Christian BARILLOT

Contact Position: CNRS Director of Research Email_:_ Address : IRISA / INRIA Rennes Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes cedex - France Ph : +33 2 99 84 75 05 Fax : +33 2 99 84 71 71 Admin Assistant : +33 2 99 84 22 52 ()

Background and Position

I was born in France in 1959. I got my Ph.D. thesis from the University of Rennes I on "Information Processing" in 1984 and my "Habilitation" thesis on Computer Sciences in 1999. From 1986, I was research associate at the SIM Laboratory (Signals and Images in Medicine) of the University of Rennes I. In 1986, I was appointed from the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research) as a tenure Researcher. In 1987, 1988 and again partially in 1991, I was research fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN in the Biomedical Imaging Resources, dept. of physiology and biophysics chairs by Prof. R.A. Robb. I worked there in the field of  3D images analysis and Display, and I contributed to the elaboration of the Volume Rendering module in ANALYZE. Between 1988 and 1996 I worked for the SIM Laboratory and the INSERM U335 unit at the University of Rennes I. In 2003, I was a visiting professor at the Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada collaborating with Professors T. Peters and A. Fenster under a CIHR grant.

In 1996, I joined IRISA, collaborating first with the VISTA Team. Since 2004, I am the scientific leader of the VisAGeS Team. Since 2008, I am appointed by AERES (French National Agency for Scientific Evaluation) as a scientific delegate for the supervision of research units evaluation in the life science domain.

Research areas

My research topics aimed at the processing of multidimensional images applied to medicine. I worked first on the aspects of 3D display and the related 3D reconstruction problems (surface rendering and volume rendering methods). Afterwards my works turned to address the problems of 3D images analysis and data fusion. My research has been mainly applied to the field of 3D multimodal medical imaging  (CT scanner, MRI, Ultrasound, Angiography), to radiation treatment planning and to brain imaging (human brain mapping, pre surgical mapping, brain atlases). On these aspects, I have been collaborator and principal investigator of over ten national and international grants with institutions like NIH, HFSPO, French Ministry of Research, Brittany Region Council or INRIA. I am (co)author of over 100 refereed scientific articles (abstracts excluded) on medical image processing, was co-chairman of the 14th edition of the IPMI (Information Processing in Medical Imaging) international conference in 1995. Iin 2004, I was the General Chair of MICCAI-2004, the 7th edition of the international conference MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention), and I am member of the board of the Miccai Society. I am also a regular reviewer for grants from national and international institutions. I regularly serve on the scientific committees of international conferences (e.g. IPMI, MICCAI, ECCV, CVPR, IJCAI, IEEE, etc.) or on review of international journals (IEEE EMB, Medical Image Analysis, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Journal of Computed Assisted Radiology – as Peer Reviewer, Image and Vision Computing, Neurimage,…...). I am associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and "Medical Image Analysis" international journals. I received in 2000, with Prof. R.A. Robb, a special distinction from IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging for "the most frequently cited paper in the Journal. This contribution is recognized as a classic paper in the filed of medical imaging, with exeptional originality and enduring impact"(see ).

Publications

Habilitation Thesis

1. C. Barillot. Fusion de données et imagerie 3D en medecine. Habilitation à diriger des recherches Université de Rennes I, 1999.

Selected Publications

1. P. Hellier, C. Barillot. Coupling dense and landmark-based approaches for non rigid registration. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 22(2):217-227, 2003.
2. I. Corouge, P. Hellier, B. Gibaud, C. Barillot. Interindividual functional mapping: a nonlinear local approach. NeuroImage, 19(4):1337-1348, August 2003.
3. P. Hellier, C. Barillot, I. Corouge, B. Gibaud, G. Le Goualher, D.L. Collins, A. Evans, G. Malandain, N. Ayache, G.E. Christensen, H.J. Johnson. Retrospective evaluation of inter-subject brain registration. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 22(9):1120-1130, February 2003.
4. G. Le Goualher, E. Procyk, L. Collins, R. Venegopal, C. Barillot, A. Evans. Automated extraction and variability analysis of sulcal neuroanatomy. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 18(3):206-217, 1999.
5. G. Le Goualher, C. Barillot, Y. Bizais. Three-dimensional segmentation and representation of cortical sulci using active ribbons. Int. J. of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 11(8):1295-1315, 1997.
6. C. Barillot. Basic Principles of Surface and Volume Rendering Techniques to Display 3D Medical Data. IEEE Engineering in Medecine and Biology, 12(1):111-119, 1993.
7. R.A. Robb, C. Barillot. Interactive Display and Analysis of 3-D Medical Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 8(3):217-226, 1989.
8. H.A. McCann, J.C. Sharp, T.M. Kinter, C.N. McEwan, C. Barillot, J.F. Greenleaf. Multidimensional Ultrasonic Imaging for Cardiology. Proceedings of the IEEE, 76(9):1063-1073, 1988.

Complete list (with postscript or pdf files if available)

Software

I have contributed to supervise the development of a C++ template library called Vistal, which serves as a software environment in the Visages team, library which have been used for the developpment of the non-rigid registration softwares Romeo and Juliet . I have also developped C softwares for the segmentation (fuzzy contours detection and tissue classification) of Brain MR images (SIMfuzzy and SIMclassif ), as well as a 3D visualization engine called SIM3D based on a Fast Volume Rendering algorithm.

Teaching

I teach 3D Imaging Courses (visualisation, segmentation, fusion) at different graduate and post-graduate degrees for several French Universities (University of Tours-Angers-Nantes-Rennes; University Paris X; University of Marne La Vallée).( 18Mb)

Misc.

Short CV in French. (2004)