Ingela Nyström's Research

• Curriculum Vitae
• Publications

• 3DIS4U --- A visualization studio for stereo rendering
• eSSENCE --- An eScience Collaboration

Current PhD students:

• Khalid Niazi, start February 2007 (assistant supervisor)
  Image Filtering Methods for Biomedical Applications
• Lennart Svensson, start August 2008 (assistant supervisor)
  ProViz - Interactive visualization of in situ 3D protein images
• PhD student under recruitment Summer-Fall 2011
  Visualization and haptics for interactive medical image analysis

Previous students:

• Stina Svensson, PhD, 2001-11-23 (assistant supervisor)
  Title: Representing and Analysing 3D Digital Shape Using Distance Information
• Joakim Lindblad, PhD, 2003-01-17 (assistant supervisor)
  Title: Development of Algorithms for Digital Image Cytometry
• Ida-Maria Sintorn, PhD, 2005-04-01 (assistant supervisor)
  Title: Segmentation Methods and Shape Descriptions in Digital Images - Applications in 2D and 3D Microscopy
• Nataša Sladoje, PhD, 2005-11-25 (assistant supervisor)
  Title: On Analysis of Discrete Spatial Fuzzy Sets in 2 and 3 Dimensions
  * One of two Swedish candidate theses nominated for "Best Nordic Thesis 2005-2006 Award in Pattern Recognition"
  * "Benzelius Prize for Mathematics and Physics for 2007" from The Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden
• Erik Vidholm, PhD, 2008-02-08
  Title: Visualization and Haptics for Interactive Medical Image Analysis
• Filip Malmberg, PhD, 2011-05-06
  Title: Graph-based Methods for Interactive Image Segmentation
  
  
• Emma Lindqvist, Fil. lic., 1999-09-03 (assistant supervisor)
  Title: Automatic and Interactive Information Extraction from Hyperspectral Imagery
  
  
• Suthakar Somaskandan, SIDA project Sep 2004 - Feb 2008
  Interactive Exploration of Medical Images for Visualization on Standard PC hardware

Collaboration partners:

• Professor Gunilla Borgefors
  Centre for Image Analysis
• Dr. Gabriella Sanniti di Baja
  Istituto di Cibernetica, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Pozzuoli (Napoli), Italy
  Dr. Sanniti di Baja promoted as honorary doctor at Uppsala University, 2002
• Professor Örjan Smedby
  Dept. of Radiology, University Hospital, Linköping
• Dr. Stina Svensson
  Centre for Image Analysis
• Professor Jayaram K. Udupa
  Medical Image Processing Group, Dept. of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Previous projects:

• Area of and Volume Enclosed by Digital and Triangulated Surfaces

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• Skeletonization applied to magnetic resonance angiography images.
  Left: Maximum intensity projection of an MRA image of the arteries of the pelvis.
  Right: The corresponding (pruned) curve skeleton of the segmented blood vessels.

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• Reducing objects to "skeletons" in the process of quantifying its shape.
  Toriwaki/Katada hand.

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• Filling concavities for quantifying the shape of an object.

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• Different applications for the distance transform.
  Above the 3-4-5 sphere.