ATHENA Project-Team Leader

Office Byron Bldg - Y405
Tel: +33 4 92 38 78 32
mail: <Rachid.Deriche@sophia.inria.fr>
web: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Rachid.Deriche

I am Research Director at INRIA in the Sophia Antipolis - Méditerannée Research Center where I lead the Project-Team ATHENA focused on the Computational Imaging of the Central Nervous System.

I am also teaching graduate courses on Biomedical Imaging, Computer Vision and Image processing in the following Master of Sciences 2 : Master of Science in Computational Biology and Parisian Master of Research in Computer Science and in the following engineering school Telecom Sud Paris.

I am vice-Director of the STIC Doctoral School and from Sept 2007 to June 2010, I was member of the INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée Management board, vice-chair of the INRIA Sophia project-team committee and member of the INRIA Evaluation Committee.

I am Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS), member of the editorial board of Computational Imaging and Vision book series and was Co-chair of ICPR 2010 : Track VI: Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications. I have been Associate Editor for many years for journals such as IJCV and area-chair for many conferences such as ECCV, ICCV, CVPR, MICCAI, RFIA, ISBI etc

Research Interest: My expertise and research interests are in Computational Imaging of the Central Nervous System (CNS - Brain and Spinal Cord), 3D Computer Vision and Mathematical Image Processing. More recently, i shifted my research interest from the domain of 3D Computer Vision to the domain of Computational CNS Imaging with a particular emphasis on the understanding and the processing of the CNS anatomical connectivity through Diffusion MRI and its combination with other modalities such as fMRI, MEG or EEG. More generally, i am very interested by the development and application of mathematical and computational imaging methods to help understand how the brain works and acquire a better understanding of its mechanisms.

Publications :

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Articles in refereed journals

Articles in book chapters

Articles in International Conferences

Articles in French Conferences

PhD students

• Emmanuel Caruyer : Optimal Acquisition Schemes in Diffusion MRI - To be defended on July 18, 2012 at Inria
• Sylvain Merlet : Compressed Sensing Diffusion MRI
• Anne-Charlotte Philippe in Co-Direction with M. Clerc (Athena, Inria) : Fusion of Diffusion MRI, MEG & EEG
• Thinhinane Megherbi? in Co-Direction with L. Boumghar (USTHB, Algiers) : Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Beyond

Former PhD students

• Jian Cheng- Estimation and Processing of Ensemble Average Propagator and Its Features in Diffusion MRI - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis/CASIA/LIAMA (Beijing) - defended May 30, 2012 - Reviewers: M. Descoteaux (SCIL,Sherbrooke University), Hongtu Zhu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) \& Gaolang Gong (Beijing Normal University).
• Aurobrata Ghosh- High Order Models in Diffusion MRI and Applications, defended April 11, 2011 - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis - Reviewers: P. Basser (STBB, NICHD, Bethesda) and B. Vemuri ( Univ. of Florida, Gainsesville).
• Arnaud Messe in Co-Direction with H. Benali (Inserm U678) - Caractérisation de la relation structure-fonction dans le cerveau humain à partir de données d~IRM fonctionnelle et de diffusion Méthodes et applications cognitive et clinique, defended on December 21, 2010. Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis.
• Demian Wassermann - Automated In Vivo Dissection of White Matter Structures from Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, defended on April, 2, 2010. - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis - Reviewers : C.F. Westin (BWH, Harvard Medical School) \& C. Poupon (Neurospin)
• Maxime Descoteaux - High Angular Resolution Diffusion MRI : From Local Estimation to Segmentation and Tractography, defended on February, 5, 2008 - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis - Reviewers : P.J. Basser (NICHD, NIH, Bethesda), C.F. Westin (BWH, Harvard Medical School) \& C. Poupon (Neurospin) - Award of the best PhD thesis by ASTI 2009 (Association Française des Sciences and Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication.
• Christophe Lenglet- Geometric and Variational Methodsfor Diffusion Tensor MRI Processing, defended on December, 12, 2006 - Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis - Reviewers : P.J. Basser (NICHD, Bethesda), C.F. Westin (BWH, Harvard Medical School) \& G. Sapiro (CMRR, Univ. Minnesota) - Award of the best PhD thesis by AFRIF 2007 (Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l'Interprétation des Formes.
• Lucero Lopez Perez - Régularisation d'images sur des surfaces non planes, defended on December, 15, 2006 - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis - Reviewers : N. Sochen (Tel-Aviv University ) \& L. Alvarez (Las-Palmas Univ.).
• Mickael Rousson - Cue Integration and Front Evolution in Image Segmentation, defended on December, 6, 2004 - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis. Reviewers : G. Sapiro (CMRR, Univ. Minnesota), L. Alvarez (Las Palmas Univ.) \& K. Siddiqi.(McGill Univ.).
• David Tschumperlé - PDE's Based Regularization of Multi-Valued Images and Applications, defended on December, 13, 2002 - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis. Reviewers : N. Sochen (Tel-Aviv Univ.) \& L. Alvarez (Las-Palmas Univ.). Award of the second best prize by Telecom-Valley in 2003.
• Nikos Paragios - Geodesic Active Regions and Level Set Methods : Contributions and Applications in Artificial Vision, defended on January 20, 2000 - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis ~ Reviewers : M. Brady (Oxford Univ.), G. Sapiro (CMRR, Univ. of Minnesota) \& L. Alvarez (Las-Palmas Univ.) - Award second best PhD thesis Cor-Bayeen Ercim 2000.
• Pierre Kornprobst- Contributions à la restauration d'images et à l'analyse de séquences : Approches Variationnelles et Solutions de Viscosité, defended on November 5, 1998 - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis - Reviewers : P. Bouthemy, G. Buttazo \& J.M. Morel.
• Franck Taillandier - Reconstruction de bâti en milieu urbain : une approche multi-vues, Thèse Ecole Polytechnique defended on Sept. 2004. Reviewers : H. Maitre and J.P. Cocquerez.
• Bénédicte Bascle - Contributions et applications des modèles déformables en vision par ordinateur, defended on July 13, 1994.- Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis - Reviewers G. Médioni (Univ. Southern California, USA) \& O. Kubler (EPFL).
• Laurence Lucido : Navigation Sous-Marine Référencée Terrain par Mise en Correspondance de cartes Bathymétriques, defended January 1998 - Universit{\'e} de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. {\bf ADDX Technologies - Sophia-Antipolis.}
• Thierry Blaszka : Approches par Modèle en Vision Précoce, defended on February 25, 1997 - Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis. Reviewers : R. Horaud (CNRS) \& O. Monga (INRIA).
• Yuxin Chen : Détection Optimale de Contours -Évaluation et Implémentation sur un Réseau Parallèle de Transputers, defended on July 1990 - Ecole Centrale de Paris - Laboratoire d'accueil: ENSEA.