Robert Ledley

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Name: Robert Steven Ledley DDS

Elected ACMI Fellow: 1984. Morris Collen Award, 1999

Birthdate: 1926

Degrees: DDS 1947 Washington University

Current Position: President and Research Director, National Biomedical Research Foundation.

Current email: ledley@georgetown.edu

Current Organizations:

Selected Publications:

RPW: a hybrid reverse prediction method for level of detail.
Wang S, Dong Z, Ledley RS.
Comput Med Imaging Graph. 2007 Dec;31(8):679-85.
PMID: 17913457

Comments from the Editor- in- Chief on "Understanding velocity of sound in trab\
ecular bone via computer simulations" [Comput Biol Med 36th (2006) 439-447].
Ledley RS.
Comput Biol Med. 2007 Sep;37(9):1366. Epub 2007 Feb 23. No abstract available.
PMID: 17320851

The story behind the development of the first whole-body computerized tomograph\
y scanner as told by Robert S. Ledley.
Sittig DF, Ash JS, Ledley RS.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Sep-Oct;13(5):465-9. Epub 2006 Jun 23. No abstract \
available.
PMID: 16799115

Processing X-ray images to eliminate irrelevant structures that mask important \
features.
Dong Z, Ledley RS.
Comput Med Imaging Graph. 2004 Sep;28(6):321-31.
PMID: 15294310

PIRSF: family classification system at the Protein Information Resource.
Wu CH, Nikolskaya A, Huang H, Yeh LS, Natale DA, Vinayaka CR, Hu ZZ, Mazumder R, Kumar S, Kourtesis P, Ledley RS, Suzek BE, Arminski L, Chen Y, Zhang J, Carde\
nas JL, Chung S, Castro-Alvear J, Dinkov G, Barker WC.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D112-4.
PMID: 14681371

The Protein Information Resource.
Wu CH, Yeh LS, Huang H, Arminski L, Castro-Alvear J, Chen Y, Hu Z, Kourtesis P, Ledley RS, Suzek BE, Vinayaka CR, Zhang J, Barker WC.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jan 1;31(1):345-7.
PMID: 12520019

The Protein Information Resource: an integrated public resource of functional annotation of proteins.
Wu CH, Huang H, Arminski L, Castro-Alvear J, Chen Y, Hu ZZ, Ledley RS, Lewis KC, Mewes HW, Orcutt BC, Suzek BE, Tsugita A, Vinayaka CR, Yeh LS, Zhang J, Barker WC.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Jan 1;30(1):35-7.
PMID: 11752247

Books

Cross-sectional anatomy : an atlas for computerized tomography, 1977

Digital computer and control engineering, 1960

Engineering analysis of dental forces; theory and application, 1969

Fortran IV programming, 1966

Programming and utilizing digital computers,  1962

Use of computers in biology and medicine, 1965

Report on the Use of Computers in Biology and Medicine by Robert Steven Ledley, 2010

Pictorial Pattern Recognition: Proceedings of Symposium on Automatic Photointerpretation by George C. and Robert S. Ledley, Donald K. Pollock, Azriel Rosenfeld /editors Cheng 1968

Opportunities in Medical Imaging Careers (Opportunities in . . . Series) by Clifford J. Sherry and Robert S. Ledley 2000

Control Engineering. by Robert Steven Ledley, 1960

Pattern Recognition: The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society Volume 30, No. 1, Robert S. (editor) Ledley and B/w, 1997

Pattern Recognition: The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society Volume 29, No. 9,  Robert S. (editor) Ledley and B/w 1996

Pattern Recognition: The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society - bound annual set of volumes (6-12, 16, 17, 19, & 20) by Robert Ledley 1974

Pattern Recognition: The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society Volume 30, No. 3 Robert S. (editor) Ledley and B/w  1997

Pattern Recognition: The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society Volume 28, No. 11 Robert S. (editor) Ledley and B/w  1995

Pattern Recognition: The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society Volume 29, No. 12 Robert S. (editor) Ledley and B/w  1996
 
Pattern Recognition: The Journal of the Pattern Recognition Society Volume 30, No. 7: Robert S. (editor) Ledley and B/w, 1997

Honors and Awards: Inventor Hall of Fame inductee, 1990; Elected IOM 1999

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Sources: Morris Collen Award bio