Post-Doctoral Fellow
Image Processing and Informatics (IPI) Laboratory

Department of Radiology
University of Southern California, USA

Background:

Mr. Zhou has 6 years experience in researches and developments on PACS and Medical Imaging Informatics. He has developed a lossless digital signature embedding (LDSE) method for medical image integrity in his Ph.D. dissertation researches. The LDSE method provides a robust integrity assurance to image integrity and an ability to completely recover the original image. He also developed a HIPAA compliant auditing system for PACS. The auditing system can track the image data access events in PACS and generate a HIPAA compliant audit trails on image access for any specific patient. In addition, as one of main investigators in the Data Grid project, he designed the system integration and technical workflow for the Data Grid. He was involved in the development of PACS Simulator for PACS trainings, the Internet2 applications for medical images, and a fault-tolerant PACS archive server as well.

Research Interests:

His current interest is on medical image informatics, image security, HIPAA compliance, data grid, grid computing, and ePR

Ph.D. dissertation research on lossless digital signature embedding method for ensuring medical image integrity
Research and development of HIPAA compliant auditing system for medical images
Research and development of Data grid for clinical image backup archive using grid computing technology

Publications:

Z. Zhou, B.J. Liu, HIPAA compliant architecture for workflow auditing of medical imaging systems, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, accepted.

Z. Zhou, H.K. Huang, B.J. Liu, Digital signature embedding for medical image integrity in a data grid off-site backup archive, SPIE Medical Imaging 2005, accepted.

Z. Zhou, H.K. Huang, B.J. Liu, F. Cao, J. Zhang, M. Law, A RIS/PACS simulator with web-based image distribution and display system for education, SPIE medical imaging, vol. 5, pp. 372-381, 2004.

Z. Zhou, F. Cao, B.J. Liu, H.K. Huang, et al, Complete Continuous-Availability PACS archive server solution, SPIE Medical Imaging, vol. 4, pp. 499-507, 2003.

M.Y.Y. Law, Z. Zhou, New direction in PACS education and training, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 27, pp. 147-156. 2003.

J. Zhang, Z. Zhou, J. Zhuang, R.Han, et al, Design and implementation of picture archiving and communication system in Huadong hospital, SPIE medical imaging, vol. 2, pp. 73-82, 2001.