Image Analysis: An image says more than a 1000 words
Computerised image analysis is about developing computational methods for extracting meaningful information from images - mainly from digital images - by means of digital image processing techniques, including neural networks and artificial intelligence (AI).
Overview
We develop theory, methods, algorithms, and systems to address questions related to life science, medicine, digital humanities, and other applications where imaging systems are used to collect information. This include identifying objects, extracting measurements, and making decisions based on image data. Many methods are common for wide ranges of applications. The list of research topics below is therefore related to several of our research entities and projects.
Research topics
Over the years, more and more of the research in image analysis involves development and application of model- and learning-based methods, also referred to as AI. However, many traditional methods are still powerful and are futher developed, often as a complement to AI.
- Image reconstruction and de-noising includes methods for improving the quality of image data.
- Image registration addresses methods to computationally align image data collected e.g. at different time points or with different imaging modalities.
- Digital geometry focuses on deriving geometric information from digital images, taking the limitations of discrete representations into account.
- Object detection can broadly include both delineation and classification of objects and images.
- Feature extraction includes approaches to extracting measurements and other properties from objects or regions of interest in images, relevant for the subsequent analysis.
- Image understanding is the ultimate goal of image processing and analysis, and provides interpretation of the information contained in the image data.
- Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message - make the invisible of scientific data visible.
- End-to-end image analysis proposes deep learning-based methods optimized to directly interpret image data fed into the system, without performing any intermediate steps.
Faculty members
- Professor Ida-Maria Sintorn (Head of Vi3 Division)
- Researcher Amin Allalou
- Bioinformatician Christophe Avenel
- Professor emeritus Ewert Bengtsson
- Professor emerita Gunilla Borgefors
- Bioinformatician Agustin Corbat
- Professor Orcun Göksel (see also his homepage)
- Professor Anders Hast (see also his homepage)
- Bioinformatician Anna Klemm
- Bioinformatician Kristina Lidayová
- Professor Joakim Lindblad (see also his homepage)
- Lecturer Filip Malmberg
- Professor Ingela Nyström (see also her homepage)
- Application expert Nikita Singh
- Professor Nataša Sladoje (see also her homepage)
- Professor Robin Strand (see also his homepage)
- Bioinformatician Jonas Windhager
- Professor Carolina Wählby (see also her homepage)
Research awards
1st Prize of the AI Sweden and AstraZeneca Adipocyte Cell Imaging Challenge to the HASTE team
Education
Master's Programme in Image Analysis and Machine Learning.
- 1MD110: Introduction to Image Analysis (10 credits)
- 1MD120: Deep Learning for Image Analysis (7.5 credits)
- 1MD130: Digital Imaging Systems (7.5 credits)
- 1MD037: Advanced Image Analysis (7.5 credits)
- 1TD396: Computer-Assisted Image Analysis I (5 credits)
- 1MD140: Scientific Visualization (7.5 credits)
- 1MD150: Computer Graphics (7.5 credits)
- 1MD026: Medical Informatics (5 credits) (basic level)
- 1MD030: Medical Informatics (5 credits) (advanced level)
- 1MD036: Project in Software Development in Image Analysis and Machine Learning (15 credits)
- 1MD038: Degree Project E in Image Analysis and Machine Learning (30 credits)