Job Description

IMT Lucca in Italy is currently recruiting for a Post-Doctoral Fellow position in Medical Image Analysis.

Funding has been obtained from the National Institutes of Heath (USA) to investigate new non-invasive techniques of cardiovascular imaging with MRI together with partners from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles (California, USA), and Siemens. Particular interest is in unsupervised methods of analyzing such datasets to characterize cardiac disease, based on sparse space-time decompositions. Similar problems are encountered in functional MRI of the brain.

The Institute is looking for an enthusiastic and strongly motivated researcher to join the PRIAn - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Unit (http://prian.imtlucca.it/) within IMT Lucca and to propose innovative approaches to cardiovascular image analysis. He/she will have the opportunity to visit and collaborate with our partners.

The candidate will join a rapidly growing and interdisciplinary group that collaborates with a variety of laboratories across the world to investigate new approaches for image analysis (segmentation, detection, tracking) and the discovery of patterns in multidimensional datasets arising in imaging problems in natural and life sciences.

Candidates should have a PhD in computer vision, medical image analysis, machine learning, signal processing, or related areas. Prior experience in cardiac/brain registration and segmentation will be considered a plus. A good record of international publications demonstrating prior experience is required. The candidate should have good programming skills, a strong mathematical background, and an interest in bridging the gap to the medical/biological/natural sciences.

More information regarding the position, as well as the online application form, can be found here: http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php#medical_image_analysis)
Informal inquiries regarding the position can be addressed to Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris, s.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it

The deadline for applications is February 14th 2014, 12:00 pm (midday).

IMT Lucca (http://www.imtlucca.it) is a research university within the Italian public higher education system. IMT strives to establish itself as a research center that promotes cutting-edge research in key areas, structuring its PhD Program in close connection to research, to attract top students, researchers and scholars through competitive international selections, and to contribute to technological innovation, economic growth and social development.

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