Curriculum Vitae

D.B. Karron, Ph.D.

Revised as of2010-12-16

New York University Ph.D. 1993 Bio- PhD. 1993 Applied Science
Engineering
New York University M.S. 1988 Earth Systems M.S. 1988 Earth Systems Science
Science
New York University B.A. 1984 Physiological B.A 1984 Physiology Psychology
Psychology A. Positions and Honors

2010 - present Research Programming, Legal and Advocacy Writing.
2009 - 2010 Research Programmer, SDR (Strategic Data Retention, Legal Forensic Visualization and Ontology)
2005 -2008 Research Scientist, ATK (Weapons Bioeffects, Traumatic Brain Injury modeling)
2005 - present Patent Reviewer for National Expert Witness Network, LLC
2004 -2005 Columbia University, (DBMI) Department of Biomedical Informatics, Adjunct Professor ofBio-
Informatics. New program in biomedical imaging informatics.
1999-2002 City College of New York (CCNY), City University of New York (CUNY): Adjunct Professor
Computer Science: Bioinformatics Survey Class
1995 - Present C.T.O, Senior Partner Computer Aided Surgery and Informatics, LLC
1994 - 1996 Dept. of Surgery, NYU Medical Center Research Assistant Professor.
1993 - 1994 Dept. of Surgery, NYU Medical Center Research Associate, 3D Ultrasound for Computer Aided
Surgery
1993 - 1995 Neuromagnetism Lab. Center for Neural Science, NYU Postdoctoral Associate
1990 - 1993 NYU Dept. of Applied Science, Graduate Fellow
1991-1995 Dept. of Surgery, NYU Medical Center & Computer Network Consultant
1983 -1991 Inst. Of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Scientific Graphics Programmer and Computer system
administrator
1984 - 1990 Society for the Rehabilitation of the Facially Disfigured Database administrator
1982 - 1984 Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Computer systems analyst
1980 - 1982 Courant Institute, NYU Computer graphics programmer.
1975 - 1978 NYU Dept. of Experimental Psychology Technician and Student
1973 - 1974 Backster Research Foundation, Technician and Student Intern. D. B. Karron CV

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Peer-reviewed publications or manuscripts, conferences

(2010)

Powell, V. J. H.;Din, F. L.; Torres-Urquidy, M H.; Kowolik M J.; Farman, A G.; Glaizel, J;

Karron, D. B.; Bires, A.; Foreman,S.; Y Geist, S-M R; Geist, J R., (2010) Medical-Dental Clinical Data Integration for PACS. SlIM 2010 Annual Meeting: Value Innovation Through Imaging Informatics. httn:// www.siim2010.org/abstractsIPD Powell.html

(2009)

Digital Morse Theory (2009) Wikipedia Entry; httt>://en.wikipedia.org/wikilDigital Morse theoty

Karron, D. B. & Eisler, R. D. (2009) Traumatic brain injury biomarker diagnostic; U. S. Patent Application. http://www .freshpatents.coml-dt20090212ptan20090041830 .php; httt>:/ /www.freepatentsonline.coml 20090041830.pdf.

(2003)

Karron ,D " Early experience using Digital Morse Theory for Medical Image Segmentation at Computer Aided Surgery,lnc. "DIMACS Workshop on Medical Applications in Computational Geometry, 2003 http://dimacs.rutgers.eduIWorkshopslMedicalapps/abstracts.html#karron

Cox, J., L. Karron, D, "Topological Zone Segmentation of Scalar Volume Data" (2003) Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Volume 18, Number 2,95-117, DOI:I0.I023/A:I022113114311

P. Thiagarajan, J. Cox, M. Rothman and D. B. Karron: "Decoding a Digital Human, A Digital Morse Theory Index into Visible Human Dataset", Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2003

Cox, J., M. Rothman, F. Karron, "Development and Testing of An Algorithm and Its Implementation to Validate Digital Morse Methods for Biomedical Data" IEEE EBMS Annual Northeast BioEngineering Conference, 2003

(1999)

Karron, D.B. Cox, J.L.(1999) Digital Morse theory for anatomic modeling. BMESIEMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint. Oct 1999 Volume: 2 pages: 1179 Doi: 1O.1109/IEMBS.1999.804345

E. Jovanov, K. Wegner, V. Radivojevic, D. Starcevic, M. S. Quinn, and D. B. Karron.(1999) Tactical

Audio and Acoustic Rendering in Biomedical Applications. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY June 1999, Volume 03, Number 02 pp. 109-118; doi:10.1.1.143.4682 ..

(1998)

Jovanov, E.; Starcevic, D.; Wegner, Kristen; Karron, D.B.; Radivojevic, V. "Acoustic Rendering as Support for Sustained Attention during Biomedical Procedures." In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Glasgow, UK, Nov. 1-4, 1998; htm://www.icad.or~/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD98/ icad98programme.html

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(1997)

Potter, S.D.; Wegner, Kristen; Karron, D.B.; Hoffert, M.1. "(1997) Teleoperation Strategies for Exploring and Utilizing the Resources of Space." In Proceedings of the Space Studies Institute (SSI) Conference on Space Manufacturing, Princeton, NJ, May 8-11, http://ssLorg!ssi-conference-abstracts!space-manufacturing-11!

Wegner, Kristen and Karron, D.B. "Surgical Navigation Using Audio Feedback.(1997)" In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, San Diego, Jan. 1997, Amsterdam: lOS Press,.

Williamson, S.J.; Kaufman, L; Lu, Z.-L; Wang,J.-Z; Karron, D (1997) Study of human occipital alpha rhythm: the alphon hypothesis and alpha suppression. International Journal of Psychophysiology. Volume 26, Issues 1- 3, June 1997, Pages 63-76; doi:10.1016/S0167-8760(97)00756-3

(1995)

Karron, D. B., and Cox, J (1995) Extracting 3D objects from volume data using Morse Theory. COMPUTER VISION, VIRTUAL REALITY AND ROBOTICS IN MEDICINE

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1995, Volume 905/1995, 481-486, DOl: 1O.1007IBFb0034990

Lu,Z. -L., Wang, J. -Z., D. Karron, and Williamson,S. J. (1995) Support for the Alphon Hypothesis as a Description of Human Alpha in the MEG": Biomagnetism: Fundamental Research and Clinical Applications, Proceedings of the 3th International Conference on Biomagnetism,"

Studies in Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, Vol. 7, C. Baumgartner, L. Deeake, G. Stroink, and S. J. Williamson, Eds. (Elsavier and lOS Press, Amsterdam, 1995), pp. 296-298.

(1994)

Cansano, S; Williamson,S. J. Karron, D. B.; (1995) Tonotopic Organization of Human Auditory Association Cortex. Brain Research 663:38--50. doi:10.1016/0006-8993(94)90460-X

Karron, D. B., Cox, J., Mishra, B. (1994) New findings from the SpiderWeb algorithm: toward a digital Morse theory. Visualization in Biomedical Computing (VBC'94) 1994, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 2359, 643 (1994); doi:1O.1117/12.185226 htU>://dx.doi.org/10.1117112.185226

Cox, J.; Karron, D.; and Mishra, B. (1993) : The SpiderWeb Surface rendering algorithm. Innovation and Technology in Biology and Medicine (ITBM Volume 14, Number 6, Page 634 - 655. December 1993

Karron, D. (1993) Novel Surface Rendering and Object Registration Methods for Three Dimensional Medical Imaging: The "SpiderWeb" Surface Algorithm and the "Pointers" Technique for Integrating Multimodal Images. Ph.D. Dissertation. (1993)

Williamson, S., et al. Registration and Localization of "Alphons'' in Human Cortex, (1993) Recent Advances In Bio-magnetism. in 9th International Conference on Bio-magnetism .. Vienna.

(1992)

Karron, D. (1992) The "SpiderWeb" algorithm for surface construction in noisy volume data. NYU, Department of Robotics Technical Report.

Karron, D. (1991) A novel algorithm for calculating the closest approach of skew lines using singular value decomposition. NYU, Department of Robotics Technical Report.

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SpiderWeb algorithm for surface construction in noisy volume data (Proceedings Only) Karron, D. B. (1992) Proc. SPIE, Vol. 1808,462 (1992); doi:l0.1117112.131100

(1991)

Williamson, S.J., Z.-L. Lu, and D. Karron, Advantages and Limitations of Magnetic Source Imaging. Brain Topography, (1991). 4(2): p. 169-180, DOl: 10.1007IBFOI132773

(1988)

Cutting, Court B. and McCarthy, Joseph G. and Karron, D. B. (1988) Three--Dimensional Input of Body Surface Data Using a Laser Light Scanner, Annals of Plastic Surgery, 21:1 (July), Pages 38--45.

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~001- 2004 Principal Investigator, NIST/ATP Grant for image segmentation using Digital Morse Theory
as applied to cancer image-guided therapies. (Cooperative Agreement # 70NANBIH3050)
~OOO - 2001 Subcontractor PI, NIH VHP(Visible Human Project) NGI (Next Generation Internet) Project a
~ of Michigan.
1996 - 2000 !PI contractor, SBIR Phase I, II
PARP A ABMT (Advanced Battlefield Medical Treatment):
Audio Feedback for Surgical Tool
Positioning, Tactical Audio Displays
PARP A ACMP (Advanced Computational Mathematics Program):
Preliminary research on Digital Morse Theory (DMT) Patents

Patent Year Descrintion
6,083,163 2000 Surgical Navigation System and Method Using Audio Feedback. K. Wegner.
5,898,793 1999 System and Method for Surface Rendering of Internal Structures within the Interior of a
Solid Object. Karron, D.; Cox, James; and Mishra, B. Liti ti S

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Type of Matter: Expert Witness for Robotic surgery equipment & display technology
Law Firm: Levisohn, Lerner, Herger & Langsam LLC
Case Name: Brookhill-Wilk vs. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (2001), United States District Court,
Southern District, Civil Action 00CV6599
Services Provided: Engaged by Plaintiff's law firm to be an expert witness, Participated in meetings to
discuss technical issues, analyzed hardware & software. Type of Matter:

Prior Art Research for a Computer Graphics patent application

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Law Finn: Pennie & Edmonds
Case Name: Undisclosed
Services Provided: Engaged to advise on prior art research and evaluation for "Volumetric Interactive
Cursors" patent application, 6122/2001 Professional Affiliations, Achievements & Awards

1. The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications: Advisory Board Member

2. Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: Life Member

3. MICCAI Peer Reviewer

4. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Member # 01794395, (member since 1976).

5. American Institute of Physics (AlP), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), American Statistical Association (ASA), American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, (AlUM) Member Number 33084;

6. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member Number 3400660; ACM Special Interest Group for Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

7. Institute of Electrical And Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Member number M0273128;Engineering in

Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS); Signal Processing Society, Computer Society.

8. American Mathematical Association (AMS) Member number KRDNBA;

9. Mathematical Association of America (MAA). 10-year member.

10. New York Academy of Science (NY AS), Member Number 253961.

11. The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Member Number 358722.

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