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Present Affiliation

 

Eindhoven University of Technology

Dep. Mathematics and Computer Science,

MF 5.071B

PO Box 513,

NL-5600 MB Eindhoven,

The Netherlands.

 

Research

 

Profile:

I am a Mathematician. I develop new mathematical theory and algorithms to tackle image analysis applications.

Main Expertises:

Differential Geometry, Harmonic Analysis, Probability Theory,

Numerical Analysis, Functional Analysis, Machine Learning & PDEs on Lie Groups, Mathematical Image Analysis & Medical Image Analysis.

 

Complete list of publications: pdf

Presentations:

IHP-presentations:

Geometry Talk:                               youtube

Machine Learning Talk :               youtube

Slides recent presentations :

pptx (short & small)   pptx (middle size)   pptx (long & large)

General presentations see: pptx  pptx

Overview invited talks & conferences: pdf

 

Link to Mathematica package orientation score processing:  html

 

PhD Thesis R.Duits: pdf (cum laude, nom. as best of the dep. for TU/e PhD prize 2005) 

Master Thesis R.Duits: pdf (cum laude 2001)

 

 

PhDThesis of PhD Projects  (under daily supervision R.Duits) :

J.M. Portegies pdf

E.J. Bekkers pdf (cum laude, nominated as best of the dep. for TU/e PhD prize 2017)

E.M. Franken  pdf (cum laude, nominated as best of the dep. for TU/e PhD prize 2009)

J. Zhang  pdf

S.P.L. Meesters pdf

B.J. Janssen pdf

          Recent Master Thesis  (under daily supervision R.Duits) :

               B.M.N. Smets pdf

 

Links to key publications  (ordered over 5 research areas) :

 

 

 Orientation Score Theory 

PDE Theory, Fourier Theory, Wavelet Theory, Probability Theory & Geometric Control & Machine Learning on Lie group SE(d).

 

- Brownian motion in orientation scores:

 

pdf (QAM 2010),

pdf (QAM 2010),

pdf (IJCV 2009)

            Example crossing-preserving diffusion 2D image avi

of 3D image: pdf

 

- Direction process in orientation scores :

pdf (QAM 2008),

pdf (LNCS 2007),

- Exact solutions Brownian motion & Direction process on SE(3):

            pdf (DGA 2017)

-  New Fourier Transform on the homogeneous space of positions and orientations for exact solutions of linear PDEs

            pdf (Entropy-2019)

- Introduction to orientation score processing

pdf pdf pdf pdf

 

- Construction of invertible orientation scores (2D & 3D) :

                        pdf (IJCV 2007), 

pdf (PRIA 2007) 

pdf (SSVM 2015)

                        pdf (PhD-thesis),

pdf

complete review:  pdf

- Review on numerics left-inv PDE’s & comparion to exact solutions:

 pdf (NM-TMA 2015)

- Tracking and geometric control within orientation scores :

pdf (JMIV 2018)  

pdf (JMIV 2014)

 

- Multiple scale orientation scores: pdf / pdf (ACHA 2015)

 

-        Sub-Riemannian geodesics in Euclidean motion group:

 

2D :    pdf (JMIV 2014),

pdf (ESAIM-cocv 2014),

                       

PDE & data-driven approach:

                        pdf (SIIMS 2015),  

pdf (SSVM 2015)

                                   

Fast-marching approach : pdf (2015)

                                   

Maxwell sets pdf (GSI 2017)

                      

3D : pdf (JDCS 2016)  (package)

                       

dD : pdf (bookchapter 2013)

 

-         Sub-Riemannian geodesics in SO(3):

pdf (JMIV 2017)

 

-        Locally adaptive frame theory in SE(d)

pdf (JMIV 2016)

 

-        Finsler geometry:

 pdf (JMIV 2018)

 

-        Cartan connections for image processing

pdf (2020)

 

-        Geometric deep-learning on the Euclidean motion group

pdf (MICCAI 2018)

 

-        PDE-based Geometric deep-Learning on SE(d)

 

 pdf (2020)

 pdf (2021)

 pdf (2022)

 pdf (2023)

 pdf (2023)

 

 

Medical Image Analysis Applications of Orientation Scores:

- Training of templates/inverse problem in orientation scores :

pdf (EMMCVPR LNCS  2014)

 

- Biomarker curvature pdf (OMIA 2015)

 

- Crossing-preserving vesselness: pdf (MICCAI 2014)

 

- Vessel Segmentation via LAD in SE(2): pdf  (TMI 2016)

 

- Locally Adaptive Derivatives (LAD) in SE(d): pdf (JMIV 2016) 

- Curvature estimation via LAD in SE(3): pdf  (SSVM 2017)

 

 - Perceptual grouping:

   pdf (Biological Cyb. 2017)                    

 

- Crossing-preserving diffusion 3D datasets:

   pdf (JMIV 2018) 

 

- Vessel Detection - Mitosis DetectionCell Boundary Detection

   pdf (MICCAI 2018)

 

- Lesion segmentation via Machine Learning by localized cyclic GANs   pdf  (IEEE-TCCB 2020)

 

- Template Matching & Machine Learning in SE(2): pdf (PAMI 2017)

- Vessel and Nuclei Segmentation via Equivariant Deep Learning  pdf

- Cancer Detection in Histopathology Images pdf (MEDIA 2020)

- Vascular Tree tracking in ophthalmology pdf (SSVM 2023)

 

 

Diffusion Weighted MRI

Geometric Control & PDE Theory on SE(3)

 

Fiber enhancement and completion in DW-MRI :

-        theory: pdf (IJCV 2010) pdf (LNCS 2011), pdf (LNCS 2011), pdf (JMIV 2014), pdf (SSVM 2015)

 

-        applications: pdf (LNCS 2011), pdf (MICCAI), pdf (JNeuMeth2017)

 

combination with CSD & practical validations:

pdf (2015)

 

-        numerics : pdf (NM-TMA 2013) (package)

                    pdf (Eurographics)

-        abstracts to open source DiPY implementations:

pdf (linear contextual enhancement, 2016)

pdf (fiber to bundle coherence measures, 2016)

 

-        Connectivity Measures pdf (MICCAI 2018)

 

Morphological scale spaces on DW-MRI :

-        theory : pdf (JMIV 2014)

-        applications : pdf (Dagstuhl 2013), new (PlosOne 2014) 

 

 

Gabor Transform Processing 

PDEs on Heisenberg Group

 

Theory of left-invariant evolutions on Gabor transforms with applications in cardiac imaging :

pdf  (ACHA 2013)

 

-        Differential Reassignment :

pdf (Book-ch 8 2012)

-        applications : pdf (FIMH 2013), pdf (STACOM 2013)

 

Optic Flow 

Connections and Flow Fields

 

Multi-scale Helmholtz decomposition  and covariant derivatives for cardiac motion analysis:

 

pdf (QAM 2013) pdf (LNCS 2012)

 

 Scale Space Theory 

Evolution Equations & Inverse Problems

 

Reconstruction from scale space singularities via Gelfand triples :

·       theory  pdf (IJCV 2009), pdf (LNCS 2006), pdf

·       implementation pdf (IJCV 2006)

·       applications : pdf (QAM 2013), pdf (LNCS 2012), pdf (NW 2008)

                 

 Scale spaces on bounded domain:

pdf (IJCV 2007), pdf (LNCS 2005)

       Scale spaces on Lie groups : pdf (LNCS 2007), pdf (JMIV 2012)

                   Axioms of scale space theory : pdf (JMIV,2004)

 

 

Synopsis Lie Group Analysis research and applications: doc              

Awards/Achievements:  pdf

 

 

 

Research Grants

Main applicant in research grants :

 

-        VICI NWO 2021-2026 (personal grant R.Duits)

Full Title: Geometric Learning for Image Analysis (nr. VI.C.202-031)

 

 

-        European Research Council ERC 2014-2019 (personal grant R.Duits) Title: Lie Analysis (nr. 335555)

Full title: Lie Group Analysis for Medical Image Processing

 

-         EU-Marie Curie (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN),

      Title: MANET (no. 607643)

            Full Title: Metric Analysis and Emerging Technologies.

           

-        TU/e PhD-TA. Title: Geometric Image Processing and Probabilistic Deep Learning (2019-2024)

 

-        REMODEL EU-Marie Curie -Staff Exchange (2023-2027) WP Title: Differential Equations for Equivariant Neural Networks.

 

and previously co-applicant in:

IST/e High Potential Program TU/e (2010-2015).

EU-Marie Curie FIRST (ag.no. PITN-GA-2009-238702)

 

Lie Analysis Workshop:

workshop/index.html

 

 

Education

 

2WA80 (Complex Analysis)

2WA08 (Applied Functional Analysis)

2MMA70 (Differential Geometry for Image Processing)

2DX00 (Mathematics for Physiology)

2MMA70 (Mathematics for Neural Networks)

2DM00 (Basiswiskunde)

2DM60 (Wiskunde II)

8G116 (Aansluitingsmodule voor BMT)

8D020 (Mathematical Techniques for Image Analysis)

2WBB0 (Calculus)

 

Overview Student project supervision, see doc

 

New Master Course

Differential Geometry for Image Processing

Course Info: pdf

Lecture Notes:

Part I:   pdf 

part II:  pdf

part III: pdf

part IV: pdf

 

Summer School Cortona 2017

Orientation Score Theory and Its Solutions to Cortical PDE, ODE and Wavelet Models

Schedule pdf    Course-material folder zip  Slides zip