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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(apologies for cross postings)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear all, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (</span><a href="http://www.imtlucca.it"><span lang=EN-US>www.imtlucca.it</span></a><span lang=EN-US>) is currently recruiting for two post-doctoral fellow positions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Post-Doctoral Fellow in Computer Vision and Machine Learning</span></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Funding has been received from the EU to investigate the formulation of (active and semi-supervised) learning problems for object segmentation and detection, where variants of the object appear many times (often occluded and under affine transformations) in the scene. These problems are commonly encountered in cell characterization and phenotyping, plant phenotyping, and nano-particle characterization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Candidates should have a PhD in computer vision, machine learning, signal processing, image analysis or related areas. A good record of international publications demonstrating prior experience is required. The candidate should have good programming skills, a strong mathematical background, and an interest in bridging the gap to the biological/natural sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medical Image Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Funding has been obtained from the National Institutes of Health (USA) to investigate new non-invasive techniques of cardiovascular imaging with MRI together with partners from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, University of California Los Angeles (California, USA), and Siemens. Particular interest is in unsupervised methods of analyzing such datasets to characterize cardiac disease, based on sparse space-time decompositions. Similar problems are encountered in functional MRI of the brain. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Candidates should have a PhD in computer vision, medical image analysis, machine learning, signal processing, or related areas. Prior experience in cardiac/brain registration and segmentation will be considered a plus. A good record of international publications demonstrating prior experience is required. The candidate should have good programming skills, a strong mathematical background, and an interest in bridging the gap to the medical/biological/natural sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Both candidates will join a rapidly growing and interdisciplinary group - PRIAn - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Unit (</span><a href="http://prian.imtlucca.it/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://prian.imtlucca.it/</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>) - within IMT Lucca that collaborates with a variety of laboratories across the world to investigate new approaches for image analysis (segmentation, detection, tracking) and the discovery of patterns in multidimensional datasets arising in imaging problems in natural and life sciences. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>More information regarding the position, as well as the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>online application form</span></strong>, can be found here:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><a href="http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php#medical_image_analysis"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.imtlucca.it/faculty/positions/junior_faculty_recruitment_program.php#medical_image_analysis</span></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Informal inquiries regarding the position can be addressed to Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris, <a href="mailto:s.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it">s.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it</a>. </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The deadline for applications is February 14th 2014, 12:00 pm (midday).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IMT Lucca (<a href="http://www.imtlucca.it">http://www.imtlucca.it</a>) is a research university within the Italian public higher education system. IMT strives to establish itself as a research center that promotes cutting-edge research in key areas, structuring its PhD Program in close connection to research, to attract top students, researchers and scholars through competitive international selections, and to contribute to technological innovation, economic growth and social development.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:IT'>Sara L. 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