Sebastian A. Kurtek

Professor

Department of Statistics

The Ohio State University


   

Contact Information:

Office: CH 440B
Telephone #: (614) 292-0463
E-mail: kurtek.1@stat.osu.edu

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Journal Publications









Please see my CV for a full list of publications, including conference proceedings, workshop proceedings and book chapters. I am happy to provide copies of any of my publications upon request.







           
       

       


       



        2023

  • D. Angeles, S. Kurtek, E. Klein, M. Brinkman, A. Ferketich, "Geometric Framework for Statistical Analysis of Eye Tracking Heat Maps, with Application to a Tobacco Waterpipe Study," Journal of Applied Statistics, Accepted for Publication, 2023. Link
  • S. Mohammed, S. Kurtek, K. Bharath, A. Rao, V. Baladandayuthapani, "Tumor Radiogenomics with Bayesian Layered Variable Selection," Medical Image Analysis, vol. 90, pp. 102964, 2023. Link
  • R. Friji, F. Chaieb, H. Drira, S. Kurtek, "Geometric Deep Neural Network Using Rigid and Non-rigid Transformations for Landmark-based Human Behavior Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 13314-13327, 2023. Link
  • Y. Lu, R. Herbei, S. Kurtek, "Bayesian Function Registration with Random Truncation," PLOS ONE, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. e0287734, 2023. Link
  • X. Guo, K. Bharath, S. Kurtek, "Spatially Penalised Registration of Multivariate Functional Data," Spatial Statistics, vol. 56, pp. 100760 2023. Link
        2022


  • H. Laga, M. Padilla, I.H. Jermyn, S. Kurtek, M. Bennamoun, A. Srivastava, "4D Atlas: Statistical Analysis of the Spatio-temporal Variability in Longitudinal 3D Shape Data," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 1335-1352, 2022. Link
  • X. Guo, S. Kurtek, K. Bharath, "Variograms for Kriging and Clustering of Spatial Functional Data with Phase Variation," Spatial Statistics, vol. 55, pp. 100687, 2022. Link
  • M.H. Cho, S. Kurtek, K. Bharath, "Tangent Functional Canonical Correlation Analysis for Densities and Shapes, with Applications to Multimodal Imaging Data", Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol. 189, pp. 104870, 2022. Link
  • T. Deregnaucourt, C. Samir, S. Kurtek, A.-F. Yao, "Shape-constrained Surface Reconstruction and Multimodal, Non-rigid Image Registration," Journal of Applied Statistics, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1865-1889, 2022. Link
  • J. Matuk, R. Herbei, S. Kurtek, "Bayesian Registration of Functions," Wiley StatsRef-Statistics Reference Online, 2021. Link
  • J. Strait, O. Chkrebtii, S. Kurtek, "Parallel Tempering Strategies for Model-based Landmark Detection on Shapes," Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 1415-1435, 2022. Link
  • J. Matuk, K. Bharath, O. Chkrebtii, S. Kurtek, "Bayesian Framework for Simultaneous Registration and Estimation of Noisy, Sparse and Fragmented Functional Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 117, no. 540, pp. 1964-1980, 2022. Link
        2021

  • S. Mohammed, K. Bharath, S. Kurtek, A. Rao, V. Baladandayuthapani, "RADIOHEAD: Radiogenomic Analysis Incorporating Tumor Heterogeneity in Imaging Through Densities," Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 1808-1830, 2021. Link
  • M.H. Cho, S.N. MacEachern, S. Kurtek, "Aggregated Pairwise Classification of Statistical Shapes," Annals of Applied Statistics, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 619-637, 2021. Link
  • G.J. Matthews, K. Bharath, S. Kurtek, J.K. Brophy, G.K. Thiruvathukal, O. Harel, "Shape-based Classification of Partially Observed Curves, with Applications to Anthropology," Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, vol. 7, pp. 70, 2021. Link
  • G. Qadir, Y. Sun, S. Kurtek, "Estimation of Spatial Deformation for Non-stationary Processes via Variogram Alignment," Technometrics, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 548-561, 2021. Link
  • J. Matuk, R. Herbei, S. Kurtek, "Bayesian Registration of Functions," Wiley StatsRef-Statistics Reference Online, 2021. Link
        2020

  • K. Bharath, S. Kurtek, "Distribution on Warp Maps for Alignment of Open and Closed Curves," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 115, no. 531, pp. 1378-1392, 2020. Link
  • T. Needham, S. Kurtek, "Simplifying Transforms for General Elastic Metrics on the Space of Plane Curves," SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 445-473, 2020. Link
  • W. Xie, O. Chkrebtii, S. Kurtek, "Visualization and Outlier Detection for Multivariate Elastic Curve Data," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 26, pp. 3353-3364, 2020. Link
  • J.D. Tucker, J.R. Lewis, C. King, S. Kurtek, "A Geometric Approach for Computing Tolerance Bounds for Elastic Functional Data," Journal of Applied Statistics, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 481-505, 2020. Link
  • K. Bharath, S. Kurtek, "Analysis of Shape Data: From Landmarks to Elastic Curves," WIREs Computational Statistics, vol. 12, no. 3, e1495, 2020. Link
  • A. Saha, K. Bharath, S. Kurtek, "A Geometric Variational Approach to Bayesian Inference," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 115, no. 530, pp. 822-835, 2020. Link
        2019

  • J. Strait, O. Chkrebtii, S. Kurtek, "Automatic Detection and Uncertainty Quantification of Landmarks on Elastic Curves," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 114, no. 527, pp. 1002-1017, 2019. Link
  • M.H. Cho, A. Asiaee, S. Kurtek, "Elastic Statistical Shape Analysis of Biological Structures with Case Studies: A Tutorial," Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 81, no. 7, pp. 2052-2073, 2019. Link
  • A. Saha, S. Kurtek, "Geometric Sensitivity Measures for Bayesian Nonparametric Density Estimation Models," Sankhya A, vol. 81, no. 1, pp. 104-143, 2019. Link
        2018

  • K. Bharath*, S. Kurtek*, A.U.K. Rao, V. Baladandayuthapani (*indicates equal contribution), "Radiologic Image-based Statistical Shape Analysis of Brain Tumours," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 1357-1378, 2018. Link
        2017

  • Y. Lu, R. Herbei, S. Kurtek, "Bayesian Registration of Functions with a Gaussian Process Prior," Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 894-904, 2017. Link
  • R. Meng, S. Saade, S. Kurtek, B. Berger, C. Brien, K. Pillen , M. Tester, Y. Sun, "Growth Curve Registration for Evaluating Salinity Tolerance in Barley," Plant Methods, vol. 13, no. 1, 2017. Link
  • S. Kurtek, "A Geometric Approach to Pairwise Bayesian Alignment of Functional Data Using Importance
    Sampling
    ," Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 502-531, 2017. Link
  • W. Xie, S. Kurtek, K. Bharath, Y. Sun, "A Geometric Approach to Visualization of Variability in Functional
    Data
    ," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 112, no. 519, pp. 979-993, 2017. Link
  • J. Strait, S. Kurtek, E. Bartha, S. MacEachern, "Landmark-Constrained Elastic Shape Analysis of Planar
    Curves
    ," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 112, no. 518, pp. 521-533, 2017. Link
        2016

  • A. Saha, S. Banerjee, S. Kurtek, S. Narang, G. Rao, J. Martinez, K. Bharath, A.U.K. Rao, V. Baladandayuthapani, "DEMARCATE: Density-based Magnetic Resonance Image Clustering for Assessing Tumor Heterogeneity in Glioblastoma," NeuroImage: Clinical, vol. 12, pp. 132-143, 2016. Link
  • S. Kurtek, Q. Xie, C. Samir, M. Canis, "Statistical Model for Simulation of Deformable Elastic Endometrial Tissue Shapes," Neurocomputing, vol. 173, no. 1, pp. 36-41, 2016. Link

        2015

  • S. Kurtek, K. Bharath, "Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis with Fisher-Rao Metric," Biometrika, vol. 102, no. 3, pp. 601-616, 2015. Link
  • S. Kurtek, H. Drira, "A Comprehensive Statistical Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of 3D Faces," Computers and Graphics (Special Issue of Shape Modeling International 2015), vol. 51, pp. 52-59, 2015. Link
        2014

  • J.O. Ramsay, P. Gribble, S. Kurtek, "Description and Processing of Functional Data Arising from Juggling Trajectories," Special Section, Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1811-1816, 2014. Link
  • J.O. Ramsay, P. Gribble, S. Kurtek, "Analysis of Juggling Data: Landmark and Continuous Registration of Juggling Trajectories," Special Section, Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1835-1841, 2014. Link
  • S. Kurtek, Q. Xie, A. Srivastva, "Analysis of Juggling Data: Alignment, Extraction, and Modeling of Juggling Cycles," Special Section, Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1865-1873, 2014. Link
  • Q. Xie, S. Kurtek, A. Srivastava, "Analysis of AneuRisk65 Data: Elastic Shape Registration of Curves," Special Section, Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 1920-1929, 2014. Link
  • H. Laga, S. Kurtek, A. Srivastava, S.J. Miklavcic, "Landmark-free Statistical Analysis of the Shape of Plant Leaves," Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 363, pp. 41-52, 2014. Link
  • C. Samir, S. Kurtek, A. Srivastava, M. Canis, "Elastic Shape Analysis of Cylindrical Surfaces for 3D/2D Registration in Endometrial Tissue Characterization," IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1035-1043, 2014. Link
  • J. Su, S. Kurtek, E. Klassen, A. Srivastava, "Statistical Analysis of Trajectories on Riemannian Manifolds: Bird Migration, Hurricane Tracking, and Video Surveillance," Annals of Applied Statistics, Accepted for Publication, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 530-552, 2014. Link
        2013

  • S. Kurtek, J. Su, C. Grimm, M. Vaughan, R. Sowell A. Srivastava, "Statistical Analysis of Manual Segmentations of Structures in Medical Images," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 117, no. 9, pp. 1036-1050, 2013. Link
  • S. Kurtek, A. Srivastava, E. Klassen, H. Laga, "Landmark-Guided Elastic Shape Analysis of Spherically-Parameterized Surfaces," Computer Graphics Forum (Special Issue of Eurographics 2013), vol. 32, no. 2, 2013. Link
  • S. Kurtek, W. Wu, G.E. Christensen, A. Srivastava, "Segmentation and Statistical Analysis of Biosignals with Application to Disease Classification,"  Journal of Applied Statistics, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 1270-1288, 2013. Link
        2012

  • S. Kurtek, E. Klassen, J.C. Gore, Z. Ding, A. Srivastava, "Elastic Geodesic Paths in Shape Space of Parameterized Surfaces,"  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 1717-1730, 2012. Link
  • S. Kurtek, A. Srivastava, E. Klassen, Z. Ding, "Statistical Modeling of Curves Using Shapes and Related Features," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 107, no. 499, pp. 1152-1165, 2012. Link
  • A. Srivastava, P. Turaga, S. Kurtek, "On Advances in Differential Geometric Approaches for 2D and 3D Shape Analysis and Activity Recognition," Image and Vision Computing, vol. 30, no. 6-7, pp. 398-416, 2012. Link
        2011
  • S. Kurtek, E. Klassen, Z. Ding, S.W. Jacobson, J.L. Jacobson, M.J. Avison, A. Srivastava, "Parameterization-Invariant Shape Comparisons of Anatomical Surfaces,"  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 30, no. 3,pp. 849-858, 2011. Link
  • A. Srivastava, W. Wu, S. Kurtek, E. Klassen, J.S. Marron, "Registration of Functional Data Using Fisher-Rao Metric," arXiv:1103.3817v2. Link