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Ignace Lemahieu
Ignace Lemahieu was born in Varsenare, a small village near Bruges (Belgium), in 1961. He graduated in physics from Ghent University in 1983, and obtained his doctoral degree in physics in 1988 from the same university. He joined the department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) at the Ghent University in 1989 as a Research Associate with the National Fund for Scientific Research (N.F.W.O.), Belgium. He is now a professor of Medical Image Processing and head of the MEDISIP research group.
Since October 2003, he
is also Director of Research Affairs within Ghent University.
His research interests
comprise all aspects of image processing and biomedical signal processing,
including image reconstruction from projections, pattern recognition, image
fusion and compression. He is the co-author of more than 200 papers.
Ignace Lemahieu is a member
of IEEE, SPIE, ESEM (European Society for Engineering
and Medicine) and EANM (European Association of Nuclear Medicine).
Awards
- Best Poster Award on the IEEE/ProRISC '98
meeting (Mierlo, The Netherlands, November 1998) for the work: "The lossy
compression of CMYK color images using an adaptive and perceptual based
quantization scheme" co-authored by Peter De Neve, Wilfried Philips and
Ignace Lemahieu
- Young Scientist Poster Award on ISBET 1998
for the work: "Reciprocity and lead fields used in the numerical inverse
procedure of EEG source analysis" co-authored by Bart Vanrumste, Gert Van
Hoey, Paul Boon, Michel D'Havé and Ignace Lemahieu
- Best Poster Award on the European Symposium
on Clinical Imaging and Networking(Antwerp, Belgium, April 1998) for the work:
"ROI-based Progressive Transmission of Medical Images Accross The
Internet" co-authored by Boris Rogge, Ignace Lemahieu, Wilfried Philips,
Steven Van Assche, Koen Denecker and Peter Deneve
- Best Poster award on the IEEE/ProRISC 97
meeting (Mierlo, The Netherlands, November 1997) for the poster
"Time-frequency analysis of EEG-signals" co-authored by Gert Van
Hoey, Wilfried Philips and Ignace Lemahieu
- Nomitated for the award of the Alumni of
the University Foundation (1996)
- Best Poster Award on the European
Conference on Cardiac PET research (Groningen, The Netherlands, June 1995) for
the work: "Myocardial infarct quantization on PET images using a neural
network and simulated annealing" co-authored by Yves Vander Haeghen,
Ignace Lemahieu and Francis Colardyn
- Laureate of the contest for travel grants
of the Belgian State (1989)
- First laureate of the University Contest
of the Belgian State (1984)
How to reach Ignace Lemahieu
Ignace Lemahieu E-mail: ignace.lemahieu@UGent.be
UGent - ELIS/MEDISIP St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 Tel: 32-9-264.42.32
B-9000 Gent, Belgium Fax: 32-9-264.35.94
Ignace.Lemahieu@UGent.be
Last modified: Fri 21 November 2003