Disputation: Stine Hverven Thon

Doctoral candidate Stine Hverven Thon at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Image Quality Enhancement in Medical Ultrasound: Detecting Point Scatterers for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Picture of the candidate

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The PhD defence will be partially digital, in Kristen Nygaards sal (5370), Ole-Johan Dahls hus and streamed directly using Zoom. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.

Ex auditorio questions: the chair of the defence will invite the attending audience at Kristen Nygaards sal to ask ex auditorio questions. 

Trial lecture

"Super resolution for ultrasound medical imaging"

Join the trial lecture

Time and place: August 31, 2023 11:15 AM, Kristen Nygaards sal (5370), Ole-Johan Dahls hus/ Zoom

 

Main research findings

Small point targets can be difficult to detect in medical ultrasound images, but they are important in applications such as imaging of breast microcalcifications, kidney stones, and point tracking. The thesis explores how to enhance and detect point scatterers. It introduces new multilook techniques that optimize the spatial frequency spectrum of the image. Modern software methods affect the image statistics and the point detectability. The thesis presents an objective methodology for assessing the detection performance of point scatterers.

 

Adjudication committee:

  • Professor Paul David Wilcox, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
  • Assistant Professor Giulia Matrone, Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering Laboratory, University of Pavia, Italy
  • Associate Professor Adín Ramírez Rivera, University of Oslo, Department of Informatics Norway

Supervisors

  • Professor Andreas Austeng, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
  • Professor II Roy Edgar Hansen, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo 

Chair of defence:

Associate Professor Ellen Munthe-Kaas 

 

Contact information at Department: Pernille Adine Nordby 

Candidate contact information: www.linkedin.com/in/stine-hverven-thon

Published Aug. 17, 2023 10:30 AM - Last modified Aug. 30, 2023 7:20 PM