PhD for European Project HiPerNav

This PhD position is part of an EU project, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network project: HiPerNav (High Performance soft-tissue Navigation). The scientific and clinical goal of HiPerNav is to develop a navigation platform for management of liver cancer and metastases treatment to improve the eligibility and prognosis for liver surgical procedures and ablation treatment, enabling an integral management of surgical workflow: (1) pre-operative surgical planning; (2) intra-operative resection navigation and ablation monitoring; (3) post-operative quality control.

This PhD position will focus on the development of new methodologies to assess the quality of multimodal medical images, such as stereoscopic data, US, Dyna-CT, and MRI.  The interest of these images is to improve the soft tissue navigation and surgical procedures. The diversity of the information conveyed by the diagnostic imaging systems should be exploited to develop image quality metrics consistent with the perceptual evaluation of doctors.  The proposed quality metrics should also take into account the different distortions that can affect the processed data, such as noise and low-contrast. Moreover, the development of quality metrics that aim at evaluating the performance of medical image processing methods, such as image enhancement, image segmentation and denoising, will be also investigated.
This work will be part of the activities related to research and development of new medical technology, applied cross-disciplinary research of novel tool development for medical imaging/visualization and navigation technology, clinical evaluation, and scientific dissemination of knowledge.

Université Paris 13, France. Laboratoire de Traitement et Transport de l'Information (L2TI).

This work will be done in collaboration with:

• The Norwegian Colour and Visual Computing Laboratory is a research group within the Faculty of Computer Science and Media Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik, Norway.
• Intervention centre at Oslo University Hospital (Oslo, Norway) . 

 

Qualifications for applicant

• Master of science in relevant fields (computer science, image processing, informatics, medical imaging, mathematics) and strong academic record
• Image/video processing, mathematics and statistics
• Good programming skills (Matlab and C++)
• Good oral and written communication skills (in particular English)
• Good knowledge in medical imaging is advantageous
• We emphasize collaborative skills, initiative, ability to accomplish tasks, practical skills, and ability to create and establish new projects in collaboration with colleagues.
• Mobility Rule: At the time of recruitment, the candidate must not has resided or carried out its main activity (work, studies, etc.) in France for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the reference date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account.

For further information about the position, please contact Dr. Mounir Kaaniche, Associate professor at Université Paris 13 (mounir.kaaniche@univ-paris13.fr)