AMANO, Akira

Professor

Department of Bioinformatics
College of Life Sciences
Ritsumeikan University
1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-8577, Japan

Phone: +81-77-561-2584
Fax: +81-77-561-2584
Email: a-amano(at)fc.ritsumei.ac.jp
Office: Bio Link 4F, Room 401

Areas of Interest:

• Biological Function Simulation
• Biological Function Measurement with MRI

Representative Publications:

• Shaocong Ou, Kouta Hori, Yuttamol Muangkram, Yukiko Himeno, Shuji Tachibanaki, Akira Amano
  Analysis of the Relationship Between Rod Cell Membrane Currents and the Photoreceptor Component of Electroretinograms Using a Cable Model
  Scientific Reports, 15, 11211, DOI 10.1038/s41598-025-95998-5, 2025.
• Kunichika Tsumoto, Takao Shimamoto, Yuma Aoji, Yukiko Himeno, Yu-hichi Kuda, Mamoru Tanida, Akira Amano, Yasutaka Kurata
  Chained occurrences of early afterdepolarizations may create a directional triggered activity to initiate reentrant ventricular tachyarrhythmias
  Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol 261, p.108587, DOI 10.1016/j.cmpb.2025.108587, 2025.
• Yixin Zhang, Futoshi Toyoda, Yukiko Himeno, Akinori Noma, Akira Amano
  Cell-specific models of hiPSC-CMs developed by the gradient-based parameter optimization method fitting two different action potential waveforms
  Scientific Reports, 14, 13086, DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-63413-0, 2024.
• Shiro KATO, Yukiko HIMENO, Akira AMANO
  Mathematical Analysis of Left Ventricular Elastance with respect to Afterload Change During Ejection Phase
  PLoS Comput. Biol., 20(4): e1011974, 2024.
• Yukiko Himeno, Yixin Zhang, Suzuka Enomoto, Hiroto Nomura, Natsuki Yamamoto, Shotaro Kiyokawa, Mirei Ujihara, Yuttamol Muangkram, Akinori Noma, Akira Amano
  Ionic Mechanisms of Propagated Repolarization in a One-Dimensional Strand of Human Ventricular Myocyte Model
  International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, 24(20), 15378. DOI 10.3390/ijms242015378, 2023.
• Yuttamol Muangkram, Yukiko Himeno, Akira Amano
  Clarifying the composition of the ATP consumption factors required for maintaining ion homeostasis in mouse rod photoreceptors
  Scientific Reports, 2023. (in press)
• Kunichika Tsumoto, Takao Shimamoto, Yuma Aoji, Yukiko Himeno, Yuhichi Kuda, Mamoru Tanida, Akira Amano, Yasutaka Kurata
  Theoretical prediction of early afterdepolarization-evoked triggered activity formation initiating ventricular reentrant arrhythmias
  Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Vol. 240, 2023, 107722.
• Yukari Takeda, Kazuma Sato, Yukari Hosoki, Shuji Tachibanaki, Chieko Koike, Akira Amano
  Mathematical analysis of phototransduction reaction parameters in rods and cones
  Scientific Reports, DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-23069-0, 2022. 11. (in press)
• Hirohiko Kohjitani, Shigeya Koda, Yukiko Himeno, Takeru Makiyama, Yuta Yamamoto, Daisuke Yoshinaga, Yimin Wuriyanghai, Asami Kashiwa, Futoshi Toyoda, Yixin Zhang, Akira Amano, Akinori Noma, Takeshi Kimura
  Gradient-based parameter optimization method to determine membrane ionic current composition in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
  Scientific Reports, DOI 10.1038/s41598-022-23398-0, 2022. 11. (in press)
• Tsumoto K, Ashihara T, Naito N, Shimamoto T, Amano A, Kurata Y, Kurachi Y.
  Specific decreasing of Na+ channel expression on the lateral membrane of cardiomyocytes causes fatal arrhythmias in Brugada syndrome.
  Sci Rep. 2020 Nov 17;10(1):19964. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76681-3.
• Yuttamol Muangkram, Megumi Honda, Akira Amano, Yukiko Himeno, Akinori Noma
  Exploring the role of fatigue-related metabolite activity during high-intensity exercise using a simplified whole-body mathematical model
  Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Vol. 19, 100355, pp.1-9, 2020.
• Umehara S, Tan X, Okamoto Y, Ono K, Noma A, Amano A, Himeno Y.
  Mechanisms Underlying Spontaneous Action Potential Generation Induced by Catecholamine in Pulmonary Vein Cardiomyocytes: A Simulation Study
  International Journal of Molecular Science, 20(12), 2913, 2019.
• Nomura Y, Ikuta S, Yokota S, Mita J, Oikawa M, Matsushima H, Amano A, Shimonomura K, Seya Y, Koike C
  Evaluation of critical flicker-fusion frequency measurement methods using a touchscreen-based visual temporal discrimination task in the behaving mouse.
  Neuroscience Research, 148, 28-33, 2019.
• Yuttamol Muangkram, Akinori Noma, Akira Amano
  A new myofilament contraction model with ATP consumption for ventricular cell model
  The Journal of Physiological Sciences, 68(5), 541-554, 2018.
• Akitoshi Maeda, Yukiko Himeno, Masayuki Ikebuchi, Akinori Noma, Akira Amano
  Regulation of the glucose supply from capillary to tissue examined by developing a capillary model
  The Journal of Physiological Sciences, 68, 355-367, 2018.
• Muangkram Y, Wajjwalku W, Amano A, Sukmak M.
  The novel primers for mammal species identification-based mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence: implication for reserved wild animals in Thailand and endangered mammal species in Southeast Asia.
  Mitochondrial DNA, pp.1-11, 2016.
• Kosuke Taniguchi, Hiromasa Utaki, Daichi Yamamoto, Yukiko Himeno, Akira Amano
  Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Ventricular Activation Time on Hemodynamic Parameters: a Simulation Study
  Advanced Biomedical Engineering, 5:94-104, 2016.
• Yuttamol Muangkram, Akira Amano, Worawidh Wajjwalku, Tanu Pinyopummintr, Nikorn Thongtip, Nongnid Kaolim, Manakorn Sukmak, Sumate Kamolnorranath, Boripat Siriaroonrat, Wanlaya Tipkantha, Umaporn Maikaew, Warisara Thomas, Kanda Polsrila, Kwanreaun Dongsaard, Saowaphang Sanannu, Anuwat Wattananorrasate
  Genetic diversity of the captive Asian tapir population in Thailand, based on mitochondrial control region sequence data and the comparison of its nucleotide structure with Brazilian tapir
  Mitochondrial DNA, pp.1-11, 2016.
• Yukiko Himeno, Masayuki Ikebuchi, Akitoshi Maeda, Akinori Noma, Akira Amano
  Mechanisms underlying the volume regulation of the interstitial fluid by capillaries: a simulation study
  Integrative Medicine Research, Vol. 5, 1, pp. 11-21, 2016.
• Hiromasa Utaki, Kosuke Taniguchi, Hiroya Konishi, Yukiko Himeno, Akira Amano
  A Method for Determining Scale Parameters in a Hemodynamic model incorporating Cardiac Cellular Contraction model
  Advanced Biomedical Engineering, 5:32-42, 2016.
• Florencio Rusty Punzalan, Yoshitoshi Kunieda, Akira Amano
  Program Code Generator for Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulation with Automatic PDE Boundary Condition Handling
  PLoS ONE 10(9): e0136821. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136821, 2015.
• Takao Shimayoshi, Chae Young Cha, Akira Amano
  Quantitative Decomposition of Dynamics of Mathematical Cell Models: Method and Application to Ventricular Myocyte Models
  PLoS ONE 10(6): e0124970. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124970, 2015.
• Y. Himeno, K. Asakura, C. Y. Cha, H. Memida, T. Powell, A. Amano, A. Noma
  A human ventricular myocyte model with refined representation of excitation-contraction coupling
  Biophys. J., Vol. 109, 2, pp.415-427, 2015.
• Yuki Hasegawa, Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  Application of the Kalman Filter for Faster Strong Coupling of Cardiovascular Simulations
  IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2015. (accepted)
• Komori Y, Amano A, Maehara K, Jin L, Narazaki M, Matsuda T.
  A motion tracking method that applies a spread spectrum communication technique to tagging MR imaging.
  Magn Reson Med Sci., 14(1):25-34, 2015.
• K. Asakura, C. Cha, H. Yamaoka, Y. Horikawa, H. Memida, T. Powell, A. Amano, A. Noma
  EAD and DAD mechanisms analyzed by developing a new human ventricular cell model
  Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 116(1):11-24, 2014.
• Shingo Nishiyama, Yukari Hosoki, Chieko Koike, Akira Amano
  Reproducing Retinal Rod Bipolar Cell Light Response by Mathematical Model Including Neurotransmitter Receptors
  IEEE EMB Conference, pp.6116-6119, 2014. 8. 29. (Chicago, USA)
• Takao Shimayoshi, Mitsuharu MISHIMA, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  Nonlinear Multiscale Circulation Model Reproducable Linear End-Systolic Pressure-Volume Relationship
  IEEE EMB Conference, pp.6778-6781, 2014. 8. 30. (Chicago, USA)
• Yukari Hosoki, Chieko Koike, Yukari Takeda, Akira Amano
  Reproduction of Transducin Timecourse of Rod and Cone Cells under various Light Intensities
  IUPS 2013, 2013. (accepted)
• Takao Shimayoshi, Yukiko Himeno, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda, Akinori Noma
  Computational Model of Cardiovascular Dynamics for Assessment of Cardiac Energetic Efficiency
  IUPS 2013, 2013. (accepted)
• Florencio Rusty Punzalan, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Masanari Kawabata, Takao Shimayoshi, Hiroaki Kuwabara, Yoshitoshi Kunieda, Akira Amano
  Code Generator for Distributed Parameter Biological Model Simulation with PDE Numerical Schemes
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2013, 2013. (accepted)
• Yuki Hasegawa, Mitsuharu MISHIMA, Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  A Study on the Relationship between Electrical Transmural Heterogeneity and Ventricular Energetics
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2013, 2013. (accepted)
• Eun Bo Shim, Thomas Heldt, Akira Amano, and Kyehan Rhee
  [Editorial] Computational Analysis of Cardiovascular Hemodynamics
  Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Vol. 2012 (2012), Article ID 260396, doi:10.1155/2012/260396
• Florencio Rusty Punzalan, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Naoki Soejima, Masanari Kawabata, Takao Shimayoshi, Hiroaki Kuwabara, Yoshitoshi Kunieda, and Akira Amano
  A CellML Simulation Compiler and Code Generator Using ODE Solving Schemes
  Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 7:11, 2012.
• Akira Amano, Masanari Kawabata, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Florencio Rusty Punzalan, Takao Shimayoshi, Hiroaki Kuwabara, Yoshitoshi Kunieda
  A Program Code Generator for Multiphysics Biological Simulation using Markup Languages
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2012, pp. 6624-6627, 2012.9.1, San Diego, USA.
• Yuki Hasegawa, Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  A Coupling Method for a Cardiovascular Simulation Model which includes the Kalman Filter
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2012, pp. 1222-1225, 2012.8.30, San Diego, USA.
• Akira Amano
  Description Language of Calculation Scheme for Automatic Simulation Code Generation
  CellML Workshop, 2012.
• Masanari Kawabata, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Florencio Rusty Punzalan, Yoshitoshi Kunieda, Akira Amano
  A Program Code Generator for Multiphysics Biological Simulation using Markup Languages
  International Workshop on Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems 2012, 2012.
• Yoshiharu Yamashita, Yuichiro Hayashi, Naoki Soejima, Masanari Kawabata, Punzalan Florencio Rusty, Takao Shimayoshi, Hiroaki Kuwabara, Yoshitoshi Kunieda, Akira Amano
  A Parallel CellML Simulation Program Generator with a Nonlinear Simultaneous Equation Solver
  International Workshop on Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems 2012, 2012.
• Florencio Rusty Punzalan, Masanari Kawabata, Akira Amano
  A System for Generating Program Code for Multiscale and Multiphysics Biological Simulation using Markup Languages
  The 4th Osaka University Global COE International Symposium on Physiome and Systems Biology for Integrated Life Sciences and Predective Medicine, poster, 2011.
• Yoshiharu Yamashita, Naoki Soejima, Masanari Kawabata, Punzalan Florencio Rusty, Takao Shimayoshi, Hiroaki Kuwabara, Yoshitoshi Kunieda, Akira Amano
  A CellML Simulation Program Generator using ODE Solving Scheme Description
  The 4th Osaka University Global COE International Symposium on Physiome and Systems Biology for Integrated Life Sciences and Predective Medicine, poster, 2011.
• Takeda Y, Amano A, Noma A, Nakamura Y, Fujimoto S, Inagaki N
  Systems Analysis of GLP-1 Receptor Signaling in Pancreatic {beta}-cells.
  Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2011
• Cha CY, Santos E, Amano A, Shimayoshi T, Noma A
  Time-dependent changes in membrane excitability during glucose-induced bursting activity in pancreatic {beta} cells.
  J Gen Physiol. 2011 Jul;138(1):39-47
• Akira AMANO, Naoki SOEJIMA, Takao SHIMAYOSHI, Hiroaki KUWABARA, Yoshitoshi KUNIEDA
  A General CellML Simulation Code Generator using ODE Solving Scheme Description
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2011, pp. 940-944, 2011.
• Yuki Hasegawa, Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  A Study on Prediction Methods for a Cardiovascular Strong-Coupling Simulation
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2011, pp. 137-140, 2011.
• Yoshiaki Komori, Akira Amano, Keiko Maehara, Jin Li, Narazaki Michiko, and Matsuda Tetsuya
  A motion tracking method applying spread spectrum communication to tagging MRI
  Proc. 19th ISMRM, 2011.
• Himeno Y, Toyoda F, Satoh H, Amano A, Cha CY, Matsuura H, Noma A.
  Minor contribution of cytosolic Ca2+ transients to the pacemaker rhythm in guinea pig sinoatrial node cells.
  Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2011 Jan;300(1):H251-61. Epub 2010 Oct 15.
• Yu Shimizu, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  Oblique 3D MRI Tags for the Estimation of True 3D Cardiac Motion Parameters
  Int J Cardiovasc Imaging, 26(8):905-21, 2010 Dec.
• Mitsuharu Mishima, Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  Analysis of the Underlying Mechanism of Frank-Starling Law of a Constructive Hemodynamics Model
  ASIA SIMULATION CONFERENCE (JSST) 2009, ID138, 2009.
• Chae Young Cha, Yukiko Himeno, Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, Akinori Noma
  A Novel Method to Quantify Contribution of Channels and Transporters to Membrane Potential Dynamics
  Biophysical Journal, Vol.97, pp.3086-3094, 2009.
• Natalie S. Schneider, Akira Amano
  Simulation Analysis of Cardiac Muscle Isotonic Contractions at Different Pre- and Afterloads
  The Open Physiology Journal, Vol. 2, pp.18-37 (20), 2009.
• Amano Akira, Kubota Yuuta, Shimayoshi Takao, Matsuda Tetsuya
  Evaluation of Cardiac Oxygen Consumption under Hypoxia with Tissue Model Integrating Microcirculation Model and Cell Model
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp. 3885-3888, 2009.
• Shimayoshi Takao, Amano Akira, Matsuda Tetsuya
  A Method for Analysis of Simultaneous Equations in Cell Models
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, p. 2343-2346, 2009.
• Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, Satoshi Matsuoka, Tetsuya Matsuda
  CYBOW MODELLER: USER-INTUITIVE TOOLS FOR CELL MODELLING
  Proc. IUPS, P2AM-25-17, 2009.
• Akira Amano, Yuuta Kubota, Tetsuya Matsuda
  Evaluation of Cell and Tissue Hypoxic Reaction - Model Study -
  Proc. IUPS, P2AM-25-10, 2009.
• Yukiko Himeno, Chae Young Cha, Takao Shimayoshi, Akinori Noma, Nobuya Inagaki, Akira Amano
  COMPARING CONTRIBUTIONS OF EACH IONIC COMPONENT TO CARDIAC PACEMAKER POTENTIAL BETWEEN DIFFERENT MODELS USING THE LEAD POTENTIAL ANALYSIS
  Proc. IUPS, P2AM-25-3, 2009.
• Y. Shimizu, A. Amano, and T. Matsuda
  Analysis of true 3D cardiac motion using 3D tagged MRI
  Proc. ISMRM, p.1813, 2009.
• T. Shimayoshi, A. Amano, T. Matsuda
  A Method for Efficient Execution of Cell Physiological Simulation using Graph Theory
  Proc. APBC, 2008.
• Eun Bo Shim, Akira Amano, Takayuki Takahata, Takao Shimayoshi and Akinori Noma
  The cross-bridge dynamics during ventricular contraction predicted by coupling the cardiac cell model with the circulation model
  Journal of Physiological Sciences, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp.275-285, 2007.
• Akira AMANO, Kenichi KANDA, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Yuu KAMEI, and Tetsuya MATSUDA
  Model Generation Interface for Simulation of Left Ventricular Motion
  Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part II, Vol 90, 12, pp.87-98, 2007.
• Yutaka Nobuaki, Akira Amano, Takao Shimayoshi, Jianyin Lu, Eun B. Shim and Tetsuya Matsuda
  Infant Circulation Model based on the Electrophysiological Cell Model
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp.1010-1013, 2007.
  
• Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano and Tetsuya Matsuda
  A Generic Representation Format of Physiological Experimental Protocols for Computer Simulation using Ontology
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp.382-385, 2007.
  
• Jianyin Lu, Keichi Asakura, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda
  Fast Drug Action Solving from Cardiac Action Potential by Model Fitting in A Sampled Parameter Space
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp.131-134, 2007.
  
• Yutaka Nobuaki, Akira Amano, Takao Shimayoshi, Jianyin Lu, Eun B. Shim, and Tetsuya Matsuda
  A Model for Simulation of Infant Cardiovascular Response to Orthostatic Stress
  Proc. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, LNCS 4466, 190-199, 2007.
  
• Takao Shimayoshi, Kazuhiro Komurasaki, Akira Amano, Takeshi Iwashita, Tetsuya Matsuda, Masanori Kanazawa
  A Method to Support Cell Physiological Modelling using Description Language and Ontology
  Information Processing Society Jpan, Journal of Bioinformatics, Vol. 47, No. SIG 17(TBIO 1), pp.83-92, 2006.
  
• Yasuhiro TAKADA, Akira AMANO, Jianyin LU, Takao SHIMAYOSHI, Tetsuya MATSUDA, Hidetoshi KOTERA
  Stress Distribution in a Rotationally Symmetric and a Measurement Based Left Ventricular Shape Model
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp.624-627, 2006.
  
• Yutaka NOBUAKI, Yu KAMEI, Jianyin LU, Takao SHIMAYOSHI, Satoshi ISHIKAWA, Akira AMANO, Hidetoshi KOTERA, Tetsuya MATSUDA
  Reproducing Nonlinear Force Velocity Relation of Myocardial Tissue by a Nonlinear Parallel Elastic Component
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp.612-615, 2006.
  
• SHIMAYOSHI Takao, KOMURASAKI Kazuhiro, AMANO Akira, IWASHITA Takeshi, KANAZAWA Masanori and MATSUDA Tetsuya
  An Computer Support for Physiological Cell Modeling using an Ontology on Cell Physiology
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp.4171-4174, 2006.
  
• Jianyin Lu, Toshifumi Nishi, Takashi Ashihara, Natalie Schneider, Akira Amano, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hidetoshi Kotera
  The Influence of Activation Time on Contraction Force of Myocardial Tissue: a Simulation Study
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference, pp.2900-2903, 2006.
  
• N.S. Schneider, T. Shimayoshi, A. Amano, T. Matsuda
  A NOVEL CARDIAC MUSCLE CONTRACTION MODEL THAT INCLUDES TITIN ELUCIDATES A POTENTIAL FRANK-STARLING MECHANISM
  International Muscle Energetics Conference(IMEC), 2006.
  
• Natalie S. Schneidera, Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano, and Tetsuya Matsuda
  Mechanism of the Frank-Starling law - a simulation study with a novel cardiac muscle contraction model that includes titin and troponin I
  Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Vol. 41, Issue 3, pp.522-536, 2006.
• Akira Amano, Naoki Asada, Masayuki Mukunoki and Masahito Aoyama
  Table Form Document Analysis based on the Document Sturcture Grammar
  International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 8, no. 2-3, pp.201-213, 2006.
• Y. Shimizu, X. Jin, A. Amano, T. Matsuda
  Three Dimensional Tracking of Tag Intersections in Tagged MRI
  ISMRM, p.1015, 2006.
  
• Takao Shimayoshi, Akira Amano and Tetsuya Matsuda
  PSPML: Physiological Simulation Protocol Markup Language
  Proc. APBC 2006, 2006.
• Schneider, N.S., Shimayoshi, T., Amano, A., Matsuda, T., and Noma, A.
  Including titin in a simple muscle contraction model suitable for a myocardial cell model.
  Proc. European Medical and Biological Engineering Conference 2005, 2005.
• Yutaka NOBUAKI, Toshifumi NISHI, Akira AMANO, Yasuyuki ABE, Tetsuya MATSUDA:
  Simulation Algorithm for the Coupling of the Left Ventricular Mechanical Model with Arbitrary Circulation Model
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2005, pp.7632-7635, 2005.
• Akira Amano, Toshifumi Nishi, Jianyin Lu, Natalie Schneider, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hidetoshi Kotera, Akinori Noma:
  Strong Coupling System for the LV Motion Simulation in a Distributed Simulation Environment
  Proc. IEEE EMB Conference 2005, pp.5511-5514, 2005.
• T. Oida, Y. Kang, T. Azuma, J. Okamoto, A. Amano, L. Axel, O. Takizawa, S. Tsutsumi, T. Matsuda
  The measurement of anisotropic elasticity in skeletal muscle using MR Elastography
  Proc. ISMRM, p.2020, 2005.
• Akira Amano, Naoki Asada, Masayuki Mukunoki
  Modification Table Form Generation System based on the Form Recognition
  Proc. ICPR2004, pp.659-662, 2004.
• Akira Amano, Tsuyoshi Migita, Naoki Asada
  Stable Recovery of Shape and Motion from Partially Tracked Feature Points with Fast Nonlinear Optimization
  Vision Interface 2002, pp.244-251, 2002. (Best Paper Award)
• Tsuyoshi Migita, Akira Amano, Naoki Asada
  Entire Building Shape Recovery from Near Distance Images
  Workshop on Machine Vision Applications 2002, pp.277--280, 2002. 12.
• Akira Amano, Naoki Asada
  Complex Table Form Analysis Using Graph Grammar
  5th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS'02), pp. 283--286, 2002. 8.
• Akira Amano, Naoki Asada, Takayuki Motoyama, Taiji Sumiyoshi, Koji Suzuki
  Table Form Document Synthesis by Grammar-Based Structure Analysis
  6th ICDAR, pp.533--537, 2001. 9.
• Akira Amano, Tsuyoshi Migita, Naoki Asada
  A Unique Recovery of 3D Shape and Size from Motion
  Proc. of Machine Vision and its Applications 2000, pp. 525-528, 2000. 11.
• Katsuhiko SAKAUE, Akira AMANO and Naokazu YOKOYA
  Optimization Approaches in Computer Vision and Image Processing
  IEICE TRANSACTION, VOL. E82-A, No. 3, pp.534-547, 1999.
• Masatoshi ARIKAWA, Shinji SHIMOJO, Akira AMANO, Kaori MAEDA, Reiji AIBARA, Kouji NISHIMURA and Kaduo HIRAKI, and Kazutoshi FUJIKAWA
  Real-Time Spatial Data Management for Scalable Networked Augmented Virtual Spaces
  IEICE TRANS. INF. and SYST., Vol. E82-D, No.1, pp.99-112, 1999.

Academic Degree: Doctor of Engineering (Kyoto Univ.)

Academic Society: The Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers, Information Processing Society of Japan, Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Computere Society, IEEE EMB Society, ISMRM

Courses

• Undergraduate Courses:
  Data Structure and Algorithm

Lecture Notes

• Advanced Life Science Research 2013