Marc Robini

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Associate Professor

CREATIS (CNRS UMR 5220, INSERM U1044)  /  INSA-Lyon


Address : CREATIS, INSA-Lyon, 69621 Villeurbanne cedex, France

Email : marc.robini@creatis.insa-lyon.fr

Office phone : (33) 4 72 43 88 63

FAX : (33) 4 72 43 85 26


My main research interests are in Monte Carlo Markov chain (MCMC) optimization, multidimensional signal reconstruction, and diffusion-tensor MRI.

Obviously, I do not like spending time on my web page!


  JOURNAL ARTICLES


1.      M. C. Robini and P.-J. Reissman.

From simulated annealing to stochastic continuation: a new trend in combinatorial optimization.

To appear in Journal of Global Optimization, 2012.

2.      M. C. Robini and P.-J. Reissman.

On simulated annealing with temperature-dependent energy and temperature-dependent communication.

Statistics and Probability Letters, 2011, vol. 81, no. 8, pp. 915-920. [pdf]

3.      F. Yang, Y.-M. Zhu, S. Rappachi, J. Luo, M. C. Robini and P. Croisille.

Interpolation of vector fields from human cardiac DT-MRI.

Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2011, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 1415-1430. [pdf]

4.      M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

Optimization by stochastic continuation.

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, 2010, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1096-1121. [pdf]

5.      C. Frindel, M. C. Robini, P. Croisille and Y.-M. Zhu.

A graph-based approach for automatic cardiac tractography.

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2010, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 1215-1229. [pdf]

6.      C. Frindel, M. C. Robini, P. Croisille and Y.-M. Zhu.

Comparison of regularization methods for human cardiac diffusion tensor MRI.

Medical Image Analysis, 2009, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 405-418. [pdf]

7.      L. J. Bao, Y. M. Zhu, W. Y. Liu, P. Croisille, Z. B. Pu, M. C. Robini, and I. E. Magnin.

Denoising human cardiac diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images using sparse representation combined with segmentation.

Physics in Medicine and Biology, 2009, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1435-1456. [pdf]

8.      M. C. Robini, A. Lachal, and I. E. Magnin.

A stochastic continuation approach to piecewise-constant reconstruction.

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2007, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 2576-2589. [pdf]

9.      M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

Radiographic testing of anomalies in thick metal components: fitting the standard line-integral model.

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2007, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1285-1297. [pdf]

10.  J. Y. Njiwa, Y. Zhu, M. C. Robini, and I. E. Magnin.

Magnetic resonance image reconstruction analytic image representation.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 2007, vol. 571, no. 1-2, pp. 73-76. [pdf]

11.  M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

Stochastic nonlinear image restoration using the wavelet transform.

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2003, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 890-905. [pdf]

12.  M. C. Robini, Y. Bresler, and I. E. Magnin.

On the convergence of Metropolis-type relaxation and annealing with constraints.

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2002, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 427-452. [pdf]

13.  D. Boukerroui, J. A. Noble, M. C. Robini, and M. Brady.

Enhancement of contrast regions in suboptimal ultrasound images with application to echocardiography.

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 2001, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 1583-1594. [pdf]

14.  M. C. Robini, T. Rastello, and I. E. Magnin.

Simulated annealing, acceleration techniques and image restoration.

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1999, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 1374-1387. [pdf]

15.  M. C. Robini, I. E. Magnin, H. Benoit-Cattin, and A. Baskurt.

Two-dimensional ultrasonic flaw detection based on the wavelet packet transform.

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 1997, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1382-1394. [pdf]

16.  A. Dittmar, H. Rada, G. Delhomme, E. Vernet-Maury, C. Collet, R. Roure, R. Unterreiner, M. C. Robini, and C. Delemer.

A multi-sensor system for the non-invasive measurement of the activity of the autonomic nervous system.

Sensors and Actuators B, 1995, vol. 27, no. 1-3, pp. 461-464. [pdf]


  CONFERENCES


1.      M. C. Robini, P.-J. Viverge, Y. Zhu and J. Luo.

Globally convergent edge-preserving reconstruction with contour-line smoothing.

7th Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, Amsterdam (Netherlands), July 2011, Issue 78, J. World Acad. of Sci., Eng. and Technol., pp. 885-890.

2.      M. C. Robini, F. Smekens and B. Sixou.

Optimal inverse treatment planning by stochastic continuation.

8th IEEE Int. Symp. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI-11), Chicago (Illinois), March-April 2011, pp. 1792-1796.

3.      M. C. Robini and J.-P. Labruyere.

Efficient implicit smoothing of contour lines for image reconstruction.

5th SIAM conf. on Imaging Science, Chicago (Illinois), April 2010, p. 100.

4.      C. Frindel, M. C. Robini, P. Croisille and Y.-M. Zhu.

Improved global cardiac tractography with simulated annealing.

16th IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP-09), Cairo (Egypt), Nov. 2009, pp. 813-816.

5.      M. C. Robini, P.-J. Viverge, Y.-M. Zhu and I. E. Magnin.

Edge-preserving image reconstruction with wavelet-domain edge continuation.

6th Int. Conf. Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR-09), Halifax (Canada), July 2009, vol. 5627, Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci., pp. 13-22.

6.      C. Frindel, M. C. Robini, P. Croisille and Y.-M. Zhu.

Cardiac fibre trace clustering for the interpretation of the human heart architecture.

5th Int. conf. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH-09), Nice (France), June 2009, vol. 5528, Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci., pp. 39-48.

7.      C. Frindel, S. Rapacchi, M. C. Robini, H. Wen, M. Viallon, L. Fanton and P. Croisille.

In-vivo cardiac NMR diffusion-weighted imaging for the human heart: improved quantification of FA and MD by edge-preserving regularization.

17th. Meeting of the Int. Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medecine (ISMRM-09), Honolulu (Hawaii), April 2009, p. 3771.

8.      C. Frindel, S. Rapacchi, M. C. Robini, M. Viallon, L. Fanton and P. Croisille.

Analytic description of MR diffusion indices in ex-vivo human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

17th Meeting of the Int. Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medecine (ISMRM-09), Honolulu (Hawaii), April 2009, p. 3588.

9.      M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

Stochastic continuation.

4th SIAM conf. on Imaging Science, San Diego (California), July 2008, p. 134.

10.  C. Frindel, P. Gueth, P. Clarysse, Y.-M. Zhu, and M. C. Robini.

A global approach to cardiac tractography.

5th IEEE Int. Symp. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI-08), Paris (France), May 2008, pp. 883-886.

11.  M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

Stochastic Continuation ― Opening new horizons to solving difficult optimization problems.

14th IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP-07), Madison (Wisconsin), Aug. 2007, pp. 264-268.

12.  C. Frindel, M. C. Robini, S. Rapacchi, E. Stephant, Y.-M. Zhu and P. Croisille.

Towards in vivo diffusion tensor MRI on human heart using edge-preserving regularization.

29th Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medecine and biology society (EMBC-07), Lyon (France), Aug. 2007, pp. 6007-6010.

13.  L. Bao, Y.-M. Zhu, W. Liu, M. C. Robini, Z. Pu and I. E. Magnin.

Analysis of cardiac diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images using sparse representation.

29th Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medecine and biology society (EMBC-07), Lyon (France), Aug. 2007, pp. 4516-4519.

14.  J. Y. Njiwa, Y. Zhu, M. C. Robini, J. H. Luo and I. E. Magnin.

Image reconstruction from partial k-space using the notion of analytic image.

8th Int. Conf. Signal Processing, Guilin (China), Nov. 2006, pp. 994-997.

15.  M. C. Robini, J.-P. Labruyere and I. E. Magnin.

Radiographic inspection of thick metal components, Part II: a new stochastic approach to 3-D reconstruction.

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego (California), Oct.-Nov. 2006, vol. 2, pp. 973-977.

16.  M. C. Robini, J.-P. Labruyere and I. E. Magnin.

Radiographic inspection of thick metal components, Part I: fitting the standard linear image formation model.

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, San Diego (California), Oct.-Nov. 2006, vol. 2, pp. 964-968.

17.  M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

Piecewise constant reconstruction using a stochastic continuation approach.

6th IEEE Int. Symp. Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT-06), Vancouver (Canada), Aug. 2006, pp. 874-878.

18.  B. Neyran, S. Carme, M. Wiart, M. C. Robini, and E. Canet-Soulas.

Mapping myocardial perfusion with an intravascular MR contrast agent, a robust estimation by a spatially constrained approach.

32nd Int. Conf. Computers in Cardiology, Lyon (France), Sept. 2005, pp. 407-410.

19.  A. Jarrot, H. Liebgott, P. Delachartre and M. C. Robini.

Edge-preserving image reconstruction for Young's modulus recovery from ultrasonic data.

IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Honolulu (Hawaii), Oct. 2003, pp. 1919-1922.

20.  M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

3-D reconstruction from a few radiographs using the Metropolis dynamics with annealing.

6th IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP-99), Kobe (Japan), Oct. 1999, vol. III, pp. 876-880.

21.  M. C. Robini and I. E. Magnin.

Simulated annealing based shift-variant image restoration using the multiresolution wavelet transform.

5th IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP-98), Chicago (Illinois), Oct. 1998, vol. I, pp. 560-564.

22.  M. C. Robini, T. Rastello, D. Vray, and I. E. Magnin.

Space-variant deconvolution for synthetic aperture imaging using simulated annealing.

4th IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP-97), Santa Barbara (California), Oct. 1997, vol. I, pp. 432-435.

23.  J.-M. Gorce, D. Friboulet, M. C. Robini, B. Bijnens, and I. E. Magnin.

Regularized autoregressive model preserving spatial discontinuities for analysis of radio-frequency signals in echographic images.

16th Gretsi Symposium on Signal and Image Processing, Grenoble (France), Sept. 1997, vol. 2, pp. 1363-1366.

24.  J.-M. Gorce, D. Friboulet, M. C. Robini, B. Bijnens, and I. E. Magnin.

Analysis of RF signals in echographic images using a regularized autoregressive model.

11th Int. Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology (CAR-97), Berlin, Juin 1997, p. 981.

25.  M. C. Robini, I. E. Magnin, H. Benoit-Cattin, and A. Baskurt.

Application of the wavelet packet transform to flaw detection in ultrasound B-scan.

IEEE ultrasonics symposium, Seattle (Washington), Nov. 1995, vol. 1, pp. 747-750.

26.  M. C. Robini, I. E. Magnin, and B. Lavayssiere.

Wavelet packets based flaw detection in Ultrasonic B-scan images.

Int. Conf. Quality Control by Artificial Vision (QCAV-95), Le Creusot (France), Mai 1995, pp. 37-47.