Christian Heinrich

Professor
ICube - MIV
Pôle API
300, Bd Sébastien Brant
BP 10413
67412 Illkirch CEDEX - France

Room : C209
Tel : 03 68 85 44 88
Fax : 03 68 85 44 45

Email : christian (dot) heinrich (at) unistra (dot) fr

Teaching
Signal processing, probability, statistics, inverse problems (courses taught at Telecom Physique Strasbourg).

Current research activity

• High-dimensional statistics and machine learning for medical image analysis.
  Application to shape analysis, diffusion-weighted MRI data analysis, brain connectivity and networks study.
  In collaboration with Stéphane Kremer (IMIS team, iCube), Félix Renard (GIPSA lab), Sophie Achard (GIPSA lab), Chantal Delon-Martin (Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (GIN)), and Francis Schneider (Strasbourg University Hospital).
  
  Related co-advised theses:
  F. Renard, Création et utilisation d'atlas en IRM de diffusion. Application à l'étude des troubles de la conscience., PhD Thesis, University of Strasbourg, 2011
  G. Sfikas, Modèles statistiques non linéaires pour l'analyse de formes. Applications à l'imagerie cérébrale., PhD Thesis, University of Strasbourg, 2012
  Th. Gkamas, Traitement d'images de résonance magnétique de diffusion: construction de modèles statistiques pour la détermination de facteurs pronostics d'éveil dans le cas du coma, ongoing work.

• Inverse problems.
  Application to polarimetric imaging, for biological tissue analysis.
  In collaboration with Jihad Zallat (TRIO team, iCube).
  Imagerie Physique et Systèmes (IPS) research axis.

Main current responsibilities

Responsable de l'option Acquisition et Traitement d'Images (ATI) (troisième année, Télécom Physique Strasbourg)

Responsable du parcours Image et Vision (IV), master 2 IRIV

Co-responsable (avec Jihad Zallat, iCube-TRIO) de l'axe transverse Imagerie Physique et Systèmes (IPS) du laboratoire iCube

Bio

Electrical Engineering Degree (Supélec, 1990)

PhD degree (Signal Processing, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, 1997)

Agregation degree (Applied Physics, 1998)

Habilitation degree (University of Strasbourg, 2008)

Professor (CNU 61, University of Strasbourg, since 2010)

Selected publications

• S. Faisan, Ch. Heinrich, G. Sfikas, J. Zallat, Estimation of Mueller matrices using non-local means filtering, Optics Express, vol. 21, n. 4, pp. 4424-4438, 2013
• S. Achard, C. Delon-Martin, P. Vertes, F. Renard, M. Schenck, F. Schneider, Ch. Heinrich, S. Kremer, E. Bullmore, Hubs of brain functional networks are radically reoarganized in comatose patients, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 109, n. 50, pp. 20608-20613, 2012
• S. Faisan, Ch. Heinrich, F. Rousseau, A. Lallement, J. Zallat, Joint filtering estimation of Stokes vector images based on a nonlocal means approach, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 29, n. 9, pp. 2028-2037, 2012
• V. Noblet, Ch. Heinrich, F. Heitz, J.-P. Armspach, An efficient incremental strategy for constrained groupwise registration based on symmetric pairwise registration, Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 33, n. 3, pp. 283-290, 2012
• S. Chatelin, C. Deck, F. Renard, S. Kremer, Ch. Heinrich, J.-P. Armspach, R. Willinger, Computation of axonal elongation in head trauma finite element simulation, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, vol. 4, n. 8, pp. 1905-1919, 2011
• G. Sfikas, Ch. Heinrich, J. Zallat, Ch. Nikou, N. Galatsanos, Recovery of polarimetric Stokes images by spatial mixture models, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 28, n. 3, pp. 465-474, 2011
• R. Ranta, V. Louis-Dorr, Ch. Heinrich, D. Wolf, F. Guillemin, Digestive activity evaluation by multichannel abdominal sounds analysis, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 57, n. 6, pp. 1507-1519, 2010
• G. Sfikas, Ch. Nikou, N. Galatsanos, Ch. Heinrich, Spatially varying mixtures incorporating line processes for image segmentation, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol. 36, n. 2, pp. 91-110, 2010
• V. Noblet, Ch. Heinrich, F. Heitz, J.-P. Armspach, Accurate inversion of 3-D transformation fields, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 17, n. 10, pp. 1963-1968, 2008
• J. Zallat, Ch. Heinrich, M. Petremand, A Bayesian approach for polarimetric data reduction: the Mueller imaging case, Optics Express, vol. 16, n. 10, pp. 7119-7133, 2008
• J. Zallat, Ch. Heinrich, Polarimetric data reduction: a Bayesian approach, Optics Express, vol. 15, n. 1, pp. 83-96, 2007
• V. Noblet, Ch. Heinrich, F. Heitz, J.-P. Armspach, Retrospective evaluation of a topology preserving non-rigid registration method, Medical Image Analysis, vol. 10, n. 3, pp. 366-384 2006
• R. Ranta, V. Louis-Dorr, Ch. Heinrich, D. Wolf, Iterative wavelet-based denoising methods and robust outlier detection, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, n. 8, pp. 557-560, 2005
• V. Noblet, Ch. Heinrich, F. Heitz, J.-P. Armspach, 3-D deformable image registration: a topology preservation scheme based on hierarchical deformation models and interval analysis optimization, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, n. 5, pp. 553-566, 2005
• R. Ranta, Ch. Heinrich, V. Louis-Dorr, D. Wolf, Interpretation and improvement of an iterative wavelet-based denoising method, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 10, n. 8, pp. 239-241, 2003
• Ch. Heinrich, G. Demoment, Minimization of strictly convex functions: an improved optimality test based on Fenchel duality, Inverse Problems, vol. 16, n. 3, pp. 795-810, 2000