Mathhew McCormick, Ph.D

Research Assistant

Department Affiliations

Medical Physics

Biomedical Engineering

Education

• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011
• M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
• B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Biomechanics. Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. 2005.

Research

Research Interests:

Ultrasound Imaging, Ultrasound Elastography

Doctoral Research Advisor:

Tomy Varghese, Ph.D

Doctoral Dissertation: 

Carotid Plaque Characterization with Medical Ultrasound, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.

Positions

• 06/2005-05/2011, Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics
• 06/2011-Present, Kitware Inc, USA

Awards and Honors

Memberships

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Publications @ UW

• M. McCormick, T Varghese, "An approach to unbiased subsample interpolation for motion tracking", Ultrasonic Imaging, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 76-89, 2013. [Abstract]
• M McCormick, T Varghese, X. Wang, R.J. Dempsey, C. C. Mitchell, and M.A. Kliewer, "Methods for robust in-vivo strain estimation in the carotid artery", Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 57, No. 22, pp.7329-7353, 2012. [Abstract]
• BG Rocque, D Jackson, T Varghese, B Hermann, M McCormick, MA Kliewer , C Mitchell, RJ Dempsey, "Impaired cognitive function in patients with atherosclerotic carotid stenosis and correlation with ultrasound strain measurements", J Neurol. Sci., Vol. 322, No. 1-2, pp. 20-24, 2012. [Abstract]
• M. McCormick, E.L. Madsen, M. Deaner, and T Varghese, "Absolute backscatter measurements of tissue-mimicking phantoms in the 5-50 MHz frequency range" Journal Acoustic Society of America, Vol. 130, No. 2, pp, 737-743, 2011. [Abstract]
• M. McCormick, N. Rubert, and T Varghese, "Bayesian Regularization applied to Ultrasound Strain Imaging," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp, 1612-1620, 2011. [Abstract]
• H. Shi, T Varghese, C.C. Mitchell, M. McCormick, R.J. Dempsey, M.A. Kliewer, "In-vivo attenuation and equivalent scatterer size parameters for atherosclerotic carotid plaque: preliminary results", Ultrasonics, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 779-785, 2009. (PMCID: PMC2785011). [Abstract]
• H. Shi, C.C. Mitchell, M. McCormick, M.A. Kliewer, R.J. Dempsey, T Varghese, "Preliminary in-vivo atherosclerotic carotid plaque characterization using the accumulated axial strain and relative lateral shift based strain indices", Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 53, No. 22, pp. 6377-6394, 2008. (PMCID: PMC2891504). [Abstract]

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