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(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.
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