• Wei-Bang Chen and Chengcui Zhang, “An Automated Bacterial Colony Counting and Classification System,” under minor revision, Information Systems Frontiers.
• Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, Wei-Bang Chen, and Lin Yang, “Spam Image Clustering for Identifying Common Sources of Unsolicited Emails,” accepted for publication, International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics.
• Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, and Stuart H. Rubin, “A Human-Centered Multiple Instance Learning Framework for Semantic Video Retrieval,” accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C. [Impact Factor: 0.89]
• Y. Liu and A.P. Sprague, “Outlier detection and evalutaion by netwrok flow,” International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology .[pdf]

• Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, and Min Chen, “LMS -- A Long Term Knowledge-Based Multimedia Retrieval System for Region-Based Image Databases,” International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS), vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 416-435, 2007.
• Chengcui Zhang and Xin Chen, “OCRS: An Interactive Object-based Image Clustering and Retrieval System,” Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Multimedia Data Mining, Volume 35, Number 1, pp. 71-89, October 2007. [Impact factor: 0.63]
• Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Kanoksri Sarinnapakorn, “Capturing High-Level Image Concepts via Affinity Relationships in Image Database Retrieval,” Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 32, Number 1, pp. 73-92, January 2007. [Impact factor: 0.63]

• Shu-Ching Chen, Stuart H. Rubin, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Chengcui Zhang, “A Dynamic User Concept Pattern Learning Framework for Content-Based Image Retrieval,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, Volume 36, Issue 6, pp. 772-783, November 2006. [Impact Factor: 0.89]
• Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, and Min Chen, “A Multimodal Data Mining Framework for Soccer Goal Detection based on Decision Tree Logic,” International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, Special Issue on Data Mining Applications, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 312-323, 2006.
• Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Chi-Min Shu, “Probabilistic Semantic Network-based Image Retrieval Using MMM and Relevance Feedback,” Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 30, Number 2, pp. 131-147, August 2006. [Impact factor: 0.63]

• Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Srinivas Peeta, Chengcui Zhang, “Spatio-Temporal Vehicle Tracking Using Unsupervised Learning-Based Segmentation and Object Tracking,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, special issue on Robotic Technologies applied to Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 50-58, March 2005, ISSN 1070-9932. (Alabama IEEE Best Paper of 2005 and 2006 Award 1^st place) [Impact Factor: 0.652]

• Shu-Ching Chen, Chengcui Zhang, et al., “A Web-Based Distributed System for Hurricane Occurrence Simulation,” Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 34, Issue 6, pp. 549-571, May 2004. [Impact factor: 0.543]

• Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Srinivas Peeta, Chengcui Zhang, “Learning-Based Spatio-Temporal Vehicle Tracking and Indexing for Transportation Multimedia Database Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 154-167, September, 2003. [Impact Factor: 1.434]
• Keqi Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, Dean Whitman, Mei-Ling Shyu, Jianhua Yan, and Chengcui Zhang, “A Progressive Morphological Filter for Removing Non-Ground Measurements from Airborne LIDAR Data,” IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 41, Issue 4, pp. 872-882, April 2003. [Impact factor: 1.752]

• Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, Jeff Strickrott, “A Multimedia Data Mining Framework: Mining Information from Traffic Video Sequences,” Journal of Intelligent Information System, Special Issue on Multimedia Data Mining, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 61-77, July, 2002. [Impact Factor: 0.75]

• S.E. Brossette and A.P. Sprague, “Medical Surveillance, Frequent Sets, and Closure Operations,” Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 5: 81-94, 2001.
• Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, and R. L. Kashyap, “Identifying Overlapped Objects for Video Indexing and Modeling in Multimedia Database Systems,” International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 715-734, December 2001. [Impact Factor: 2.271]

• Chengcui Zhang and C.-S. Yang, “Adaptive Sub-band Decomposition Using Morphological Filters,” Chinese Journal of IMAGE AND GRAPHICS, 2000, Vol.5, No.3, pp.191-195. [Impact Factor: 0.616]
• S.E. Brosette, W.T.Jones, A.P. Sprague, and S.A. Moser, “A data mining system for infection control survillence,” Methods of Information in Medicine, 39:303-310, 2000.

• Chengcui Zhang and C.-S. Yang, “Digital Images Compression Using Sub-band Decomposition With Morphological Filters,” Chinese Computer Application and Research Journal, Jan., 1999. [Impact Factor: 0.428]
• T. Takaoka and A.P. Sprague, “O(1) Time Algorithm for All Pairs Shortest Distances on Interval Graphs,” International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 10:465-472, 1999.

• S.E. Brossette, A.P. Sprague, J.M. Hardin, K.B. Waites, W.T. Jones, and S.A. Moser, “Association Rules and Data Mining in Hospital Infection Control and Public Health Surveillance,” American Medical Informatics Association, 5:373-381, 1998.

• S. Natarajan and A.P. Sprague, “Disjoint Paths in Circular Arc Graphs," Nordic Journal in Computing, 3:256-270, 1996.