Research
Interests
Inverse problems applied to medical imaging.
Applications
Inverse problems in medical imaging
Compressive sampling, super-resolution, deconvolution, image fusion, beamforming, segmentation.
Cardiac motion estimation
Dictionary learning-based methods, phase-based methods applied to ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
Ultrasound elastography
Tissue elasticity estimation.
Flow estimation
Blood flow estimation in ultrasound imaging.
Supervised PhD students
- Mahshid Dodel (2023-2026, Co-advisor: François Varray).
- Célestine Lachambre (2022-2025, Co-advisor: Bruno Gilles).
- Axel Adam (2022-2025, Co-advisors: Barbara Nicolas and Hervé Liebgott).
- François Gaits (2021-2024, Co-advisor: Nicolas Mellado).
- Youssra El Bennioui (2021-2024, Co-advisor: Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Karen Sanchez-Quiroga (2019-2023, Co-advisor: Henry Arguello Fuentes).
- Sayantan Dutta (2019-2022, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Bertrand Georgeot).
- Kenule Nwigbo (2019-2022, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Duong Hung Pham).
- Farah Bazzi (2018-2021, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Muriel Mescam).
- Quentin Demoulin (2018-2021, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Janka Hatvani (2017-2020, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Miklos Gyongy).
- Fabien Vidal (2018-2021, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Mohamad Hourani (2017-2020, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Oumaima El Mansouri (2017-2020, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret). Defense available here.
- Jonghoon Kim (2016-2019, Co-advisors: Alin Achim and Denis Kouamé).
- Rose Sfeir (2015-2018, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Jérôme Michetti (2013-2019, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Franck Diemer).
- Nora Ouzir (2015-2018, Co-advisor: Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Zhouye Chen (2013-2016, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Teodora Szasz (2013-2016, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Ningning Zhao (2013-2016, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Rémi Abbal (2010-2014, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Renaud Morin (2010-2013, Co-advisors: Stéphanie Bidon and Denis Kouamé).
PhD students and PostDocs I collaborate(d) with
- Hojat Asgariandehkordi (2023-2026, Advisor: Hassan Rivaz).
- Lorena Leon (2023-2026, PostDoc).
- Gauthier Bouyjou (2022-2024, Engineer).
- Tatiana Gelvez (2022-2024, PostDoc).
- Alexandre Corazza (2020-2023, Advisors: Barbara Nicolas and Pauline Muleki Seya).
- Sobhan Goudarzi (2022, Advisor: Hassan Rivaz).
- Mihai Iulian Florea (2018, Advisor: Sergiy Vorobyov).
- Ane Alberdi Aramendi (2014-2017, Advisor: Asier Aztiria Goenaga).
- Cristian Ureche (2009-2012, Advisor: Mircea-Florin Vaida).
- Marie Ploquin (2008-2011, Advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Céline Quinsac (2009-2011, PostDoc).
- François de Vieilleville (2009-2011, PostDoc).
Awards and honors
Subject editor of the journal Signal Processing (Elsevier) from January 2024.
Oumaima El Mansouri won the first prize of "My PhD thesis in 180s", awarded by France 3 Midi-Pyrénées and University of Toulouse. Her presentation is available here.
Member of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium TPC, 2020.
Elected to the grade of IEEE Senior Member, 2019.
Member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee Biomedical Image & Signal Analytics, 2019.
Among the winners (joint work with T. Szasz) of Plane wave imaging challenge in ultrasound imaging, IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Tours, 2016.
Paul Calas award (joint work with J. Michetti) from French Society of Endodontics, 2016.
Best PhD thesis in biomedical imaging, research section, awarded by EMBS IEEE France Section, Z. Chen, compressed deconvolution in ultrasound imaging, 2016.
Best student paper finalist (joint work with Z. Chen and D. Kouamé), IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Taiwan, 2015.
Fundings
Maturation TTT, partner, 2024-2025.
CAVIIAR - member, ANR, 2022-2026.
NIH, partner, 2022-2026.
Pre-maturation Occitanie, coordinator, 2021-2023.
Emergence GSO, coordinator, 2020.
TTT, Breast cancer surgery, coordinator, 2020.
CNES, member, 2019.
Airbus, Cifre, partner, 2018-2021.
MUTATION - member, ANR JCJC, 2019-2023.
Umita - member, ANR MRSEI, 2016-2018.
EMUS - coordinator, CIMI,
2015-2018.
Arte - member, CIMI, 2015-2018.
Arimaginus - member, Midi-Pyrénées Region, 2010-2013.
US-Tagging - member, ANR JCJC, 2010-2013.
DosiTest - member, Inserm Physicancer, 2011-2013.
Tralq - member, University Paul Sabatier, 2013.
Emaus3D - coordinator, University Paul Sabatier, 2012.
CSUS - member, University Paul Sabatier, 2012.
PEPSBA - coordinator, PEPS CNRS INS2I, 2010.
GDR STIC-Sante - 2012, 2013.