Project Title: Blind Deblurring Techniques for Retinal Imaging
Supervisor: Prof. K. Chen Contact email address: safrell@liv.ac.uk Home page: http://www.liv.ac.uk/www/cmit Host Dept: Centre for Mathematical Imaging Techniques and Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Liverpool . 13,570 pa + annual EPSRC increment . Department of Mathematical Sciences . Duration: 3.5 years (starting asap from 1 Oct 2010) . Location: Liverpool City Centre . Ref: MathSci Case . New closing date for receipt of applications: 10 October 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Centre for Mathematical Imaging Techniques (CMIT) at the University of Liverpool has been awarded an industrial CASE studentship by the UK EPSRC following a successful competition for the 40 open pool awards open to all Physical Sciences and Engineering projects, in collaboration with the St Pauls Eye Unit of the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital, a leading eye hospital that treats around 90000 patients per year from all over UK and further afield. To aid retinal imaging and diabetic retinopathy, this project will involve research into advanced numerical analysis and methods i.e. develop a methodology to implement blind deblurring techniques for clinical retinal images by enhancing their quality through the use of new regularisation models, multiresolution solution methods and the use of automatic estimates of image blurs. It will be jointly supervised by Professor Simon Harding (St Pauls's Unit) and Professor Ke Chen (the University). Candidates with a MSc or BSc in Mathematics (or Computing with substantial maths modules) are suitable; knowledge of numerical analysis, numerical PDEs, matrix computing, integral equations, and Matlab programming will be an advantage but is not essential. The successful candidate will register for a 3.5-year PhD programme and be a member of the CMIT research centre, which is part of the active research group of Partial Differential Equations and Asymptotic Analysis. The group has internationally renowned research expertise and over 95 percent of research in the area was judged to be recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour in RAE2008. Applicants will have, or expect to obtain, a degree BSc/BA at grade 2i or above (or MSc) in a Mathematical Sciences' subject. As an EPSRC award, the studentship has the usual EPSRC requirement (mainly for UK and EU citizens only); see for details from http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/students/Pages/eligibility.aspx The studentship will be competitively awarded with the following procedure adhered to . The closing date: 15 Aug 2010 (then remains open till filled) . Interview period: 16-20 August 2010 (or other agreed time; skype interview preferred) . Candidates fill in the PhD application form from http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/applying/index.htm and write "EPSRC Industrial CASE studentship with CMIT --- Prof Chen and Prof Harding" Informal enquires may be addressed to: Ms S Farell via safrell@liverpool.ac.uk and fax 0044 151 794 4061 or Professor K Chen via k.chen@liv.ac.uk