Dorit Merhof
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+49 241 80 27860
Dorit.Merhof@lfb.rwth-aachen.de
Curriculum Vitae
Jul 2013 – Sep 2022 |
Professor (W3), Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision – Lehrstuhl für Bildverarbeitung, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
Oct 2009 – Jun 2013 | Assistant Professor (W1) for Visual Computing, University of Konstanz, Germany |
Jan 2008 – Sep 2009 | Research Scientist, Siemens Molecular Imaging, Oxford, UK |
Oct 2007 | Doctorate in Medical Image Analysis and Visualization Thesis: “Reconstruction and Visualization of Neuronal Pathways from Diffusion Tensor Data“ |
Oct 2003 – Dec 2007 | PhD student, Computer Graphics Group, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
Oct 1998 – Sep 2003 | Undergraduate and graduate studies (Computer Science), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
Functions
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Heidelberg Image Processing Forum (2018)
- Speaker of the GI Fachgruppe “Visual Computing in Biology and Medicine” (2012-2014, 2015-2017)
- Organizer of the Karl-Heinz-Höhne Award 2016, 2014, 2012
- Jury Member for the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Award, RWTH Aachen University (208, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014)
- Member of the Exploratory Research Space (ERS) Selection Committee, RWTH Aachen University (2018, 2017)
- Member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) (2012-2017)
- Member of the CURAC – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie (2012-2017)
Member of the CURAC advisory board (CURAC-Beirat)
Member of the CURAC executive committee (CURAC-Präsidium)
- Member of the German BioImaging Network, Workgroup 6
- Organizer Workshop “Diffusion Imaging”, 2015 (University Hospital Marburg), 2014 (LfB Aachen), 2013 (INI Hannover), 2012 (GI Informatik)
- Program Committee, Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM) 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2010
- International Program Committee, International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV) 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012
- International Program Committee, MICCAI Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI (CDMRI) 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
- International Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (IEEE BioVis) 2014, 2013, 2012
- International Program Committee, Eurographics (EG) Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013
- International Program Committee, Eurographics (EG) Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM) 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2010
Publications
Books and Book Chapters
Journal Publications

Post-operative severity assessment in sheep

Large-scale extraction of interpretable features provides new insights into kidney histopathology – a proof-of-concept study
In: Journal of Pathology Informatics

The immune cell infiltration pattern in non-small cell lung cancer PDX models is a model immanent feature and correlates with a distinct molecular and phenotypic make-up
In: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Identification of dopaminergic neurons that can both establish associative memory and acutely terminate its behavioral expression
In: Journal of Neuroscience 40 (31)

Cross-scanner and cross-protocol multi-shell diffusion MRI data harmonization: Algorithms and results
In: Neuroimage

A multi-purpose force-controlled loading device for cartilage and meniscus functionality assessment using advanced MRI techniques
In: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 101

Semi-automated generation of pictures for the Mouse Grimace Scale: A multi-laboratory analysis (Part 2)
In: Laboratory animals

Quest for the best endoscopic imaging modality for computer-assisted colonic polyp staging
In: World Journal of Gastroenterology

Effects of Plectin Depletion on Keratin Network Dynamics and Organization
In: PLOS ONE 11 (3)

Fiber Tractography Based on Diffusion Tensor Imaging Compared with High-Angular-Resolution Diffusion Imaging with Compressed Sensing: Initial Experience
In: Neurosurgery 72 (Suppl 1)

Optimized data preprocessing for multivariate analysis applied to 99mTc-ECD SPECT datasets of Alzheimer’s patients and asymptomatic controls
In: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism (published in partnership with Nature Publishing Group) 31 (1)
Conference Publications

HiFormer: Hierarchical Multi-scale Representations Using Transformers for Medical Image Segmentation
In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

Ordinal classification and regression techniques for distinguishing neutrophilic cell maturity stages in human bone marrow
In: International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (ICPRAI)

Surrounding Cell Suppression for Unsupervised Representation Learning in Hematological Cell Classification
In: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

A Method for Semantic Knee Bone and Cartilage Segmentation with Deep 3D Shape Fitting Using Data From the Osteoarthritis Initiative
In: MICCAI Workshop on Shape Analysis in Medical Imaging (ShapeMI)

Systematic Analysis and Automated Search of Hyper-parameters for Cell Classifier Training
In: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

A CNN Framework Based on Line Annotations for Detecting Nematodes in Microscopic Images
In: IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI)

Multi Scale Curriculum CNN for Context-Aware Breast MRI Malignancy Classification
In: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

Combined Learning for Similar Tasks with Domain-Switching Networks
In: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

Introducing CNN-Based Mouse Grim Scale Analysis for Fully Automated Image-Based Assessment of Distress in Laboratory Mice (Short Paper)
In: Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM)

Evaluating Out-of-the-box Methods for the Classification of Hematopoietic Cells in Images of Stained Bone Marrow
In: 1st MICCAI Workshop on Computational Pathology (COMPAY)

Which Way Round? A Study on the Performance of Stain-Translation for Segmenting Arbitrarily Dyed Histological Images
In: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

A Thermal Infrared Face Database and Active Appearance Model Based Face Detection in a System for Pain Assessment in Sedated Patients
In: 11th German-Russian Conference on Biomedical Enginerering (RGC)
A Combined MR-PET Analysis of Whole field and Sub field Hippocampal Changes in AD and FTLD
In: 19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM)
INCIDE the brain of a bee: Visualising honeybee brain activity in real time by semantic segmentation. (— Honorable Mention Award —)
In: 2nd IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (IEEE BioVis)
HiTSEE: A Visualization Tool for Hit Selection and Analysis in High-Throughput Screening Experiments(— Honorable Mention Award —)
In: 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization 2011
Automated Image Processing to Quantify Neurite Growth in LUHMES Human Neuronal Precursor Cells
In: 8th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology (WCSB)