Research interests

Current research projects include the use and development of 2D and 3D image analysis, signal processing, and modeling tools with applications in bio-medicine and astrophysics.

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Publications

• Oster EC, Snow CJ, Goody M, Kelly M, Jones R, Khalil A, Henry C 2008. Zebrafish muscle fiber morphogenesis proceeds via dynamic intercalation of short muscle precursor cells and requires laminin beta-1 and gamma-1, PLoS Genetics, in press.
• Snow CJ, Peterson, M, Khalil A, Henry C 2008. Muscle development is disrupted in zebrafish embryos deficient for Fibronectin, Developmental Dynamics, in press.
• Khalil, A, Mason, M, Dickey, ID, Zhang, R, Aponte, C, Davisson, TH, Engelman, D, Hawkins, M 2008. Pattern of Soft Tissue In-Growth into Porous Implants Based on Novel Imaging Tools, Transactions of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Vol. 33, 1877.
• Khalil A, Mason M, Dickey ID, Zhang R, Aponte C, Davisson TH, Engelman D, Hawkins M 200?. Image analysis of soft-tissue in-growth and attachment into highly porous alumina ceramic foam metals, Medical Engineering and Physics, submitted.
• Wu, Y, Batuski, D, Khalil, A 200?. Multi-Scale Morphological Analysis of SDSS DR5 Survey Using the Metric Space Technique, Astrophysical Journal, submitted.
• Khalil A, Grant, JL, Caddle, LB, Atzema, E, Mills, KD, Arneodo, A 2007. Chromosome territories have a highly non-spherical morphology and non-random positioning. Chromosome Research, 15, 899-916
• Wu, Y, Batuski, D, Khalil, A 2007. New statistical methods to analyze the Sload Digital Sky Survey Data, Joint New England Sections of the American Physics Society and AAPT Spring Meeting.
• Caddle, LB, Grant, JL, van Hase, J, Denegre, J, Shirley, BJ, Bewersdorf, J, Cremer, C, Arneodo, A, Khalil, A, Mills, KD 2007 Heterologous chromosome territory neighborhoods promote translocation susceptibility in primary lymphocytes, Chromosome Research, 15, 1061-1073
• Khalil A, Joncas G, Nekka F, Kestener P, Arneodo A 2006. Morphological Analysis of HI Features II: Wavelet-Based Multifractal Formalism, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 165, 512-550.
• Wu, Y, Batuski, D, & Khalil, A 2006. New statistical methods to analyze the SDSS DR5 galaxy distribution, American Astronomical Society (AAS) Seattle Meeting.
• Khalil A, Joncas G, and Nekka F 2004. Morphological Analysis of HI Features I: Metric Space Techniques, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 601, 352-364.
• Khalil A, Joncas G, Nekka F 2002. Exotic Tools for the Morphological Analysis of HI Clouds, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 276, Edited by A. R. Taylor, T.L. Landecker, and A.G. Willis, San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, p. 194-197.

Grants

• 2000 to 2004 — 60000.00 — Morphological Characterization of the Interstellar Medium from Universite Laval, Canada
• 2004 to 2005 — 35500.00 — Biomedical Image Analysis from NASA
• 2006 to 2008 — 520000.00 — Acquisition of a sub-micron Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography System from National Science Foundation
• 2006 to 2007 — 155844.00 — Artificial Bone Implant Research from Stryker Orthopaedics
• 2007 to 2008 — 53710.00 — Artificial Bone Implant Research from Stryker Orthopaedics
• 2007 to 2007 — 15000.00 — Chromosome Territory Characterization from Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, France
• 2008 to 2009 — 73500.00 — Breast cancer research from Maince Cancer Foundation
• 2008 to 2009 — 4400.00 — Junior Faculty Research Grant from College of Liberal Arts & Science, UMaine