EE Distinguished Lecturer Seminar: Inverse problems in medical imaging – view the invisible
Event details
| Date | 14.06.2019 |
| Hour | 13:15 › 14:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Thiran is author or co-author of 1 book, 9 book chapters, more than 200 journal papers and more than 250 peer-reviewed papers published in the proceedings of international conferences. He holds 9 international patents. Among other duties, he has been Co-Editor- in-Chief of the Signal Processing journal, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the general chairman of the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008) and the Technical Co-chair of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP 2015 - Quebec City, Canada). He is a senior member of the IEEE. |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract: Over the last decade, thanks to the development of both mathematical methods and computational power, medical imaging has been evolving rapidly from classical image visualization and post-processing to the extraction of more subtle quantitative information about the organ/tissue at hand. This domain is now known as computational medical imaging. In this context, I will present how the resolution of a regularized linear inverse problem can reveal unprecedented information in medical imaging. I will first consider the relatively recent modality of diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR), and show how we can extract unique information from the raw data by properly modeling the forward problem and carefully inverting it. Our work allows extracting information about the brain tissue architecture that is several orders of magnitude smaller than the MR imaging resolution, leading to so-called brain microstructure analysis. I will also show how different MR contrasts can be used jointly to reconstruct an even more complete picture of the tissue microstructure, paving the way towards what I call MR microscopy. I will also show how the same concepts apply to other medical imaging problems, namely ultrasound image reconstruction and radiotherapy planning, and I will finish by discussing how machine learning can contribute to this field.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Elison Matioli
Contact
- [email protected] / +41 21 69 33721