CREATIS

CREATIS is a multidisciplinary laboratory with a wide range of expertise in medical imaging and plays a major role in the field of healthcare technologies. It is renowned for its expertise in magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, X-rays, and optics, with knowledge in physics, mathematics, computer science, and instrumentation. Thus, CREATIS possesses all the necessary skills to optimize every step of the imaging process from acquisition to image analysis to medical diagnosis assistance. Through long-standing collaboration with hospitals, CREATIS contributes to the development of future personalized and predictive medicine.

The Center for Research in Acquisition and Signal Processing for Health (CREATIS) is a joint research unit of the CNRS (UMR 5220), Inserm (U1294), INSA Lyon, Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, and Jean-Monnet University of Saint-Etienne. It has 200 members whose objectives are to develop preclinical and clinical imaging methods involving:

• Expertise in the fields of multiparametric, multiscale, n-dimensional imaging, and high spatiotemporal resolution to extract anatomical, functional, and metabolic information.
• Upstream research guided by application involving the three main research communities in the fields of acquisition (instrumentation, strategy/method), image and signal processing (simulation, modeling), and medical and health issues.
• An approach from acquisition to imaging biomarker incorporating the ability to couple acquisition modalities.

CREATIS is composed of four research teams which are titled:

• Modeling & analysis for medical imaging and diagnosis (MYRIAD)
• NMR and Optics, From Measure to Biomarker (MAGICS)
• ULTrasound IMaging (ULTIM)
• Tomographic imaging and therapy with radiation (TOMORADIO)

CREATIS covers numerous specific skills in imaging including segmentation, registration, parametric fitting and quantification, reproducibility, image reconstruction, inverse problems, distributed computing, machine learning, database structuring, radiofrequency electronics, and the physics of MRI, CT, US, and optical modalities.

Our imaging research is applied to cancer (breast, liver, prostate, colon, ...), cardiovascular diseases, diffuse liver diseases, brain disorders (stroke, multiple sclerosis, comas, epilepsy), and acute respiratory distress syndrome.