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The  Neuroinformatics and Image Analysis Laboratory of The Neuroscience Research Group at The Department of Biomedicine, UoB concentrates on working at the intersection of neuroscience and information science. The laboratory, headed by Prof. Arvid Lundervold, focuses on methods and technologies for quantitative analysis of neurobiological signals and the modeling of neuroimaging recordings. This in order to achieve better understanding of brain structure and function in health and disease. The laboratory is active in interdisciplinary training of students and researchers, and has also a link to The Department of Radiology at Haukeland University Hospital. We have extensive interactions with researchers in applied mathematics, computer science and engineering both at The University of Bergen (MedViz, BBG) and abroad (Germany, Poland, France, Spain, UK). Our Lab is a partner in European Networks (e.g. COST NeuroMath) and bilateral student and researcher exchange programs (Erasmus, Aurora, DAAD, NILS). During the past five years our laboratory has produced five PhDs (under joint supervision) and more than 20 journal papers and conference proceedings, spanning from fMRI, neurodynamics and consciousness to perfusion analysis and cell segmentation.


Publications

 
• Hablitz J, Lundervold A. Hippocampal excitability and changes in extracellular potassium. Experimental Neurology 1981;71:410-420  [PDF] (ante laboratorium Bergensis)
• Lundervold A, Moen K, Taxt TM. Automatic recognition of normal and pathological tissue types in MR images: A feasibility study using contextual classification methods. Proceedings of the NOBIM Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 2-3 1988:189-192 (Norwegian Computing Center, Technical Report No. 818) . See also p. 294 in Hjort NL, Omre H. Topics in spatial statistics, Scand J Stat 1994;21(4):289-357. [JSTOR]
• Lundervold A, Godtliebsen F. Noise reduction and brain tissue classification in MR images. Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, FL, Oct 25-31 1992; vol.2:1265-1267  [PDF]
• Taxt T, Lundervold A, Fuglaas B, Lien H, Abeler V. Multispectral analysis of uterine corpus tumors in magnetic resonance imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 1992;23:55-76. [PubMed]
• Lundervold AJ, Reinvang I, Lundervold A. Characteristic patterns of verbal memory function in patients with Huntington’s disease. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1994;35:38-47. [PubMed]
• Stugaard M, Steen T, Lundervold A, Smiseth OA, Ihlen H. Visual assessment of intraventricular flow from colour M-mode Doppler images. International Journal of Cardiac Imaging, 1994;10:279-287. [PubMed]
• Taxt T, Lundervold A. Multispectral analysis of the brain in magnetic resonance imaging. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 1994;13:470-481. [HTML] [PDF]
• Holden M, Steen E, Lundervold A. Segmentation and visualization of brain lesions in multispectral magnetic resonance images. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 1995;19:171-183. [PDF]
• Lundervold A, Ersland L, Gjesdal KI, Smievoll AI, Tillung T, Sundberg H, Hugdahl K. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of primary visual processing using a 1.0 T scanner. International Journal of Neuroscience, 1995;81:151-168. [PubMed]
• Lundervold A, Storvik G. Segmentation of brain parenchyma and cerebrospinal fluid in multispectral magnetic resonance images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 1995;14:339-349.  [PDF]
• Ersland L, Rosen G, Lundervold A, Smievoll AI, Tillung T, Sundberg H, Hugdahl K. Phantom limb imagery fingertapping causes primary motor activation: An fMRI study. NeuroReport, 1996;8:207-210.  [PDF]
• Lundervold A, Duta N, Taxt T, Jain A. Model-guided segmentation of corpus callosum in MR images. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'99) 1999; Vol. 1, pp. 231-237.   [HTML] [PDF]
• Hugdahl K, Lundervold A, Ersland L, Smievoll AI, Sundberg H, Barndon R, Roscher B. Left frontal activation during a semantic categorization task: an fMRI study. International Journal of Neuroscience, 1999;99:49-58. [PubMed]
• Lundervold A, Taxt T, Ersland L, Fenstad AM. Volume distribution of cerebrospinal fluid using multispectral MR imaging. Medical Image Analysis, 2000;4(2):123-136.  [PDF]
• Thomsen T, Hugdahl K, Ersland L, Barndon R, Lundervold A, Smievoll AI, Roscher BE, Sundberg H. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of sex differences in a mental rotation task. Medical Science Monitor, 2000;6:1186-1196. [PubMed]
• Heiervang E, Hugdahl K, Steinmetz H, Smievoll AI, Stevenson J, Lund A, Ersland L, Lundervold A. Planum temporale, planum parietale and dichotic listening in dyslexia. Neuropsychologia 2000;38:1704-1713. [PDF]
• Rosen G, Hugdahl K, Ersland L, Lundervold A, Smievoll AI, Barndon R, Sundberg H, Thomsen T, Roscher BE, Tjølsen A, Engelsen B. Different brain areas activated during imagery of painful and non-painful ‘finger movements’ in a subject with an amputated arm. NeuroCase, 2001;7:255-260. [PubMed]
• Hugdahl K, Rosen G, Ersland L, Lundervold A, Smievoll AI, Barndon R, Thomsen T. Common pathway in mental imagery and pain perception: an fMRI study of a subject with an amputated arm. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2001;42:269-275. [PDF]
• Landrø NI, Rund BR, Lund A, Sundet K, Mjellem N, Asbjørnsen A, Thomsen T, Ersland L, Lundervold A, Smievoll AI, Egeland J, Stordal KI, Roness A, Sundberg H, Hugdahl K. Honig’s model of working memory and brain activation: an fMRI study. Neuroreport 2001; 12(18):4047- 4054. [PubMed]
• von Plessen K, Lundervold A, Duta N, Heiervang E, Klauschen F, Smievoll AI, Ersland, Hugdahl K, Less developed corpus callosum in dyslexic subjects - A structural MRI study. Neuropsychologia 2002;40(7):1035-1044.  [PDF]
• Lund A, Kroken R, Thomsen T, Hugdahl K, Smievoll AI, Barndon R, Iversen J, Landrø NI, Sundet K, Rund BR,   Ersland L, Lundervold A, Asbjørnsen A. “Normalization” of brain activation in schizophrenia: an fMRI study. Schizophrenia Research 2002;58:333-335. [PDF]
•  Lundervold AJ, Lundervold A, Hugdahl K. A multivariate classification study of attentional orienting in patients with right hemisphere lesion. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 2002;15(4):232-246. [PubMed]
•  Hugdahl K, Heiervang E, Ersland L, Lundervold A, Steinmetz H, Smievoll A-I. Significant relation between MR measures of planum temporale area and dichotic processing of syllables in dyslexic children. Neuropsychologia 2003;41:666-675. [PubMed]
•  Thorsen F, Ersland L, Nordli H, Enger PØ, Huszthy PC, Lundervold A, Standnes T, Bjerkvig R, Lund-Johansen M. Imaging of experimental rat gliomas using a clinical MR scanner. Journal of Neuro-Oncology 2003;63:225-231. [PDF]
•  Lysaker M, Lundervold A, Tai X-C. Noise removal using fourth-order partial differential equations with applications to medical magnetic resonance images in space and time. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2003;12:1579-1590 (also as Technical report (CAM-02-44), Department of Mathematics, UCLA)  [PDF]
•  Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Reinvang I, Lundervold A, Fischl B, Quinn BT, Dale AM. Size does matter in the long run: hippocampal and cortical volume predict recall across weeks. Neurology 2004;63(7):1193-1197. [PubMed]
• Fjell AM, Walhovd KB, Reinvang I, Lundervold A, Dale AM, Quinn BT, Makris N, Fischl B. Age does not increase rate of forgetting over weeks: neuroanatomical volumes and visual memory across the adult life-span. J Int Neuropsychol Society 2005;11(1):2-15. [PDF]
•  Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Reinvang I, Lundervold A, Fischl B, Quinn BT, Makris N, Dale AM. Cortical volume and speed-of-processing are complementary in prediction of performance intelligence. Neuropsychologia 2005;43(5):704-713. [PDF]
•  Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Reinvang I, Lundervold A, Dale AM, Eilertsen DE, Quinn BT, Salat D, Makris N, Fischl B. Effect of age on volumes of cortex, white matter and subcortical structures. Neurobiol Aging 2005;26(9):1261-1270. [PDF]
•  Schad LR, Lundervold A. Influence of resolution and signal to noise ratio on MR image texture. In M. Hajek, M..Dezortova, A.Materka, R..Lerski (eds.) Texture Analysis for MR Imaging. Med4Publishing, Prague / European COST B21, 2006: pp. 129-149. ISBN 80-903660-0-7  [HTML]  [PDF]
•  Fjell AM,Walhovd KB, Reinvang I, Lundervold A, Salat D, Quinn BT, Fischl B, Dale AM. Selective increase of cortical thickness in high-performing elderly: structural indices of optimal cognitive aging. Neuroimage 2006;29(3):984-994. [PubMed] 
•  Brekke C, Lundervold A, Enger PØ, Brekken C, Stålsett E, Pedersen TB, Haraldseth O, Krüger PG, Bjerkvig R, and Chekenya M. NG2 expression regulates vascular morphology and function in human brain tumours. Neuroimage 2006;29(3):965-976.  [PDF]
•  Engelsen B, Gramstad A, Thomsen T, Beneventi H, Ersland L, Smievoll AI, Lundervold A, Hugdahl K. Frontoparietal activations during delayed visuo-spatial recall in patients with epilepsy due to hippocampal sclerosis. Epilepsy Behav 2006;8(3):565-574. [PubMed]
•  Plessen KJ, Gruner R, Lundervold A, Hirsch J, Xu D, Bansal R, Hammar A, Lundervold AJ, Wentzel-Larsen T, Lie SA, Gass A, Peterson BS, Hugdahl K. Reduced white matter connectivity in the corpus callosum of children with Tourette syndrome. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2006;47(10):1013-1022. [PubMed]
•  Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Reinvang I, Lundervold A, Fischl B, Quinn BT, Makris N, Dale AM. The functional and structural significance of the frontal shift in the old/new ERP effect. Brain Research 2006;1081(1):156-170. [PubMed]
• Hodneland E, Lundervold A, Gurke S, Tai X-C, Rustom A, Gerdes H-H. Automated detection of tunnelling nanotubes in 3D images. Cytometry A 2006;69A(9):961-972.  [PDF]
•  Bergmann O, Kindlmann G, Lundervold A, Westin CF. Diffusion k-tensor estimation from Q-ball imaging using discretized principal axes. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 2006;9:268-275.  [PDF]
• Zöllner F, Kocinski M, Lundervold A, Rørvik J. Assessment of renal function from 3D dynamic contrast enhanced MR images using independent component analysis. Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2007: 237-241. [HTML] [PDF]
• Lundervold A, Ystad M, Anderlik C. Brain imaging and computational neuroanatomy using high performance and GRID computing. NOTUR Meta Magazine 2007; No.1:6-9 [PDF]
• Plessen KJ, Lundervold A, Gruner R, Hammar A, Lundervold A, Peterson BS, Hugdahl K. Functional brain asymmetry, attentional modulation, and interhemispheric transfer in boys with Tourette syndrome. Neuropsychologia 2007;45(4):767-774.  [PubMed]
• Lu Z, Lundervold A, Tjøstheim D, Yao Q. Exploring spatial nonlinearity using additive approximation. Bernoulli 2007;13(2):447-472.  [PDF]
• Hugdahl K, Løberg EM, Jørgensen HA, Lundervold A, Lund A, Green MF, Rund B. Left hemisphere lateralization of auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: A dichotic listening study. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 2008;13(2):166-179. [PubMed]
• Balabanian J-P, Ystad M, Viola I, Lundervold A, Hauser H, Gröller E. Hierarchical volume visualization of brain anatomy. Proceedings of Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV 2008), Konstanz, Germany, October 8-10, 2008. [PDF]
• Sandu AL, Rasmussen IA, Lundervold A, Kreuder F, Neckelmann G, Hugdahla K, Specht K. Fractal dimension analysis of MR images reveals grey matter structure irregularities in schizophrenia. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 2008;32(2):150-158.  [PDF]
• Sandu AL, Specht K, Beneventi H, Lundervold A, Hugdahl K. Sex-differences in grey-white matter structure in normal-reading and dyslexic adolescents. Neuroscience Letters 2008;438(1):80-84. [PubMed]
• Bergmann Ø, Christiansen O, Lie L, Lundervold A. Shape-adaptive DCT for denoising of 3D scalar and tensor values images. Journal of Digital Imaging  2009;22(3):297-308.  [PDF]
• Anderlik A, Munthe-Kaas, AZ, Øye OK, Eikefjord E, Rørik J, Ulvang DM, Zöllner F, Lundervold A. Quantitative assessment of kidney function using dynamic contrast enhanced MRI - steps towards an integrated software prototype. Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2009 (IEEE ISPA 2009): 575-581. [PDF][IEEE Explore]
• Öltze S, Preim B, Hauser H, Rørvik J, Lundervold A. Visual analysis of cerebral perfusion data four interactive approaches and a comparison. Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2009 (IEEE ISPA 2009): 582-589. [PDF][IEEE Explore]
• Klepaczko A, Kocinski M, Materka A, Chekenya M, Lundervold A. Texture analysis in application to quantitative study of 3D vascular tree images. Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis, 2009 (IEEE ISPA 2009): 730-735. [PDF] [IEEE Explore]
• Klauschen F, Goldman A, Barra V, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Lundervold A. Evaluation of automated brain MR image segmentation and volumetry methods. Human Brain Mapping 2009 Apr;30(4):1310-1327.  [PDF]
• Hodneland E, Bukoreshtliev N, Eichler T, Tai XC, Gurke SD, Lundervold A, Gerdes H-H. A Unified framework for automated 3D segmentation of surface-stained living cells and a comprehensive segmentation evaluation. IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging 2009 28(5):720-738.  [PDF]
• Zöllner FG, Sance R, Rogelj P, Ledesma-Carbayo MJ, Rørvik J, Santos A, Lundervold A. Assessment of 3D DCE-MRI of the kidneys using non-rigid image registration and segmentation of voxel time courses. Comput Med Imaging Graph 2009 33(3):171-181. [PubMed]
• Ystad M, Lundervold AJ, Wehling E, Espeseth T, Rootwelt H, Westlye LT, Andersson M, Adolfsdottir S, Geitung JT, Fjell AM, Reinvang I, Lundervold A. Hippocampal volumes are important predictors for memory function in elderly women. BMC Medical Imaging 2009 Aug 22;9(1):17  [HTML] [PDF]
• Zöllner FG, Monsen JA, Rørvik J, Lundervold A, Schad LR. Blood flow quantification from 2D phase contrast MRI in renal arteries using an unsupervised data driven approach. Z Med Phys 2009;19(2):98-107. [PubMed]
•  Andersson M, Ystad M, Lundervold A, Lundervold AJ. Correlations between measures of executive attention and cortical thickness of left posterior middle frontal gyrus - a dichotic listening study. Behav Brain Func 2009 Oct 1;5:41. [HTML][PDF]
• Ystad M, Eichele T, Lundervold AJ, Lundervold A. Subcortical functional connectivity and verbal episodic memory in healthy elderly - A resting state fMRI study. Neuroimage 2010 Aug 1;52(1):379-388. [PubMed][PDF]
• Naik M, Lundervold A, Nygaard H, Geitung JT. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in dementia patients with frontal lobe symptoms. Acta Radiol 2010 Jul;51(6):662-668. [PubMed][PDF]
• Lundervold A. On consciousness, resting state fMRI, and neurodynamics. Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2010 Jun 3;4 Suppl 1:S9.  [PubMed] [HTML] [PDF]  (extended version [PDF])
• Hodneland E, Ystad M, Haász J, Zanna Munthe-Kaas A, Lundervold A. Automated workflow for spatial alignment of multimodal MR image acquisitions in a longitudinal study of cognitive aging. In: Mastorakis N, Mladenov V, Bojkovoc Z, eds. Latest Trends on Applied Mathematics, Simulation, Modelling, WSEAS Press, 2010;264-269. (ISBN 978-960-474-210-3).   [PDF]
• Losnegård A, Hysing LB, Muren LP, Hodneland E, Lundervold A. Semi-automated segmentation of the sigmoid and descending colon for radiotherapy planning using the Fast-Marching method. Phys Med Biol 2010;55(18):5569-5584  [PDF]
• Ystad M, Hodneland E, Adolfsdottir S, Haász J, Lundervold AJ, Eichele T, Lundervold A. Cortico-striatal connectivity and cognition in normal aging: a combined DTI and resting state fMRI study. Neuroimage 2011;55(1):24-31 [excerpt] [PubMed]
• Hodneland E, Ystad M, Haász J, Munthe-Kaas AZ, Lundervold A. Automated approaches for analysis of multimodal MRI acquisitions in a longitudinal study of cognitive aging. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2011 Jun 8 [Epub ahead of print]
• Westlye ET, Lundervold A, Rootwelt H, Lundervold AJ, Westlye LT. Increased hippocampal default mode synchronization during rest in middle-aged and elderly APOE e4-carriers: relationships with memory performance. Journal of Neuroscience 2011;31(21):7775-7783 [PubMed]
• Kocinski M, Klepaczko A, Materka A, Chekenya M, Lundervold A. 3D image texture analysis of simulated and real-world vascular trees. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2011 Jul 29 [Epub ahead of print]
• Li S, Zöllner F, Merrem AD, Peng Y, Rørvik J, Lundervold A, Schad LR. Wavelet-based segmentation of renal compartments in DCE-MRI of human kidney: initial results in patients and healthy volunteers. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 2011 Jun 23 [Epub ahead of print]
• Losnegård A, Lundervold A, Háasz J, Hodneland E. Fast marching tractography from multiple diffusion sensitizing directions in MR-DTI from the brain. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2011), September 4-6, 2011, Dubrovnik, Croatia [PDF]
•  Haász J, Hodneland E, Lundervold AJ, Lundervold A. Relationship between cortical thickness and white matter fibre bundle integrity in the ageing brain: A multimodal MRI study with tract parameterisation. Submitted.
•  Hodneland E, Lundervold A, Rørvik J, Munthe-Kaas AZ. Normalized gradients for multimodal registration of medical images. Submitted.
• Zöllner F, et al. Assessment of kidney volumes from MR images – traditional and new acquisition and segmentation techniques. In prep.

Posters / Oral presentations

• Lundervold A, Khateeb H. Numerical estimation of the BOLD response in event-related fMRI. 25th Annual INS Mid-Year Meeting, Stockholm, July 24-27, 2002. [PDF]
•  Lundervold AJ, Andersson M, Geitung J-T, Reinvang I, Lundervold A.
White matter and processing efficacy in older adults. 2008 International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD2008), Chicago, July 26-31, 2008. [PDF] [ODP]
• Andersson M, Ystad M, Lundervold A, Lundervold AJ. Auditory attention control correlates with cortical thickness of posterior left middle frontal gyrus. 
5th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM2009), San Francisco, CA, June 18-23, 2009.  [PPT]
• Losnegård A, Hysing LB,  Munthe-Kaas AZ, Muren L, Hodneland E, Lundervold A. Semi-automatic segmentation of the large intestine for radiotherapy planning. 10th Biennial ESTRO Conference on Physics and Radiation Technology for Clinical Radiotherapy (ESTRO 2009), Maastricht, The Netherland, Aug 30 - Sep 3, 2009. [PDF] [LaTeX .rar] 
• Losnegård A, Hodneland E, Gerdes, H-H, Lundervold A. Segmentation and tracking of tubular structures in biomedical images. 2nd International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Voss, Norway, June 1-5, 2009. [PDF]
• Lundervold  A. Consciousness- dynamical systems - resting state fMRI.

Consciousness and its Measures - Joint Workshop for COST Actions Consciousness  (BM0605) and Neuromath (BM0601), Limassol, Cyprus, November 29 - December 1 2009.  [PDF] [LaTeX .tgz] 

• Ystad M, Hodneland E, Eichele T, Lundervold A. Cross-modality identification of maximal age related subcortical connectivity change - A combined resting state fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging study. Workshop of the NeuroMath COST Action BM0601 - Neurodynamic Insight into Functional Connectivity, Cognition, and Consciousness, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 26-28, 2010. [PDF] [Abstract Frontiers]

• Losnegard A, Hartveit E, Veruki ML, Karolczak L, Munthe-Kaas AZ, Kocinski M, Hodneland E, Lundervold A. Automated 3D segmentation and morphological reconstruction of retinal neurons.  NevroNor: New Concepts in Neuroscience, Bergen, Norway, May 26-28 2010.  [PDF][LaTeX .tgz][Abstract]

• Westlye ET, Westlye LT, Rootwelt H, Lundervold AJ, Lundervold A. Increased synchronization in the memory system of healthy middle-aged and elderly APOE e4 carriers. NevroNor: New Concepts in Neuroscience, Bergen, Norway, May 26-28 2010.  [PDF][Abstract]

• Ystad M, Hodneland E, Adolfsdottir S, Lundervold AJ, Eichele T, Lundervold A. Subcortical structural connectivity between resting state networks in cognitive aging. NevroNor: New Concepts in Neuroscience, Bergen, Norway, May 26-28 2010.  [PDF][Abstract]

• Ystad M, Hodneland E, Adolfsdottir S, Lundervold AJ, Eichele T, Lundervold A. 

Age related cognitive changes and subcortical structural connections between resting state networks. Oral presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2010), Barcelona, Spain, June 6-10, 2010.  [PPTX][Abstract][E-poster]

• Lundervold A. The role of mathematics in the study of structural and functional brain connectivity. Invited plenary talk at 4th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Simulation, Modelling, 

Corfu Island, Greece, July 22-25, 2010.  [PDF] 

[LaTeX .tgz]
• Losnegård A. Fast marching tractography from multiple diffusion sensitizing directions in MR-DTI from the brain. Oral presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2011), September 4-6, 2011, Dubrovnik, Croatia  [PPTX]


Lab members


The active ones ...


 Fjær, Sveinung (MSc, math)  PhD-student
Neurol.dept
 Haász, Judit    (MD)
 PhD-student Neurol.dept Semmelweis
 Budapest
 Hanson, Erik (MSc, math) PhD-student Math.dept
 Hodneland, Erlend   (PhD, imag)
 Researcher 
 Kurzawski, Jan (MSc-stud +MD-stud)  Erasmus  Lodz (TUL)
 Leidland, Einar MSc-student 
 Losnegård, Are   (MSc, math)
 PhD-student 
 Lundervold, Arvid   (MD, PhD)  [CV]
 Professor 
 de Ribet, Clément (MSc-stud)  Erasmus Clermont-Ferrand (ISIMA)
 Vik, Alexandra    (MSc, neurosci)
 PhD-student
Psychol.dept		 
 Welte, Tessa (MSc-stud)  Erasmus  Eindhoven (TU/e)
 Westlye, Erling Tjelta  (MD-stud res.track)
 PhD-student
 
 Xiaozhong, Shen
 MSc-student 
 Ystad, Martin  (MD) PhD On leave

Affiliated

 Garcia Saiz, Tomas  (PhD-stud) NILS UNED Madrid
 Hysing, Liv Bolstad  (PhD-stud)  Aarhus/UoB
 Izard, Edouard  (Diploma-stud) Erasmus ISIMA Clermont-Ferrand
 Karolczak, Lukasz  (Diploma-stud) Erasmus
 TUL Lodz
 Klepaczko, Artur (PhD) Ass. Prof
 TUL Lodz
 Kociński , Marek  (PhD)
 Ass. Prof
 TUL Lodz
 Malinsky, Milos  (PhD-stud) Erasmus VUT Brno
 Mamrot, Mateusz  (Diploma-stud) Erasmus TUL Lodz
 Peter, Roman (PhD-stud) Yggdrasil VUT Brno
 Sikora, Marcin  (PhD-stud)  HUH Bergen
 Zöllner, Frank  (PhD) Researcher Mannheim

Collaborators

 Anderlik, Csaba  (PhD) ResearcheruniBCCS/HPC
 Barra, Vincent  (PhD) Professor ISIMA
 Eichele, Tom    (MD, PhD)
 Postdoc UoB/fMRI
 Godtliebsen, Fred   (PhD)
 Professor UoT/Stat
 Hauser, Helwig  (PhD) Professor UoB/Vis
 Hugdahl, Kenneth  (PhD) Professor UoB/fMRI
 Lundervold, Astri J.  (PhD) Professor  UoB/Psych
 Materka, Andrzej  (DSc) Professor  TUL/Eng
 Malyshev, Alexander  (PhD) Professor UoB/Math
 Munthe-Kaas, Antonella Z. (PhD) Professor  UoB/Math
 Munthe-Kaas, Hans  (PhD) Professor  UoB/Math
 Oeltze, Steffen (PhD) PostdocMagdeburg/Vis
 Rørvik, Jarle  (MD, PhD) Professor UoB/Radiol
 Tai, Xue-Cheng  (PhD) Professor  UoB/Math
 Taxt, Torfinn  (MD, PhD) Professor UoB/HUH
 Thomassen, Lars  (MD, PhD)
 Professor UoB/BSRG


Former students
  • Bergmann, Ørjan   (MSc in Neuroinformatics, September 18th 2002;  co-supervisor with and Prof. Steihaug and Dr. B. Srebro ) "Discrete Event Simulation in Java with Applications in Rodent Navigation" (Grade: 1.4)  [PDF]
  • Brekke, Cecilie  (MSc in Human and Experimental Physiology, May 31st 2001) "Physiological Imaging of the Human Brain Using Diffusion and Perfusion MRI" (Grade: 1.4)  [PDF]
  • Brox, Ivan (MD student [særoppgave, kull-02A], Medical imaging) "Motion Correction of the Kidneys in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI for Quantification of Renal Structure and Function" (Grade: Pass)
  • Hadziavdic, Vedad (MSc in Applied physics, co-supervisor with Dr. Melandsø) "A Comparative Study of Active Contour Models for Boundary Detection in Brain Images"  (Grade: 1.3) [PDF]
  • Hamre, Bjørn (MSc in Computer science, December 15th 1998) "Three-Dimensional Image Registration of Magnetic Resonance (MRI) Head Volumes" (Grade: 1.3) [PDF]
  • Hansen, Sigmund  (MD student [særoppgave, kull-95], Medical informatics) "Digitalt anatomisk atlas basert på tredimensjonale MR-opptak av hodet" (test) (Grade: Pass)  [PDF]
  • Hanson, Erik (MSc in Applied and Computational Mathematics, July 1st 2010; co-supervisor with Prof. Hans Munthe-Kaas) "A Lanczos-view on Independent Component Analysis of fMRI Data" (Grade: A) [PDF]
  • Hillesund, Øyvind (MSc in Applied Statistics, NTNU, co-supervisor with Prof. Godtliebsen, 1993)  "Tissue Characterization in Multispectral MR Images using Artificial Neural Networks" (Grade: 1.25)
  • Hisdal, Pål Magne (MSc in Computer science, July 6th 1998) "Volume Visualization of Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data from the Human Brain" (Grade: 1.3)  [paalma.mpg]
  • Khateeb, Inger Helen (MSc in Medical Informatics, June 22nd 2001; co-supervisor with Prof. Steihaug) "Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the Brain: Models and Estimation of the Haemodynamic BOLD Response" (Grade: 1.6) [PDF]
  • Lysaker, Marius (MSc in Applied Mathematics, January 15th 2001 ; co-supervisor with Prof. Tai)"Støyreduksjon i MR-bilder"  (Grade: 1.4)  [PDF]
  • Nielsen, Lars Kristian   (MSc in Applied Mathematics, February 17th 2003, co- supervisor with Prof. Tai) "Elastic Registration of Medical MR Images"  (Grade: 1.6) [PDF]
  • Nygård, Merethe (MSc in Human Physiology, November 2007, co-supervisor with Prof. K. Hugdahl and Dr. R. Grüner) "Corpus Callosum Agenesi - Strukturell og Funksjonell Kartlegging ved Bruak av Multiparametrisk MRI og Dikotisk Lytting" (Grade: B)
  • Nøkleby, Thomas (MSc in Computer science, December 19th 2000) "Design and Implementation of JAtlas - A Platform Independent Brain Atlas" (Grade: 1.7) [PDF]
  • Oppedal, Ketil (MSc student in MR-physiology, Medical informatics, June 13th 2005) "Quantitative Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Human Brain - The Effect of Varying Number of Acquisitions and Number of Diffusion Sensitizing Directions" (Grade: A)  [PDF]
  • Oppegaard, Oddvar   (MD student [særoppgave, kull-97], Medical informatics) "Anvendelse av MRI i Studiet av Eksperimentell og Klinisk Tumorfysiologi med Vekt på Angiogenese"   (Grade: Pass)  [PDF]
  • Ponnuthurai, Amuthini (MSc project student, Biomedical Engineering:  Human Function and its Measurement, 4B Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) "Parameter Estimation in Brain Imaging Using Diffusion Weighted MRI (DWI)"
  • Stålsett, Eli  (MSc student, Experimental and Human Physiology, 2004) "In Vivo Mapping of Tumor Microcirculation Parameters Using Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MR Imaging" (Grade: 1.3) [PDF]
  • Sæthre, Kristian R.  (MD student [særoppgave, kull-97], Neuroinformatics) "Brain function and neural network modelling" (Grade: Pass)
  •  Ystad, Martin A (PhD, Neuroimaging, December 3rd 2010) "Quantitative Structural and Functional Brain Imaging in Cognitive Aging" [PDF]


Research projects & collaborations

  • Multispectral MR imaging and tissue classification (with Prof. V. Barra, ISIMA)
  • Imaging in cognitive aging (with Neuropsychological phenotyping group)
  • Estimation of human brain activity and connectivity  (in NEUROMATH)
  • On consciousness, resting state fMRI, and neurodynamics [PDF]
  • Segmentation and surface reconstruction of tubular structures
  • Functional kidney imaging (with MedViz and Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Uni-Heidelberg)
  • 3D MR angiography (with Jena-Lodz)
  • Quantitative MR imaging in acute stroke (with Depts Neurol & Radiol)
  • Physiological modelling of MR image formation  (former COST B21)
  • Quantitation of magnetic resonance image texture (former COST B11)
  • Cognition in aging - contributions of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive neurogenetics (Research group headed by Prof. Ivar Reinvang, UiO, 2011/2012 in the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters - www.cas.uio.no/research/1112cognition )


Teaching / presentations / courses

  • Tutorial on MRI - 1996 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '96), June 18-20, 1996 San Francisco, CA, USA. IEEE Computer Society 1996  [PDF]
  • Hjerne og Adferd (Presentasjon i forbindelse med UiB´s 50-års jubileum, 1996)  [HTML]
  • First Norwegian Symposium on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain - Theoretical and Practical Issues, Bergen, 15-16 May 1997 [HTML]
  • Matematikk i medisinsk bildediagnostikk - MRI (Presentasjon ved Matematisk felleskollokvium, UiB 21.10.1998) [HTML]
  • fMRI - Basic Principles, Physiological Mechanisms and Data Analysis (Nordic Psychophysiological Conference, Oslo, 13-15 March, 1998) [PDF] [LaTeX]
  • Inspeksjon av den levende hjerne m/ klasse 9 Slåtthaug skole (Forskningsdagene i Bergen 2001, 21-30 september)  [PPT] - Tildelt 1. pris
  • Kurs i hjernens blod- og væskesirkulasjon, Bergen, 2-4 november 2009  (CBF- regulering: [PDF] ;  BOLD fMRI: [PDF] )
  • University of Bergen / Neuroinformatics and Image Analysis - Presentation at the Technical University of Lodz (TUL), Poland, 7 June 2010. [Link]  Lectures: [Intro MRI PDF][MR-DTI PDF]
  • 4th International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Simulation, Modelling (ASM'10), Corfu Island, Greece, July 22-25, 2010.   The Role of Mathematics in the Study of Structural and Functional Brain Connectivity.
  • ERASMUS Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Basic MRI Physics - Functional MRI module, Lodz, Poland, September 13-17, 2010 [PDF]
  • Biomedical Image Analysis (BMED205), November 3, 2010  [PPTX]; BMED205 data analysis example using R, LaTeX, and JabRef   [.zip]
  • Methods in Neurophysiology (BMED340B), November 22, 2010: Structural and Functional Brain Connectivity from MRI [PDF]
  • Menneske og Maskin, Studentersamfunnet i Bergen, Upop-møte, Kvarteret, 15 mars 2011 (http://samfunnet.uib.no/events/menneske-og-maskin)  [PDF]
  • Multimodal analysis - work in progress, CAS project kickoff meeting, Oslo, 22-24 August 2011 (http://www.cas.uio.no/research/1112cognition/Program.pdf)
  • Menneske og (data)maskin, Forskningsdagene i Bergen, 28 September 2011 [PPTX]
  • Assessing brain connectivity using RS-fMRI and graph theory in the context of open discovery science. Visual Computing Forum, UiB, Bergen, 30 September 2011. [PDF]

  



A vision for engineering and biomedicine ...

Cohen JE, 2004. Mathematics is biology’s next microscope, only better;  biology is mathematics’ next physics, only better. PLoS Biol, 2(12):e439.

Adapted from: C. Dollery and R. Kitney, Systems biology: A vision for engineering and medicine, Technical report, The Academy of Medical Sciences and The Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK, Feb. 2007

Adapted from Palsson, BO. Systems biology: Properties of reconstructed networks. Cambridge University Press, 2006.






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