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20082024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Current research

neuroimaging; magnetic resonance imaging;positron emission tomography; serotonin system; feature selection; statistical learning

Primary fields of research

My research interests include the application of image processing, computer vision and machine learning techniques in medical imaging as well as the statistical interpretations of results retrieved in medical imaging problems.

Short presentation

I am currently a researcher at the Neurobiology research unit at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen and have since 1. September 2021 an appointment as associate professor at the Department for Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.

As a researcher, I aim to utilize my inter-disciplinary background – physics, computer science and neuroimaging - to push the boundaries for what is considered feasible. My research focuses on the application of medical image processing and machine learning to clinical medical image data, mostly neuroscientific data (PET & MRI). Additionally, I aim to embrace Open Science principles in my research and am hence involved in data sharing initiatives such as the Brain Imaging Data Structure.
From a methodological perspective, I have worked on tools for preprocessing, segmentation and registration of X-ray, MRI and PET images as well as the statistical interpretation of results retrieved in medical imaging. My work builds on my extensive expertise in physics and medical image analysis, as well as my experience working in an inter-disciplinary environment at Rigshospitalet and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.

My NRU homepage: https://nru.dk/index.php/staff-list/post-docs/62-melanie-ganz-benjaminsen

My personal homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/melanieganz/home

 

Education/Academic qualification

Medical Image Analysis, PhD Computer Science, University of Copenhagen

1 Mar 200827 May 2011

Award Date: 27 May 2011

Physics, Master of Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Oct 200221 Sep 2007

Award Date: 21 Sep 2007

External positions

Researcher, Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet

1 May 2017 → …

Postdoctoral Fellow, Copenhagen University Hospital - Rigshospitalet

1 Jan 201430 Apr 2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School

1 Nov 201131 Oct 2013

Research and Development intern, Medicsight PLC

May 2011Sep 2011

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • medical image analysis, MRI, PET

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