Professor Anthony Maeder

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Publications
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Biography

Anthony Maeder is Professor in Health Informatics at the University of Western Sydney, and was previously Research Director of the CSIRO eHealth Research Centre in Brisbane from 2004. Prior to that, he followed an academic career as Head of School in Engineering at University of Ballarat and subsequently at Queensland University of Technology Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering. His earlier appointments were at Monash University in the Department of Computer Science, where he undertook his PhD in Software Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and was the founding President of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society. He is currently chair of the Standards Australia IT-14-12 Telehealth Subcommittee and a member of the IT-14 Health Informatics Committee Australian delegation to ISO/CEN meetings. He was a Board Member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia and their representative on IMIA WG1 (Education) until 2011.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Health Informatics
Digital Image Processing/Analysis
Medical Imaging
Human Visual Factors
Pattern Recognition

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Grants / Current Projects

$300,000 Queensland Government Collaborative Research Grant (with Queensland health, Griffith University, and QUT) 2007-8. National emergency department patient admissions prediction tool. A.J. Maeder, D. Green, M Wallis, G. Fitzgerald.

$1,900,000 Queensland Government Smart State Grant (with University of Queensland) 2006-8. Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics. M. Ragan, A. Maeder.

$330,000 Queensland Government Special Research Grant (with NICTA Qld, QUT, University of Queensland) 2005-7. Image-quality-sensitive watermarking of medical images. A.J. Maeder, B. Pham, C Boyd, S. Crozier, A. Bradley.

$10,000 ARC Special Research Initiatives Seed Funding Grant 2003-4. The Australian Research Network for Medical Devices. A.J. Maeder et al. SR0354734.

$97,635 ARC Linkage Grant (with Queensland Public Works Department) 2002-5. Queensland Digital Ultra-Atlas. B. Pham, A. Maeder. LP0234229.

$67,000 ARC Linkage Grant (with Cochlear Ltd) 2002-4. Image processing techniques for artificial human vision techniques. A Maeder, W Boles, J Patrick. LP0234229.

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Awards and Recognition

Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia

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Publications

A. Maeder, J. Dowling, A. Nguyen, E. Brunton, P Nguyen, “Assuring authenticity of digital mammograms by image watermarking”, Digital Mammography: 9th International Workshop IWDM 2008, Springer LNCS 5116, July 2008 pp204-211.

A. Maeder, “e-Research meets e-Health”, Australasian Workshop on Health Data and Knowledge Management, University of Wollongong, NSW, 22-25 January 2008, CRPIT Proceedings Vol. 80, pp 3-6 (Invited Keynote).

J. Dowling, W. Boles and A. Maeder, “Visual prostheses for the blind: a framework for information presentation”, in J. Billingsley (ed), Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, Springer, 2008 pp275-288.

D. Mueller, A. Maeder and P. O’Shea, “Tagged volume rendering of the heart”, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2007, Springer LNCS 4791, October 2007 pp194-201.

C. Pang, Q. Zhang, D. Hansen and A. Maeder, “Building data synopses within a known error bound”, Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference & 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (APWeb/WAIM 2007), 16-18 June 2007 (CD ROM).

C. Pang, D Hansen and A. Maeder, “Managing RBAC models with transitive relations”, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communication Security, Singapore, 20-22 March 2007 (CD ROM).

B. Planitz, A. Maeder, J. Du, B. Pham, C. Boyd, S. Chen, A. Bradley and S. Crozier, “Visual quality assessment of watermarked medical images”, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Image Conference, San Diego, February 2007, Vol 6515, pp 65151L -65151L12.

D.P. Hansen, C. Pang and A.J. Maeder, “HDI: Integrating health data and tools”, Journal of Soft Computing 11(4), 2006, pp361-367.

D. Mueller, A. Maeder and P. O’Shea, “The Generalised Image Fusion Toolkit (GIFT)”, Workshop on Open Source and Data for Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Copenhagen, 1 October 2006 (online).

J. Dowling, W. Boles and A. Maeder, “Simulated artificial human vision: the effects of spatial resolution and frame rate on mobility”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Active Media Technology, Brisbane, 7-9 June 2006, pp 138-143.

B.M. Planitz and A.J. Maeder, “Perceptually-limited modality-adaptive medical image watermarking”, Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, February 2006, Vol 6146, pp250-259.

B. Du, A.J. Maeder and M. Moody, “A new approach on error resilient video coding for live video communication”, International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control 1(4), December 2005, pp701-713.

B. Planitz, A. Maeder and J. Williams, "A framework for image correspondence algorithms", Computer Vision & Image Understanding 97, March 2005, pp347-383.

A.J. Maeder, “The Image Importance approach to human vision based image quality characterization”, Pattern Recognition Letters 26, February 2005, pp347-354.

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Optional

Member of IEAust, HISA, ACS, ACM, IEEE, SPIE.
Member of IT-14 Health Informatics committee and Chair of IT-14-12 Telehealth subcommittee, Standards Australia.
Vice President, Australasian Telehealth Society.
Executive committee member, Australian Pattern Recognition Society.

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