3 PhD Positions, Minimally Invasive Robotics in An MRI Environment (MIRIAM), University of Twente, Netherlands
The Institute of Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine at the University of Twente, Netherlands has openings for three PhD student positions for the project MIRIAM – Minimally Invasive Robotics in An MRI Environment.
Research Project Description
Needle insertion is one of the most common minimally invasive clinical procedures. It is used for diagnosis, localized drug delivery, and tissue sample removal from tumours deep within the body. These procedures are often performed under the guidance of magnetic resonance (MR) images. For effective medical diagnoses and treatments, the needle must reach its intended target. However, tissue inhomogeneity, organ deformation, and physiological processes cause the needle to deviate from its intended path. In order to increase the targeting accuracy of needles and improve clinical outcomes, the goal of this research project is to develop:
- An MR-compatible robotic device (PhD: Mechanical Design – Position 1)
- Patient-specific biomechanical tool-tissue interaction models (PhD: Biomechanical Modeling – Position 2)
- Techniques to track and control needle path using MR images (PhD: Image Processing, State Estimation and Control – Position 3)
Biomedical, Engineering, MIRIAM, Netherlands, PhD, Research, University of Twente
PhD Researchers on Distributed Information Indexing and Retrieval, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The Viper group of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Geneva is seeking two PhD Researchers on Distributed Information Indexing and Retrieval
The Viper group on Multimedia Information Management (http://viper.unige.ch) is part of the Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory. The Viper group initially specializes on visual information management and has now extended its activities on multimedia information management. This activity includes several complementary aspects along the chain of assisted content-based information management. We address the problem of content-based search and retrieval of multimedia data in relation with modern machine learning and data mining techniques.
This is also related to our research on content characterization where we mixed automated characterization techniques and knowledge management and discovery techniques. The Viper group is now chairing the Technical Committee 12 of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR-TC12, “Multimedia and Visual Information Systems” http://www.iapr-tc12.org). It has co-organized the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (ACM-CIVR 2009, http://www.civr2009.org) and is chairing the International Conference of the ACM-SIG on Information Retrieval in 2010 (ACM-SIGIR 2010, http://www.sigir2010.org).
Tasks
The two positions are within the Swiss National Science Fundation (SNFS) project for Large Scale Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Collections. The project focuses on the issues of high performance, distributed and parallel computation in the process of multi-modal information indexing and content abstraction. The first PhD topic is dedicated to distributed data processing and indexing, while the second is centered around parallel machine learning and data-mining algorithms. Post-holders will be asked to provide new specifications of a Multimedia Information Retrieval system based on a complete state of the art of their respective domain as well on as an evaluation of the most promising techniques. The integration of their work into a single prototype is planned in a second phase of the project.
Computer Science, PhD, Research, Switzerland, University of Geneva
PhD / MEng.Sc Scholarship in the area of Geospatial Applications of Wireless Sensors, Ireland
Applications are invited for a Masters/PhD studentship inthe area of wireless sensor networks for collection of real time data for use in geospatial applications. This area of research, led by Dr. Ronan Farrell, will be undertaken in close collaboration with the national StratAG (www.stratag.ie) research consortium on advanced geotechnologies. The focus of this consortium is [...]
August 6, 2009
PhD Studentship in Computer Vision based Advanced Geotechnologies, Ireland
The Computer Vision and Imaging Laboratory, at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth is currently inviting applications for a PhD Studentship in Computer Vision based Advanced Geotechnologies. The successful candidate will be required to develop state-of-the-art computer vision techniques for improved image understanding,image querying and matching, and camera pose estimation. This work will becarried [...]
August 6, 2009
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