Main ongoing projects (IPAL-UMI CNRS)
- MICO - COgnitive MIcroscope: A cognition-driven visual explorer for histopathology. Application to breast cancer grading.
- Granted by the Technologies for Health program (TecSan - Technolgies pour la Sante) of the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche - ANR).
- Partners: IPAL/UJF, LIP6/UPMC, TRIBVN (SME Châtillon/Paris), THALES-TCF, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital - Paris, AGFA Healthcare France
- Personal role in the project: Principal Investigator,
- Duration: 3 years (2011-2014)
- Objectives:
- The cognitive microscope (MICO) aims at radically modifying the medical practices by proposing a new cognitive medical imaging environment able to improve reliability of decision making in histopathology.
- MICO aims at moving a step forward in medical practice by proposing the foundations of a new confluent cognitive medical imaging technology using context in intelligent way.
- MICO behaves in a cognitively consistent way with standard medical practice, following a uniform representation of image analysis, reasoning and context elements.
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IVS4NSC - "An Intelligent Vision System for Quantitative Microscopy in Neural Stem Cells Progenitor Growth and Differentiation"
- Granted by A*STAR/JCO (Joint Council Office, A*STAR) Singapore
- Partners: The project involves IPAL and three A*STAR institutes (Institute for Infocomm Research I2R/SERC, Bioinformatic Institute BII/BMRC and the Institute of Medical Biology IMB/BMRC)
- Duration: 3,5 years (2009 – 2013)
- Objectives:
- The project aims to develop an intelligent vision system for the analysis of neural stem cells, their progenitors and cell differentiation; by integrating image processing and machine learning with microscopy to drive systematic high-throughput high-content screening to elucidate gene functions and signalling pathways.
- The vital knowledge gained in this project can potentially be applied as therapeutics for the treatment of Central Nervous System diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
- Related link: Image Informatics of Stem Cells
- IMS – A suite of integrated microscopy systems for imaging anatomies of complex 3D cell culture systems
- Project funded by A*STAR/JCO (Joint Council SERC-BMRC/A*STAR) Singapore
- Involving IPAL and three A*STAR institutes (the Institute for Infocomm Research I2R/SERC, the Bioinformatic Institute BII/BMRC, the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology IMCB/BMRC and the Institute of Medical Biology IMB/BMRC)
- Duration: 3 years (2013 – 2016)
- FlexMIm – collaborative digital histopathology
- Funded by the Single Interministerial Fund (Fonds Unitaires Interministériels) French Ministry of Industry (MINEFE)
- Project involving Orange Heathcare, Tribvn, Pertimm, the University Pierre and Marie Curie, the Univ. Paris Diderot and the Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, the public hospital system (établissement public de santé) of the city of Paris and its suburbs (AP-HP).
- Role: Co-Principal Investigator and WP manager (Semantic and Imaging).
- Duration: 3 years (2013-2016)
Major previous projects (IPAL UMI CNRS & FEMTO-ST UMR CNRS)
- IC0604 - EURO-TELEPATH -“Telepathology Network in Europe”
- COST Action European Cooperation in Science and Technology
- Partners: Spain, France, Germany, Grece, Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, Finland, Lithuania, Nederland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom.
- Duration: 4 years (2007-2011)
- Domain : telepathology, virtual microscopy, histopathology
- MMedWeb "Multimedia Medical Conceptual Web for Intelligent Information Access"
- Granted by A*STAR/SERC - Science & Engineering Research Council, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Partners: CNRS, NUS, I2R/A*STAR, Nat. Univ. Hospital (NUH), National Healthcare Group, Singapore General Hospital (SGH)
- Personal role in the project; Co-Principal Investigator
- Duration: 3 years (2007-2010)
- Objectives:
- Developing a framework for the semantic structuring and organization of multimedia medical information (images, reports).
- Implementing a prototype system of the framework with user-friendly network tools for navigation and query of MMedWeb.
- Trial integration of MMedWeb with existing medical databases (PACS, RIS, etc.)
- ONCO-MEDIA "Ontology and COntext related MEdical image Distributed Intelligent Access"
- Funded by the 5th ICT-ASIA Programme (France / Asia)
- International partners from Singapore (IPAL), France (CREATIS, LIRIS, LIP6, IS3, FEMTO-ST), Switzerland (UNIGE), Taiwan (NTU), Philippine (ATENEO), Japan (CIGG);
- Personal role in the project: Principal Investigator
- Duration: 2 years (2006-2007 and 2009-2010)
- Objctives:
- To develop a novel grid-distributed, contextual and semantic based, intelligent information access framework for medical images and associated medical reports;
- To explore new medical image diagnosis assistance, teaching and research access applications using semantic, visual and context-sensitive medical information with the grid computing facilities;
- To crystallize a network of research excellence in the field of distributed medical images access among Asia, French and French Switzerland partners, leveraging on their complementary scientific values and experience.
- PROTEUS - A Generic Platform for E-maintenance,
- FP5 European Integrated Project of ITEA program (Information Technology for European Advancement)
- Duration : 3 years (2002-2005)
- 14 European industrial and academic partners (France; Germany, Belgium) : CEGELEC, AKN, Univ. Munich, LORIA-INRIA/CNRS, LIP6/UPMC, FEMTO-ST/UFC, LIFC/UFC, Pertinence Data ...
- NEMOSYS - Naval E-Maintenance Oriented SYStem;
- Research contract with DCNS Direction des Constructions Navales Services, France.
- Duration: 2 years (2004-2006), Role of FEMTO-ST : PI
- 6 French industrial and academic partners of GdR MACS, GT MACOD: FEMTO-ST/UFC, CEGELEC, CRAN, UTT, ...
- Scope: diagnostic, prognostic and dynamic monitoring.
- This collaboration allowed the vreation in 2007 of the spin-off
e-m@systec, at the TEMIS incubation, Besançon.
