Also see my entries in the School of Computing publications database

Books

Gong S, McKenna S J, Psarrou A, "Dynamic Vision: from Images to Face Recognition", Imperial College Press & World Scientific Publishing, ISBN 1-86094-181-8, 364 pp., April, 2000. (A review of this book by Eric Postma was published in Cognitive Systems Research)

McKenna S J, Hoey J (Editors), Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), BMVA, Dundee, July 2008

Articles

2009

Amaral T, McKenna S J, Robertson K, Thompson A, “Analysis of breast tissue microarrays using latent Dirichlet allocation”, Optical Tissue Image Analysis in Microscopy, Histopathology and Endoscopy (OPTIMHisE), MICCAI 2009, London.

Han J, McKenna S J, Wang R, "Learning Query-Dependent Distance Metrics for Interactive Image Retrieval”, 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), Liege, 13-15 October 2009

Roberts T, McKenna S J, Du C-J, Wuyts N, Valentine T, Bengough A G, "Estimating the Motion of Plant Root Cells from in vivo Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Images”, Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Springer (In Press). The original publication will be available at www.springerlink.com DOI 10.1007/s00138-009-0207-x

Amaral T, Sciarabba M, Robertson K, Thompson A, McKenna S J, "Scoring of breast tissue microarrays using ordinal regression: local patches vs. nuclei segmentation”, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), London, July 2009

Wang R, McKenna S J, Han J, "High-Entropy Layouts for Content-based Browsing and Retrieval”, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Greece, July 2009

Seise M, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, "Parts-based Segmentation with Overlapping Part Models using Markov chain Monte Carlo”, Image and Vision Computing 27 (5), 504-513

Amaral T, McKenna S J, Robertson K, Thompson A, "Scoring of breast tissue microarray spots through ordinal regression", International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Lisboa, 2009

Han J and McKenna S J, "Classifying and Comparing Regular Textures for Retrieval Using Texel Geometry", International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Lisboa, 2009

Jia W, McKenna S J, Ward A, "Extracting Printed Designs and Woven Patterns from Textile Images", International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, Lisboa, 2009

2008

Han J, McKenna S J, Wang R, "Regular texture analysis as statistical model selection”, European Conference on Computer Vision, Marseille, France, 12-18 October 2008

Amaral T, McKenna S J, Robertson K, Thompson A, "Classification of breast-tissue microarray spots using texton histograms”, Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Dundee, BMVA, 144-148, July 2008

Ward A A, McKenna S J, Buruma A, Taylor P, Han J, "Merging technology and users: applying image browsing to the fashion industry for design inspiration”, 6th International Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), London, 18-20 June 2008

Amaral T, McKenna S J, Robertson K, Thompson A, "Classification of breast-tissue microarray spots using colour and local invariants”, International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Paris, May 2008

Kerrigan S, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, “Automated Assessment of Polyethylene Wear in Cemented Acetabular Components using Anteroposterior Radiographs of Total Hip Replacements”, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 32, 221-238, 2008

2007

Seise M, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, "Learning Active Shape Models for Bifurcating Contours" IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 26(5):666-677, 2007

Roberts T, McKenna S J and Ricketts I W, "Human Pose Estimation using Partial Configurations and Probabilistic Regions", International Journal of Computer Vision, 73(3), 285-306, July 2007. The original publication will be available at www.springerlink.com

McKenna S J and Nait Charif H, "Tracking Human Motion using Auxiliary Particle Filters and Iterated Likelihood Weighting", Image and Vision Computing, 25(6), 852-862, June 2007.

Roberts T, McKenna S J, Wuyts N, Valentine T, Bengough G, “Performance of low-level motion estimation methods for confocal microscopy of plant cells in vivo”, IEEE Workshop on Motion & Video Computing, Austin, Texas, February 2007 (8 pages)

2006

Seise M, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, ""Segmenting multiple objects with overlapping appearance and uncertainty", British Machine Vision Conference, Edinburgh, 4-7 September, 839-848, 2006 (oral)

Roberts T, McKenna S J, Hans J, Valentine T, Bengough G, "Part-based multi-frame registration for estimation of the growth of cellular networks in plant roots", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August 2006, 378-382

Seise M, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, " Probabilistic segmentation of the knee joint from x-ray images", Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Manchester, 4-5 July 2006

Roberts T, McKenna S J and Ricketts I W, "Human Tracking using 3D Surface Colour Distributions", Image and Vision Computing, 24, 1332-1342

McKenna S J, Marquis-Faulkes F, Newell A F and Gregor P, "Requirements Gathering using Drama for Computer Vision-based Monitoring in Supportive Home Environments", International Journal of Gerontechnology 5(1):29-45, 2006

Bengough A G, Bransby M F, Hans J, McKenna S J, Roberts T J, Valentine T A, "Root responses to soil physical conditions; growth dynamics from field to cell", Journal of Experimental Botany 57(20): 437-47, 2006 Online

Nait Charif H and McKenna S J, "Tracking the Activity of Participants in a Meeting", Machine Vision and Applications 17(2):83-93, May 2006 The original paper is available at www.springer.com

2005

Marquis-Faulkes F, McKenna S J, Gregor P and Newell A F, "Gathering the Requirements for a Fall Monitor Using Drama and Video with Older People", Technology and Disability, 17(4): 227-236, 2005 (ISSN 1055-4181), IOS Press

McKenna S J, Nait Charif H, Frank T, "Towards Video Understanding of Laparoscopic Surgery: Instrument Tracking", Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, Dunedin, 28-29 November 2005 PDF

Seise M, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "Double Contour Active Shape Models", British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Oxford, September 2005. PDF

Kerrigan S, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, "Eccentricity Error Correction for Automated Estimation of Polyethylene Wear after Total Hip Arthroplasty", Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Bristol, July, 255-258 PDF

Seise M, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, "Segmenting Tibia and Femur from Knee X-ray Images", Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Bristol, July, 103-106. PDF

Seise M, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Wigderowitz C A, "Towards The Development of an Accurate and Repeatable Method For Assessing the Progression of Osteoarthritis from Standard Radiographs", British Orthopaedic Research Society (BORS) Annual Meeting, Stanmore, UK, July 2005

2004

McKenna S J and Nait-Charif H, "Summarising Contextual Activity and Detecting Unusual Inactivity in a Supportive Home Environment", Pattern Analysis and Applications 7(4), 386-401, Springer-Verlag, December 2004. Preprint PDF. The original publication is copyright Springer-Verlag and is available here

Martinez-Alarcon J A and McKenna S J, "Is it as I Left it? - A Computer Vision Aid for the Blind", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), The Hague, The Netherlands, 10-13 October, 2004.

Kerrigan S, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W and Wigderowitz C, "Eccentric Elliptical Contours in Total Hip Replacements", Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), London, 23-24 September, 2004, 216-219. Preprint PDF

Nait Charif H and McKenna S J, "Activity Summarisation and Fall Detection in a Supportive Home Environment", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, August 2004. Preprint PDF

McKenna S J and Nait Charif H, "Learning Spatial Context from Tracking using Penalised Likelihoods", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Cambridge, August 2004. Preprint PDF

Martinez-Alarcon J A and McKenna S J, "A System for Providing Preview Capability to Blind People Navigating in Familiar Places", 27th International Conference on Technology and Disability (RESNA), Orlando, Florida, 20-22 June 2004.

McKenna S J and Morrison K, "A Comparison of Skin History and Trajectory-based Representation Schemes for the Recognition of User-Specified Gestures", Pattern Recognition 37(5), 999-1009, 2004. Available online

Roberts T, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "Human Pose Estimation using Learnt Probabilistic Region Similarities and Partial Configurations", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, 11-14 May 2004. Preprint PDF

Morrison K and McKenna S J, "An Experimental Comparison of Trajectory-based and History-based Representation for Gesture Recognition", Gesture-based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction, 5th International Gesture Workshop (GW 2003), Genova, Italy, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNAI) 2915, Camurri A. and Volpe G. (Eds.), Springer, 152-163, 2004.

Nait-Charif H and McKenna S J, "Tracking Poorly Modelled Motion using Particle Filters with Iterated Likelihood Weighting", Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Jeju Island, Korea, 28-30 January. Preprint PDF

2003

McKenna S J, Nait Charif H, Marquis-Faulkes F, Newell A F, "Activity Monitoring for Independent Living using Ceiling-Mounted Visual Sensors", International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI), Washington D. C., 4-6 December 2003.

Kerrigan S, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W and Wigderowitz C, "Analysis of Total Hip Replacements using Active Ellipses", Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), Sheffield, 10-11 July, 2003.

Nait-Charif H and McKenna S J, "Head Tracking and Action Recognition in a Smart Meeting Room", 4th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance, International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (PETS-ICVS), Graz, Austria, March, 2003. Preprint PDF

Morrison K and McKenna S J, "The Dundee Gesture Database for User-Specified, Motor-Impaired Computer Input", 5th International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language based Human-Computer Interaction, Genoa, Italy, April, 2003

McKenna S J, Marquis-Faulkes F, Gregor P, Newell A F, "Scenario-based Drama as a Tool for Investigating User Requirements with Application to Home Monitoring for Elderly People", HCI International, June 22-27, Crete, Greece, 2003. Preprint PDF

2002

McKenna S J, Marquis-Faulkes F, Gregor P, Newell A F, "Drama on Video to Provoke Older Users to Discuss Requirements for Supportive Technology", Recent Advances in Assistive Technology and Engineering (RAATE), Birmingham, 18-19 November 2002

Ricketts I W, McKenna S J, Iqbal A, Frank T, Dickson S and Cuschieri A, "Vibration Sonoelastography: Ultrasound Imaging of the Elastic Properties of Tissue", Healthcare Meets Medical Informatics and Innovation (HCMMII), Edinburgh, 20-22 October 2002

Kerrigan S, Ricketts I W, McKenna S J and Wigderowitz C, "Measurement of acetabular wear using intelligent ellipses", Meeting of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, Cardiff, September 16-17, 2002, p35

McKenna S J, Dickson S, Ricketts I W, Iqbal A, Frank T, Cuschieri A, "Sonoelastography using compensated power doppler", 2nd IASTED International Conference on Visualisation, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP 2002), Malaga, Spain, Sept 9-12, 2002. Preprint PDF

Roberts T, McKenna S J and Ricketts I W, "Adaptive Learning of Statistical Appearance Models for 3D Human Tracking", British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Cardiff, 2-5 September. PDF

Roberts T, McKenna S J and Ricketts I W, "On-line Appearance Learning for 3D Articulated Human Tracking", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Quebec, 11-15 August, Vol. 1, pp. 425-428. Downloadable as PDF

McAllister G, McKenna S J and Ricketts I W, "MLESAC Tracking with 2D Revolute-Prismatic Articulated Models", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Quebec, 11-15 August, Vol. 2, pp. 725-728. Downloadable as PDF

McAllister G, McKenna S J and Ricketts I W, "Hand Tracking for Behaviour Understanding", Image and Vision Computing, 20 (12), Special Issue on Understanding Visual Behaviour, (ISSN 0262-8856), Elsevier, 827-840.

Morrison, K and McKenna S J, "Automatic Visual Recognition of Gestures made by Motor-Impaired Computer Users", Journal of Technology and Disability, 14 (4), Special Issue on Rehabilitation Engineering, IOS Press, 197-203. Available online.

Morrison K and McKenna S J, "Contact-Free Recognition of User-Defined Gestures as a Means of Computer Access for the Physically Disabled", Proceedings of the 1st Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology, University of Cambridge, 25-27 March, 99-103

2001

Morrison K and McKenna S J, "Vision-based Gesture Recognition as an Assistive Technology for Computer Access", Recent Advances in Assistive Technology and Engineering, Birmingham, 5-6 November 2001

Ricketts I W, Cairnie N, McKenna S J, McAllister G, "Improving vehicle safety - a predictive model to quantify the visual distraction of competing graphical user interfaces for secondary controls", Vision in Vehicles 9, Brisbane, Australia, 19-22 August 2001

McAllister G, Cairnie N, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "Finger-pointing: a novel and potentially safer way to operate secondary controls in vehicles", Vision in Vehicles 9, Brisbane, Australia, 19-22 August 2001

Ricketts, I W, McAllister, G, McKenna, S J, Cairnie, N, "ACTIVE: Advanced Camera Technology in Visual Ergonomics", Invited Talk, Abstract, Intelligent Imaging Programme, General Meeting, Society of Chemical Industry, London, 11 July 2001

McAllister G, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "Tracking drivers hand movements", British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) Workshop (IEE/E4) on Understanding Visual Behaviour, Abstracts, British Institute of Radiology, London, 24 Jan. 2001

McKenna S J, "Visual Biometrics for Information Security: Face and Iris Recognition", Global Information Security, World Market Series, World Markets Research Centre, 2001, pp. 115-117, Invited article, ISBN 1903150-42-6

2000

McKenna S J, "Watching People: Applications in Monitoring and Interaction", in: Recent Research Developments in Pattern Recognition, Vol 1, 2000, 271-282, Transworld Research, ISBN 81-86846-61-1

McKenna S J, Jabri S, Duric Z, Rosenfeld A, Wechsler H, "Tracking Groups of People", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol 80, No 1, October 2000, 42-56. PDF

Cairnie N, Ricketts I W, McKenna S J, McAllister G, "Using finger-pointing to operate secondary controls in automobiles", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2000), Dearborn, MI, USA, October 2000, pp. 550-555. Downloadable as PDF

McAllister G, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "Tracking drivers` hands using computer vision", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, Tenessee, USA, October 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 1388-1393. Downloadable as PDF

Cairnie N, Ricketts I W, McKenna S J, "A prototype adaptive finger-pointing interface for operating secondary controls in motor vehicles", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Nashville, Tenessee, USA, October 2000.

McAllister G, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "Towards a non-contact driver-vehicle interface", 3rd IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Dearborn, MI, USA, October 2000.

Cairnie N, McAllister G I, Ricketts I W, McKenna S J, Gale A, Loker T W and Selwood P, "A gesture-driven adaptive interface for safer driving", European Conference on Vehicle Electronic Systems, ERA, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 2000.

McKenna S J, Jabri S, Duric Z and Wechsler H, "Tracking Interacting People", Fourth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Grenoble, France, March 28-30 2000, 348-353

1999

McKenna S J, Raja Y and Gong S, "Tracking Colour Objects using Adaptive Mixture Models", Image and Vision Computing, Vol 17, No 3-4, 1999, 225-231

1998

McKenna S J, Gong S and Raja Y, "Modelling Facial Colour and Identity with Gaussian Mixtures", Pattern Recognition, Vol 31, No 12, 1883-1892, 1998

McKenna S J and Gong S, "Real-Time Face Pose Estimation", Journal of Real-Time Imaging, Special Issue on Real-Time Visual Monitoring and Inspection, Academic Press, Vol 4, 333-347, 1998.

McKenna S and Gong S, "Gesture Recognition for Visually Mediated Interaction using Probabilistic Event Trajectories", British Machine Vision Conference, University of Southampton, September 1998, 498-507. Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

Gong S, Ong E-J and McKenna S, "Learning to Associate Faces across Views in Vector Space of Similarities to Prototypes", British Machine Vision Conference, University of Southampton, September 1998, 54-63. Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

Raja Y, McKenna S J and Gong S, "Using colour for robust object tracking and segmentation", Noblesse Workshop on Non-linear Model Based Image Analysis (NMBIA), Marshall S, Harvey N and Shah D (eds.), Glasgow, Scotland, Springer (ISBN 3-540-76258-2), 199-204, July 1998.

Raja Y, McKenna S J and Gong S, "Colour Model Selection and Adaptation in Dynamic Scenes", European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV), Freiburg, Germany, June 1998, 460-474. Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

de la Torre F, Gong S and McKenna S J, "View-Based Adaptive Affine Tracking", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Freiburg, Germany, June 1998, 828-842.

de la Torre F, Gong S and McKenna S J, "View Alignment with Dynamically Updated Affine Tracking", 3rd International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, Nara, Japan, 1998, 510-515. Downloadable as PDF

Raja Y, McKenna S J and Gong S, "Tracking and Segmenting People in Varying Lighting Conditions using Colour", 3rd International Conference on Face and Gesture Recognition, Nara, Japan, 1998, 228-233. Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

McKenna S J and Gong S, "Recognising Moving Faces", In: Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications, H. Wechsler, P. J. Phillips, V. Bruce, F. Fogelman Soulie, T. S. Huang (Eds.), NATO ASI Series F vol. 163, 1998, ISBN 3-540-64410-5.

McKenna S J, Raja Y and Gong S, "Object Tracking using Adaptive Colour Mixture Models", ACCV, Hong Kong, January 1998, LNCS 1352, Vol I, 615.

Raja Y, McKenna S J and Gong S, "Segmentation and Tracking using Colour Mixture Models", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1352 (Springer-Verlag), Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Vol I, 607, January 1998.

McKenna S J and Gong S, "Face Recognition from Sequences using Models of Identity", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1352 (Springer-Verlag), Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Vol I, 507, Hong Kong, January 1998.

1997

McKenna S J, Gong S and Raja Y, "Face Recognition in Dynamic Scenes", BMVC, September 1997. Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

McKenna S J, Gong S, "Non-intrusive Person Authentication for Access Control by Visual Tracking and Face Recognition", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1206, Proc. 1st Int. Conference on Audio-and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March, 1997, pp 177-184

McKenna S J, Gong S, Wurtz R, Tanner J and Banin D, "Tracking Facial Feature Points with Gabor Wavelets and Shape Models", Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1206, Proc. 1st Int. Conference on Audio-and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March, 1997, pp. 35-42 Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

1996

McKenna S J, Gong S, "Tracking Faces", Second International Conference on Automated Face and Gesture Recognition, Killington, Vermont, US, October 1996, pp. 271-276. Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

Gong S, McKenna S J, Collins J J, "An Investigation into Face Pose Distributions", Second International Conference on Automated Face and Gesture Recognition, Killington, Vermont, US, October 1996, pp. 265-270. Downloadable as PDF or Compressed postscript

McKenna S J, Gong S, Collins J J, "Face Tracking and Pose Representation", British Machine Vision Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1996.

1993-1995

McKenna S J, Ancona N, "Learning opto-motor reflexes from sparse optical flow", 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems 1995, Pisa, Italy, pp. 331-338

McKenna S J, Cairns A Y, Ricketts I W, Hussein K A, "High-resolution classification of Papanicolaou Smears using Back-propagation Neural Networks", Proc. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Amsterdam, 1993.

McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Cairns A Y, Hussein K A, "A Comparison of Neural Network Architectures for Cervical Cell Classification", Proc. 3rd I.E.E. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Brighton, U.K., 25-27 May 1993, pp. 105-109. Downloadable as PDF

McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Cairns A Y, Hussein K A, "Cell searching with a neural net", in: G. Orchard (ed.) Neural Computing - Research and Applications II, INNA, Belfast, 1994, ISBN 0-85389-542-2, PP. 205-215.

McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Cairns A Y, Hussein K A, "Using a 2-stage Artificial Neural Network to detect Abnormal Cervical Cells from their Frequency Domain Image", in: G. Orchard (editor), Neural Computing - Research and Applications, IOP, ISBN 0-7503-0259-3, pp. 281-288, 1993.

McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, Cairns A Y, Hussein K A, "Cascade-correlation Neural Networks for the Classification of Cervical Cells", I.E.E. Colloquium on Neural Networks for Image Processing Applications, London, 28 October 1992, pp. 5.1-5.4. Downloadable as PDF

Workshop Papers (Most Refereed)

1998

Ong E-J, McKenna S J and Gong S, "Tracking head pose for inferring intention", Workshop on Perception of Human Action (ECCV), Freiburg, Germany, June 1998.

1993-1995

McKenna S J, Gong S, Liddell H, "Real-time tracking for an integrated face recognition system", 2nd Workshop on Parallel Modelling of Neural Operators, Faro, Portugal, Nov. 1995.

Collins J J, McKenna S J, Gong S, "Representation and invariance in face recognition", 2nd Workshop on Parallel Modelling of Neural Operators, Faro, Portugal, Nov. 1995.

McKenna S J, Cairns A Y, Ricketts I W, Hussein K A, "Neural Networks for Locating Cervical Cells", I.E.E./I.E.E.E. Workshop Natural Algorithms in Signal Processing, Chelmsford, U.K., 1993.

Ricketts I W, Banda-Gamboa H, Cairns A Y, Hussein K A, Hipkiss W, McKenna S J, Parianos E, "Towards the Automated Prescreening of Cervical Smears", I.E.E. Colloquium Digest on Applications of Image Processing in Mass Health Screening, London, 1992.

Theses

McKenna S J, "Automated Analysis of Papanicolaou Smears", Ph.D. Thesis, University of Dundee, 1994.

McKenna S J, "Cervical Cell Classification using Neural Networks and the Frequency Domain", M.Sc. Thesis, University of Dundee, 1993.

Patent Applications

McKenna S J, McAllister G I, Roberts T, "Apparatus and method for movement analysis", University of Dundee, GB0519698.5, Filed 28 September 2005

Roberts T, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "A system for determining the body pose of a person from images", University of Dundee, Priority date 17 April 2003, Publication No. WO 2004/095373

McKenna S J, Frank T, Cuschieri A, Ricketts I W, Dickson S, Iqbal A, "Sonoelastography using power doppler", University of Dundee, US Patent No.10/658009 filed 9 September 2003

Cairnie N, McKenna S J, Ricketts I W, "Predictive content-based radio station selection", University of Dundee, Lapsed patent application, 2002