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Michael Unser

Michael Unser (born (1958-04-09)April 9, 1958 in Zug, Switzerland) is a Swiss engineer and a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).[1] His research focuses on the field of biomedical image processing.[2]

Professor
Michael Unser
Michael Unser in 2009
Born (1958-04-09) April 9, 1958 (age 66)
Zug, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Academic background
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Academic work
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Doctoral students
Main interestsSignal processing, biomedical imaging
Websitehttp://bigwww.epfl.ch/index.html

Career

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Unser obtained a M.S. in 1981 and a PhD in 1984 in electrical engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In 1985, he moved to the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program. There, he became head of the Image Processing Group in 1990. In 1997, he was named associate professor at EPFL, where he was promoted full professor in 2000.[3] In 2021, he was named academic director of the EPFL Center for Imaging.[4]

Research

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Unser heads the biomedical image processing group at the School of Engineering of EPFL. His research focuses on the development of mathematical tools and algorithms for the analysis of medical and biomedical images, notably for image reconstruction and multi-modal imaging.[5][6][7]

Unser's group was among the first to promote the use of wavelets as mathematical tools in biology and medicine.[8] Unser has notably pioneered their use in the analysis of fMRI and PET imaging data.[9]

Distinctions

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As of 2020, Unser's publications had been cited over 50,000 times and his H-index was 102, owing him to figure on the list of highly cited researchers in engineering.[10][11]

Unser received three Advanced Grants (2010 & 2015 & 2021) from the European Research Council for research projects on signal processing, bioimaging, and functional learning.[12]

He is a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1995 Best Paper Award (together with A. Aldroubi and M. Eden), of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2000 Magazine Award, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2003 Best Paper Award (with T. Blu).[13]

In 2018, Unser was awarded the Technical Achievement Award by the European Association for Signal Processing.[14]

In 2020, he was awarded the 2020 IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society Academic Career Achievement Award.[15]

Bibliography

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Together with the American mathematician Akram Aldroubi, Michael Unser co-authored a book on the use of wavelets in medicine and biology.[16]

  • Aldroubi, A., Unser, M. (1996) Wavelets in Medicine and Biology. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-9483-X
  • Unser, M., Tafti, P.D. (2014) An Introduction to Sparse Stochastic Processes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107415805
  • McCann, M.T., Unser, M. (2019) Biomedical Image Reconstruction: From the Foundations to Deep Neural Networks. Now Publishers. ISBN 9781680836509

References

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  1. ^ ORCID. "Michael Unser (0000-0003-1248-2513)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  2. ^ "Michaël Unser". people.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  3. ^ "Michael Unser's CV 2008" (PDF). Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  4. ^ "EPFL launches a center of excellence in imaging". 22 March 2021.
  5. ^ "BIG > Research". bigwww.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  6. ^ Jin, Kyong Hwan; McCann, Michael T.; Froustey, Emmanuel; Unser, Michael (September 2017). "Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 26 (9): 4509–4522. arXiv:1611.03679. Bibcode:2017ITIP...26.4509J. doi:10.1109/TIP.2017.2713099. ISSN 1941-0042. PMID 28641250. S2CID 18141673.
  7. ^ Stalder, Aurélien F.; Melchior, Tobias; Müller, Michael; Sage, Daniel; Blu, Thierry; Unser, Michael (2010-07-20). "Low-bond axisymmetric drop shape analysis for surface tension and contact angle measurements of sessile drops". Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 364 (1): 72–81. doi:10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.04.040. ISSN 0927-7757.
  8. ^ Unser, M. (November 1995). "Texture classification and segmentation using wavelet frames". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 4 (11): 1549–1560. Bibcode:1995ITIP....4.1549U. doi:10.1109/83.469936. ISSN 1941-0042. PMID 18291987.
  9. ^ Unser, M.; Aldroubi, A. (April 1996). "A review of wavelets in biomedical applications". Proceedings of the IEEE. 84 (4): 626–638. doi:10.1109/5.488704. ISSN 1558-2256.
  10. ^ "Michael Unser". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  11. ^ "Michael Unser - IEEE Explore". IEEE. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  12. ^ "ERC FUNDED PROJECTS". ERC: European Research Council. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  13. ^ "Michael Unser". bigwww.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  14. ^ "EURASIP". www.eurasip.org. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  15. ^ "CIBM SP EPFL Section Head receives prestigious award for medical imaging - CIBM | Center for Biomedical Imaging". CIBM | Center for Biomedical Imaging. 2020-06-24. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  16. ^ "Wavelets in Medicine and Biology". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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