http://biwww.epfl.ch EPFL - Biomedical Imaging Group - News http://bigwww.epfl.ch/jobs/jan2010.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/jobs/jan2010.html Post'doc positions available in biomedical imaging. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:46:11 GMT http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imondrian/id468222509?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imondrian/id468222509?mt=8 Ricard's iMondrian application is now available in the App Store as a free download for you iPhone/ipad. It illustrates an intriguing interaction between science and art: an (unstable) stochastic partial differential equation that results in a harmonious, rather than chaotic, solution. Don't forget to rate it ! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 7:49:34 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Pouya Tafti successfully passed his public Ph.D. defense on Nov. 8, 2011. It was a masterful demonstration of his pedagogical and artistic qualities. Congratulations! Mon, 14 Nov 2011 7:36:37 GMT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uzc5SmEWdM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uzc5SmEWdM On the theory and practice of signal processing: "Le rap des Signaux et Systèmes" by a local polytechnique artist. Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:20:22 GMT https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y2WTGBF https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y2WTGBF Take some time to respond to the Euro-bioimaging survey. Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:37:35 GMT http://embs.org/news/65-2011-embs-awards http://embs.org/news/65-2011-embs-awards Michael Unser is the recipient of the 2011 Technical Achievement Award for "outstanding contributions to signal and image processing with applications in biomedical imaging" from the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) of the IEEE. Tue, 17 May 2011 7:24:50 GMT http://sti.epfl.ch/page-53683.html http://sti.epfl.ch/page-53683.html ERC Advanced Researcher Grant: The project "FUN-SP: A functional framework for sparse, non-Gaussian signal processing and bioimaging" started on April 1, 2011 and is funded for 5 years. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:37:02 GMT http://new.biomedicalimaging.org/archive/2011/StudentActivities.asp.html http://new.biomedicalimaging.org/archive/2011/StudentActivities.asp.html Pouya Tafti and Ricard Delgado-Gonzalo have won the ISBI-2011 Best Student Paper Award. Congratulations ! This is a substantial achievement: ISBI is the primary international conference in Biomedical Imaging of the IEEE. Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:42:56 GMT http://www.birs.ca/events/2010/5-day-workshops/10w5122 http://www.birs.ca/events/2010/5-day-workshops/10w5122 Michael Unser gave a keynote presentation at the workshop on "Sampling and Reconstruction: Applications and Advances", November 28 - December 3, 2010, Banff, Canada. Thu, 23 Dec 2010 9:51:19 GMT http://www.ssbe.ch/Section/ssbe-awards http://www.ssbe.ch/Section/ssbe-awards François Aguet has received the 2010 Research Award of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations !!! Wed, 15 Sep 2010 6:15:12 GMT http://www.eusipco2010.org/info/plenary_speakers_and_inaugural_lecturer/ http://www.eusipco2010.org/info/plenary_speakers_and_inaugural_lecturer/ Michael Unser gave an inaugural lecture at the 2010 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2010), August 23-27, 2010, Aalborg, Denmark. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 7:07:02 GMT http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2009_2010/symposium/fluowks/ http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/research/events/2009_2010/symposium/fluowks/ Michael Unser was plenary speaker at the EPSRC Symposium Workshop on Spatio-temporal dynamics challenges from fluorescence data (FLUO), July 12-16, 2010, University of Warwick, UK Tue, 28 Sep 2010 7:04:43 GMT http://www.aset.org.tn/conf/ADA6/ http://www.aset.org.tn/conf/ADA6/ Michael Unser was keynote speaker at the Sixth Astronomical Data Analysis Conference (ADA'6), Monastir, Tunisia, May 3-6, 2010. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 7:12:12 GMT http://www.pims.math.ca/files/CSC2010_poster.pdf http://www.pims.math.ca/files/CSC2010_poster.pdf Michael Unser gave an invited presentation in the Distinguished Speakers Series in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, April 8-9, 2010, Vancouver. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 7:21:17 GMT http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/awards-fellows/awardspage/youngauthor/ http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/awards-fellows/awardspage/youngauthor/ Florian Luisier was selected to receive the 2009 Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the paper: F. Luisier, T. Blu and M. Unser, "A New SURE Approach to Image Denoising: Interscale Orthonormal Wavelet Thresholding", IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 593 - 606, March 2007. Congratulations for this major achievement !!! Mon, 04 Jan 2010 8:55:37 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Florian Luisier successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on November 20, 2009. Congratulations! Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:29:24 GMT http://lemano.unige.ch/ http://lemano.unige.ch/ Dimitri Van De Ville was awarded an assistant-professor fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is setting up his own Medical Image Processing lab, jointly with the University of Geneva (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology) and the EPFL (School of Engineering, Institute of Bioengineering). Un grand bravo à Monsieur le Professeur !!!! Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:43:41 GMT http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ml/prib2009/prib2009.html http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ml/prib2009/prib2009.html Michael Unser gave a keynote presentation at the 4th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, 7-9 September 2009, Sheffield, UK. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:39:11 GMT http://www.ssbe.ch/section/ssbe-awards http://www.ssbe.ch/section/ssbe-awards Cédric Vonesch is the happy recipient of the 2009 Research Award of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering. Congratulations !!! Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:52:00 GMT http://www.dsp2009.org/default.asp http://www.dsp2009.org/default.asp Michael Unser gave a keynote presentation at the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), 5-7 July 2009, Santorini, Greece. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:38:06 GMT http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2009/wa/ http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2009/wa/ Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Wavelets and Applications, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 14-20, 2009. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:36:31 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ François Aguet successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on May 5, 2009. His public defense is scheduled for May 28, 2009. Congratulations! Wed, 06 May 2009 13:43:07 GMT http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/SAMPTA09/ http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/SAMPTA09/ Michael Unser was co-chair of the technical program of the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, May 18-22, 2009, Marseille, France. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:31:50 GMT http://smai.emath.fr/smai2009/ http://smai.emath.fr/smai2009/ Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the meeting of the French Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles), May 25-29, 2009, La-Colle-sur-Loup, France. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:34:42 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ BIG headlines: On April 22 at 9.22AM (IST), Dr. Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula became the proud father of a little Indian boy; a few minutes later, he got notification of his appointment as Assistant Professor in EE with the prestigious Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Super congratulations !! His life will never be the same again... Mon, 27 Apr 2009 7:13:32 GMT http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/awards-fellows/award-recipient/ http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/awards-fellows/award-recipient/ Michael Unser was selected to receive the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award. Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:39:17 GMT http://www.eurasip.org/ http://www.eurasip.org/ Michael Unser was invited to become EURASIP Fellow, the most prestigious honor of the European Association for Signal and Image Processing. Thu, 29 Jan 2009 9:28:59 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Sathish successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on January 11, 2009. The public defense is scheduled for March 6, 2009. Congratulations! Thu, 29 Jan 2009 9:34:23 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Cédric Vonesch successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on January 13, 2009. Congratulations! Thu, 29 Jan 2009 9:36:06 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/tutorials/items/horizon-scan.jpg http://bigwww.epfl.ch/tutorials/items/horizon-scan.jpg BIG's research on splines and medical imaging was featured in the December 2008 issue of Horizons (the magazine of the Swiss Science Foundation); it also made the cover page. Fri, 16 Jan 2009 8:00:26 GMT http://conf05.iitkgp.ac.in/icvgip08/?id=plenaryt http://conf05.iitkgp.ac.in/icvgip08/?id=plenaryt Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the Sixth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, December 16-19, 2008, Bhubaneswar, India. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:28:06 GMT http://www.icarcv.org/2008/ http://www.icarcv.org/2008/ Michael Unser gave a keynote presentation at 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2008, December 17-20, 2008, Hanoi, Vietnam. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:29:37 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Ildar Khalidov successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on November 11, 2008. The public defense is scheduled for January 30, 2009. Congratulations! Thu, 29 Jan 2009 9:32:57 GMT http://kongress-und-kommunikation.com/cms/website.php?id=/RapidMRImaging.htm http://kongress-und-kommunikation.com/cms/website.php?id=/RapidMRImaging.htm Michael Unser gave a keynote presentation at the Workshop "Rapid MR-Imaging - Beyond the Nyquist Limit", October 12-13, 2008, Freiburg, Germany. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 7:43:46 GMT http://esi.isiknowledge.com/home.cgi http://esi.isiknowledge.com/home.cgi The tutorial article "Splines - A perfect fit for signal and image processing" (Unser, 1999) has reached the status of the most cited paper of the IEEE Signal Process Mag within the past 10 years. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:56:01 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/thevenaz0801.pdf http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/thevenaz0801.pdf BIG achievement for April Fool's Day: publication of "Snakuscules" in the IEEE Trans. Image Processing. "What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphism" - Friedrich Nietzsche Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:45:07 GMT http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-599.html http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-599.html Michael Unser gave the keynote presentation at the IASTED Int. Conf. on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications (SPPRA 2008), February 13-15, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 8:20:46 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Unser was the recipient of the 2007/2008 Israel Pollak Distinguished Lecturer Award. He visited the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and delivered a series of lectures, January 12-17, 2008. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 8:33:26 GMT http://www.cimst.ethz.ch/news/symposium/program http://www.cimst.ethz.ch/news/symposium/program Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the CIMST Symposium, "Imaging: Pushing the Limits in Bio-medical Research", ETH Zurich, Switzerland, January 21-22, 2008. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 8:16:51 GMT http://www.rit.edu/~mrreee/camsap/speakers.html http://www.rit.edu/~mrreee/camsap/speakers.html Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP 2007), St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, December 12-14, 2007. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 8:19:26 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/teaching/projects/abstracts/schmit/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/teaching/projects/abstracts/schmit/ Guillaume Schmit received the 2007 Student Award of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering for his EPFL master thesis "Deconvolution in 3D: an ImageJ plugin, which he completed in the lab. Congratulations ! Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:54:48 GMT http://www.sgbt.ch/2007_Meeting/ http://www.sgbt.ch/2007_Meeting/ Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering, CSEM, Neuchâtel, September 13-14, 2007. Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:59:36 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Francois Aguet received the Max Anliker Memorial Poster Award for his beautiful poster presentation "A model-based approach to extended depth of field for brightfield microscopy" at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering, CSEM, Neuchâtel, September 13-14, 2007. Well done! Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:16:10 GMT http://www-m6.ma.tum.de/ http://www-m6.ma.tum.de/ Michael Unser gave a series of invited lectures at the Summer School, "New Trends and Directions in Harmonic Analysis, Approximation Theory, and Image Analysis", Inzell, Germany, September 17 - 21, 2007 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:16:13 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ With the publication titled "Affine Invariance, Splines, Wavelets and Fractional Brownian Fields," the Biomedical Imaging Group has reached its five-hundredth publication, shortly before it turns ten-year old. Congratulations to all BIG members for all the nice work done through the years! Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:15:38 GMT http://www.isispa.org/ispa07/ http://www.isispa.org/ispa07/ Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the 5th Int'l Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, September 27-29, 2007. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 8:25:09 GMT http://spie.org/app/program/index.cfm http://spie.org/app/program/index.cfm Michael Unser gave the keynote lecture, "Wavelets, Operators, and Invariance Principles", at the SPIE conference Wavelets XII, August 26-30, 2007, San Diego, CA. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:26:24 GMT http://www.waveletseries.org/nextconference.htm http://www.waveletseries.org/nextconference.htm Dimitri Van De Ville was the general co-chair of the SPIE conference Wavelets XII, August 26-30, 2007, San Diego, CA. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:17:51 GMT http://web.auth.gr/sampta07/ http://web.auth.gr/sampta07/ Michael Unser gave the keynote lecture, "Splines, Noise, Fractals and Optimal Signal Reconstruction", at the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2-7 June 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:23:41 GMT http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=6059 http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=6059 Michael Unser appears on the new "Highly-Cited-Scientists" list provided by the ISI - Institute for Scientific Information. He is among the most highly cited researchers in the "Engineering" category. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 8:23:43 GMT http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/2007/Tutorials.asp http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/2007/Tutorials.asp Michael Unser gave a 4-hour tutorial on the colored revolution of bio-imaging at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April 12-15, 2007, Washington DC, USA. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:25:08 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/thevenaz0801.pdf http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/thevenaz0801.pdf BIG achievement for April Fool's day: publication of "Snakuscules" in the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. "What then is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphism" - Friedrich Nietzsche Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:43:40 GMT http://www.satw.ch/index_EN http://www.satw.ch/index_EN Michael Unser was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) with the citation "for pioneering work establishing a link between engineering and the life sciences via the development of novel algorithms for the analysis of biomedical images". Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:30:37 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Thierry Blu won a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the article "Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation" (co-authored with M. Vetterli and P. Marziliano). Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:23:35 GMT http://www.eusipco2006.org/tutorials.htm http://www.eusipco2006.org/tutorials.htm Michael Unser gave a 4-hour tutorial on the colored revolution of bio-imaging at the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO'06), September 4-8, 2006, Florence, Italy. Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:41:01 GMT http://www.bme.rochester.edu/ http://www.bme.rochester.edu/ Mathews Jacob has accepted an offer (tenure-track assistant professor) with the department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester. Good luck and congratulation ! Wed, 14 Jun 2006 6:58:22 GMT http://www.icassp2006.org/SPCWinners.asp http://www.icassp2006.org/SPCWinners.asp Sathish Ramani won a ICASSP 2006 Best Student Paper Award in the IMDSP category. Congratulations ! Tue, 20 Jun 2006 7:44:33 GMT http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5774/751 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5774/751 Michael Liebling (former member of BIG) just demonstrated that wavelets can lead to publication in "Science". Thanks for showing us the way! Fri, 12 May 2006 7:39:38 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/vonesch0601.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/vonesch0601.html The IEEE Signal Processing Magazine published a special issue on Molecular and Cellular Bioimaging. Check out the introductory paper on the "Colored Revolution of Bioimaging" by our local team of multidisciplinary experts! Fri, 12 May 2006 7:49:18 GMT http://vpaa.epfl.ch/page16452.html http://vpaa.epfl.ch/page16452.html Muthuvel Arigovindan was selected to receive the 2006 EPFL Doctoral Award (best thesis award) "for fundamental contributions to the theory of vector-splines and its innovative application to ultrasound imaging". Congratulations to Muthuvel for his achievement ! Fri, 12 May 2006 8:09:31 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Unser gave a 4-hour tutorial on sampling and interpolation at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April 6-9, 2006, Arlington, VA, USA. Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:47:46 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Francois Aguet's recent work on super-resolution localization of nanoparticles in fluorescence microscopy (Optics Express, Dec. 2005) is discussed in the 2006 March issue of Photonics Showcase. Congratulations for the impact in optics ! Download PDF Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:45:46 GMT http://www.ssbe.ch/2005_Meeting/ http://www.ssbe.ch/2005_Meeting/ The annual meeting of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering took place at the EPFL, September 1-2, 2005. It was organized by members of BIG; in particular, Dimitri Van de Ville (Chairman), Daniel Sage (Secretary General), and Michael Unser (Program Chair). The conference was a success with 11 invited presentations (including a whole day on imaging) and over 130 registered participants. Many thanks to the whole team for a flawless organization ! Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:36:18 GMT http://www.gretsi2005.org/programme.html http://www.gretsi2005.org/programme.html Michael Unser gave the plenary talk, "Vers une théorie unificatrice pour le traitement numérique/analogique des signaux", at the 20th GRETSI Symposium on Signal and Image Processings, September 6-9, 2005, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Tue, 06 Sep 2005 7:49:03 GMT http://www.icip05.org/plenary_full.htm#Plenary1 http://www.icip05.org/plenary_full.htm#Plenary1 Michael Unser gave the plenary talk, "Splines: A unifying framework for image processing", at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, September 11-14, 2005, Genova, Italy. Tue, 06 Sep 2005 7:51:58 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/preprints/condat0502p.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/preprints/condat0502p.html Laurent Condat won the ICIP 2005 Best Student Paper Award for the work that he did during his stay at BIG. Congratulations ! Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:06:03 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Muthuvel Arigovindan successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on August 29, 2005. The public defense is scheduled for September 16, 2005. Congratulations! Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:14:26 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Our research on wavelets in medical imaging was described in the annual report of the ETH board (pp. 32-33 + photos on pp. 12-13). It was selected to illustrate the 2004 research activities of the EPFL. Mon, 23 May 2005 16:16:32 GMT http://www.scalespace.org/program.html http://www.scalespace.org/program.html Michael Unser gave the plenary talk, "Splines: On scale, differential operators and fast algorithms", at the 5th International Conference on Scale Space and PDE Methods in Computer Vision, April 6-10, 2005, Hofgeismar, Germany. Fri, 15 Apr 2005 9:17:30 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Cédric Vonesch was awarded EPFL's Landry prize for his master thesis on generalized Daubechies wavelets. He was also among the finalists for a best poster award at the ICASSP'05 conference in Philadelphia. Congratulations ! Fri, 15 Apr 2005 9:23:53 GMT http://www.pfizerforschungspreis.ch/content/pfizerpreis/fr/home/prizewinner/2005.html http://www.pfizerforschungspreis.ch/content/pfizerpreis/fr/home/prizewinner/2005.html Michael Sühling, Christian Jansen, Muthuvel Arigovindan and Patrick Hunziker have been awarded the prestigeous 2005 Pfizer Research Prize (Cardiovascular System Area) for their work on "Computer Vision for Analysis of Medical Images". The award ceremony took place on February 4, 2005, at the University Hospital in Zurich. Congratulations! Thu, 13 Jan 2005 8:54:08 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/unser/bisp.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/unser/bisp.html Michael Unser is the chair of the newly-formed technical committee on Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The committee, which is now operational, was described in a recent editorial by the president of the society. Fri, 14 Jan 2005 8:24:58 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/unser0406.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/unser0406.html Michael Unser gave the plenary talk, "Think analog--Act digital", at the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, December 11-14, 2004, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India. Tue, 04 Jan 2005 8:12:07 GMT http://nss-mic-rtsd-2004.df.unipi.it/nsshome2004.html http://nss-mic-rtsd-2004.df.unipi.it/nsshome2004.html Michael Unser gave the plenary talk, "Medical Image Interpolation---The Quest for Higher Quality", at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference (MIC'04), October 16-22, 2004, Rome, Italy. Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:25:28 GMT http://www.ssbe.ch/en/ http://www.ssbe.ch/en/ Michael Liebling received the 2004 Research Award of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering for his thesis work "On Fresnelets, interference fringes, and digital holography". Congratulations ! Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:00:53 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/forster0403.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/forster0403.html Brigitte Forster received the Max Anliker Memorial Poster Award for her key contribution to the poster presentation "Extended Depth-of-Field for Color Images in Light Microscopy: Image Fusion and 3D Visualization" at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering, ETH-Zurich, September 2-3, 2004. Wed, 08 Sep 2004 9:09:45 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering, ETH-Zurich, September 2-3, 2004. Wed, 08 Sep 2004 9:11:44 GMT http://www.caesar.de/index.php?id=667 http://www.caesar.de/index.php?id=667 Michael Unser gave the plenary talk, "Advanced Bio-Imaging: The Impact of Mathematics and Signal Processing", at the 5th caesarium / Advances in Molecular Biomedicine, September 6-8, 2004, Bonn, Germany. Wed, 08 Sep 2004 9:16:25 GMT http://www.lap.u-bordeaux.fr/fda04/home.html http://www.lap.u-bordeaux.fr/fda04/home.html Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications (FDA'04), July 19-21, 2004, Bordeaux, France. Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:05:51 GMT http://wama2004.org/ http://wama2004.org/ Michael Unser gave an invited lecture at the summer school, Wavelets and Multifractal Analysis (WAMA'04), July 19 - 31, 2004, Cargèse, Corsica. Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:10:33 GMT http://www.photonics.com/bio/Jul04/XQ/ASP/QX/index.htm http://www.photonics.com/bio/Jul04/XQ/ASP/QX/index.htm NeuronJ, the software developed by Erik Meijering while he was here, made the cover page of the July issue of the widely-distributed journal, Biophotonics. It was most positively reviewed in an article on ImageJ that also mentioned the work of Daniel Sage with IP-Lab. Fri, 20 Aug 2004 8:33:34 GMT http://www.gsf.de/Aktuelles/Kongresse/bioimaging.phtml http://www.gsf.de/Aktuelles/Kongresse/bioimaging.phtml Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the workshop on Bio-imaging organized by the GSF, Munich, June 3-4, 2004. Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:37:33 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Suehling successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on June 25, 2004. The public defense is scheduled for July 16, 2004. Congratulations! Mon, 28 Jun 2004 6:51:29 GMT http://www.vcl.uh.edu/~cvamia/ http://www.vcl.uh.edu/~cvamia/ Michael Unser gave the plenary talk, "Fractals, wavelets, and medical image analysis", at the Computer Vision Approaches to Medical Image Analysis Workshop (CVAMIA), Prague, May 15, 2004. Mon, 17 May 2004 11:36:07 GMT http://www.infography.com/content/813231279520.html http://www.infography.com/content/813231279520.html The web site of EPFL's Biomedical Imaging Group has been cited in "The Infography" as one of the six superlative sources of information about the subject of "Wavelet Applications to Biomedical Data Processing." Tue, 04 May 2004 11:51:40 GMT http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/pages/868610/index.htm http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/pages/868610/index.htm Michael Unser was chairman and organizer of the special session, Wavelets in biomedical imaging, at the 2nd IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'02), April 15-18, Arlington, VA, 2004. Fri, 10 Oct 2003 6:40:44 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Liebling successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on March 30, 2004. The public defense is scheduled for April 21, 2004, at 17:15 in CM3. Congratulations! Thu, 01 Apr 2004 16:28:13 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Dimitri Van de Ville started his new term as Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Mon, 26 Jan 2004 9:54:59 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Philippe Thévenaz started his new term as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:44:55 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/blu0201.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/blu0201.html Thierry Blu and Michael Unser received the 2003 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for their paper "Wavelets, Fractals and Radial Basis Functions". Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:02:43 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Slavica Jonic successfully passed her Ph.D. exam on December 4, 2003. Congratulations! The public defense is on December 19, 2003. Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:03:16 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/jacob/publications/phdthesis.pdf http://bigwww.epfl.ch/jacob/publications/phdthesis.pdf Mathews Jacob successfully passed his Ph.D. exam on September 22, 2003. He has also been awarded a Beckman Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Urbana. Congratulations! Thu, 04 Dec 2003 8:24:04 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/unser0306.html http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/unser0306.html Michael Unser gave a keynote lecture at the Twenty-Fifth Pattern Recognition Symposium (DAGM'03), Magdeburg, Germany, September 10-12, 2003. Fri, 10 Oct 2003 6:47:33 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Unser gave a plenary talk at the International Conference "Wavelets and Splines", July 3-8, 2003, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:03:19 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Sühling and Patrick Hunziker received the Menarini Prize for Echocardiography for their presentations "Exploring the complexity of cardiac motion by multiscale motion mapping" and "Direct measurement of myocardial thickening by means of computer vision" at the annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Cardiology in Lausanne. The papers are co-authored with M. Arigovindan and M. Unser (Biomedical Imaging Group), and C. Jansen, A. Linka, P. Buser, S. Marsch, and C. Heidegger (University Hospital Basel). Fri, 22 Aug 2003 8:31:48 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Biomedical Imaging at the EPFL: The April issue of the A3 journal (journal de l'association des diplomés de l'école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) was entirely devoted to biomedical imaging. Research contributions of the Biomedical Imaging Group are mentioned on page 10. Wed, 21 May 2003 8:00:03 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ EPFL's wavelet interest group, "Catch-a-Wavelet", starts meeting again on a bi-weekly basis. It is animated by Michael Liebling. The first meeting of the semester will take place on Tuesday March 18, 2003, 17:15 at BM 5.202. Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:20:47 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Unser gave an invited presentation on splines and wavelet theory at Cal Tech in Passadena, CA. Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:26:18 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Slavica Jonic received the Best Poster Award at the SPIE Medical Imaging 2003 Symposium in San Diego, CA for the poster "Multiresolution-Based Registration of a Volume to a Set of Its Projections" which she co-authored with Philippe Thévenaz and Michael Unser. Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:02:44 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Unser started his term as new associate Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:43:22 GMT http://www.wavelet.org/ http://www.wavelet.org/ Michael Unser started his term as new Editor-in-Chief of the Wavelet Digest, the monthly electronic newsletter of the wavelet community, which has over 25'000 subscribers. Its website was completely re-designed by Dimitri Van de Ville and is now hosted by the EPFL. Dimitri, Brigitte Foster and Shai Tirosh help out as Technical Editors. Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:25:37 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Christian Jansen received the Young Investigators' Award at the Euroecho 6 meeting, Munich, Germany, for the paper "Multiscale Motion Mapping ("Triple-M imaging") A novel echo imaging mode featuring quantitative echo motion display independent from borders and Doppler", which he co-authored with M. Suehling, M. Arigovindan and M. Unser from the Biomedical Imaging Group. Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:15:32 GMT http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/spm2b.html#New http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/spm2b.html#New The high-quality spline interpolation algorithms developed by Philippe Thévenaz were incorporated into the latest release of SPM (version 2b). SPM (statistical parametric mapping) is a comprehensive software package for analyzing functional imaging data (PET and fMRI); it is freely-available and widely used by the neuroscience community worldwide. Tue, 15 Apr 2003 9:27:53 GMT http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ http://bigwww.epfl.ch/ Michael Unser is the lucky recipient of an ERC Advanced Researcher Grant. The project "FUN-SP: A functional framework for sparse, non-Gaussian signal processing and bioimaging" will start on April 1, 2011 and will be funded for 5 years. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:12:36 GMT