Guido Gerig, PhD Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute SCI Director of Center for Neuroimage Analysis Utah Brain Institute Professor of Computer Science School of Computing The University of Utah Tel: (801) 585 0327, administration (801) 587 7875 Fax: (801) 585 6513 E-mail: gerig at sci.utah.edu

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Education

• 1981 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Diploma in Life Sciences, Title: "Dipl. natw. ETH" (MSc degree)
• 1987 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Title: "Dr. sc. techn. ETH"
• 1993 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Multimodal Image Analysis, Title: "Privatdozent" (lecturer)
• 1993 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Assistant Professor for Image Data Analysis BIWI

• 1998 UNC Chapel Hill, Taylor Grandy Professor of Computer Science and Psychiatry (UNC-CS) / (UNC-Psychiatry)
• 2008 University of Utah, School of Computing (SoC) and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI)

Research interests [see research page]

• development of image analysis techniques driven by challenging applications in medical image analysis
• segmentation and object modeling of structures extracted from 3-D image data and 3-D time series Interactive 3D Segmentation
• shape-based 3-D object representation and shape analysis Statistical Shapes
• shape analysis of brain structures for studying neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative changes of the human brain in diseases like schizophrenia, depression, autism and fragile-X
• 3D segmentation of lesions (tumors, white matter lesions, vascular lesions) in the human brain Automatic 3D Lesion Segmentation
• analysis of diffusion tensor image data (DTI)
• building of statistical population atlases of the human brain
• studying the early developing brain and neonatal MRI

Short Bios [Full CV]

Guido Gerig is Taylor Grandy professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Guido Gerig joined the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in August 1998. In 2008, he accepted a new faculty position at the School of Computing and Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI) at the University of Utah.

Guido Gerig began research in the area of medical image analysis in 1985 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Since then, he has led a large number of national and international projects with close multidisciplinary collaboration between medicine, engineering, statistics, industry, and computer science. He has spent several research leaves as a visiting assistant professor at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Guido Gerig is a member of the editorial board of the journal Medical Image Analysis, published by Elsevier. He has served on the committees of a number of computer vision and image analysis conferences and workshops. He is the director of the UNC Neuroimage Analysis Laboratory and supports a number of clinical neuroimaging projects with methodology for image processing, registration, atlas building, segmentation, shape analysis, and statistical analysis. Current key research topics are segmentation of MRI/DTI of the early developing brain, longitdinal analysis of multi-shape complexes, building of population atlases of volumetric images and embedded shapes, and new methodologies for statistical analysis of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Tools and methods developed through driving clinical applications are open source (ITK) and made available to public.

Curriculum vitae - extended version [Download pdf]

Important Project Collaborations

• MIDAG (S.M. Pizer)
• UNC Neuroimage Analysis Laboratory NIRL (Gerig/Belger)
• UNC Silvio Conte Center (J. Gilmore)
• UNC Early Brain Development Studies (J. Gilmore)
• UNC Autism Center (J. Piven)
• UNC-NDRC (J. Piven)
• NA-MIC: National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (R. Kikinis)
  
• BIRN
• BIRN-Duke-NIRL (Krishnan/MacFall)
• Duke Silvio Conte Center (R. Krishnan)
• DUMC (R. Krishnan)
• UNC CADDLab (S. Aylward)
• UNC CASILab (E. Bullitt)
• Harvard SPL (R. Kikinis)
• PNL: Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M. Shenton)
  

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• PubMed

Ph.D./M.S. students

Former students:

• Martin Styner, 1998-2001, shape analysis and shape statistics, PhD 2001
• Nathan Moon, 2000-2002, , tumor segmentation, MS 2004
• Megan Dunigan, 2002-2004, shape analysis, MS 2004
• Sean Ho (PhD 2005), Multi-scale Image Match
• Mike Brady (MD-PhD), 2004-2005, Neuroimaging of neonatal MRI

Current students

• Marcel Prastawa, 2000-present, 3-D segmentation of medial images
• Christine Xu, 2003-present, shape analysis
• Tim Terriberry, 2003-present, shape statistics
• Ipek Oguz, 2004-present, shape analysis
• Casey Goodlett, 2004-present, diffusion tensor (DTI) analysis
• Kevin Gorczowski, 2005-present, diffusion tensor (DTI) analysis
• Brad Moore, 2005-present, diffusion tensor (DTI) analysis
• Isabelle Corouge, PostDoc, 2003-present, shape analysis and modeling of brain connectivity

Undergraduate students

Former students

• Natacha Laurent, 1999-2000, Automatic MRI brain segmentation
• Matthieu Jomier, 2000-2001, Toolkit for validation of 3-D segmentation (VALMET)
• Marlene Jacquier, 2001-2002
• Cecile Barat, 2001-2002, semi-automatic segmentation of volumetric images
• Vincent Pagnon, 2002-2003, non-linear registration of brain MRI
• Pierre Fillard, 2002-2003, Streamline tracking in tensor data
• Sylvain Gouttard, 2003-2004, Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis, Fiber bundling
• Aurelie Allain, 2003-2004, Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis, Brain Connectivity

Current students

• Matthieu Jomier, 2003-2005, Insight Toolkit (ITK) software development for neuroimaging applications
• Clement Vachet, 2004-present, Diffusion Tensor Image (DTI) Analysis
• Luc Fauvet, 2004-present, Multi-site and multi-scanner validation

Staff

• Joseph Blocher, Director Neuroimage Analysis Laboratory
• Gary Long, Systems Manager Neuroimage Analysis Laboratory
• Parag Palekar, Programmer Neuroimaging
• Yethiraja Sampath Vetsa, Programmer and System Analysist Neuroimaging

Collaborators

• Stephen M. Pizer (UNC CS)
• John H. Gilmore (UNC Psychiatry)
• Joseph Piven and Heather Hazlett-Cody (UNC Psychiatry)
• Elizabeth Bullitt (UNC Surgery and CS)
• Martin Styner (UNC CS and Psychiatry, UNC NDRC)
• Stephen Aylward (UNC Radiology and CS)
• Aysenil Belger (UNC Psychiatry and Duke BIAC)
• Keith Muller (UNC Biostatistics)
• Gregory MacCarthy and Allen Song (Duke Brain Image Analysis Center BIAC)
• Ranga Krishnan and James MacFall (Duke Psychiatry)
• Ron Kikinis and Martha Shenton (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

Events

• MICCAI 2005 (James Duncan and Guido Gerig)
• MICCAI 2008 Workshop: Imaging the Early Developing Brain: Challenges and Potential Impact