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PhD position, Medical Image Analysis and Image-Guided Robotic Surgery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada The Medical Image Analysis Lab at Simon Fraser University (MIAL at SFU) has an opening for a PhD student to become part of an international team working on image-guided minimally invasive robotic surgery. The team includes members from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia (Canada), Cleveland Clinic (USA), and the Qatar Robotic Surgery Centre (Qatar). See webpage: http://igrs.cs.sfu.ca/ The 3-year funding of about US$30,000/year for this PhD position can start immediately and is made possible by the Qatar National Research Fund. The students will spend 6 months in Vancouver (MIAL at SFU) and 6 months at the Qatar Robotic Surgery Centre QRSC in Doha, Qatar. The QRSC is a state-of-the-art facility that houses 2 daVinci robots and other medical imaging equipment, simulators, and high-end computing infrastructure. The applicant should have a degree in computer science, engineering, applied math or related fields, with a strong background in mathematics and computing (e.g. matrix algebra, probability, multivariate statistics, PDE, graph theory, optimization, machine learning) with excellent algorithmic and programming skills (MATLAB, C/C++). Candidates with previous experience in medical image analysis (e.g. image segmentation and registration, computer vision, 2D/3D image processing) and using ITK will be ideal for this position. Experience in GPU/parallel programming, VTK, computer graphics and visualization is a plus. Interested and qualified applicants should send their CV (PDF file format) in an email to Prof. Ghassan Hamarneh ( hamarneh@sfu.ca ) with the subject: PhD in Image-Guided Robotic Surgery.
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