Research
Interests
Inverse problems applied to medical imaging.
Applications
Inverse problems in medical imaging
Compressive sampling, super-resolution, deconvolution, image fusion, beamforming, segmentation.
Cardiac motion estimation
Dictionary learning-based methods, phase-based methods applied to ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
Ultrasound elastography
Tissue elasticity estimation.
Flow estimation
Blood flow estimation in ultrasound imaging.
Supervised PhD students
- Sergio Urrea (2025-2028, Co-advisors: Henry Arguello Fuentes and Hervé Liebgott).
- Ziyi Chen (2025-2028, Co-advisor: Shaifali Parashar).
- Mahshid Dodel (2023-2026, Co-advisor: François Varray).
- Célestine Lachambre (2022-2025, Co-advisor: Bruno Gilles).
- Axel Adam (2022-2025, Co-advisors: Barbara Nicolas and Hervé Liebgott).
- François Gaits (2021-2024, Co-advisor: Nicolas Mellado).
- Youssra El Bennioui (2021-2024, Co-advisor: Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Karen Sanchez-Quiroga (2019-2023, Co-advisor: Henry Arguello Fuentes).
- Sayantan Dutta (2019-2022, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Bertrand Georgeot).
- Kenule Nwigbo (2019-2022, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Duong Hung Pham).
- Farah Bazzi (2018-2021, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Muriel Mescam).
- Quentin Demoulin (2018-2021, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Janka Hatvani (2017-2020, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Miklos Gyongy).
- Fabien Vidal (2018-2021, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Mohamad Hourani (2017-2020, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Oumaima El Mansouri (2017-2020, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret). Defense available here.
- Jonghoon Kim (2016-2019, Co-advisors: Alin Achim and Denis Kouamé).
- Rose Sfeir (2015-2018, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Jérôme Michetti (2013-2019, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Franck Diemer).
- Nora Ouzir (2015-2018, Co-advisor: Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Zhouye Chen (2013-2016, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Teodora Szasz (2013-2016, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Ningning Zhao (2013-2016, Co-advisors: Denis Kouamé and Jean-Yves Tourneret).
- Rémi Abbal (2010-2014, Co-advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Renaud Morin (2010-2013, Co-advisors: Stéphanie Bidon and Denis Kouamé).
PhD students and PostDocs I collaborate(d) with
- Luc Anchling (2024-2026, Engineer).
Hojat Asgariandehkordi (2023-2026, Advisor: Hassan Rivaz).
- Lorena Leon (2023-2026, PostDoc).
- Gauthier Bouyjou (2022-2024, Engineer).
- Tatiana Gelvez (2022-2024, PostDoc).
- Alexandre Corazza (2020-2023, Advisors: Barbara Nicolas and Pauline Muleki Seya).
- Sobhan Goudarzi (2022, Advisor: Hassan Rivaz).
- Mihai Iulian Florea (2018, Advisor: Sergiy Vorobyov).
- Ane Alberdi Aramendi (2014-2017, Advisor: Asier Aztiria Goenaga).
- Cristian Ureche (2009-2012, Advisor: Mircea-Florin Vaida).
- Marie Ploquin (2008-2011, Advisor: Denis Kouamé).
- Céline Quinsac (2009-2011, PostDoc).
- François de Vieilleville (2009-2011, PostDoc).
Awards and honors
- Chair of Group 1 Medical Ultrasonics, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium TPC, 2026.
- Guest associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging from April 2025.
- Best student paper finalist (joint work with J. Timana, S. Merino, R.J.G. Van Sloun and R. Lavarello), IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Netherlands, 2025.
- Subject editor of the journal Signal Processing (Elsevier) from January 2024.
- Oumaima El Mansouri won the first prize of "My PhD thesis in 180s", awarded by France 3 Midi-Pyrénées and University of Toulouse. Her presentation is available here.
- Member of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium TPC, 2020.
- Elected to the grade of IEEE Senior Member, 2019.
- Member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee Biomedical Image & Signal Analytics, 2019.
- Among the winners (joint work with T. Szasz) of Plane wave imaging challenge in ultrasound imaging, IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Tours, 2016.
- Paul Calas award (joint work with J. Michetti) from French Society of Endodontics, 2016.
- Best PhD thesis in biomedical imaging, research section, awarded by EMBS IEEE France Section, Z. Chen, compressed deconvolution in ultrasound imaging, 2016.
- Best student paper finalist (joint work with Z. Chen and D. Kouamé), IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Taiwan, 2015.
Fundings
- Maturation TTT, partner, 2024-2026.
- CAVIIAR - member, ANR, 2022-2026.
- NIH, partner, 2022-2026.
- Pre-maturation Occitanie, coordinator, 2021-2023.
- Emergence GSO, coordinator, 2020.
- TTT, Breast cancer surgery, coordinator, 2020.
- CNES, member, 2019.
- Airbus, Cifre, partner, 2018-2021.
- MUTATION - member, ANR JCJC, 2019-2023.
- Umita - member, ANR MRSEI, 2016-2018.
- EMUS - coordinator, CIMI,
2015-2018.
- Arte - member, CIMI, 2015-2018.
- Arimaginus - member, Midi-Pyrénées Region, 2010-2013.
- US-Tagging - member, ANR JCJC, 2010-2013.
- DosiTest - member, Inserm Physicancer, 2011-2013.
- Tralq - member, University Paul Sabatier, 2013.
- Emaus3D - coordinator, University Paul Sabatier, 2012.
- CSUS - member, University Paul Sabatier, 2012.
- PEPSBA - coordinator, PEPS CNRS INS2I, 2010.
- GDR STIC-Sante - 2012, 2013.