Publications & patents

Whenever possible the title links to a copy on my website, and the doi links to the publisher's website. Links to Pubmed, the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and the US Patent Office are given for publications indexed in those databases.

M. J. Sossong, S. McKenney, R. Whalen, G. Blanpied, A. Lehovich, P. Kurnadi. Inspection of objects based on primary and secondary scanning. United States Patent 10,228,486, March 2019.
M. J. Sossong, S. McKenney, R. Whalen, G. Blanpied, A. Lehovich, P. Kurnadi. Primary and secondary scanning in muon tomography inspection. United States Patent 9,423,362, August 2016.
M. S. Smyczynski, H. C. Gifford, A. Lehovich, J. E. McNamara, W. P. Segars, E. A. Hoffman, B. M. W. Tsui, M. A. King. Modeling the respiratory motion of solitary pulmonary nodules and determining the impact of respiratory motion on their detection in SPECT imaging in volume 63, number 1 of IEEE Transactins on Nuclear Science, pp. 117-129, February 2016. doi:10.1109/TNS.2015.2512840 pmid:27182079 ads:2016ITNS...63..117S
M. S. Smyczynski, H. C. Gifford, J. Dey, A. Lehovich, J. E. McNamara, W. P. Segars, M. A. King. LROC investigation of three strategies for reducing the impact of respiratory motion on the detection of solitary pulmonary nodules in SPECT in volume 63, number 1 of IEEE Transactins on Nuclear Science, pp. 130-139, February 2016. doi:10.1109/TNS.2015.2481825 pmid:27182080 ads:2016ITNS...63..130S
W. Luo, A. Lehovich, E. Anashkin, C. Bai, J. Kindem, M. Sossong, M. Steiger: Image characterization metrics for muon tomography, in A. W. Fountain (ed.), Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing XV, volume 9073 of Proceedings of SPIE, doi:10.1117/12.2049972 ads:2014SPIE.9073E..17L
A. Lehovich, G. Blanpied, R. C. Reed, S. C. McKenney, P. P. Kurnadi, P. C. Lam, M. J. Sossong: Forbush decrease of March 2012 detected using a commercially-available muon-tomography cargo scanner (353 KiB PDF), in 2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), pp. 554-556, October 2012. doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551169
M. Sossong, G. Blanpied, P. Kurnadi, K. Layton, A. Lehovich, S. McKenney, S. Simon, K. Wamba: Cosmic-Ray Generated Charged Particles for Nuclear Inspection, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Nuclear Security: Enhancing Global Efforts, July 2013.
A. Lehovich, P. P. Bruyant, H. S. Gifford, P. B. Schneider, S. Squires, R. Licho, G. Gindi, M. A. King: Impact on Reader Performance for Lesion-Detection/Localization Tasks of Anatomical Priors in SPECT Reconstruction (1.3 MiB PDF), volume 28, number 9 of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, pp. 1459-1467, September 2009. doi:10.1109/TMI.2009.2017741 pmid:19336295
A. Lehovich, H. C. Gifford, M. King: Scanning model observers to predict human performance in LROC studies of SPECT reconstruction using anatomical priors (177 KiB), in B. Sahiner, D. J. Manning (eds.), Medical Imaging 2009: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, volume 7263 of Proceedings of SPIE, p. 72631T, Mar 2009. doi:10.1117/12.813774 ads:2009SPIE.7263E..62L
A. Lehovich, J. K. Kikut, R. Licho, H. C. Gifford, P. H. Pretorius, M. A. King: Generation of Hybrid SPECT Bone Scans and Reconstruction Using CT-Derived Anatomical Priors (400 KiB), in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 5170-5174, October 2008. doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774400
M. S. Smyczynski, H. C. Gifford, A. Lehovich, J. E. McNamara, W. P. Segars, J. Dey, M. A. King: Effectiveness of Three Alternative Strategies in Reducing the Degrading Impact of Respiratory Motion on the Detection of Small Pulmonary Nodules in SPECT Imaging, in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 3663-3667, October 2008. doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774111
M. A. King, J. Dey, J. E. McNamara, K. Johnson, J. Mitra, P. H. Pretorius, A. Lehovich, S. Gu, R. Walvick, Y. Sun, J. C. Ford: MRI Based Assessment of the Extent to Which Stereo-Tracking of Markers on the Chest Can Predict Motion of the Heart, in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 4306--4310, October 2008. doi: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774236
J. E. McNamara, P. Bruyant, K. Johnson, B. Feng, A. Lehovich, S. Gu, M. A. Gennert, M. A. King: An assessment of a low-cost visual tracking system (VTS) to detect and compensate for patient motion during SPECT, volume 55, number 3 of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, pp. 992-998, June 2008. doi:10.1109/TNS.2008.915688 pmid:19081803 ads:2008ITNS...55..992M
A. Lehovich, H. C. Gifford, M. A. King: Model observers to predict human performance in LROC studies of SPECT reconstruction using anatomical priors (149-KiB PDF), in B. Sahiner & D. J. Manning (eds.), Medical Imaging 2008: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, volume 6917 of Proceedings of SPIE, p. 69170R, Mar 2008. doi:10.1117/12.770983 ads:2008SPIE.6917E..25L
A. Lehovich, H. C. Gifford, P. B. Schneider, M. A. King: Choosing anatomical-prior strength for MAP SPECT reconstruction to maximize lesion detectability (107-KiB PDF) in 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 4222-4225, November 2007. doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437049, pmid:19779594
M. S. Smyczynski, H. C. Gifford, A. Lehovich, J. E. McNamara, W. P. Segars, B. M. W. Tsui, M. A. King: Impact of respiratory motion on the detection of small pulmonary nodules in SPECT imaging in 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 3241-3245, November 2007. doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436830 pmid:19169431
E. J. Soares, M. A. King, C. L. Byrne, H. C. Gifford, A. Lehovich: The influence of photon attenuation on tumor-to-background and signal-to-noise ratios for SPECT imaging in 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 3609-3615, November 2007. doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436905 pmid:19169429
A. Lehovich, P. P. Bruyant, H. C. Gifford, P. B. Schneider, S. Squires, R. Licho, G. Gindi, M. A. King: Human-observer LROC study of lesion detection in Ga-67 SPECT images reconstructed using MAP with anatomical priors (137-KiB PDF) in 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 1699-1702, October 2006. pmid:19412357
A. Lehovich, H. C. Gifford, M. A. King: Location-known-exactly human-observer ROC studies of attenuation and other corrections for SPECT lung imaging (151-KiB PDF) in 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 3229-3232, October 2006, pmid:19194523
H. C. Gifford, A. Lehovich, M. A. King: A multiclass model observer for multislice-multiview images in 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 1687-1691, October 2006. pmid:19194524
J. E. McNamara, P. Bruyant, K. Johnson, B. Feng, A. Lehovich, S. Gu, M. A. Gennert, M. A. King: An assessment of a visual tracking system (VTS) to detect and compensate for patient motion during SPECT, in 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 3235-3238, October 2006.
A. Lehovich, H. H. Barrett, E. W. Clarkson, A. F. Gmitro: Estimability of spatio-temporal activation in fMRI (331-KiB PDF), in M. F. Insana and R. M. Leahy (eds.) Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2001 Proceedings), volume 2082 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 259-271, 2001. [Publisher's website]
G. S. Cunningham, A. Lehovich: 4D reconstructions from low-count SPECT data using deformable models with smooth interior intensity variations, in K. M. Hanson (ed.), Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing, volume 3979 of Proceedings of SPIE, pp. 564-574, 2000. doi:10.1117/12.387717 ads:2000SPIE.3979..564C
G. S. Cunningham, A. Lehovich, K. M. Hanson: Bayesian estimation of regularization parameters for deformable surface models, in K. M. Hanson (ed.), Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing, volume 3661 of Proceedings of SPIE, pp. 562-573, 1999. doi:10.1117/12.348612 ads:1999SPIE.3661..562C

Dissertation

In May 2005 I received a Ph. D. from University of Arizona. My dissertation, titled List-mode SPECT reconstruction using empirical likelihood (1.3-MiB PDF), was given the digital handle 10150/193793 by the university library.