James K. Hahn

Medical Simulation; Image-guided Surgery; Medical Informatics; Visualization; Motion Control

Ph.D., 1989, Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University

M.S., 1983, Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University

M.S., 1981, Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

B.S., 1979, Computer Science, Mathematics, University of South Carolina

B.S., 1979, Physics, University of South Carolina

James K. Hahn is currently a full professor and the chair of the Department of Computer Science at the George Washington University where he has been a faculty since 1989. He is the founding director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and the Institute for Computer Graphics. His areas of interest are: medical simulation, image-guided surgery, medical informatics, visualization, and motion control. He is one of the pioneers in the areas of physics-based motion control in computer animation and sound in computer graphics.

Selected Publications

1. Active illumination based 3D surface reconstruction and registration for image guided medialization laryngoplasty , SPIE Medical Imaging 2007. San Diego, CA, Feb. 18-22..



2. 3D Surface Reconstruction and Registration for Image Guided Medialization Laryngoplasty , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Volume 4291/2006, pp 761-770, 2006.



3. Hardware-Assisted Rendering of Cylindrical Panaroma , ACM Journal of Graphics Tools Special Issue on "Hardware-Accelerated Rendering Techniques", Vol. 7, No. 4, 33-42, 2003.



4. Cryotherapy Simulator for Localized Prostate Cancer , Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR '02), January 23-26, 2002, Newport Beach, California.



5. INSPECT: A Dynamic Visual Query System for Geospatial Information Exploration , Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, SPIE '02, January 20-24, 2003, Santa Clara, CA.



6. Projective Texture Mapping with Full Panorama , Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 21, Number 3, pp 421-430, September 2002.



7. Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation for Lower Urinary Tract Endoscopy and Procedures , J Endourology, 16:185-190, 2002.



8. Sound Rendering , Computer Graphics, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 26, No. 2, pp 211-220, July 1992.



9. Realistic Animation of Rigid Bodies , Computer Graphics, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM SIGGRAPH), Vol. 22, No. 4, pp 299-308, August 1988.