Michael Unser Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Michael Unser
Birth Date:9 April 1958
Birth Place:Zug, Switzerland
Nationality:Swiss
Website:http://bigwww.epfl.ch/index.html
Alma Mater:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Workplaces:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main Interests:Signal processing, biomedical imaging

Michael Unser (born 9 April 1958 in Zug, Switzerland) is a Swiss engineer and a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).[1] His research focuses on the field of biomedical image processing.[2]

Career

Unser obtained a M.S. in 1981 and a PhD in 1984 in electrical engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In 1985, he moved to the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program. There, he became head of the Image Processing Group in 1990. In 1997, he was named associate professor at EPFL, where he was promoted full professor in 2000.[3] In 2021, he was named academic director of the EPFL Center for Imaging.[4]

Research

Unser heads the biomedical image processing group at the School of Engineering of EPFL. His research focuses on the development of mathematical tools and algorithms for the analysis of medical and biomedical images, notably for image reconstruction and multi-modal imaging.[5] [6] [7]

Unser's group was among the first to promote the use of wavelets as mathematical tools in biology and medicine.[8] Unser has notably pioneered their use in the analysis of fMRI and PET imaging data.[9]

Distinctions

As of 2020, Unser's publications had been cited over 50,000 times and his H-index was 102, owing him to figure on the list of highly cited researchers in engineering.[10] [11]

Unser received three Advanced Grants (2010 & 2015 & 2021) from the European Research Council for research projects on signal processing, bioimaging, and functional learning.[12]

He is a recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1995 Best Paper Award (together with A. Aldroubi and M. Eden), of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2000 Magazine Award, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 2003 Best Paper Award (with T. Blu).[13]

In 2018, Unser was awarded the Technical Achievement Award by the European Association for Signal Processing.[14]

In 2020, he was awarded the 2020 IEEE Engineering in Biology and Medicine Society Academic Career Achievement Award.[15]

Bibliography

Together with the American mathematician Akram Aldroubi, Michael Unser co-authored a book on the use of wavelets in medicine and biology.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ORCID. Michael Unser (0000-0003-1248-2513). 2020-10-15. orcid.org. en.
  2. Web site: Michaël Unser. 2020-10-15. people.epfl.ch.
  3. Web site: Michael Unser's CV 2008. 15 October 2020.
  4. Web site: EPFL launches a center of excellence in imaging. 22 March 2021.
  5. Web site: BIG > Research. 2020-10-20. bigwww.epfl.ch.
  6. Jin. Kyong Hwan. McCann. Michael T.. Froustey. Emmanuel. Unser. Michael. September 2017. Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 26. 9. 4509–4522. 10.1109/TIP.2017.2713099. 28641250. 1611.03679. 2017ITIP...26.4509J. 18141673. 1941-0042.
  7. Stalder. Aurélien F.. Melchior. Tobias. Müller. Michael. Sage. Daniel. Blu. Thierry. Unser. Michael. 2010-07-20. Low-bond axisymmetric drop shape analysis for surface tension and contact angle measurements of sessile drops. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. en. 364. 1. 72–81. 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.04.040. 0927-7757.
  8. Unser. M.. November 1995. Texture classification and segmentation using wavelet frames. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 4. 11. 1549–1560. 10.1109/83.469936. 18291987. 1995ITIP....4.1549U. 1941-0042.
  9. Unser. M.. Aldroubi. A.. April 1996. A review of wavelets in biomedical applications. Proceedings of the IEEE. 84. 4. 626–638. 10.1109/5.488704. 1558-2256.
  10. Web site: Michael Unser. 2020-10-20. scholar.google.com.
  11. Web site: Michael Unser - IEEE Explore. 2020-10-20. IEEE.
  12. Web site: ERC FUNDED PROJECTS. 2020-10-20. ERC: European Research Council. en.
  13. Web site: Michael Unser. 2020-10-20. bigwww.epfl.ch.
  14. Web site: EURASIP. 2020-10-20. www.eurasip.org.
  15. Web site: 2020-06-24. CIBM SP EPFL Section Head receives prestigious award for medical imaging - CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging. 2020-10-20. CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging. en-US.
  16. Web site: Wavelets in Medicine and Biology. 2020-10-20. Routledge & CRC Press. en.

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