Curriculum Vitae
Anders Eklund
Education
2008 – 2012 PhD, Medical Informatics Linköping University, Sweden Medical image processing. Thesis
Computational Medical Image Analysis –
With a Focus on Real-Time fMRI and Non-Parametric Statistics 2000 – 2007 Master of Science, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
Linköping University, Sweden Profile signal & image processing. Master thesis
Image Coding With H.264 I-frames
Work Experience
2012 - 09 – 01 - Postdoc, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke 2012 - 06 - 04 - Consultant, Context Vision, Linköping
2012 - 07 - 05 Implementation of methods for image enhancement in 4D. 2008 - 02 - 18 - PhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering 2012 - 05 - 31 Linköping University, Sweden
Analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, real-time fMRI, brain computer interfaces (BCI), image registration, image enhancement, implementation of medical image processing algorithms on graphics processing units (GPUs).
2007 - 10 - 01 - System Enginering Consultant, Combitech, Linköping 2008 - 02 - 15
Consultant at Saab Aerosystems, development of electrical interfaces and warning systems for development simulators for the aircraft Jas Gripen.
2007 - 06 - Paperboy, Norrköping distribution service, Gamleby 2007 - 07 Delivery of newspapers.
2006 - 06 - Traffic Support Agent, Interexpress Sweden, Västervik
2006 - 07 Managing transport of goods in Europe and taking care of invoices. 2002 – 06 – Lab Assistant, Electrolux, Västervik
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2000 – 2006 Postman, Swedish Post Office, Gamleby
Delivery of mail, 18 months of full-time during 2000 – 2006.
Publications
Peer reviewed journal papers
Eklund, A, Andersson, M., Knutsson, H, True 4D Image Denoising on the GPU International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, Article ID 952819, 16 pages, 2011
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H, Fast Random Permutation Tests Enable Objective Evaluation of Methods for Single Subject fMRI Analysis, International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, Article ID 627947, 15 pages, 2011
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., fMRI Analysis on the GPU - Possibilities and Challenges, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Volume 105, p. 145-161, 2012
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Josephson, C., Johannesson, M., Knutsson, H.,
Does Parametric fMRI Analysis with SPM Yield Valid Results? - An Empirical Study of 1484 Rest Datasets, NeuroImage, Volume 61, p. 565-578, 2012
Peer reviewed conference papers
Eklund, A., Ohlsson, H., Andersson, M., Rydell, J., Ynnerman, A., Knutsson, H., Using Real-Time fMRI to Control a Dynamical System by Brain Activity Classification Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Lecture notes in computer science, Volume 5761, p. 1000 – 1008, 2009
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Ohlsson, H., Ynnerman, A., Knutsson, H., A Brain Computer Interface for Communication Using Real-Time fMRI International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), p. 3665 – 3669, 2010
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., Phase Based Volume Registration Using CUDA International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing, p. 658-661, 2010
Eklund, A., Warntjes, M., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., Fast Phase Based Registration for Robust Quantitative MRI,
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2010
Nguyen, K, Eklund, A., Ohlsson, H., Hernell, F., Ljung, P, Forsell, C., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., Ynnerman, A., Concurrent Volume Visualization of Real-Time fMRI IEEE/EG Symposium on Volume Graphics, p. 53-60, 2010
Eklund, A., Friman, O., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., A GPU Accelerated Interactive Interface for Exploratory Functional Connectivity Analysis of fMRI Data,
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Anders Eklund
Eklund, A., Forsberg, D., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., Using the Local Phase of the
Magnitude of the Local Structure Tensor for Image Registration, Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA), Lecture notes in computer science, Volume 6688, p. 414-423, 2011
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., Improving CCA based fMRI Analysis by Covariance Pooling - Using the GPU for Statistical Inference, Joint MICCAI Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Computing for Medical Imaging, HP-MICCAI, 2011
Forsberg, D., Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson, Phase Based Non-Rigid 3D Image Registration: From Minutes to Seconds Using CUDA, Joint MICCAI Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Computing for Medical Imaging, HP-MICCAI, 2011
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H., 4D Medical Image Processing with CUDA, Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, 2012
Eklund, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson,, H. A Functional Connectivity Inspired Approach to Non-Local fMRI Analysis, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2012
Björnsdotter, M., Eklund, A., Combating False Positives in Locally-Multivariate Brain Mapping, Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging, 2012
Eklund, A., Björnsdotter, M., Stelzer, J., LaConte, S.,
Searchlight Goes GPU – Fast Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data,
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2013, Accepted
Computer skills
Matlab 11 years of experience
CUDA 4 years of experience
C/C++ 6 years of experience
Language skills
Swedish Native English Fluent French BeginnerReviewer assignments
2009 IEEE Symposium on Volume Graphics
2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2011 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
2012 NeuroImage
2012 Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 2012 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2012 Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Anders Eklund
Conference participations
2008 SSBA, Lund, Sweden
2009 SSBA, Halmstad, Sweden Oral presentation
2009 ISMRM, Honolulu, USA E-poster presentation
2009 MICCAI, London, UK Poster presentation
2010 SSBA, Uppsala, Sweden Oral presentation
2010 ICASSP, Dallas, USA Poster presentation
2010 ICPR, Istanbul, Turkey Poster presentation 2010 ISMRM, Stockholm, Sweden Poster presentation 2011 SSBA, Linköping, Sweden Oral presentation 2011 PRNI, Seoul, South Korea
2011 SCIA, Ystad, Sweden Oral presentation
2011 ICIP, Brussels, Belgium Poster presentation 2011 MICCAI, Toronto, Canada
2012 SSBA, Stockholm, Sweden Oral presentation 2012 Nvidia GTC, San Jose, USA Oral presentation
2012 ICIP, Orlando, USA Poster presentation
Affiliations
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine)
Teaching
2008 - 2012 Biomedical modeling and simulation, lab assistant
(two computer labs about simulation of the balloon model) Medical image analysis, lectures, labs and grading
(three lectures, seven computer labs about filters and image enhancement, magnetic resonance imaging, image registration, image segmentation)
Research visits
2010, 5 weeks Stephen LaConte’s research group Baylor College of Medicine Houston, USA
2010, 4 weeks Fraunhofer MeVis Bremen, Germany
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Grants
2009 – 2011 AgoraLink,
140 000 SEK for research visits and conference participation
2010 NovaMedTech,
50 000 SEK for “Fast calculations on medical images”
Awards
2013 ISMRM Educational Stipend
Certificates
2009 MR pulse programming (Philips) Gyrotools, Zurich, Switzerland
