Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

INRIA Associate Teams

Galen Team along with the Machine Learning Group (DAGS) of the Computer Science Department of Stanford University have proposed the creation of the SPLENDID — Self-Paced Learning for Exploiting Noisy, Diverse or Incomplete Data associate team. The proposal was among the ones accepted in the 2011 INRIA campaign.

INRIA International Partners

• Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Pennsylvania: The GALEN and the Section of Biomedical Image Analysis - SBIA group (Pr. C. Davatzikos) have an established collaboration during the past three years in the area of deformable image fusion. In this context, PhD candidates of the GALEN group spend time visiting the SBIA group, while Pr. Paragios participates at a Nantional Institute Health grant led by SBIA. Such a collaboration led to a number of outstanding rank journal and conference publications [19] .

• Department of Computer Science, StonyBrook, State University of New York: The GALEN and the Image Analysis Lab - CBL (Pr. D. Samaras) have an established collaboration during the past three years in the area of graph-based methods in medical imaging and computer vision. Pr. Samaras holds a research professor position (DIGITEO chair) at Ecole Centrale de Paris. Such a collaboration led to a number of outstanding rank conference publications during the last year [38] , [32] .

• Department of Computer Science, University of Houston: The GALEN and the Computational Biomedicine Lab - CBL (Pr. I. Kakadiaris) have an established collaboration during the past three years in the area of medical image segmentation and gene expressions imaging processing. Pr. Paragios holds a research professor position at the Computer Science Department of the University of Houston. Such a collaboration led to a number of outstanding rank conference publications [19] during the last year [36] , [28] .

• Chang Gung Memorial Hospital – Linkou, Taiwan: In the context of France-Taiwan program sponsored from the French Science Foundation, GALEN (in collaboration with the department of radiology of Henri Mondor University Hospital), a project (ADAMANTIUS) was initiated with the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital – Linkou that is the largest private hospital in Taiwan. The aim of the project is to study the Automatic Detection And characterization of residual Masses in pAtients with lymphomas through fusioN of whole-body diffusion-weighTed mrI on 3T and 18F-flUorodeoxyglucoSe pet/ct.

Visits of International Scientists

• Rafeef Abugharbieh: Jan-Jun. 2011, University of British Columbia - CA.

• Ghassan Hamarneh: Jan-Jun. 2011, Simon Fraser University - CA.

• Dimitris Samaras: Oct. 2011, State University of New York - StonyBrook, US.

Internship

• Avinash Singh Bagri: Indian Institute of Technology - New Delhi, IN - Message Passing Methods on Graphics Processing Units towards Real-time Deformable Image Fusion .

• Krishna Nand Keshava Murthy: University of British Columbia, CA - Iconic/Geometric Deformable Registration of Diffusion Tensor Images.

• Thanos Papadopoulos: Technical University of Athens, GR - Iconic/Geometric Atlas-based Segmentation of Liver Volumetric Images.

• Jose Carlos Rubio: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES - HyperGraph Representations and Matching towards Scene Understanding.

• Stavros Tsogkas: Technical University of Athens, GR - Learning-based Symmetry Detection.