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IWDM2010Experiències Internacionals: Joaquim Salvi i Robert MartíViCOROB a Televisió de GironaProjecte TRIDENTViCOROB Peolple: Marc Carreras & Gerard PonsTRANSCRIPT
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March/April 2010 Nº: 2
Joaquim Salvi’s personal experience in Edinburgh:
My relationship with the Overseas Lab of Heriot-Watt University dates from
2004 when I invited Dr. Manuel Trucco (University of Dundee) to the evaluation
tribunal of Jose Forest’s thesis. The relationship was strengthened when together
with the Université de Bourgogne (France) we got the Erasmus Mundus MSc
VIBOT 2005. Since then, meetings have been constant in both educational and
researching level, and the collaboration between VICOROB and the Oceans Lab
has been so fruitful. At the end of my stage in the UdG goverment I did
sabbatical year (from 01/08/07 to 31/07/08) in Ocean Lab, this time with Dr. Yvan
Petillot. During this period I focused on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and
Mapping) using video cameras and acoustic systems. Nowadays we have
together research projects, one of them to highlight is the FP7 STREP Project
Trident, thesis co-directed between the two laboratories and publications in
prestigious journals and conferences internationally known. The relationship is
fully consolidated, so VICOROB and Oceans Lab are usual partners in many
European projects as in
the research and teaching
level.
Robert Martí’s personal experience in Oxford:
I was from August to December 2009 in the Biomedical Image Analysis Lab
(Biomed IA), in Oxford University, led by the teacher Alison Noble (http://
www.ibme.ox.ac.uk/biomedia). The BiomedIA lab is within the IBME (Institute of
Biomedical Engineering) which includes all the biomedical engineering research
(computer vision, fluid analysis, tissue engineering, electronics etc.). IBME is
found inside of the building devoted exclusively to biomedical research and
surrounded by other hospitals and research centres, which facilitates
multidisciplinary and collaborative research among different groups.
The group of Oxford is internationally recognized for his work in ultrasonic
image analysis. The purpose of my stay was to work with subjects I had some
experience in, such as registration of images, but from another perspective.
Finally, I worked in elastography technique to analyze the characteristics of
tissue from the analysis of their deformation in a set of images. Regarding this
subject, and after analyzing the
state of art, new proposals
were suggested in the sense of
incorporating methods of
recording images, from which
there has come so far an article
submitted to ICIP 2010
conference.
http://vicorob.udg.edu
International Experiences: J.Salvi & R.Martí
21th February: International
Mother Language Day
February 2010: Convocation Ramón y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva,
Torres Quevedo and PTA
February 2010: Convocation Plan
Avanza R+D 2010
March 2010: Convocation TRACE
2010
April 2010: VICOROB Open Day
2010
16-18 June 2010: International Workshop on Digital
Mammography
- Agenda -
- Comming soon -
International Workshop on Digital Mammography 2010 in Girona
Next June, the tenth edition of the
International Workshop on Digital
Mammography will take place in the
Auditori – Palau de Congressos de
Girona (www.iwdm2010.org). As some
already know, the conference is a
meeting point for the community which
works with medical imaging in the breast
field, and it includes both researchers
(mathematicians, physicists, computer
scientists, engineers), as members of the
Health field (radiologists, oncologists,
surgeons), and, as well, industry representatives. All of them will have the chance
to put together the latest advances and innovations in the development of
technologies that help in early detection of breast cancer.
The IWDM conferences began in 1992 in San Jose (US), and since then, it has
been celebrated every two years alternating the venue between Europe and North
America. In order to be the venue of the tenth edition, there were also in the
competition the cities of Berlin and Stockholm, where also important research
groups closely linked with research in early detection of breast cancer are found.
The use of computer systems in the analysis of mammography began in the
late 70’s, it was recently that its use has became important in most of centres
where programs aimed at integrating computing techniques in the process of
diagnosis are practiced. A proof of this is the increase of research programs
aimed at integrating computing techniques in the process of diagnosis, and the
increase of specialized publications and the researching meetings focused on this
topic, such as IWSDM congress.
Dr. Joan Martí is the manager of entire organization and coordination of the
workshop.
Palau de Congressos de Girona,
the venue for the IWDM 2010
Elastography simulation
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- ViCOROB People - Marc
Carreras Pérez 23-03-1975
Figueres
Marc Carreras is Industrial
Engineer since 1998. He finished his
PhD in 2003 at the UdG, in
ViCOROB research team. He
received two awards for PFC and another award for best
doctoral thesis of the computer field in UdG.
He is working in CIRS on projects related to underwater
robotics. His current interests are learning applied to robotics
and trajectory planning for autonomous robots . He
participated in the winning team of underwater robots
SAUCE'06 the competition and is at present conducting a new
team of students who participate in the 2010 edition in Italy
next July. Marc is known among colleagues in the group for
his effectivesness in spearfishing, he is famous for collecting
"big staff".
Gerard
Pons Rodríguez 12-11-1986
Sant Feliu de Guíxols
Scientific communication: ViCOROB at Televisió de Girona
New projects: TRIDENT
Televisió de Girona has a programme called “Health”, it is a magazine devoted to health that, through interviews and
reports, tries to provide solutions and advice to health issues that most concern to people from Girona. Last November, they
came to VICOROB in order to make 3 reports of the medical applications that our group is achieving through research and
investigation.
In the first item, they talked with Joan Martí about the progress being achieved in early detection of breast cancer, a key to
improve the cure rate. Through collaborations with other research centres and hospitals as Josep Trueta in Girona, Parc Taulí
in Sabadell, Hospital Clínic or Hospital Vall d'Hebron, we are developing tools that will help doctors to discern benign or
malignant characteristics during the diagnosis, and also to characterize lesions through the analysis of images.
The following report was about prostate cancer, this time they spoke with Jordi Freixenet. Jordi explained them the benefits
provided by the use of resonances, which do not show the same as the ultrasound scan, in order to help doctors to locate
cancer in the biopsy from patients who have signs of having it.
In the last item recorded in VICOROB, they talked with Xavier Lladó about the project SALEM (Automatic segmentation of
lesions for diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis). He explained that the programs that they are developing will help doctors in
detecting these lesions of Multiple Sclerosis. As the program automatically analyzes a series of images, the arduous work
which only depended on the objectivity of the radiologist or neurologist, now, has speeded. This research is being done
together with Hospital Trueta, Hospital Clínic and Hospital Vall d'Hebron.
If you want to watch again these items, here you have the links:
- Breast cancer – Joan Martí – 12/03/2009 – (27:20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn78BXx6lNg&feature=PlayList&p=6C882B540A99AE4A&index=1
- Prostate – Jordi Freixenet – 12/12/2009 – (21:20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6fgGonEuv4&feature=PlayList&p=6C882B540A99AE4A&index=3
- Multiple Sclerosis – Xavier Lladó – 12/08/2010 – (15:03)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSlBW89YbIc
Gerard is UdG Computer Engineer
and now he’s studying a Master in
Computer Engineering, Automatics,
Computer Science and Systems. He
has collaborated on projects ViCOROB for two years and he’s
currently doing his master's thesis at University of Oxford in
the BioMed Laboratory Institute of Biomedical Engineering.
His task is to perform the segmentation of breast masses in
ultrasound images in 2D and 3D ultrasound.
Outside VICOROB, Gerard plays bass in a group of
Catalan Rock and he occupies his time with hobbies like
Barça, films, series, friends and his girlfriend.
The TRIDENT is a collaborative project that is part of the European ICT
agenda of 7FP (Seventh Framework Program). The project is coordinated
by the University Jaume I, from Castelló (Spain), and in the University of
Girona VICOROB is in charge of its development. To carry it out, our group
has received a grant of € 460,000. The team is managed by Pere Ridao,
and counts the collaboration of Joaquin Salvi, Rafael Garcia, Xevi Cufí,
Marc Carreras, and all team working in Underwater Robotics and Underwater Vision Lab.
This new project proposes a new methodology for mulipurpose underwater intervention tasks
with diverse potential applications like underwater archaeology, oceanography and offshore
industries. TRIDENT basically consists of: a team of two cooperative hererogeneous with
complementary skills, and autonomous surface craft and an intervention autonomous underwater
vehicle, used to perform underwater manipulation tasks. This manipulations is done through a
skillful hand arm attached to the autonomous underwater vehicle.
Particular emphasis will be put on the research of the vehicles intelligent control architecture to
provide the embedded knowledge representation framework and the high-level reasoning agents
required to enable a high degree of autonomy and on-board decision making of the platform. The
new methodology will allow the user to specify an intervention task, among a set of predefined
ones, to be undertaken with regards to a particular target object selected by the end user by means
of the map previously built. Hence the intervention task is seen as a semi-automatic process where
the target is manually selected but then it is automatically recognized and manipulated by the robot
in a complete autonomous way.
The TRIDENT project brings together research skills specific to marine environments in
navigation and mapping for underwater robotics, multi-sensory perception and a range of control
techniques relating to intelligent control architectures, vehicle-manipulator systems and dexterous
manipulation.
ViCOROB members in “Salut”
Schemes operating TRIDENT