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Student projects available

Below follows a list of project descriptions for students. Some of the projects are finished, some are in progress, and some are still available to students that want to do a UG4, MSc or a PhD projects.

If you want to do an MSc or PhD with us then you need to go through the application procedures set by the School of Informatics. Make sure you discuss your research proposal first with Malcolm Atkinson. Important to note: you need to apply under Intelligent Systems & their Applications.

The University of Edinburgh offers a MSc/Diploma in Distributed Scientific Computing.

List of available projects

A quantitative diagnostic method incorporating brain images and clinical measures

3 December 2012 - 4:12pm — David.Rodriguez
Student: 
Grade: 

This is a project in collaboration with the Brain Research Imaging Centre under the
Edinburgh Imaging Prize Studentships (Centre for In Vivo Imaging Science).
See http://www.edinburghimaging.com/studentships/advertising.html
and the form in http://www.edinburghimaging.com/documents/CIVIS%20PhDOct2013/application...

Description:

Project status: 
Still available
Degree level: 
PhD
Background: 
The project would suit a student with strong statistical skills and a background in Neuroinformatics, Neuroscience, or Psychology but also potentially a student from a pure Statistical, Mathematical, or Engineering background and an interest in brain ageing and pathology. It requires understanding of statistical analyses and summaries (e.g. hypotheses testing, means, and percentiles), clinical and brain image data, the sensitivities and management of these data; and the ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary group of researchers. There will be additional mentorship from Prof Joanna Wardlaw (expertise in neuroimaging).
Supervisors @ NeSC: 
David.Rodriguez
Other supervisors: 
Dr Dominic Job Dr Susan Shenkin
Subject areas: 
Student project type: 
PhD student project
References: 
1. Dickie, D.A., et al. (2012). Do brain image databanks support understanding of normal ageing brain structure? A systematic review. Eur Radiol. 22, 1385-1394. 2. Farrell, C., et al. (2009). Development and initial testing of normal reference MR images for the brain at ages 65–70 and 75–80 years. Eur Radiol. 19, 177–183. 3. Mazziotta, J.C., et al. (2009). The myth of the normal, average human brain - the ICBM experience: (1) Subject screening and eligibility. Neuroimage. 44, 914-922. 4. Freedman, D. (2010). Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogue with the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 5. Breteler, M., et al. (1994). Cerebral white matter lesions, vascular risk factors, and cognitive function in a population-based study. Neurology. 44,1246-1252.

Distributed multi-modal image collection and analysis

16 November 2012 - 3:12pm — Fan.Zhu

Multimodal Image data banks, of normal [3] and pathological subjects, are of great utility for improving collaboration and performing research with greater statistical power. The acquisition of images is expensive and time consuming; therefore it is important to reuse them. We are currently developing human brain image data banks, one of which is likely to be the largest bank of normal aging brains in the world.

Project status: 
Still available
Degree level: 
PhD
Background: 
Computer Science, mathematical sciences or engineering with strong foundations in computing
Supervisors @ NeSC: 
Malcolm.Atkinson
Other supervisors: 
Dominic E. Job
Subject areas: 
Bioinformatics
Student project type: 
PhD student project
References: 
1. Slomka P, Baum, R. Multimodality image registration with software: state-of-the-art. EJNMMI. 36 2. Gorgolewski K, Burns CD, Madison C, Clark D, Halchenko YO, Waskom ML, Ghosh SS. (2011). Nipype: a flexible, lightweight and extensible neuroimaging data processing framework in Python. Front. Neuroimform. 5:13 3. Dickie, D.A., Job, D.E., Poole, I., Ahearn, T.S., Staff, R.T., Murray, A.D., Wardlaw, J.M., 2012. Do brain image databanks support understanding of normal ageing brain structure? A systematic review. Eur. Radiol. 22, 1385-1394.

Early detection of infarcts by improving brain perfusion imaging analysis

16 November 2012 - 2:54pm — Fan.Zhu

Outcome after severe ischemic stroke may improve with thrombolysis. Some studies have shown that parametric perfusion maps and other information might be useful in selecting patients for this potentially hazardous treatment. Traditionally, perfusion source images are deconvolved in order to create these parametric maps; such as cerebral blood flow and volume [1].

Project status: 
Still available
Degree level: 
PhD
Background: 
Informatics, Neuroscience, statistics or Mathematics.
Supervisors @ NeSC: 
Malcolm.Atkinson
Other supervisors: 
Joanna.Wardlaw
Subject areas: 
Bioinformatics
Student project type: 
PhD student project
References: 
1. L. Ostergaard, R. Weisskoff, D. Chesler, C. Gyldensted, and B. Rosen, “High resolution measurement of cerebral blood flow using intravascular tracer bolus passages. part i: Mathematical approach and statistical analysis,” Magn Reson Med, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 715–25, 1996. 2. F. Zhu, T. Carpenter, D. R. Gonzalez, M. Atkinson, and J. Wardlaw, “Computed tomography perfusion imaging denoising using Gaussian process regression,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. N183–198, 2012. 3. F. Zhu, D. R. Gonzalez, T. Carpenter, M. Atkinson, and J. Wardlaw, “Automatic Lesion Area Detection Using Source Image Correlation Coefficient for CT Perfusion Imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Under Revision. 4. F. Zhu, D. Gonzalez, T. Carpenter, M. Atkinson, and J. Wardlaw, “Parallel per- fusion imaging processing using GPGPU,” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2012. 5. I. Kane, T. Carpenter, F. Chappell, C. Rivers, P. Armitage, P. Sandercock and J. Wardlaw, “Comparison of 10 different magnetic resonance perfusion imaging processing methods in acute ischemic stroke effect on lesion size, proportion of patients with diffusion/perfusion mismatch, clinical scores, and radiologic outcomes”, Am Heart Assoc, vol . 38, no. 12, pp 3158-64, 2007.

De-identification of faces in 2D DICOM images

19 January 2011 - 9:28pm — Paolo.Besana

With the increasing resolution of MR and CT scans, it has become feasible to reconstruct detailed 3D images of faces.

Usually face de-identification in medical imaging is done after the reconstruction, i.e. in 3D (see references). Different techniques are used to this end including brain extraction, removal of facial features and deformation of the face surface.

Project status: 
Still available
Degree level: 
MSc
Supervisors @ NeSC: 
David.Rodriguez
Other supervisors: 
Trevor Carpenter
Subject areas: 
Machine Learning/Neural Networks/Connectionist Computing
Student project type: 
MSc student project

Computing the best answer you can afford

19 January 2011 - 9:21pm — Paolo.Besana

We are building a data-intensive machine as a research platform to explore data-intensive computational strategies. We are interested in computations over large bodies of data, where the data-handling is a dominant issue. Computational challenges with these properties are getting ever more prevalent as the cost of digital sensors and computational/societal data sources become ever cheaper, ever more powerful and more ubiquitous. The use of algorithms over such data are of growing importance in medicine, planning, engineering, policy and science.

Project status: 
Still available
Degree level: 
MSc
Supervisors @ NeSC: 
Malcolm.Atkinson
Paolo.Besana
Subject areas: 
e-Science
Algorithm Design
Student project type: 
MSc student project

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