Dipl.-Inf. Janina Schulz
	Chair of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Department of Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-University Georges-Koehler-Allee 052, Room 01-045 D-79110 Freiburg i.Br., Germany Tel: +49-(0)761-203-8215 Fax: +49-(0)761-203-8262 Email:

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Scientific Interests

Biomedical and industrial image analysis:

• 3D
• 2D+time

Research Projects

• Analysis of the intima-media thickness (IMT) in medical ultrasound series of the human carotid artery
  Cooperation partners: University Hospital Tübingen and Technical University München
  
  
• Localization and classification of cell nuclei in Arabidopsis thaliana
  Cooperation partner: Faculty of Biology, Botany - Plant Physiology, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg
  
  
• Analysis of metallic hollow sphere structures (MHSS) using X-ray Computed Tomography
  Cooperation partner: Hochschule Aalen (Aalen University of Applied Sciences)

Publications

• Sequentially based analysis versus image based analysis of Intima Media Thickness in common carotid arteries studies - Do major IMT studies underestimate the true relations for cardio- and cerebrovascular risk?
  M. Sandrock, J. Hansel, J. Schulz, D. Schmitz, A. Nieß, H. Burkhardt, A. Schmidt-Trucksäß
  In Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2008, 6:32 [DOI]


• Comparing the reproducibility of intima-media thickness measurements using spectral analysis
  M. Sandrock, J. Hansel, D. Schmitz, J. Schulz, H. Burkhardt, A. Schmidt-Trucksäß, A.M. Nieß
  In Atherosclerosis, accepted June 2008 [DOI]


• Invariance via Group-Integration: A Feature Framework for 3D Biomedical Image Analysis
  J. Fehr, O. Ronneberger, J. Schulz, T. Schmidt, M. Reisert & H. Burkhardt
  In Proceedings of Computer Graphics and Imaging (CGIM), 2008, Innsbruck, Austria [URL]


• Sequential based analysis of Intima-Media Thickness (IMT) in common carotid artery studies
  C. Haller, J. Schulz, A. Schmidt-Trucksäß, H. Burkhardt, D. Schmitz, H. H. Dickhuth, M. Sandrock
  In Atherosclerosis, Volume 195, Issue 2, December 2007, Pages 203-209 [DOI]


• Fast Scalar and Vectorial Grayscale Based Invariant Features for 3D Cell Nuclei Localization and Classification
  J. Schulz, T. Schmidt, O. Ronneberger, H. Burkhardt, T. Pasternak, A. Dovzhenko and K. Palme
  In Proceedings of DAGM '06 Annual Pattern Recognition Symposium, September 2006, Berlin, Germany [PDF]
  received a DAGM Prize (best paper award)

Talks

• Reproducibility of manual, image-based and sequence-based Analysis of the Intima-Media Thickness in Common Carotid Artery
  37. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Angiologie, Gesellschaft für Gefäßmedizin e.V.
  24.-27. September 2008, Mannheim
  J. Schulz, M. Sandrock, J. Hansel, A. Nieß; Univ. Freiburg, Uniklinikum Tübingen


• Localisation of cell nuclei and determination of its phase of mitosis in laser-scanned 3D images of Arabidopsis thaliana
  Vortrag in Fakultät für Biologie, Abteilungen Prof. W. Driever und Prof. K. Palme, Hauptstraße 1, 79104 Freiburg
  23. Februar 2006
  J. Schulz

Awards

• 2006 DAGM Prize
  for the paper Fast Scalar and Vectorial Grayscale Based Invariant Features for 3D Cell Nuclei Localization and Classification at DAGM '06

Teaching

• Seminararbeitsbetreuung für Seminar Robotergestützte multimodale Erfassung, Rekonstruktion und Erkennung dreidimensionaler Objekte SS 2006
• Assistenz Kursvorlesung Grundlagen der Mustererkennung (Bildverarbeitung) WS 2006/2007
• Assistenz Kursvorlesung Grundlagen der Mustererkennung (Bildverarbeitung) WS 2007/2008 mit Übungswiki
• Studienarbeit: Benjamin Traut, Registrierung von 2D-Ultraschallsequenzen, Mai-August 2008

Monographs

• Diplomarbeit
  Lokalisierung von Zellkernen und Bestimmung ihrer Mitosephase in konfokalen 3D-Aufnahmen von Arabidopsis thaliana
  June-December 2005 [PDF]


• Studienarbeit
  Vereinfachtes Shading von 3D-Objekten basierend auf Phong-Shading
  June-August 2004 [PDF]