MICHAEL UNSER Address Work - Biomedical Imaging Group - EPFL

MICHAEL UNSERAddressWork :Biomedical Imaging GroupSwiss Federal Institute of TechnologyEPFL, DMT/IOA, BM 4.127CH-1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandHome : Ch. des Charmettes 9CH-1003 Lausanne, SwitzerlandPersonal detailsBorn on April 9, 1958 in Zug, Switzerland.Married with two children: Matthias (13/10/96) and Monica (05/01/99)Education and DiplomasURL:http://bigwww.epfl.chEmail : michael.unser@epfl.chTel : +41(21) 693-5175FAX: +41(21) 693-3701Jan 81 - Jul 84: Doctoral studies, EE Dept., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,Switzerland. Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering awarded in July 1984 for the thesis "Statisticalcharacterization of texture with an application to automated inspection", (EPFL Thesis No. 534,Advisor: Prof. F. De Coulon, Signal Processing Laboratory).Sep 76 - Jan 81: Studies in Electrical Engineering, EE Dept., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,Lausanne, Switzerland. Electrical Engineering Diploma — or M.S. in EE — awarded in January 1981(summa cum laude — Dommer Prize).Professional ExperienceNov 97 - Present: Professor of Image Processing, Head of the Biomedical Imaging Group,Microengineering Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne,Switzerland.Mar 90 - Aug 97: Visiting Scientist 1 , Head of the Image Processing Group, Biomedical Engineering andInstrumentation Program, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health,USA.Jun 96 - Jul 96: Invited Professor, INRIA, Project PASTIS, 2004 Routes des Lucioles, Sophia-Antipolis,F-06902 France.Feb 88 - Nov 94: Research scientist (chargé de recherche 1ère classe), INSERM, Unité U2, Créteil,France, delegated to conduct research at the NIH from May 88 to Oct 89. On leave since Nov 89.Feb 87 - Mar 90: Visiting Associate, Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program, NIH, USA.Research on the application of image processing and pattern recognition techniques to biomedicalimaging (electron microscopy, electrophoresis, medical imaging).1 : "Intent for tenure" was granted by the board of NIH directors on March, 1990. The criteria are the same asfor a tenured position which is granted to US citizens only.

(ii)Feb 85 - Feb 87: Visiting Fellow (post-doctoral fellowship), Biomedical Engineering andInstrumentation Program, NIH, USA. Research in biomedical image processing. Development ofnew methods for the enhancement and quantitative analysis of high resolution electronmicrographs.Jan 81- Nov 84: Research engineer, Signal Processing Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology, Lausanne, Switzerland, working towards a Doctorate in image processing (texturecharacterization, automated inspection).Awards• Dommer Prize 1981: Awarded to a student who has obtained the best grade point average over theentire period of studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.• Research prize of the Brown Boveri Corporation (Switzerland) in 1984: Awarded to a graduate orpostgraduate student of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, who has conductedoutstanding original research in the field of information technology, automation or communinations.• IEEE Signal Processing Society 1995 Best Paper Award (Technical Area: Image andMultidimensional Signal Processing ) for the paper with A. Aldroubi and M. Eden, "B-spline signalprocessing, Part I: theory," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, February 1993.• Fellow of the IEEE (Jan. 1999) with the citation "for contribution to the theory and practice ofsplines in signal processing".• IEEE Signal Processing Society 2000 Magazine Award for the paper: M. Unser, "Splines: A perfectfit for signal and image processing," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 22-38,November 1999.Research interestsMedical imaging: image acquisition, display, statistical analysis of functional images, multimodalimage registration (PET, MRI, fMRI), segmentation, boundary detection, data compression.Biomedical signal/image processing: restoration and quantitative analysis of high resolution electronmicrographs, 3D reconstruction, multi-channel deconvolution, wavelet techniques in medicine andbiology (e.g., statistical analysis of fMRI sequences).Pattern recognition : classification and feature reduction methods, multiresolution methods,applications in medicine and biology (e.g., analysis of electrophoretograms, mammograms).Computer vision: analysis of image sequences (echocardiograms, MRI), data fusion (affine andelastic matching in 2D or 3D), texture, partial differential equations for image reconstruction and datarecovery.Theoretical image/signal processing: multiresolution techniques, splines, wavelet transforms,sampling theory, continuous/discrete signal representation and processing, geometrictransformations.

(iii)MentorshipACADEMIC ACTIVITIESPost-doctoral fellows:- Dr. Chulhee Lee, NIH Visiting Fellow, June 1993 - August 1997.- Dr. Michael Vrhel, NRC Fellow, September 1993 - August 1997.- Dr. Philippe Thévenaz, NIH Visiting Fellow, February 1994 - August 1997.- Dr. Patrick Brigger, FNS Fellow, April 1996 - August 1997.- Dr. Gloria Menegaz, FNS Fellow, June – December 2000.Ph.D. Sudents:Stephan Horbelt, Jan Kybic, Manuela Felner, Maria Arrate Muñoz Barrutia, Mathews Jacob, Slavica Jonic,Michael Liebling, Michael Sühling, Muthuvel ArigovindanVisitors:- Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1993-1995.- Dr. Olivier Laligant, University of Bourgogne, France, 1996.- Prof. Oleh Tretiak, Drexel University, 1996.Thesis committees- Patrice Palissan, INSA, Lyon, France, July 1994.- Olivier Laligant, University of Bourgogne, Le Creusot, France, July 1995.- Mauritz Malfait, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, September 1995.- Djamila Mahmoudi, EPFL, September 1998.- Olivier Coulon, ENST-Paris, Octobre 1998.- Sushil Kumar Bhattacharjee, EPFL, June 4, 1999.- Fabritio Smeraldi, EPFL, March 17, 2000.- Maarten Jansen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, April, 7, 2000.- Jérôme Lebrun, EPFL, May 31, 2000.- Erik Meijering, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherland, October 4, 2000.Courses• Signals and Systems I and II, EPFL/ DMT Winter semester 2001.• Biomedical Image Processing, EPFL/ DMT Summer semester 2000.• Image Processing I and II, EPFL/ DMT Winter and Summer semesters 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01.• Advanced Signal Processing: Wavelets and Subband Coding, SSC Summer semester 1998, 2000.• Splines and wavelets for medical imaging, EMBS Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, BerderIsland, France, June, 2000.• Medical Image Processing, Tutorial at IEEE-ICIP 1996, Lausanne, Switzerland.• A Tutorial on Wavelet Applications in Medicine and Biology, IEEE-EMBS 1996, Amsterdam, TheNetherlands.

(iv)SocietiesPROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES• Fellow Member, IEEE (Signal Processing and EMBS Societies)• Member, European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP)• Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)• Member, The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE)Editorial activities• Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, starting Jan 2003.• Guest Editor, Special issue on Wavelets in Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on MedicalImaging, submission deadline October 2001.• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 1999-present.• Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 1995-1998.• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1992-1995.• Member of the Editorial Board of Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, aninternational Journal.• Member of the Editorial Board of Signal Processing, the Journal of the European Association forSignal Processing (EURASIP).• Member of the Editorial Board of Pattern Recognition.• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Visual Communication and ImageRepresentation.• Member of the Editorial Board for the book series, Emerging Technologies in BiomedicalEngineering, IEEE Press.• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the book series, Applied and Numerical HarmonicAnalysis, Birkhäuser, Boston.Committee activities• Member, Advisory Board, Mini-cyclotron for Positron Emission Tomography, University Hospital ofGeneva, Switzerland, 1999-present.• Member, Advisory Board, SIAM Activity Group (SIAG) on Imaging Science, April 2000 - December2002.• Member, Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) Committee, IEEE Signal ProcessingSociety, 1993 - 2000.• Member, NIH Advisory Committee on Computer Usage, 1992 - 1997.• IEEE/EMBS Fellow Selection Committee, 1999.• Chair, Commission Informatique, DMT/EPFL, 1998 - now.

(v)Conference organization• Chairman, IEEE International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging,Washington, DC, July 7-10, 2002.• Chairman and organizer, Mini-symposium on Wavelets and Image Processing, SIAM ImagingScience Conference,Boston, March, 2002.• Member, Program Committee, SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging, 23-28 February, 2002.• Member, Review Committee, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI2001, October, 2001.• Member, Program Committee, Second International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and itsApplications, Hong Kong, December 18-20, 2001.• Member of the technical committee, SPIE’s International Symposium on Medical Imaging,Conf. on Image Processing, San Diego, CA, 17-23 February, 2001.• Cochair , SPIE Conference on Wavelets IX, San Diego, CA, July 29-August 3, 2001.• Chairman and organizer, Special Session on Splines in Signal Processing, European SignalProcessing Conference, Tampere, Finland, September 4-8, 2000.• Member of the technical committee, SPIE Conference on Mathematical Methods inBiomedical Imaging, San Diego, CA, 30 July-4 August, 2000.• Chair , SPIE Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VIII, SanDiego, CA, 18-23 July, 2000.• Chairman. Session on Medical Image Processing. IEEE Int. Conference on ImageProcessing, Kobe, Japan, October 25-28, 1999.• Chair , SPIE Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and ImageProcessing VII, Denver, CO, 18-23 July, 1999.• Member of the technical committee, International Conference on Quality Control by ArtificialVision, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, November 10-12, 1998.• Cochair , Wavelet Applications Workshop, Centro Stephano Franscini, Monte Verità, Ticino,Switzerland, September 28 - October 2, 1998.• Cochair , SPIE Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing VI, SanDiego, CA, July 30-August 4, 1998.• Member of the technical committee, International Conference on Quality Control by ArtificialVision, Le Creusot, Burgundy, France, May 28-30, 1997.• Cochair , SPIE Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing V, SanDiego, CA, 27 July - 1 August, 1997.• Member of the technical committee, Life Sciences '96, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 21-26, 1996.• Chair, SPIE Conference on Wavelet Applications in Signal and ImageProcessing IV, Denver, CO, August 4-9, 1996.• Member of the technical committee, workshop on Medical Image Compression Milan, Italy,May 21-23, 1996.

(vi)• Member of the technical committee, Workshop on New Advances in Biomedical Signal and ImageProcessing, Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada,September 19-20, 1995.• Member of the technical committee, Frontiers in Biomedical Visualization 1995.• Tutorial chair, IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP'95), Washington, DC, October 22-25,1995.• Chair with A. Laine, SPIE Conference on Mathematical Imaging : Wavelet Applications inSignal and Image Processing III, San Diego, CA, July 24-29, 1995.• Organizer of a special session on Biomedical Imaging, Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, andSignal Processing (ICASSP'95), Detroit, March, 1995.• Chair of Signal Analysis Track, Int. Conf. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,Baltimore, November 3-6, 1994.• Chair, IEEE-EMBS Workshop on Wavelets in Medicine and Biology,Baltimore, November 1-2, 1994.• Chair with A. Laine, SPIE Conference on Mathematical Imaging : Wavelet Applications inSignal and Image Processing II, San Diego, CA, July 24-29, 1994.• Cochair, SPIE Conference on Mathematical Imaging : Wavelet Applications in Signal andImage Processing, San Diego, CA, July 15-16, 1993.Invited talks (selected)• Plenary speaker, SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging, 23-28 February, 2002.• Plenary speaker, Fourth International Meeting on Sampling Theory and Applications, Orlando, FloridaMay 13-17, 2001.• Invited speaker, Workshop on Ideal Data Representation, Institute of Applied Mathematics (IMA),Minneapolis, USA, April 9-13, 2001.• Invited Lecturer (4 x 2 hours), Workshop on Fractals and Wavelets in Medical Imaging, Centre deRecherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Canada, February 23-24, 2001.• Plenary speaker, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’2000), Tampere, Finland,September 4-8, 2000.• Invited lecturer, 4 th IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, Berder Island,France, June 17-24, 2000.• Keynote speaker, 18 th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, February10, 2000, Houston, TX.• Plenary speaker, "Why we don't need the bandlimited hypothesis," International Workshop onSampling Theory and Applications, June 16-19, Aveiro, Portugal.• Plenary speaker, "Wavelets, Statistics, and Biomedical Applications," IEEE Workshop on StatisticalSignal and Array Processing, Corfu, Greece, June 1996.• Invited speaker, Workshop on New Advances in Biomedical Signal and Image Processing, 17th AnnualInt. Conf IEEE-EMBS, Montreal, Canada, September 19-20, 1995.

(vii)• Invited lecturer, "Biomedical Applications of Splines and Wavelets," IEEE Signal Processing Society,Signal Processing Workshop, Washington DC, March 24-25, 1995.• Invited speaker, IS&T's 48th Annual Conference, Washington, DC, May 7-11, 1995.• Invited speaker, Workshop on Time-Frequency, Wavelets, and Multiresolution, Lyon, France, March 9-11, 1994.• Invited speaker, Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 24-26,1993.• Invited speaker, Workshop on Digitized Radiographic Images: Challenges and Opportunities, NationalLibrary of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, June 2-3, 1993.• Invited speaker, American-Polish Workshop, Image Processing in Biology and Medicine, Warsaw,Poland, May 16-22, 1993.• Invited speaker, Converging Approaches in Computational Biology, Albany, NY, September 13-16,1990.Reviewing activitiesJournals:Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. SignalProcessing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Trans. Information theory, IEEE Trans. Circuits andSystems, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Systems Man andCybernetics, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, Proceedings of theIEEE, Int. J. Computer Vision, CVGIP: Graphical models and Image Processing , CVGIP: ImageUnderstanding, J. Microscopy, Ultramicroscopy, IEE Proceedings, Electronic Letters, SIAM J. MathAnalysis, J. Fourier Analysis and Applications, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis.Publishers:CRC Press, Prentice Hall, Birkhäuser, IEEE Press.Agencies:American National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health.References will be provided upon request. March 26, 2002.