Academic projects

For twenty years, from 2006 to 2026, I was an associate professor (maîtresse de conférences) at Université Grenoble Alpes, in the TIMC laboratory and the GMCAO team. The projects shown here were carried out in that context — from idea to clinical prototype — and placed on the technology readiness scale (TRL): each column’s height shows how far the project travelled toward the patient.

Overview of projects by TRL maturity levelEach project is a chevron-topped rectangle rising to the TRL it reached, filled with a gradient through the colors of the tiers it crossed. TRL 8 and 9 (CE marking, market) are shown separately with dashed lines. CamiTK appears apart as a cross-cutting tool.TRL 8–9 · CE marking, marketoutside the lab — industrial handoverClinicalTRL 6–7PreclinicalTRL 4–5Research& PoCTRL 1–37654321LPR — from lab idea to clinical prototype · TRL 1→7 · final product design validated, patents, incubation7LPRInterventional cardiology · TRL 1→5 · clinical prototype ready for trial authorization5CardioREMI — decision support for endovascular revascularization · TRL 1→4 · clinical prototype, just before trials4REMIMedical image analysis · TRL 1→4 · validated on anatomical specimens4ImagesAutomatic organ localization · TRL 1→3 · proof of concept on real data3OrgansPhD — cerebral micro-vascular morphometry · TRL 1→3 · software developed and used (outside the clinic)3PhDUppsala postdoc — mathematical foundations · TRL 1→2 · in-depth theory (discrete geometry)2Post-DocCamiTK — medical prototyping toolkit · cross-cutting: powers the TRL maturation of every projectCamiTKcross-cutting
LPR: from a lab idea to a clinical prototype How do you take a needle-puncture robot from a lab idea all the way to first-in-human trials? The LPR (Light Puncture Robot) — a lightweight robot placed on the … Interventional cardiology Guiding the gesture in interventional cardiology, from preoperative imaging to the intervention room. A project where a data constraint was turned into a … REMI — Decision Support for Lower-Limb Endovascular Revascularization How do you help a vascular surgeon choose the best revascularization strategy when a technique's success is hard to predict? A multidisciplinary clinical … Medical Image Analysis Three pioneering projects in computer vision and image processing for computer-assisted surgery: distributed laparoscopy, ultrasound-based bone tracking, and … Automatically locating organs in CT images Co-supervision of Prasad Samarakoon's PhD (2016): lighter, more robust regression forests to automatically locate organs in CT images, within the LPR project. … Extraction of morphometric parameters for the study of the cerebral micro-vascular network Measuring the brain in 3D, from microscopy to software tools. My CIFRE PhD (INRIA, 2005): designing software able to measure a vascular network in 3D from … From mathematical foundations to medical images Postdoctoral research at Uppsala University (2005–2006): extending chamfer distance transforms to anisotropic grids with formal proof of their metric … CamiTK: a workshop for prototyping medical applications Co-founder of CamiTK, an open-source workshop for prototyping medical applications. A software building block that grew into a maturity-scaling (TRL) …