Head of Lab: Professor Trygve Eftestøl and Professor Kjersti Engan
Trygve Eftestøl is a full professor at the Electrial Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Stavanger. He was born in Bergen, Norway. He She received the Ing. (B.E.) degree in electrical engineering from Bergen University College and the Siv.Ing. (M.Sc.) and Dr.Ing. (Ph.D.) degrees in 1994 and 2000 respectively, both in electrical engineering from the University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
Kjersti Engan is a full professor at the Electrial Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Stavanger. She was born in Bergen, Norway. She received the Ing. (B.E.) degree in electrical engineering from Bergen University College in 1994 and the Siv.Ing. (M.Sc.) and Dr.Ing. (Ph.D.) degrees in 1996 and 2000 respectively, both in electrical engineering from the University of Stavanger, Norway. She is currently a full professor with the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. Link to her UiS page, and her web page. Her research interests are in signal and image processing, especially for biomedical applications, and in sparse signal representation and dictionary learning. She is a senior member of IEEE, a member of IEEE Image and Video Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee (IVMSP) and a senior Area editor for IEEE signal processing letters.
Associate professor Mahdieh Khanmohammadi
Mhadieh Khanmohammadi was born in Iran. She recieved her Bachelor degree and M.Sc. degree in bioelectrical Engineering from the university of Teheran, Iran. She recieved her PhD in medical image processing from the computer science department at the university of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2015. She has been a post.doc. researcher at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Stavanger (UiS), and since 2019 she has been an associate professor at the department.
Associate professor Karl Skretting
Karl Skretting is an associate professor at the Electrial Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Stavanger. He was born in Nærbø, Norway. He received his siv.ing. (M.Sc) and the PhD degree from the Electrial Engineering and Computer Science department at UiS in 1998 and 2002 respectively. He is a part of the Cybernetics Group. His research interests are in signal representation, data compression and and computer graphics.
Professor Jan Terje Kvaløy
Jan Terje Kvaløy is a professor in statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Physics at UiS. He was born in Vikedal, Norway. He received the SivIng (M.Sc) degree in applied mathematics in 1994 and the Dr.Ing (PhD) degree in mathematical statistics in 1999, both from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is currently a full professor at the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. Link to his UiS page, and his web page.
Associate professor II Ketil Oppedal
Ketil Oppedal holds a research position at Stavanger Univeristy Hospital (SUH), and in addition he holds a associate professor II position at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Stavanger (UiS). He recieved his PhD with the BMDLab group in 2016.
Associate professor II Øyvind Meinich-Bache
Øyvind Meinich-Bache is a researcher at Laerdal Medical, and in addition he holds an associate professor II position at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Stavanger (UiS). He recieved his PhD with the BMDLab group in Februar 2020.
Professor II Stein Ørn
Stein Ørn is a medical doctor, with a specialization and PhD cardiology. He is working at the Cardiology department at Stavanger Univeristy Hospital (SUH), and holds a prof. II position at UiS.
Professor II Kathinka Kurz
Kathinka Kurz is a medical doctor, with a specialization and PhD in radiology. She is working at the Radiology department at Stavanger Univeristy Hospital (SUH), and holds a prof. II position at UiS.
PhD Jörn Schulz
Jörn Schulz was born in Berlin, Germany. He recieved his PhD in statistics. He is currently a statistician at Stavanger University Hosptial (SUH). He also holds a associate professor II position at the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. He is a former post.doc. researcher at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Stavanger (UiS).
Current PhD students:
Jarle Urda, start Aug. 2016,
Project: Newborn care, Safer Births. Signal analysis on featal heart rate signals and resucitation data of newborns.
Supervisors: Kjersti Engan, Trygve Eftestøl, Hege Ersdal (SUH/UiS)
Kjell Le, start Aug. 2016
Project: Analysis of ECG signals from the Needed project
Supervisors: Trygve Eftestøl, Kjersti Engan, Stein Ørn (SUH/UiS), Chunming Rong
Rune Wetteland, start Aug. 2017
Project: Histological Image processing
Supervisors: Kjersti Engan, Trygve Eftestøl, Emiel Janssen (SUH/UiS), Krisztian Balog
Luca Tomasetti, start August 2019
Technical part of the collaboration project Analysis of perfusion CT for acute stroke patients
Project: Image analysis and artificial intelligence on computed tomography (CT) perfusion and angiography images of acute stroke patients
Supervisors: Mahdieh Khanmohammadi, Kjersti Engan, Kathinka Kurz
Liv Jorunn Høllesli, start November 2019
Medical part of the collaboration project Analysis of perfusion CT for acute stroke patients
Project: In depth analysis of perfusion computed tomography (CTP) in patients with acute stroke
Supervisors: Kathinka Kurz, Kjersti Engan
Álvaro Fernández Quílez, start June 2019
Project: Computer-aided detection and grading of prostate cancer based on machine learning techniques and multiparametric magnetic resonance.
Supervisors: Ketil Oppedal, Trygve Eftestøl, Thor Ole Gulsrud and Svein Reidar Kjosavik (SUH)
Solveig K. Hammonds, Start: Feb 2020
Project: An individualized disease severity index for prodromal dementia: a multi-biomarker and deep learning approach
Supervisors: Ketil Oppedal, Kathinka Kurz (SUH/UiS), Trygve Eftestøl
Past PhD students:
PhD Øyvind Meinich-Bache,
He defended his PhD from Dept. of electrical eng. and computer science at UiS Februar 2020 (Start Sept 2016).
Thesis: "Automatic Video Analysis in Resuscitation" Project covered: Video analysis in resuscitation: CPR with smartphone and video analysis on newborn resucitation episodes, Safer Briths .
Supervisors: Kjersti Engan, Trygve Eftestøl, Ivar Austvoll
PhD Faraz Barzideh
He defended his PhD from Dept. of electrical eng. and computer science at UiS December 2019.
Thesis title: «The Flexible Structure Dictionary Learning. A Dictionary Learning Method for Sparse Approximation of Signals»
Supervisors: Karl Skretting, Kjersti Engan
PhD Ali Bahrami Rad
He defended his PhD from Dept. of electrical eng. and computer science at UiS August 2017.
Thesis title: "An Automatic System for the Retrostpective Analysis of Cardiac Rythms in Resuscitation Episodes»
Supervisors: Trygve Eftestøl, Kjersti Engan, Jan Terje Kvaløy
PhD Ketil Oppedal
He defended his PhD from Dept. of electrical eng. and computer science at UiS November 2016.
Thesis title: "White Matter Lesions and Pattern Recognition in MRI of Neurodegenerative Dementia"
Supervisors: Trygve Eftestøl, Kjersti Engan, Dag Aarsland (SUS), Mona Beyer (SUS)
PhD Huyen Vu
She defended her PhD from Dept. of electrical eng. and computer science at UiS August 2016.
Thesis title: "Respiratory-cardio signal processing and analysis of resuscitation data on newborns in low-resource settings"
Supervisors: Trygve Eftestøl, Kjersti Engan, Hege Ersdal (SUS)
PhD Lasya Priya Kotu
She defended her PhD from Dept. of electrical eng. and computer science at UiS May 2014.
Thesis title: «Analysis of Myocardial Infarction in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images"
Supervisors: Kjersti Engan, Trygve Eftestøl
Past post docs:
PhD Mahdieh Khanmohammadi (2016-2019)
PhD Jörn Schulz (2015-2019)
Past visitors:
visiting Ph.D. student Álvar Legaz, spring 2016
visiting post.doc. (short visit) Nuria Ortigosa (2015)
PhD Sandra Morales was a visiting PhD student from CVBLab at UPV, Valencia (supervisor: prof. V.Naranjo). She visited BMDLab spring 2014 under the supervision of Kjersti Engan.
Prof Valery Naranjo, director of CVBLab at UPV, Valencia, is a close collaborator of BMDLab. She visited BMDLab spring 2014
Visiting post.doc. Arthur Schuchter, spring 2012