Books

Shamir, L.; Astronomical Image Processing. VDM-Verlag Pub., Berlin, Germany. 2008. ISBN: 978-3-8364-6630-1.



Book Chapters

Shamir, L.; Soft Computing in Astronomy. In: Soft Computing - New Research. . Giordano, A.J. and Costa, G.E. (Eds.), pp. 231-264. Nova Pub., 2008. ISBN: 978-1-60456-883-7

Orlov, N., Johnston, J., Macura, T., Shamir, L., Goldberg, I.; Computer Vision for Microscopy Applications, In: Vision Systems - Segmentation and Pattern Recognition. pp. 221-242. Obinata, G., and Dutta, A. (Eds.). Vienna, Austria: ARS Pub., 2007. ISBN: 978-3-902613-05-9
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Journal Publications

Shamir, L., Ling, S., Scott, W., Hochberg, M., Ferrucci, L., Goldberg, I.; Early detection of knee osteoarthritis using computer-aided image analysis, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, In Press. (impact factor: 3.97)

Shamir, L., Macura, T., Orlov, N., Eckley, D. M., Goldberg, I. G.; Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism - automatic classification of painters and schools of art, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, In Press.

Shamir, L., Ling, S., Rahimi, S., Ferrucci, L., Goldberg, I.; Biometric identification using knee X-rays, International Journal of Biometrics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 365-370. Inderscience, 2009.
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Articles describing this paper in "The Economist", "R&D Magazine", "Science Daily", "Science News", Science Centric.

Shamir, L., Ling, S.M., Scott, W., Boss, A., Orlov, N., Macura, T., Eckley, D.M, Ferrucci, L., Goldberg, I.G.; Knee X-ray image analysis method for automated detection of Osteoarthritis, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 407-415, 2009. (impact factor: 1.857)
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Shamir, L., Orlov, N., Eckley, D. M., Macura, T., Goldberg, I.; IICBU-2008 - A Proposed Benchmark Suite for Biological Image Analysis, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 943-947. Springer, 2008. (impact factor: 1.22)
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Shamir, L., Orlov, N., Eckley, D. M., Macura, T., Johnston, J., Goldberg, I.; Wndchrm - An Open Source Utility for Biological Image Analysis, BMC - Source Code for Biology and Medicine, vol. 3, 13. BioMed Central, 2008. (impact factor: 0.68)
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Orlov, N., Shamir, L.*, Macura, T., Johnston, J., Eckley, D. M., Goldberg, I.; WND-CHARM: Multi-purpose Image Classification Using Compound Image Transforms, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 1684-1693. Elsevier, 2008. (impact factor: 0.87)
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Shamir, L., Evaluation of Face Datasets as Tools for Assessing the Performance of Face Recognition Methods, International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 79(3), pp. 225-230. Springer, 2008. (impact factor: 6.085)
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; Astronomical Pipeline Processing Using Fuzzy Logic, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 8, pp. 79-87. Elsevier, 2008. (impact factor: 1.573)
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Shamir, M., Shamir, L., Durfee, M. H.; The Application of Fuzzy Logic to the Precautionary Principle, Artificial Intelligence and Law, vol. 15(4), pp. 411-427. Springer, 2007.
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Shamir, L.; A Proposed Stereo Matching Algorithm for Noisy Sets of Color Images, Computers & Geosciences, vol. 33, pp. 1052-1063. Elsevier, 2007. (impact factor: 0.893)
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Shamir, L.; Dynamic Reuse of Subroutine Results, Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 603-608. Elsevier, 2006.(impact factor: 0.49)
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; OT 060420: A Seemingly Optical Transient Recorded by All-Sky Cameras, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 118, no. 846, pp. 1180-1185. University of Chicago Press, 2006.(impact factor: 3.35)
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J., Torrey, D. O., Pereira, W. E.; Software Design for Panoramic Astronomical Pipeline Processing, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 366(2), pp. 353-357. Blackwell Publishing, 2006. (impact factor: 5.249)
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Shamir, L.; Transient Detection Using Panoramic All-sky Cameras, Astrophysics & Space Science, vol. 305, pp. 165-168. Springer, 2006. (impact factor: 0.691)
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Shamir, L.; A Security Concern in MS-Windows: Stealing User Information From Internet Browsers Using Faked Windows, Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, vol. 11(1). Array Development, 2006.
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; PHOTZIP: A Lossy FITS Image Compression Algorithm That Protects User-defined Levels of Photometric Integrity, The Astronomical Journal, vol. 129(1), pp. 539-546. University of Chicago Press, 2005. (impact factor: 5.65)
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; All-sky Relative Opacity Mapping Using Night Time Panoramic Images, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 117, no. 835, pp. 972-977. University of Chicago Press, 2005. (impact factor: 3.35)
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; A Fuzzy Logic Based Algorithm For Finding Astronomical Objects in Wide-Angle Frames, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 22(2), pp. 111-117. CSIRO Publishing, 2005. (impact factor: 1.735)
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Shamir, L.; A Fuzzy Logic-Based Algorithm for Cosmic Ray Hit Rejection from Single Images, Astronomical Notes (Astronomische Nachrichten), vol. 326(6), pp. 428-431. Wiley InterScience, 2005. (impact factor: 1.399)
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Shamir, L.; Analysis of Meteor Trails Using the Night Sky Live Network of Panoramic CCD Cameras, WGN - Journal of the International Meteor Organization, vol. 33(3), pp. 75-80. IMO, 2005
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Letters

Shamir, L.; Looking for familiar faces, Science, vol. 321, p. 912. 2008
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Conferences

Shamir, L., Orlov, N., Goldberg, I.; Evaluation of the efficacy of image features extracted from multi-order image transforms, International Conference on Image Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IPCV 2009), accepted.
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Shamir, L., Ling, S.M., Scott, W., Hochberg, M., Delaney, J., Eckley, D.M., Orlov, N., Ferrucci, L., Goldberg, I.; Early Detection of Osteoarthritis Using Computer-aided Radiography, Osteoarthritis Biomarker Workshop, p. 23. Bethesda, MD. 2009.
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Shamir, L., Eckley, D.M., Delaney, J., Orlov, N., Goldberg, I.G.; An Image Informatics Method for Automated Quantitative Analysis of Phenotype Visual Similarities, IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop (LiSSA 2009), p. 96-100, 2009.
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Orlov, N., Delaney, J., Eckley, D.M., Shamir, L., Goldberg, I.; Pattern recognition for biomedical imaging and image-guided diagnosis, IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop (LiSSA 2009), p. 120-123, 2009.
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Orlov, N., Delaney, J., Eckley, D.M., Shamir, L., Goldberg, I.G.; Translating biomedical image content into useful feature spaces, Fourth Workshop on BioImage Informatics, p. 117-118. Janelia Farm, VA. 2009.
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Orlov, N., Eckely, D. M., Shamir, L., Goldberg, I. G.; Machine Vision for Classifying Biological and Biomedical Images, Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2008), p. 192-196. Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 2008.
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Shamir, L., Macura, T., Orlov, N., Eckley, D. M., Goldberg, I. G.; IICBU 2008 - A Benchmark Suite for Biological Imaging, Thrid Workshop on Bio-Image Informatics: Biological Imaging, Computer Vision and Data Mining, #1240. Santa Barbara, CA. 2008.
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Macura, T., Johnston, J., Cordero, J., Orlov, N., Shamir, L., Goldberg, I. G.; Quantitative pattern analysis of a large tissue collection across multiple experimental variables. Third Workshop on Bio-Image Informatics: Biological Imaging, Computer Vision and Data Mining, #1241. Santa Barbara, CA. 2008.
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Eckley, D. M., Shamir, L., Macura, T., Orlov, N., Goldberg, I. G.; Automated quantitative analysis of phenotype similarities. 3rd Workshop on Bio-Image Informatics: Biological Imaging, Computer Vision and Data Mining, #1242. Santa Barbara, CA. 2008.
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Nemrioff, R. J., Shamir, L.; A Systematic Search for Naked-Eye Astronomical Optical Transients Lasting Minutes, 211th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 132.18. Austin, TX. 2008. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 36, p. 964, 2008.
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Shamir, L., Eckley, D. M., Goldberg, I. G.; Image Tiling Vs. Cell Segmentation - A Case Study, 47th American Society for Cell Biology Meeting (ASCB'07). p. 35. Washington, DC. 2007.

Eckley, D. M., Shamir, L., Macura, T., Orlov, N., Goldberg, I. G.; Quantiative similarity of induced phenotypes: A new method of comparing genes, 47th American Society for Cell Biology Meeting (ASCB'07). p. 35. Washington, DC. 2007.

Cordero-Hernadez, J., Macura, T. J., Orlov, N., Shamir, L., Goldberg, I. G.; Quantitative morphometry of mouse tissue during aging, 7th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS 2007). Austin, TX. 2007.

Shamir, L.; Teaching GUI in Operating Systems Courses, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2007), #01.03. Covington, KY. 2007.
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; OT060420 and the Systematic Automated All-sky Search for Bright Optical Transients, AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, 99.06. Seattle, WA. 2007. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Vol. 38, p. 1042, 2007.
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Shamir, L.; Human Perception-based Color Segmentation Using Fuzzy Logic, International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (IPCV 2006), vol. II, p. 496-505. Las Vegas, NV. 2006.
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Brosch, N., Nemiroff, R. J., Shamir, L., Panoramic camera systems for meteor tracking and meteorite recovery, XXVI IAU General Assembly, p. 123. Prague, Czech Republic. 2006.

Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; Cosmic Ray Hit Rejection Using Fuzzy Logic Modeling, 207th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 29.05. Washington, DC. 2006. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 37, no. 4, p. 1320, 2006.
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; Using Fuzzy Logic for Automatic Analysis of Astronomical Pipelines, Second International IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence vol. 3614, pp. 634-638. Changsha, China. 2005.
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Nemiroff, R. J., Shamir, L., Muzzin, V., Merlo, M., Tilvi, S. V.; Exhaustive Monitoring of Polaris in Night Sky Live CONCAM Data, 205th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 54.12. San Diego, CA. 2005. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 528, 2005.
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Pereira, W. E., Muzzin, V., Merlo, M., Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; Comparative Analysis of 2004 as Seen by the Night Sky Live Global Network of CONCAMs, 205th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 48.13. San Diego, CA. 2005. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 765, 2005.
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; PHOTZIP: A Lossy Image Compression Algorithm That Protects Photometric Integrity, 205th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 153.15. San Diego, CA. 2005. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 501, 2005.
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Muzzin, V., Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; Finding Stellar Variability: Monitoring Algol with On-Line Night Sky Live Data Network of CONCAMs, 205th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 152.01. San Diego, CA. 2005. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 793, 2005.
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; A Search for Naked-Eye Optical Transients Using the Night Sky Live Global Network, 206th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 15.08. Minneapolis, MN. 2006. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 246, 2006.
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Tilvi, V., Cordell, D., Merlo, M., Pereira, W., Muzzin, V., Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; A Search for Bright Gamma-Ray Burst Beforeglows using the Night Sky Live Global Network, 206th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 47.06. Minneapolis, MN. 2006. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 252, 2006.
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Nemiroff, R. J.; Shamir, L. CONCAM All-Sky Maps of Airglow and Opacity, 203th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 38.14. Atlanta, GA. 2003. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 35., no. 5, p.761, 2003.
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Shamir, L., Nemiroff, R. J.; CONCAM's Fuzzy-Logic All-Sky Star Recognition Algorithm, 204th American Astronomical Society Meeting, 76.07. Denver, CO. 2004. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 36, no. 2, p. 426, 2004.
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Technical Reports

Shamir, L.; A Mechanism for Protecting Passwords from Key Loggers, Technical Report No. CS-TR 05-03. 2005.
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Others

Nemiroff, R. J., Shamir, L.; OT 060420: CONCAM detection of a candidate new magnitude 5 optical, GRB Coordinates Network, Circular Service, 4995 (2006)
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Shamir, L.; Astronomical Pipeline Processing Using Fuzzy Logic, Ph.D dissertation, Michigan Tech U. (2006)
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Tilvi, V., Shamir, L., Pereira, W., Cordell, D., Muzzin, V., Merlo, M., Nemiroff, R.; GRB050309: CONCAM pre-trigger and trigger coincident optical, GRB Coordinates Network, Circular Service, 3090, 1 (2005)
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Shamir, L.; A Taurid Meteor Fireball, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, November 15th, 2005

Shamir, L., Fish-eye Lens Correction Using Fuzzy Logic, M.S. Thesis, Open U. (2003)