This blog is
part of my Marie Curie Fellowship project: F.A.U.S.T. -- Flexible Application
of Uncertainty for Scanning and Tracking. This project is currently in its
Grant Agreement phase and will start on 01.05.2013.
F.A.U.S.T
will deal with reconstruction of fetal Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data
that are taken directly from the female uterus. MRI is a harmless imaging
procedure, which does not use any radiation or other invasive procedures to get
the images. However, the fetus is awake and will move around during the images
are taken. This is where my colleges and I come into play. We try to
reconstruct the fetus in 3D as if it would not move. Furthermore, I'll try to
evaluate these steps for their reliability and I will search for methods that
allow a doctor to draw conclusions on the reliability of each part of the
resulting images.
The data acquired
at St. Thomas Hospital London by King's College London and is processed at the
Biomedical Image Processing Group at Imperial College London, where I work together with Prof. Daniel Rueckert. My own background is currently still summarized best on my staff page from my former Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision at Graz University of Technology.
I'll try to
keep the general public and scientific community up to date with this blog
about
- software developments
- publications
- videos and results about the reconstruction process
- research flops (if a certain direction is not successful ;) )
I'm looking
forward to get many interested readers!
