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. Work Experience Master thesis Image Coding With H.264 I-frames 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, realtime 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 2002 07 Testing of vacuum cleaners.
2000 2006 Postman, Swedish Post Office, Gamleby Delivery of mail, 18 months of full-time during 2000 2006. Peer reviewed journal papers Publications 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, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), p. 1589-1592, 2011
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 CUDA C/C++ 11 years of experience 4 years of experience 6 years of experience Language skills Swedish English French Native Fluent Beginner Reviewer 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
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 ISMRM (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (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) Research visits Medical image analysis, lectures, labs and grading (three lectures, seven computer labs about filters and image enhancement, magnetic resonance imaging, image registration, image segmentation) 2010, 5 weeks Stephen LaConte s research group Baylor College of Medicine Houston, USA 2010, 4 weeks Fraunhofer MeVis Bremen, Germany
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