Olivier Pauly

Olivier Pauly Dipl.-Ing. Univ. SUPELEC & TUM E-Mail: Phone: +49 89 289 19427 Mobile Phone: +49 176 231 776 82 Address: Technische Universität München Fakultät für Informatik, I-16 Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching b. München Germany Room: MI 03.13.061

Background

Since 2008	Ph.D. student at the CAMPAR team Technische Universität München, with Prof. Dr. Nassir NAVAB
2004-2007	Engineering degree from the Mechanics Faculty, Technical University Munich, Germany. Double Degree Program with Supelec, Specialization in Medical Engineering
2002-2004	Engineering degree from the Supelec, Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, France. 3rd year: Double Degree Program with Technical University of Munich, Germany
2000-2002	Classes préparatoires scientifiques: two-year post-'A'-level preparatory courses for entrance exams to French engineering schools
2000	German-French Scientific Baccalaureat (Equivalent to A-levels). Passed with the highest distinction (mention Très Bien).

Active research projects

Non Invasive Histology of Atherosclerotic Plaque Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Germany. It is a neurology injury, whereby the oxygen supply to parts of the brain gets cut off. About 80% of these strokes are due to ischemia, i.e. an occlusion of a blood vessel leading to an interrupted blood flow. Stenosis inside the carotid artery imaged using four different MR weightings Special setting in this project is the arteria carotis. Plaque is most likely to develop at the branching of the arteria carotis communis into the arteria carotis interna (leading to the brain) and the arteria carotis externa. This can lead to an abnormal narrowing, called a stenosis. According to the American Heart Association these plaques can be divided into different types, based on their consistency and structure. Until now the decision about a surgery was only based on the degree of the stenosis and not on the type of plaque causing it. This is a faulty approach since there is a plaque type (Type IV) which constitutes a relevant clinical danger, although it does not necessary come along with a stenosis. Unlike most other image modalities MR images do not only give information about the degree of the stenosis, but also about the consistency of the plaque. Using different weighted MR images it is possible to correctly classify plaque into the types defined by the AHA. The main goal of this project is to create a classification tool based on T1, T2, Proton Density and 'Time of flight' weighted images. To achieve this goal the arteria carotis and the plaque have to be segmented from the images. Furthermore various features of the plaque have to be extracted in order to get information needed for the classification.

Publications

2008

O. Pauly, G. Unal, G. Slabaugh, S. Carlier, T. Fang Semi Automatic Matching Of IVUS and OCT Images For Image Fusion SPIE Medical Imaging 2008, San Diego

Workshops

2nd MICCAI Workshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging Organizers: G. Unal, I. A. Kakadiaris, N. Navab, M. Sonka Coordination Assistant: O. Pauly Program Committee: Jolanda Wentzel, Andreas Wahle, Guy Cloutier, Petia Radeva, J.H.C. Reiber, Jouke Dijkstra, Aytul Ercil Invited Speakers: Stéphane Carlier, Johannes Rieber in conjunction with MICCAI 2008, New York , USA, September 6 - 10, 2008

Former research projects

• Matching of IVUS and OCT Images for Image Fusion: 6 months Internship at Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA with G. Unal and G. Slabaugh 2007
• Towards Fusion of IVUS and OCT Images from the Coronary Arteries: Diploma Thesis 2006