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Kudo, Hiroyuki

Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Information and
Systems, University of Tsukuba
Editor in Chief, Journal “Medical Imaging Technology”

eRA COMMONS USER NAMEEDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE(if applicable)

YEAR(s)

B.Sc.
M.SC.
Ph.D.

1985
1987
1990

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanFIELD OF STUDYELECTRICAL ENG.
ELECTRICAL ENG.
ELECTRICAL ENG.

A. Professional experience
Positions and employment
1990-1992 Assistant Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
1992-1995 Full-Time Lecturer, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
1995-2009 Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
2009-present Professor, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
2011-present Editor in Chief, Journal “Medical Imaging Technology”
2015- present Vice President, JAMIT (Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology)
Professional services and other experience
1997-1998 Visiting Scientist, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
2000-2003 International Advisory Board, Journal “Physics in Medicine and Biology” (IOP Publishing)
2000-2008 Associate Editor, Journal “Medical Imaging Technology”
2009-present Board of Directors, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2011-present Editor in Chief, Journal "Medical Imaging Technology"
2015- present Vice President, JAMIT (Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology)
1995 Scientific Committee, 1995 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
1997 Scientific Committee, 1997 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
2000 Program Committee, 2000 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2001 Scientific committee, 2001 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
2001 Program Committee, 2001 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2002 Program Committee, 2002 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2003 Scientific Committee, 2003 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
2003 Program Committee, 2003 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2004 Program Committee, 2004 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2005 Chair, 2005 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
2005 Program Committee, 2005 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2006 Guest Editor, IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging (Special Issue on Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction)2007 Scientific Committee, 2007 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
2007 Program Committee, 2007 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference2008 Program Committee, 2008 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2009 Program Committee, International Forum of Medical Imaging in Asia 20092009 Scientific Committee, 10-th Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
2009 Program Committee, 2009 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference2010 Scientific Committee, The 1-st international meeting on image formation in x-ray computed tomography2010 Program Committee, 2010 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
2011 Program Committee, International Forum of Medical Imaging in Asia 2011
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2011
2011
2012
2012
2012
2013
2013
2014
2014
2015
2015
2015
2016
2016
2016

Scientific Committee, 11-th Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Program Committee, 2011 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
Scientific Committee, The 2-nd international meeting on image formation in x-ray computed tomography
Program Committee, 2012 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
Program Committee, International Forum of Medical Imaging in Asia 2012
Scientific Committee, 2013 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Program Committee, 2013 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
Scientific Committee, The 3-rd international meeting on image formation in x-ray computed tomography
Program Committee, 2014 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
Program Committee, International Forum of Medical Imaging in Asia 2015
Scientific Committee, 2015 Fully 3-D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Program Committee, 2015 EEE Medical Imaging Conference
Scientific Committee, The 4thnternational meeting on image formation in x-ray computed tomography
Program Committee, 2016 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
Program Committee, International Forum of Medical Imaging in Asia 2017

Professional memberships
Member: IEEE, SIAM
Vice President. JAMIT (Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology)
Fellow. IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communications Engineers)

B. Awards and honors
1990
1991
1991
1992
2002
2007
2007
2009
2009
2009
2009
2014
2014
2014

Best Paper Award, The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communications Engineers
Niwa Memorial Award, Tokyo Denki University
Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
Best Paper Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
Best Paper Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
Best Paper Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2006 High Lights of International Journal “Inverse Problems” (IOP Publishing)2008 High Lights of International Journal “Physics in Medicine and Biology” (IOP Publishing)2008 High Lights of International Journal “Inverse Problems” (IOP Publishing)
Best Paper Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
Premium Poster, 2009 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference
Best Conference Paper Award of Japanese Society of Computer Aided Surgery
Top 30 Cited Papers of International Journal “Inverse Problems” (IOP Publishing)
Fellow of IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communications Engineers) by the“Pioneering research achievements on cross-sectional image reconstruction methods in medical
computed tomography”(Awards to Lab’s Students)
1996 Noriko Miyagi, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2002 Meihua Li, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2005 Yuri Mameuda, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2008 Essam A. Rashed, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2008 Kyohei Yamamori, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2008 Motonari Mori, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2009 Tetsuya Kobayashi, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2012 Zhen Wang, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2012 Kazuaki Takahashi, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2012 Essam A. Rashed, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2013 Takahiro Tayama, Best Presentation Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology
2015 Fukashi Yamazaki, Best Presentation Award, IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information, andCommunications Engineers)
2016 Ryuuya Yasuda, Best Presentation Award, Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
2016 Yuuki Hayakawa, Best Presentation Award, Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
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C. Peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order, domestic papers are NOT included,
conference papers are NOT included)
1.

”Feasible cone beam scanning methods for exact reconstruction in three-dimensional tomography” Hiroyuki
Kudo and Tsuneo Saito, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol.7, No.12 ,pp.2169-2183 (1990)
2. “Sinogram recovery with the method of convex projections for limited-data reconstruction in computed
tomography” Hiroyuki Kudo and Tsuneo Saito, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol.8, No.7,
pp.1148-1160 (1991)
3. “Derivation and implementation of a cone-beam reconstruction algorithm for nonplanar orbits” Hiroyuki
Kudo and Tsuneo Saito, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol.13, No.1, pp.196-211 (1994)
4. “Fast and stable cone-beam filtered backprojection method for non-planar orbits” Hiroyuki Kudo andTsuneo Saito, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.43, No.4, pp.747-760 (1998)
5. “Three-dimensional monochromatic x-ray computed tomography using synchrotron radiation” Tsuneo Saito,
Hiroyuki Kudo, Tohru Takeda, Yuji Itai, Kenji Tokumori, Fukai Toyofuku, Kazuyuki Hyodo, Masami Ando,
Katsuyuki Nishimura, and Chikao Uyama, Optical Engineering, Vol.37, No.8, pp.2258-2268 (1998)
6. “Cone-beam filtered-backprojection algorithm for truncated helical data” Hiroyuki Kudo, Frederic Noo, andMichel Defrise, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.43, No.10, pp.2885-2909 (1998)
7. “Performance of quasi-exact cone-beam filtered backprojection algorithm for axially truncated helical data”
Hiroyuki Kudo, Sujin Park, Frederic Noo, and Michel Defrise, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol.46,
No.3, pp.608-617 (1999)
8. “A solution to the long-object problem in helical cone-beam tomography” Michel Defrise, Frederic Noo, andHiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.45, No.3, pp.623-643 (2000)
9. “Quasi-exact filtered backprojection algorithm for long-object problem in helical cone-beam tomography”
Hiroyuki Kudo, Frederic Noo, and Michel Defrise, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol.19, No.9,
pp.902-921 (2000)
10. “Fourier synthesis method for exact cone-beam reconstruction” Hiroyuki Kudo and Noriko Miyagi, Medical
Imaging Technology, Vol.19, No.5, pp.377-388 (2001)
11. “Rebinning-based algorithms for helical cone-beam CT” Michel Defrise, Frederic Noo, and Hiroyuki Kudo,
Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.46, No.11, pp.2911-2937 (2001)
12. “Image reconstruction from fan-beam projections on less than a short-scan” Frederic Noo, Michel Defrise,
Rolf Clackdoyle, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.47, No.14, pp.2525-2546 (2002)
13. “An accurate iterative reconstruction algorithm for sparse objects: application to 3-D blood-vessel
reconstruction from a limited number of projections” Meihua Li, Haiquan Yang, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Physics
in Medicine and Biology, Vol.47, No.15, pp.2599-2609 (2002)
14. “Subset-dependent relaxation in block-iterative algorithms for image reconstruction in emission
tomography” Eiichi Tanaka and Hiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.48, No.10,
pp.1405-1422 (2003)
15. “Improved two-dimensional rebinning of helical cone-beam computerized tomography data using John's
equation” Michel Defrise, Frederic Noo, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Inverse Problems, Vol.19, No.5, pp.S41-S54(2003)
16. “A new reconstruction strategy for image improvement in pinhole SPECT” Tsutomu Zeniya, Hiroshi Watabe,Toshiyuki Aoi, Kyeong Min Kim, Noboru Teramoto, Takuya Hayashi, Antti Sohlberg, Hiroyuki Kudo, andHidehiro Iida, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol.31, No.8, pp.1166-1172 (2004)
17. “Investigation of saddle trajectories for cardiac CT imaging in cone beam geometry” Jed D. Pack, Frederic
Noo, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.49, No.10, pp.2317-2336 (2004)
18. “Improved iterative algorithm for sparse object reconstruction and its performance evaluation with micro-CT
data” Meihua Li, Hiroyuki Kudo, Jicun Hu, and Roger H. Johnson, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science,
Vol.51, No.3, pp.659-666 (2004)
19. “Exact and approximate algorithms for helical cone-beam CT” Hiroyuki Kudo, Thomas Rodet, Frederic Noo,and Michel Defrise, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.49, No.13, pp.2913-2931 (2004)
20. “Image reconstruction theory for multislice x-ray computed tomography with a gantry tilt” Frederic Noo,
Michel Defrise, and Hiroyuki Kudo, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol.23, No.9, pp.1109-1116(2004)

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21. “Millimeter-wave scanning near-field anisotropy microscopy” Tatsuo Nozokido, Ryohei Iibuchi, Jongsuck
Bae, Koji Mizuno, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol.76, pp.033702-1～033702-6(2005)
22. “Exact cone beam reconstruction for a saddle trajectory” Haiquan Yang, Meihua Li, Kazuhito Koizumi, andHiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.51, No.5, pp.1157-1172 (2006)
23. “Statistical image reconstruction for transmission CT using row-action algorithms with subset-dependent
relaxation” Eiichi Tanaka and Hiroyuki Kudo, Medical Imaging Technology, Vol.24, No.2, pp.114-124 (2006)
24. “A FBP type cone-beam reconstruction algorithm with Radon space interpolation ability for axially truncateddata from a circular orbit” Haiquan Yang, Meihua Li, Kazuhito Koizumi, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Medical Imaging
Technology, Vol.24, No.3, pp.201-208 (2006)
25. “Truncated Hilbert transform and image reconstruction from limited tomographic data” Michel Defrise,Frederic Noo, Rolf Clackdoyle, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Inverse problems, Vol.22, No.3, pp.1037-1053 (2006)
26. “View independent reconstruction algorithms for cone beam CT with general saddle trajectory” Haiquan
Yang, Meihua Li, Kazuhito Koizumi, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.51, No.15,
pp.3865-3884 (2006)
27. “Tiny a priori knowledge solves the interior problem in computed tomography” Hiroyuki Kudo, Matias
Courdurier, Frederic Noo, and Michel Defrise, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.53, No.9, pp.2307-2331(2008)
28. “Analyzing cerebral blood-flow SPECT images for the diagnosis of dementia: a new approach FUSE”
Hiroyuki Kudo, Takashi Asada, and Tohoru Takeda, Medical Imaging Technology, Vol.26, No.3,
pp.169-174 (2008)
29. “Motion compensated fan-beam reconstruction for nonrigid transformation” Katsuyuki Taguchi and Hiroyuki
Kudo, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol.27, No.7, pp.907-917 (2008)
30. “Solving the interior problem of computed tomography using a priori knowledge” Matias Courdurier,Frederic Noo, Michel Defrise, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Inverse problems, Vol.24, No.6, Paper No. 065001 (2008)
31. “Intensity-based Bayesian framework for image reconstruction from sparse projection data” Essam A.
Rashed and Hiroyuki Kudo, Medical Imaging Technology, Vol.27, No.4, pp.243-251 (2009)
32. “Iterative region-of-interest reconstruction from truncated CT projection data under blind object support”
Essam A. Rashed and Hiroyuki Kudo, Medical Imaging Technology, Vol.27, No.5, pp.321-331 (2009)
33. “Optimal relaxation parameters of DRAMA (dynamic RAMLA) aiming at one-pass image reconstruction for
3D-PET” Eiichi Tanaka and Hiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.55, No.10, pp.1917-2939(2010)
34. “General fan-beam reconstruction algorithm for free-form trajectory with plus-minus weighting scheme”
Zhen Wang, Essam A. Rashed, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Medical Imaging Technology, Vol.29, No.5, pp.250-258(2011)
35. “Statistical image reconstruction from limited projection data with intensity priors” Essam A. Rashed andHiroyuki Kudo, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol.57, No.7, pp.2039-2061 (2012)
36. “Improved metal artifact reduction method for X-ray CT by reducing the effect of interpolation errors” Zhen
Wang and Hiroyuki Kudo, Medical Imaging Technology, Vol.30, No.4, pp.201-208 (2012)
37. “GPU-based PET image reconstruction using an accurate geometrical system mode” Shoko Kinouchi,
Taiga Yamaya, Eiji Yoshida, Hideaki Tashima, Hiroyuki Kudo, Hideaki Haneishi, and Mikio Suga, IEEE
Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol.59, No.5, pp.1977-1983 (2012)
38. “Towards a high-resolution synchrotron radiation imaging with statistical iterative reconstruction” Essam A.
Rashed and Hiroyuki Kudo, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol.20, pp.116-124 (2013)
39. “Near-field imaging of thermal radiation at low temperatures by passive millimeter-wave microscopy” Tatsuo
Nozokido, Manabu Ishino, Hiroyuki Kudo, and Jongsuck Bae, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol.84, No.3,
Paper No. 036103(3pages) (2013)
40. “Interior reconstruction in computed tomography using a priori knowledge outside the region of interest”
Zhen Wang and Hiroyuki Kudo, Medical Imaging Technology, Vol.31, No.2, pp.113-120 (2013)
41. “Image reconstruction for sparse-view CT and interior CT – introduction to compressed sensing anddifferentiated backprojection” Hiroyuki Kudo, Taizo Suzuki, and Essam A. Rashed, Quantitative Imaging in
Medicine and Surgery, Vol.3, No.3, pp.147-161 (2013)
42. “Restoration of lost frequency in OpenPET imaging: comparison between the method of convex projections
and the maximum likelihood expectation maximization method” Hideaki Tashima, Takayuki Katsunuma,
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Hiroyuki Kudo, Hideo Murayama, Takashi Obi, Mikio Suga, and Taiga Yamaya, Radiological Physics andTechnology, Vol.7, No.2, pp.329-339 (2014)
43. “An improved phase shift reconstruction algorithm of fringe scanning technique for x-ray microscopy”
Songzhe Lian, Haiquan Yang, Hiroyuki Kudo, Atsushi Momose, and Wataru Yashiro, Review of Scientific
Instruments, Vol.86, Paper No. 023707(7 pages) (2015)
44. “Sparsity-constrained three-dimensional image reconstruction for C-arm angiography” Essam A. Rashed,
Mohammad al-Shatoury, and Hiroyuki Kudo, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Vol.62, No., pp.141-163(2015)
45. “Extended block-lifting-based lapped transforms” Taizo Suzuki and Hiroyuki Kudo, IEEE Signal Processing
Letters, Vol.22, No.10, pp.1657-1660 (2015)
46. “2D non-separable block-lifting structure and its application to M-channel perfect reconstruction filter banks
for lossy-to-lossless image coding” Taizo Suzuki and Hiroyuki Kudo, IEEE Transactions on Image
Processing, Vol.24, No.12, pp.4943-4951 (2015)
47. “Probabilistic atlas prior for CT image reconstruction” Essam A. Rashed and Hiroyuki Kudo, Computer
Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol.128, No.5, pp.119-136 (2016)
D. Research Support (supports before 2005 are NOT included, only accepted grants applied as a leader
are listed, fundings from companies are NOT included). List selected or ongoing research projects (federal
and non-federal support). Begin with the projects that are most relevant to the research proposed in thisapplication. Briefly indicate the overall goals of the projects and responsibilities of principal investigator identified
above.
Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No.15300155 (Kudo)
Title: Conceptual design and image reconstruction for 4-D CT scanners

4/1/03-3/31/05 (finished)

Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No.16035202 (Kudo)
4/1/04 – 3/31/06 (finished)
Title: Fusion of MRI and SPECT for intelligent computer aided diagnosis of dementia
Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No.17032001 (Kudo)
4/1/06-3/31/07 (finished)
Title: Combining image generation and image processing for computer aided diagnosis of cerebral blood-flow
SPECT images
The Kurata Memorial Hitachi Science and Technology Foundation: (Kudo)
Title: Research on ultra low-dose CT using the region-of-interest imaging

4/1/08 – 3/31/09 (finished)

Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation: (Kudo)
Title: Design of patient-friendly next-generation CT scanners

4/1/08 – 3/31/09 (finished)

Terumo Lifescience Foundation: (Kudo)
Title: Research on ultra low-dose CT

4/1/08 – 3/31/09 (finished)

Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No. 21611001 (Kudo)
Title: Research on next generation ultra low-dose CT

4/1/09-3/31/12 (finished)

Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No. 22103502 (Kudo)
Title: Fusion of medical image construction and computer-aided-diagnosis

4/1/10-3/31/12 (finished)

Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No. 2200052 (Kudo)
4/1/10-3/31/12 (finished)
Title: New approach to cardiac CT imaging with low patient dose and high image quality
Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No. 24103702 (Kudo)
4/1/12-3/31/14 (finished)
Title: Highly advanced medical imaging based on computational anatomy model
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Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No. 24601004 (Kudo)
4/1/12-3/31/15 (finished)
Title: Development of PET image reconstruction algorithms for the age of multi-modality imaging
Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis (JST, Japan Science andTechnology Agency) (Hata,Furukawa,Kudo,Sato)
10/1/13-3/31/17 (active)
Title: Development of Real-Time Electron Tomography System for Material Science
JST Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO), Quantum-Beam Phase Imaging Project (JST,Japan Science and Technology Agency) (Kudo)
4/1/15-3/31/20 (active)
Title: Research on Image Analysis
Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (Japan): No. 15K06103 (Kudo)
4/1/15-3/31/18 (active)
Title: Construction of Fundamentals of Super Compressed Sensing and Applications to Various Tomographic
Imaging Modalities

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