Ricky K. Taira, Assistant Professor

Ricky K. Taira is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Radiological Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA in 1982 and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1988.

After receiving his Ph.D., Professor Taira held a postdoctoral position in the Medical Imaging Division at UCLA from 1988 to 1989. In 1989 he became a Visiting Assistant Professor of the Department of Radiological Sciences, and then an Assistant Professor of the same department later that year.

Professor Taira received the Sylvia Greenfield Award in Medical Physics in 1978 from the UCLA Department of Radiological Sciences. In 1988, he won the Ralph and Marjorie Crump Award from the Crump Institute for Medical Engineers, the James T. Case Award from the UCLA Department of Radiological Sciences, and the first place award in the pre-doctoral student paper competition of the Society of Computer Applications in Medical Care.

He is currently a member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the Society of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

Selected List of Publications

B. K. Stewart, D. R. Aberle, M. I. Boechat, Z. Barbaric, R. K. Taira, J. W. Sayre, S. J. Dywer III. ``Clinical Utilization of Grayscale Workstations,'' IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 11(1):86-102, 1993.

A. F. Cárdenas, I. T. Ieong, R. K. Taira, R. Barker, C. M. Breant. ``The Knowledge-Based Object- Oriented PICQUERY+ Language,'' IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, August 1993.

C. M. Breant, R. K. Taira, H. K. Huang. ``Interfacing Aspects Between the Picture Archiving Communication Systems, Radiology Information Systems, and Hospital Information Systems,'' Journal of Digital Imaging, 6(2):88-94, 1993.

M. F. McNitt-Gray, R. K. Taira, S. L. Johnson, M. Razavi. ``An Automatic Method for Enhancing the Display of Different Tissue Densities in Digital Chest Radiographs,'' Journal of Digital Imaging, 6(2):95-104, 1993.

H. K. Huang, R. K. Taira, S. L. Lou, et. al. ``Implmentation of a Large-Scale Picture Archiving and Communication System,'' Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 17(1):1-11, 1993.

M. Razavi, J. W. Sayre, R. K. Taira, M. Simons, H. K. Huang, K. S. Chuang, G. Rahbar, and H. Kangarloo. ``Receiver-Operating-Characteristic Study of Chest Radiographs in Children: Digital Hard-Copy Film vs 2K x 2K Soft-Copy Images,'' American Journal of Roentgenology, 158:443-448, 1992.

H. K. Huang and R. K. Taira. ``Infrastructure Design of a Picture Archiving and Communication System,'' American Journal of Roentgenology, 158:743-749, 1992.

K. K. Chan and R. K. Taira. ``Systems Integration for PACS,'' Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 15(3):177-181, 1991.

R. K. Taira, B. K. Stewart, and U. Sinha. ``PACS Database Architecture and Design,'' Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 15(3):171-176, 1991.

H. K. Huang, P. S. Cho, R. K. Taira, B. K. T. Ho, and K. K. Chan. ``Picture Archiving and Communication Systems in Japan: 3 Years Later,'' American Journal of Roentgenology, 154:415-417, 1990.

Y. Ishimitsu, K. Arai, R. K. Taira, and H. K. Huang. ``Radiological Laser Film Scanner Sampling Artifact,'' Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 14(1):25-33, 1990.

H. K. Huang, H. Kangarloo, P. S. Cho, R. K. Taira, B. K. T. Ho, K. K. Chan. ``Planning a Totally Digital Radiology Department,'' American Journal of Roentgenology, 154:635-639, 1990.

R. K. Taira and H. K. Huang. ``A Picture Archiving and Communication System Module for Radiology,'' Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 30:229-237, 1989.

R. B. Dietrich, W. G. Bradley, E. J. Zaragoza, R. J. Otto, R. K. Taira, G. H. Wilson, and H. Kangarloo. ``MR Evaluation of Early Myelination Patterns in Normal and Developmentally Delayed Infants,'' American Journal of Neuroradiology, 9:69-76, 1988.

N. J. Mankovich, R. K. Taira, P. S. Cho, and H. K. Huang. ``Operational Radiologic Image Archive on Digital Optical Disks,'' Radiology, 167:139-142, 1988.

R. K. Taira, N. J. Mankovich, H. Kangarloo, and H. K. Huang. ``Design and Implementation of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) for Pediatric Radiology,'' American Journal of Roentgenology, 150:1117-1121, 1988.

H. K. Huang, N. J. Mankovich, R. K. Taira, P. S. Cho, B. K. Stewart, B. K. T. Ho, K. K. Chan, and Y. Ishimitsu. ``Picture Archiving and Communication Systems for Biomedical Images: State-of-the-Art,'' in CRC Critical Reviews in Diagnostic Imaging, Y. Wang, J. Edeiken, M. K. Loken (eds.), CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 28(4):383-427, 1988.

S. C. B. Lo, R. K. Taira, N. J. Mankovich, H. K. Huang, and H. Takeuchi. ``Performance Characteristics of a Laser Scanner and Laser Printer System for Radiological Imaging,'' Computerized Radiology, 10(5), 1986.

H. Kangarloo, R. B. Dietrich, R. K. Taira, R. H. Gold, C. Lenarsky, M. I. Boechat, S. A. Feig, and I. Salusky. ``MR Imaging of Bone Marrow in Children,'' Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 10(2), 1986.

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