[visionlist] PhD Student Position in Medical Image Analysis

[Philippe C. Cattin]

"2D/3D Elastic Image Registration"

Within the scope of this project at the Medical Image Analysis Center 
(MIAC), University of Basel, we are developing novel image registration 
methods allowing to spatially align two-dimensional (2D) histology and 
three-dimensional (3D) microCT data.

Significant progress in medical image registration has been made in 
recent years. Many approaches have been proposed registering 2D-to-2D or 
3D-to-3D images even when the two images are from different imaging 
modalities. Much of this progress is thanks to improved interpolation 
schemes and similarity measures such as mutual information. Only little 
research has though been invested into developing registration 
approaches for 2D-to-3D images of the same modality and virtually no 
research effort has put into solving the problem of elastically 
registering 2D-to-3D images of different modalities. This despite the 
clinical need when for example comparing a microCT volumetric image with 
several slices of histological data of the same sample. As of today, the 
corresponing location in the microCT data set has to be tediously found 
manually for each histological image.

The focus of this Ph.D. thesis will be on developing novel techniques to 
automatically find the most suitable location in the three-dimensional 
microCT data set for each histological image. The main challange of this 
project will be to develop multi-modal local region descriptors allowing 
to match the images.

The candidate must have a strong background in mathematics, good 
communication skills, the ability to combine basic research activities 
with the needs of clinicians and be willing to work in a clinical 
environment.

We are looking for a motivated, proactive person with a background in 
mathematics, physics, computer science or other related fields. The 
candidate will have solid programming skills, as well as a good 
background in general engineering mathematics. A MSc degree or 
comparable previous experience is required to join the PhD program at 
our University.

Interested candidates should send their resumes with references and 
school transcripts to:

Prof. Dr. Philippe Cattin
Medical Image Analysis Center
University of Basel
Spitalstrasse 21
CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland
email: philippe.cattin at unibas.ch
http://miac.unibas.ch

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Prof. Dr. Philippe C. Cattin                  Philippe.Cattin at unibas.ch
Medical Image Analysis Center (MIAC)             http://miac.unibas.ch/
c/o University Hospital, Spitalstrasse 21            tel:+41-61-2659655
University of Basel, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland      fax:+41-61-2659668