Fusheng Wang, PhD

Fusheng Wang is a senior research scientist at Center for Comprehensive Informatics and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University.  He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004, and his M.S. and B.S. in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University, China, in 1997 and 1994 respectively. Prior to joining Emory University, he was a research scientist at Siemens Corporate Research from 2004-2009. His research interests include heterogeneous biomedical data management and integration, temporal and spatial data management, high performance data management systems, RFID and sensor data management, and data standardization. He is a senior member of the international society for optics and photonics (SPIE) for achievements in medical imaging informatics, data management and data standardization, and radio frequency identification technology.

Past projects include ArchIS temporal database system, Siemens RFID middleware, Siemens SciPortTM scientific data management platform, caBIG algorithm validation toolkit (AVT), and caBIG xService XML data integration system. He is currently leading the research and development of the Pathology Analytical Imaging Standards (PAIS) project to provide high-performance data management for large scale analyses for whole slide digital pathology datasets. Dr. Wang also establishes and teaches an interdisciplinary course “Advanced Database Systems”, a senior graduate course focusing on interdisciplinary technologies and research areas related to medical imaging informatics, translational research informatics and advanced database management systems.

Dr. Wang published more than fifty peer reviewed journal articles, conference papers and book chapters, in the areas of medical imaging informatics, RFID, data management and physics. He also holds three US patents.

Publications:

Peer Reviewed Conference and Journal Publications, and Book Chapters:

1. J. Kong, L. Cooper, C. Moreno, F. Wang, T. Kurc, J. Saltz, and D. Brat: In Silico Analysis of Nuclei in Glioblastoma using Large-scale Microscopy Images Improves Prediction of Treatment Response. To appear in EMBC 2011.

2. F. Wang, et. al.: Data Model and Database for High-resolution Pathology Analytical Image Informatics. In press. Journal of Pathology Informatics.

3. D. J. Foran, L. Yang, W. Chen, J. Hu, L. A. Goodell, M. Reiss, F. Wang, T. Kurc, T. Pan, A. Sharma and J. H. Saltz: ImageMiner: Comparative Analysis of Tissue Microarrays Using Content-based Image Retrieval, High-Performance Computing, and Grid Technology. In press. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMA).

4. R. Lee, T. Luo, F. Wang, Y. He, Y. Huai, X. Zhang: YSmart: Yet Another SQL-to-MapReduce Translator. To appear in Proc. of the 31st Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), June 20-24, 2011. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Best paper award)

5. L. Cooper, J. Kong, F. Wang, T. Kurc, C. S. Moreno, D. J. Brat, J. H. Saltz: Integrative Studies of Morphological and Genomic Correlates in Gliomablastoma Tumors. In Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011). Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2011.

6. J. Kong, L. Cooper, F. Wang, C. Chisolm, C. Moreno, T. Kurc, P. Widener, D. Brat, J. Saltz: A Comprehensive Framework for Classification of Nuclei in Digital Microscopy Imaging: An Application to Diffuse Gliomas. To appear in Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2011). Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2011.

7. F. Wang, R. Lee, X. Zhang and J. Saltz: Towards Building High Performance Medical Image Management System for Clinical Trials. To appear in Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, Orland, Florida, USA, Feb 12-17, 2011.

8. J. Gardner, L. Xiong, F. Wang, A. Post and J. Saltz. An Evaluation of Feature Sets and Sampling Techniques for De-identification of Medical Records. In Proc. of 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium. Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 11-12, 2010.

9. T. Kurc, P. Widener, W. Chen, F. Wang, et. al.: Grid-Enabled, High-performance Microscopy Image Analysis. In Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on High-Performance Medical Image Computing for Image-Assisted Clinical Intervention and Decision-Making (HP-MICCAI2010). Beijing, China, September 24, 2010.

10. F. Wang, T. Pan, T. Kurc, A. Sharma, J. H. Saltz, W. Chen, V. Chu, J. Hu, L. Yang and D. J. Foran: Modeling and Managing Annotation and Markup for Pathology and Microscopy Images. Poster paper. In Proc. of AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium. Washington DC, November 13-17, 2010.

11. L. Cooper, J. Kong, D. Gutman, F. Wang, S. Cholleti, T. Pan, P. Widener, A. Sharma, T. Mikkelsen, A. Flanders, D. Rubin, E. V. Meir, T. Kurc, C. Moreno, D. Brat, J. Saltz. An Integrative Approach for In Silico Glioma Research. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Letters, 2010 Oct;57(10):2617-21.

12. F. Wang, T. Kurc, P. Widener, T. Pan, J. Kong, L. Cooper, D. Gutman, A. Sharma, S. Cholleti, V. Kumar, J. Saltz: High-performance Systems for In Silico Microscopy Imaging Studies. In Proc. of Seventh International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2010), Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, 2010.

13. F. Wang, P. Liu and J. Pearson: SciPort: An Extensible Data Management Platform for Biomedical Research. Book Chapter. "Database Technology for Life Sciences and Medicine", by World Scientific Publishing, 2010.

14. F. Wang and P. Liu: Temporal and Location Based RFID Data Management and Processing. Book Chapter. "Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global RFID Networks", by Springer-Verlag, 2010.

15. F. Wang, S. Liu and P. Liu: A Temporal RFID Data Model for Querying Physical Objects. Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 382-397.

16. F. Wang et. al., Managing and Querying Image Annotation and Markup in XML. In Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, 13 - 18 February 2010.

17. F. Wang, S. Liu and P. Liu: Complex RFID Event Processing. The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ). Volume 18, Number 4 / August, 2009.

18. F. Wang, P. Hussels, Securely and flexibly sharing a biomedical data management system. In Proc of SPIE Medical Imaging 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 7-12, 2009, 2009.

19. F. Wang, C. Zaniolo and X. Zhou: ArchIS: An XML-Based Approach to Transaction-Time Temporal Database Systems. The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases. Volume 17, Number 6 / November, 2008.

20. F. Wang, C. Vergara-Niedermayr, Collaboratively Sharing Scientific Data. In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom'08). Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008.

21. F. Wang and C. Zaniolo: Temporal Queries and Version Management for XML Document Archives. Submitted for Journal Publication. Data & Knowledge Engineering, Volume 65, Issue 2, May 2008, Pages 304-324.

22. T. Xia, F. Wang, P. Liu, and S. Palanivelu: Flexible Multi-Dimensional Indexing Server for Searching Non-Textual Diagnostic Annotations. In Proc. Of IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2008), March 17-19, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria.

23. F. Wang, et al.: An Adaptable XML Based Approach for Scientific Data Management and Integration. In Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging 2008, San Diego, California, USA, February 16-21, 2008.

24. F. Wang, C. Rabsch and P. Liu: Native Web Browser Enabled SVG-based Collaborative Multimedia Annotation for Medical Images. In Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), April 7-12, 2008, Cancun, Mexico.

25. F. Wang, C. Rabsch and P. Liu: Using SVG to Model and Query Image Annotations and their History. In Proc. Of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine 2007 (BIBM'07), San Jose, USA, November 2-4, 2007.

26. F. Wang, P. Bourgue, G. Hackenberg, M. Wang, D. Kaltschmidt, C. Rabsch, P. Kling, G. Madlmayr, P. Liu, J. Pearson and J. Carpinelli: SciPort: An Adaptable Scientific Data Integration Platform for Collaborative Scientific Research. Demo paper. In Proc. of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2007), Vienna, Austria, September 23-28, 2007.

27. T. Xia, F. Wang, P. Liu: Managing and Searching Distributed Multidimensional Annotations with Large Scale Image Data. In International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM'07). WeiHai, China, June 30-July 1 2007.

28. S. Liu, F. Wang, P. Liu: Integrated RFID Data Modeling for Querying Physical Objects in RFID-enabled Pervasive Computing. In Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07). Mannheim, Germany, May 7 - 11, 2007.

29. F. Wang, C. Rabsch, P. Kling, P. Liu and J. Pearson: Web-based Collaborative Information Integration for Scientific Research. In Proc. of 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2007). Istanbul, Turkey; April 17-20, 2007.

30. Y. Bai, F. Wang, P. Liu and S. Liu: RFID Data Processing with a Data Stream Query Language. In Proc. of 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2007). Istanbul, Turkey; April 17-20, 2007.

31. F. Wang, X. Zhou and C. Zaniolo: Bridging Relational Database History and the Web: the XML Approach. In the 8th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'06), Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 10, 2006.

32. S. Liu, F. Wang, P. Liu: Integrated RFID Data Modeling: An Approach for Querying Physical Objects in Pervasive Computing. Poster Paper. In Proc. of the ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'06).

33. Y. Bai, F. Wang, P. Liu: Efficiently Filtering RFID Data Streams. In Proc. of the First International VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases (CleanDB'06).

34. X. Zhou, F. Wang and C. Zaniolo: Efficient Temporal Coalescing Query Support in Relational Database Systems . In Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'06), Krakow, Poland, September, 2006.

35. F. Wang, S. Liu, P. Liu and Y. Bai, Bridging Physical and Virtual Worlds: Complex Event Processing for RFID Data Streams. In 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'2006), Munich, Germany, March, 2006.

36. F. Wang, P. Liu, J. Pearson, F. Azar and G. Madlmayr, Experiment Management with Metadata-based Integration for Collaborative Scientific Research.. In 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2006), April 3-7, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2006.

37. F. Wang, X. Zhou and C. Zaniolo, Using XML to Build Efficient Transaction-Time Temporal Database Systems on Relational Databases. Poster Paper. In 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2006), April 3-7, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2006.

38. F. Wang, C. Zaniolo, An XML-Based Approach to Publishing and Querying the History of Databases. In World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, Kluwer, Vol 8(3), November, 2005. p233 - 259.

39. F. Wang and P. Liu, Temporal Management of RFID Data. In Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'05). Trondheim, Norway, August 30-September 2, 2005. p1128-1139.

40. F. Wang, C. Zaniolo, and X. Zhou, Temporal XML? SQL Is Fighting Back! In Proc. of the 12th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'2005), Burlington, Vermont, USA, June 23-25, 2005. p47-55.

41. F. Wang, C. Zaniolo and X. Zhou, Version Management and Historical Queries in Digital Libraries. Poster Paper, in Proc. of the 12th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'2005), Burlington, Vermont, USA, June 23-25, 2005. p207-209.

42. F. Wang, C. Zaniolo, X. Zhou and H. J. Moon, Managing Multi-Version Documents Historical Databases: a Unified Solution Based on XML. Demo Paper, in Proc. of the 8th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB'2005), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 16-17, 2005. p151-153.

43. F. Wang and C. Zaniolo, XBiT: an XML-based Bitemporal Data Model. In Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling(ER'2004), Shanghai, China, November, 2004. p810-824.

44. F. Wang and X. Zhou and C. Zaniolo: Temporal Information Management with XML. Demo Paper, in Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling(ER'2004), Shanghai, China, November, 2004.

45. F. Wang and C. Zaniolo, Publishing and Querying the Histories of Archived Relational Databases in XML. In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2003), Roma, Italy, December 2003. p93-102.

46. F. Wang and C. Zaniolo, Representing and Querying the Evolution of Databases and their Schemas in XML. In Proc. of the Fifteenth International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2003), San Francisco Bay, CA, USA, July 1-3, 2003. p33-38.

47. F. Wang and C. Zaniolo, Temporal Queries in XML Document Archives and Web Warehouses. In Proc. of the 10th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning and 4th International Conference on Temporal Logic (TIME-ICTL'2003), Queensland, Australia, July 2003. p47-55.

48. F. Wang and C. Zaniolo, Preserving and Querying Histories of XML-Published Relational Databases. In Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management (ECDM02) (held in conjunction with ER'02), Tampere, Finland, October 2002. p26-38.

Publications on Physics:

49. Y. Wu, Q. Li, F. Wang: LINE ACC/PC Analysis of the Accelerators for Large Customs Container Inspection Systems. Journal of Tsinghua University, China, 2002(S1).

50. F. Wang, Q. Li, Y. Ma, H. Zhang: Ion Lens Program and its Application. Journal of Tsinghua University, China, Vol.40 (No.6), Jun, 2000.

51. Q. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Tong, F. Wang, Simulating Calculation of Electronic Gun in 9 MeV Travelling Wave Linear Accelerator. Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), Vol.38 (No.11), Tsinghua Univ, China, November 1998.

52. F. Wang, An Ion Beam Device for Outer Space Environment Simulation. Master Thesis, Tsinghua University, China, July, 1997.

53. F. Wang and other members of "9MeV Electron Accelerator" Development Group: A 9 MeV Electron Linac for Large Container Real-time Inspection System Used at the Customs. In Proc. of the 14th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, Dallas, USA, November, 1996.

54. Q. Li, Y. Zhou, Y. Liu, F. Wang, W. Liu: 270 Degrees Bending Magnet System for 14 MeV Medical Electron LINAC. Journal of Tsinghua University, Vol.36 (No.6), Tsinghua Univ, China, June 1996.

55. Q. Li, L. Li, F. Wang: An Ir-Ce Alloy Cathode Impregnated with Scandate. Development and Application of Materials, Vol. 11 (No.2), China, April 1996.

56. Q. Li, Y. Liu, F. Wang: Magnetic Field Design and Measurement of the Focusing Coils of an Electron LINAC for Custom Container Inspection System. Atomic Energy Science and Technology, Vol.29 (No.5), China, September, 1995.

US Patents:

1. F. Wang: Collaborative Data and Knowledge Integration. US Patent pending. USPTIO Application No. US 2009/0070350 A1.

2. F. Wang, S. Liu and P. Liu: Method and Apparatus for Complex RFID Event Processing. US Patent No. 7,668,794.

3. F. Wang and P. Liu, Systems, Devices, and Methods for Managing RFID Data. United States Patent No. 7,481,368.