[Imageworld] Senior research positions at Nordic Bioscience, Copenhagen

[Mads Nielsen]

Two Senior Researchers within Medical Image Analysis

Nordic Bioscience Imaging (NBI) offers career opportunities to senior 
researchers within medical image analysis. The successful candidates 
will be ) running two newly established research units in medical image 
and data analysis. Both positions are within the field of shape and 
appearance modelling combined with subsequent statistical analysis for 
application in relation to osteoporosis and vascular calcification, 
respectively.

*Osteoporosis Project*: The project aims at quantifying and predicting 
bone fractures, especially in the spine, and relating these to other 
biomarkers. Preliminary results on shape analysis have been published in 
MICCAI, MedIA, and clinical journals.

*Calcification Project*: The project aims at quantifying vascular 
calcification and relating this to biological severity. Preliminary 
results on shape analysis have been published in IPMI, MICCAI, and 
clinical journals.

It is the intention to associate PhD students in both projects. For both 
projects, the publications have been based on previous and ongoing 
clinical studies/trials including up to 6000 patients followed up to 8 
years. These collections are digitised and annotated by trained 
radiologists.

The successful candidates will hold a technical PhD in (medical) image 
analysis and/or machine learning, and a strong interest in bridging the 
gap to medical/biological research. Furthermore, they will have a strong 
record in translating high quality scientific work into publications, 
will be expected to contribute to both technical and clinical 
publications, and will have the ambition to make their group grow.

NBI performs medical image analysis research and development with a 
medical focus on osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, aorta calcification and 
breast cancer. The main methodologies are shape modelling, pattern 
recognition, and development of biomarkers for clinical studies. Our 
research results are published in the leading conferences/journals 
(IPMI,MICCAI, IEEE TMI, MedIA) and the relevant clinical 
conferences/journals.

NBI collaborates with the Image Analysis groups at the Department of 
Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU); the Technical 
University of Denmark, the university hospitals in Copenhagen, as well 
as several foreign research groups. The director, Mads Nielsen, is also 
full professor at DIKU. The employees at Nordic Bioscience Imaging all 
have either MSc or PhD degrees in medical image analysis. NBI was 
founded in January 2007 and is co-located in Herlev with Nordic 
Bioscience (www.nordicbioscience.com 
<http://www.nordicbioscience.com/>). Nordic Bioscience is conducting 
world-leading research within development of biochemical biomarkers with 
focus on cartilage and bone diseases.

Informal enquiry can be made to Professor Mads Nielsen (madsn at diku.dk 
<mailto:madsn at diku.dk>) and applications marked Osteoporosis Project, 
Calcification project, or both – including CV and list of publications – 
must be submitted to Mads Nielsen with copy to Academic Officer Camilla 
Jørgensen (camillaj at diku.dk <mailto:camillaj at diku.dk>).

We will accept applications until the end of July – but the positions 
may be filled earlier by outstanding applicants.

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Mads Nielsen                         em.  madsn at diku.dk
Professor, Ph.D                      ph.  +45 3532 1400
Department of Computer Science       dir. +45 3532 1450
University of Copenhagen             mb.  +45 2875 1450
Universitetsparken 1                 fax. +45 3532 1401
DK-2100 Copenhagen                   ass. +45 3532 1359
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