Curriculum Vitae,

February 11, 2008

Personalia
Name: Stippel, Gjenna
Address: Delft University of Technology
Faculty of EEMCS, Department of Mediamatics
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD
Delft, The Netherlands
Tel: +31-15-278 7241
Fax: +31-15-278 1843
E-mail:gjenna@gjenna.com

Work Experience
September 1st, 2007 - nowPost-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) of the Department of Mediamatics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
January 1st, 2007 - July 31, 2007Software engineer at the department R&D of Medis Medical Imaging Systems Inc., Leiden, The Netherlands
October 1st, 2005 - June 30, 2006Post-doctoral research fellow at the ITL of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore MD, USA
March 1st, 2004 - September 30, 2005Post-doctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Human Biology of the University of Cape Town, South Africa
October 1st, 1999 - January 31, 2004 PhD student at the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing of Ghent University, Belgium
June 1st, 2002 - September 30, 2002Exchange research visit at the Surgical Planning Lab, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
August 1st, 1999 - September 30th, 1999 Project manager International Projects at GiVi Antwerp, Belgium
October 1st, 1997 - July 31st, 1999 Research assistant at the Department of Pure Mathematics at the UIA in Antwerp, Belgium
May 1st, 1997 - September 31st, 1997 Insurance mathematician at Zwolsche Algemeene in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Education
September 1st,1999 - January 13, 2004PhD degree in engineering at Ghent University , Belgium
Title PhD disseration: Speckle suppression, segmentation, and registration of medical ultrasound images
September 1st, 1999 - August 31st, 2000 Computer Science at the Open University (3 courses), The Netherlands
October 1st, 1997 - August 31st, 1999 Doctoral education at the UIA in Antwerp, Belgium
in which among other things: - French
- project management
- intercultural communication
- assertivity techniques
January 16th, 1996 - July 30th, 1996 Lecturing and performing research in mathematics at Kiev Taras Shevchenko University , Ukraine
October 1st, 1993 - June 30th, 1994 Study in mathematics at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom
September 1st, 1990 - August 29th, 1996 MSc. in mathematics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Title end thesis: Semisimple Hopf Algebras
Grade: 9/10
September 1st, 1984 - June 30th, 1990 Stedelijk Gymnasium in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Final exam in: Dutch, English, Latin, Greek, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

Additional Courses
May, August 2004Scientific Writing Skills workshop series, Stellenbosch University Language Centre, South Africa
August, 2000Spanish at Guatemalensis Spanish School, Guatemala
September, 1997Job interview training at PION, The Netherlands

Publications

Please, feel free to request copies of any of the articles at gjenna@gjenna.com. I'll be happy to send you an (electronic or hard-) copy!
  1. "Fusion imaging with positron emission tomography/computer tomography (PET/CT) to guide ventricular tachycardia ablations"
    Timm Dickfeld, Apostolos Voudouris, Jean Jeudy, Gjenna Stippel, Martin Lodge, Jun Dong, Eric Rashba, Raj Shevkar, Charlie White, Vasken Dilsizian, Stephen Shorofsky
    Proceedings of the 79th Annual Scientific Session of the American-Heart-Association, Vol. 114, No. 18, p.p. 653-653, Suppl. S, October 2006.

  2. "A tissue-specific adaptive texture filter for medical ultrasound images"
    Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips, Paul Govaert
    Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 31, No. 9, p.p. 1211-1223, September 2005.

  3. "Multi-modal 3D image registration using the Kullback-Leibler distance"
    Gjenna Stippel
    BIOMED Conference Proceedings, February 2005, paper 458-201.

  4. "Speckle Suppression, Segmentation and Registration of Medical Ultrasound Images"
    PhD dissertation, January 2004

  5. "A new technique for the registration of 3-D ultrasound to CT or MR images in image guided surgery"
    Gjenna Stippel, Jim Ellsmere, Simon K. Warfield, William (Sandy) Wells, Wilfried Philips
    WCMPBE Conference Proceedings, August 2003, paper 1019.

  6. "Abstract of: A new technique for multi-modal 3D image registration"
    Gjenna Stippel, Jim Ellsmere, Simon K. Warfield, William (Sandy) Wells, Wilfried Philips
    WBIR 2003, Book of Abstracts, June 2003.

  7. "A new technique for multi-modal 3D image registration"
    Gjenna Stippel, Jim Ellsmere, Simon K. Warfield, William (Sandy) Wells, Wilfried Philips
    WBIR 2003 Conference Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2717, p.p. 244-253.
    The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com
    The copyright-owner of this article is Springer-Verlag.

  8. "A Medical Feature Enhancing Speckle Suppression Technique Based on a Noise Model for the Speckle Noise as Represented in the B-Scan Image"
    Gjenna Stippel, Ewout Vansteenkiste, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    ACIVS 2002 Conference Proceedings, September 2002, p.p. 14-18

  9. "Enhancing Medical Features in Ultrasound Images"
    Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    SIP 2002 Conference Proceedings, August 2002, p.p. 547-550

  10. "A new denoising technique for ultrasound images using morphological properties of speckle combined with tissue classifying parameters"
    Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    SPIE Medical Imaging 2002 Conference Proceedings, February 2002, nr. 4687, p.p. 324-333

  11. "A medical feature enhancing new denoising technique for ultrasound images"
    Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu, Paul Govaert
    DICTA 2002 Conference Proceedings, January 2002, p.p. 174-178

  12. "A new medical feature enhancing speckle suppression method for ultrasound images of the neonatal brain"
    Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu, Paul Govaert
    STW/ProRISC 2001 Conference Proceedings, November 2001, p.p. 652-655

  13. "Using speckle suppression for detecting leukomalacia in ultrasound images"
    G. Stippel, W. Philips, I. Lemahieu, P. Govaert
    Belgian Day on Biomedical Engineering 2001 Conference Proceedings, October 2001, p.p. 88

  14. "A new filtering method for ultrasound images incorporating prior statistics concerning medical features"
    Gjenna Stippel, Ivana Duskunovic, Wilfried Philips, Alexandra Zecic, Paul Govaert, Ignace Lemahieu
    IEEE ICIP 2001 Conference Proceedings, October 2001, p.p. 821-824

  15. "Segmenting 'flares' in ultrasound images using prior statistics"
    G. Stippel, I. Duskunovic, W. Philips, I. Lemahieu, A. Zecic, P. Govaert
    Image Processing and Communications, Vol. 7, no. 1-2, p.p. 41-54
    Invited paper.

  16. "A texture based adaptive speckle suppression method for ultrasound images of the neonatal brain"
    Gjenna Stippel, Ivana Duskunovic, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    ICVGIP 2000 Conference Proceedings, December 2000, p.p. 50-55

  17. "Segmenting 'flares' in ultrasound images"
    G. Stippel, I. Duskunovic, A. Pizurica, F. Rooms, W. Philips, I. Lemahieu
    Proceedings 1st PhD symposium of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at Ghent University, December 2000, nr. 30

  18. "A speckle suppression method for medical ultrasound images based on local statistics"
    Gjenna Stippel, Ivana Duskunovic, Aleksandra Pizurica, Filip Rooms, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    STW/ProRISC 2000 Conference Proceedings, December 2000, p.p. 525-530

  19. "A new texture-based adaptive filtering method for ultrasound images of the neonatal brain"
    Gjenna Stippel, Ivana Duskunovic, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    SPC 2000 Conference Proceedings, September 2000, p.p. 318-322

  20. "An adaptive speckle suppression method for ultrasound images of the neonatal brain"
    Gjenna Stippel, Ivana Duskunovic, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    SCI 2000/ISAS 2000 Conference Proceedings, June 2000, p.p. 106-110

  21. "A new restoration method and its application to speckle images"
    Ivana Duskunovic, Gjenna Stippel, Aleksandra Pizurica, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    IEEE ICIP 2000 Conference Proceedings, September 2000, nr. 1940

  22. "Wavelet based denoising techniques for ultrasound images"
    Ivana Duskunovic, Aleksandra Pizurica, Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips, Ignace Lemahieu
    IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference Proceedings, 2000, Vol. 4, p.p. 2662-2665

  23. "Half-automatische segmentatie van echografiebeelden met behulp van slangen"
    (Semi-computerized segmentation of ultrasound images by means of snakes)
    Achiel Nachtergaele, Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips
    MSc thesis Achiel Nachtergaele, academic year 2000-2001

  24. "Een Matlab grafische interface voor echografie-analyse"
    (A Matlab graphical interface for ultrasound imaging analysis)
    Inge Carette, Liesbeth De Blaere, Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips
    Thesis Inge Carette and Liesbeth De Blaere, academic year 2000-2001

  25. "Parametrische karakterisatie van leukomalacie bij pasgeborenen aan de hand van echografiebeelden"
    (Parametric characterization of leukomalacia with neonates by means of ultrasound images)
    Amélie Caveye, Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips
    MSc thesis Amélie Caveye, academic year 1999-2000

  26. "Filteren van echografiebeelden"
    (Filtering ultrasound images)
    Tim Boullart, Gjenna Stippel, Wilfried Philips
    MSc thesis Tim Boullart, academic year 1999-2000

Languages

Dutch Mother Tongue
English Fluent
French Good
German Good
Spanish Notions
Russian Notions

Societies

IEEE, Men sa, Intertel, De Nederlandse Vereniging van Washington D.C., Shawco, Planet Fitness

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