Thomas J. Hebert received a BS degree in electrical engineering from The University of Florida in 1984. From 1984 to 1988, he was a fellow of the American Electronic Association at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.Completing his research in the Signal and Image Processing Institute at USC, he received the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering in 1985 and 1989 respectively. His dissertation contributed new statistic-based methods and algorithms for image restoration and reconstruction.

He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Houston as an Assistant Professor in 1989 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995.Dr. Hebert was Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston Texas from 1994 to 2000. He received the UH College Research Excellence Award in 1996. He has supervised 16 MS thesis and PhD dissertations, and is currently supervising two PhD dissertations and three MS theses. Dr. Hebert is author or coauthor of 28 journal publications, one book chapter, three NASA publicly archived technical reports, and numerous refereed proceedings articles.

 
-• Research and Academics

Image processing: Image restoration, object motion estimation, Bayesian approaches to edge detection; morphological-based object recognition, numerical algorithms for image restoration,
a priori image models, video image processing.

Medical imaging: Gated cardiac imaging, segmentation and analysis of time-varying 3-D medical images, 3-D Bayesian image reconstruction, iterative algorithms for medical image reconstruction, image processing in the Radon transform space.

Statistical inference: Statistical methods for selecting the parameters of a prior distribution, statistical methods for determining imaging system response.
Dr. Hebert is an Undergraduate Recruiting Committee member.

 
-• Selected Publications

F. Romero-Borja, K. Venkateswaran, A.J. Roorda, and T.J. Hebert, “Optical Slicing of Human Retinal Tissue in vivo with the Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope,” Applied Optics, Vol. 44, pp. 4032–4040, July 2005.

T.J. Hebert, J. Africano, E.G. Stansbery; “Automated Detection of Orbital Debris in digital video from a Telescope;” Acta Astronautica, v 54, issue 6, pp 455-461, 2004.

A Roorda, F Romero-Borja, WJ Donnelly III, H Queener, T.J. Hebert, and MCW Campbell. “Adaptive Optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope;” Optics Express, Vol. 10, no. 9, pp 405-413, May 2002.

J.F. Pawlowski, T.J. Hebert, R.L. Hawkes, M.J. Matney, E.G. Stansbery; “Flux of very faint Leonid meteors observed with a 3 meter liquid mirror telescope intensified charge coupled device system;” Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36, pp 1467-1477, 2001.

T.J. Hebert, J.  Africano, E. Stansbery, M. Matney, D. Hall, J. Pawlowski, T. Hanada, P. Anz-Meador, K. Jarvis, N. Hartsough, M. Mulrooney; “Optical observations of the orbital debris environment at NASA”, Advances in Space Research, v 28, issue 29, pp 1283-1290, Nov 2001.

J.F. Pawlowski, T.J. Hebert: “The Leonid Meteors and Space Shuttle Risk Assessment”, Earth, Moon, and Planets,  vol 82, pp 249-256, 2000.

T.J. Hebert, K. Lu; "Expectation maximization algorithms, null spaces, and MAP image restoration;'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; v 4, no 8, 1084-1095, Aug 1995.

T.J. Hebert, S.S. Gopal, P. Murphy; "A fully automated optimization algorithm for determining patient contours from photo-peak projection data;'' IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging; v 14, no. 1, 122-137, March 1995.

T.J. Hebert, RM Leahy; ``Statistic-based MAP image restoration from Poisson data using Gibbs priors;'' IEEE Trans on Signal Processing, v 40, no. 9, pp 2290-2303, Sept 1992.