Florent Ségonne



florent.segonne@m4x.org                                                                                               

http://people.csail.mit.edu/fsegonne

3 Kinnaird St, #1, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139

(617) 253-2986 (office)


EDUCATION

Since 2002          Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, USA
       
                            Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

                            Thesis: “Segmentation of Medical Images under Topological Constraints”

                            Advisors: Bruce Fischl and Eric Grimson

2001 - 2002         Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA, USA
       
                            Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

                            Thesis: “ A Hybrid Approach to the Skull Stripping in MRI”

                            Advisors: Oliver Faugeras and Bruce Fischl

1999 – 2002        Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées – Paris, France.     

                            Majors: Applied Mathematics (Probabilities, Finance, Optimization)

1996 - 1999         Ecole Polytechnique - Paris, France

                            Majors: Theoretical Physics

EXPERIENCE

Jun to Aug 2003    INRIA, Project Odyssee, Sophia-Antipolis, France

                              Visiting Research Fellow. Implementation of open-source software to accurately segment multiple brain structures under topological constraints.
                              (in collaboration with  Jean-Philippe Pons, INRIA).

Mar to Aug 2001  RealViz, Image Based Creation Software Company. Sophia-Antipolis, France

                             Software Designer. Design of  “copy-and-paste” applications for multi-valued images.

Sep to Feb 2001   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

                             Visiting Scientist. Research and implementation of methods for cortical reconstruction; and integration into FreeSurfer.

Sep to Dec 1999   French Regional Administration for Civil Engineering, Le Mans, France

                             Consultant: responsible for state social housing, internal communication.

Feb to Jul 1998    French Artillery School – Draguignan, Var, France

                            Teaching officer.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

F. Ségonne, E. Grimson, and B. Fischl. "A Genetic Algorithm for the Topology Correction of Cortical Surfaces," I.P.M.I 2005.

F. Ségonne, J.P. Pons, B. Fischl, and E. Grimson. "A Novel Active Contour Framework. Muti-Component Level Set Evolution Under Topology Control," CSAIL memo AIM-2005-020.

B. Fischl et al.: "Sequence-Independant Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Images", NeuroImage, April 2004.

O. Faugeras, et al. "Variational, geometric and statistical methods for modeling brain anatomy and function," NeuroImage, April 2004.

F. Ségonne, A.M. Dale, E. Busa, M. Glessner, D. Salat, H. K. Hahn, and B. Fischl. "A Hybrid Approach to the Skull Stripping Problem in MRI", NeuroImage, vol. 22,  pp. 1160-1075, 2004.

F. Ségonne, E. Grimson, and B. Fischl. " Topological Correction of Subcortical Segmentation", accepted at MICCAI, Montreal Nov. 15-18 2003.

B. Fischl et al.: "Automatically Parcellating the Human Cerebral Cortex", Cerebral Cortex, 2003.

L. M. Angelone, et al.: " Simulation studies of simultaneous EEG-MRI recordings on high-resolution head models suggest enhanced SAR values when using metallic EEG electrodes and leads", Bioelectromagnetics (2004).


HONORS AND AWARDS

2005             Ragnar and Margaret Naess Award for Special Growth and Achievement in Solo Performance (Piano Music Award 05/16/2005)

2004             Ragnar and Margaret Naess Award in Recognition of Exceptional Talent and Commitment to Private Performance Study (Piano Music Award 05/05/2004)

2003             Emerson Music Scholarship: MIT Music Performance Program for Private lesson study.

2001             MIT Science Fellowship: full tuition and 12-month stipend.

1995             First Prize at the International Piano Competition “Leopold Bellan” in Paris.


LANGUAGES AND COMPUTER SKILLS

French          Native language

English         Fluent - TOEFL: 283/300 – 4 years in the U.S.

German        Basic skills

Operating Systems     Windows, Unix, Linux

Languages                 Pascal, Fortran, C, C++, Java

Graphics                    Windows API, MFC, OpenGL, VTK


LEASURE

Sports           tennis, soccer, skiing, snowboarding
Piano             classical(performing), jazz (learning)
Travelling     Australia, Bosnia, Canada, Crotia, England, Germany, Greece, Spain, USA, ...