EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Northern Arizona University

MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE Signal Processing Society
• IEEE Education Society
• Faculty Advisor for NAU IEEE Computer Society student chapter 2001-2004
• Faculty Advisor for NAU IEEE student branch 2004-present
  

ASEE - American Society for Engineering Education
       National Effective Teaching Institute, 2004

Paper Reviewer for:

• IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), 2004
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1997-98, 2002-03
• Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 1997
• Journal of Electronic Imaging, 1998-99, 2003-04
• International Phoenix Conf. on Computers and Communications, 1994-95

Other Professional Service:

• Technical Program Committee, Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), 2004, Lake Tahoe, NV.
• General Chair, Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), 2006, Denver, CO.
• Faculty Advisor for NAU Ambassadors for the College of Engineering and Technology (ACET), 2004-present.

PUBLICATIONS

N. Sirakov and P. Mlsna, "Image Segmentation for Content-Based Retrieval using Heat Differential Equation and Object Shells," submitted to Information Processing in Medical Imaging Conference, Glenwood Springs, CO, July 11-15, 2005.

A. Gibbons, F. Yang, P. Mlsna, P. Geissler, "Automated Procedures for Detecting Martian Dust Devils," accepted to Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, Mar. 14-18, 2005.

P. Mlsna, E. Liszewski, "Effectiveness of Karnaugh Mapplet Use in Student Learning of Digital Logic Skills," accepted to American Society for Engineering Education Conference, Portland, OR, Jun. 12-15, 2005.

P. Mlsna, "WIP: Mastery of Digital Logic Skills through Practice using Java Applets", Frontiers in Education Conference, Savannah, GA, Oct. 20-23, 2004.

N. Sirakov and P. Mlsna, "Search Space Partitioning using Convex Hull and Concavity Features for Fast Medical Image Retrieval", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging from Nano to Macro (ISBI), Arlington, VA, Apr. 15-18, 2004.

P. Mlsna and N. Sirakov, "Intelligent Shape Feature Extraction and Indexing for Efficient
Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval", Proc. of IEEE Southwest Symposium for Image Analysis and Interpretation, Lake Tahoe, NV, Mar. 28-30, 2004, pp. 172-176.

N. Sirakov, J. Swift, and P. Mlsna, "Image Database Query Using Shape-Based Boundary Descriptors", Proc. of International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA-03), Tulsa, OK, Aug. 10-13, 2003, pp. 373-382.

P. Mlsna and B. Carey, "An Investigation of Medical Image-Records with an Emphasis upon X-ray Conversion, Archiving, Display and Feature Extraction", April, 2003, a technical report prepared in coordination with the NAU Center for Data Insight and submitted to the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the US Department of Energy in fulfillment of contracted work.

P. Flikkema, K. Gonzalez-Landis, J. Higle, V. Johnson, J. Kemeny, P. Mlsna, J. Palais, E. Penado, R. Roedel, and P. Wolfe, "Arizona Tri-University Master of Engineering Degree Program," International Online Conference on Teaching Online in Higher Education (TOHE), November, 2002.

P. A. Mlsna and H. McNeill, "An Initial Survey of Very Long Term Archival Data Storage," August 2001, a technical report prepared in coordination with the NAU Center for Data Insight and submitted to the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the US Department of Energy in fulfillment of contracted work.

T. A. El Doker and P. A. Mlsna, "Efficient Unsupervised Estimation of Second-Order B-Spline Contour Descriptors," Invited paper, Proc. of IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS-02), Tulsa, OK, Aug. 4-7, 2002.

T. A. El Doker and P. A. Mlsna, "Efficient Region Boundary Approximation Using Adaptive Smoothing and Second-Order B-Splines," Proc. of IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Santa Fe, NM, April 7-9, 2002, pp. 139-143.

P. A. Mlsna, "Color Sets with Morphological and B-Spline Enhancements for Content-Based Image Retrieval," Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, May 2001.

P. A. Mlsna and J. J. Rodriguez, chapter entitled "Gradient and Laplacian-Type Edge Detection," The Handbook of Image and Video Processing, A. C. Bovik, editor, Academic Press, 2000.

P. A. Mlsna and J. J. Rodriguez, "Efficient Indexing of Multi-Color Sets for Content-Based Image Retrieval," IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Austin, TX, 2000, pp. 116-120.

P. A. Mlsna, Q. Zhang, and J. J. Rodriguez, "3-D Histogram Modification of Color Images," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Lausanne, Switz., 1996, pp. 1015-1018.

P. A. Mlsna, et al., "NOVA - An Interactive Network Design Visualization and Optimization Tool," International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix, AZ, 1996, pp 413-419.

P. A. Mlsna, Q. Zhang, and J. J. Rodriguez, "A Recursive Technique for 3-D Histogram Enhancement of Color Images," IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, San Antonio, TX, 1996, pp. 218-223.

P. A. Mlsna and J. J. Rodriguez, "A Multivariate Enhancement Technique for Multispectral Images," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v. 33, Jan. 1995, pp. 212-216.

P. A. Mlsna and J. J. Rodriguez, "Explosion of Multidimensional Histograms," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Austin, TX, 1994, pp. 958-962.

P. A. Mlsna and J. J. Rodriguez, "Enhancement of Multispectral Images using Histogram Explosion," Proc. of SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing XVII, San Diego, CA, 1994, pp. 132-142.

P. A. Mlsna, "Color Image Enhancement by Three Dimensional Histogram Modification," M.S. thesis, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Dec. 1992.