close to how experts reason when they make decisions.

Reviewer for the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Journal, 2008
Reviewer for the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008
Reviewer for the International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, 2005
Reviewer for the International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing Conference, 2005
Member IEEE, ACM

C.-R. Shyu, J. Harnsomburana, J. Green, A.S. Barb, T. Kazic, M. Schaeffer, and E. P Coe. Searching and Mining Visually-Observed Phenotypes of Maize Mutants, to be published in Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol. 5, No. 6, December 2007.

C.-R. Shyu, M. Klaric, G. Scott, A.S. Barb, C. Davis, and K. Palaniappan, GeoIRIS: Geospatial Information Retrieval and Indexing System - Content Mining, Semantics Modeling, and Complex Queries, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Special Issue on Image Mining, Vol. 45, No. 4 , April 2007; 839-852

A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, and Y. Sethi, Knowledge Representation and Sharing Using Visual Semantic Modeling for Diagnostic Medical Image Databases. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 9(4): 538-553 (2005)

A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, Range Queries Using User-Specific Semantics for Modeling Content-based Information in Geospatial Domain, in Proc. of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2007.

C.-R. Shyu, A.S. Barb, and C. Davis. Mining image content associations for visual semantic modeling in geospatial information retrieval and indexing, in Proc. of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, No. 5622, July 2005; 5622 - 5625.

A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, Y. Sethi, "Semantics Semantic Integration and Knowledge Exchange for Diagnostic Medical Image Databases", IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, BIBE-04, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC, May 2004; 175-182.

A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, "Semantics Modeling in Diagnostic Medical Image Databases Using Customized Fuzzy Membership Function", IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE-03, St. Louis, May 2003; 1159-1166.

A.S. Barb, C. -R. Shyu, "A Semantic Query Approach for Diagnostic Image Database Management - Content-based Access and Knowledge Exchange Using XML", IIIS Proceedings on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics –Vol. 8, Orlando, July 2002; 162167.