Short Bio 
Ola Friman joined the Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute for Medical Image Computing in 2007, where he is now heading the image processing developments. Dr. Friman received an MSc (1999) in Electrical Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a PhD (2003) in medical image processing from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden. Prior to joining Fraunhofer MEVIS, Dr. Friman was at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School as well as at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Research Interests
medical imaging, image processing, signal processing, optimization, statistics

• Friman O. Adaptive Analysis of Functional MRI Data. Linköping University, Sweden, 2003. Dissertation No 836, ISBN 91-7373-699-6     (pdf)

• Friman O, Hindennach M, Peitgen H.-O. Multiple Hypothesis Template Tracking of Small 3D Vessel Structures. Medical Image Analysis, Medical Image Analysis, 2010, 14(2):160-171    (pdf) © Elsevier

• Schaap M, Metz C, van Walsum T, van der Giessen A, Weustink A, Mollet N, Bauer C, Bogunović H, Castro C, Deng X, Dikici E, O'Donnell T, Frenay M, Friman O, Hernández Hoyos M, Kitslaar P, Krissian K, Kühnel C, Luengo-Oroz M, Orkisz M, Smedby Ö, Styner M, Szymczak A, Tek H, Wang C, Warfield S, Zambal S, Zhang Y, Krestin G, Niessen W. Standardized Evaluation Methodology and Reference Database for Evaluating Coronary Artery Centerline Extraction Algorithms. Medical Image Analysis, 2009, 13(5):701-714    (pdf) © Elsevier

• Klein J, Friman O, Hadwiger M, Preim B, Ritter F, Vilanova A, Zachmann G, Bartz D. Visual Computing for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment. Journal of Computers & Graphics, 2009, 28(3):847-854   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Hennemuth A, Seeger A, Friman O, Miller S, Oeltze S, Peitgen H-O. A Comprehensive Approach to the Analysis of Contrast Enhanced Cardiac MR Images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2008, 27(11):1592-610   (pdf) © IEEE

• Friman O, Volosyak I, Gräser A. Multiple Channel Detection of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials for Brain-Computer Interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2007, 54(4):742-750  (pdf) © IEEE

• Carpenter A,  Jones T,  Lamprecht M,  Clarke C,  Han Kang I,  Friman O,  Guertin D,  Han Chang J,  Lindquist R,  Moffat J,  Golland P,  Sabatin D. CellProfiler: Image analysis software for identifying and quantifying cell phenotypes. Genome Biology, 2006, 7(10):R100   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Peled S, Friman O, Jolesz F, Westin C-F. Geometrically constrained two-tensor model for crossing tracts in DWI. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2006, 24(9):1263-1270   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Friman O, Farnebäck G, Westin C-F. A Bayesian Approach for Stochastic White Matter Tractography. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2006, 25(8):965-978   (pdf) © IEEE

• Vikgren J, Friman O, Borga M, Boijsen M, Gustavsson S, Ekberg-Jansson A, Bake B, Tylen U. Detection of Mild Emphysema by Computed Tomography Density Measurements. Acta Radiologica 2005; 46(3): 237-245

• Friman O, Westin CF. Resampling fMRI Time Series. NeuroImage, 2005; 25(3):859-867   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg P, Knutsson H. Detection and Detrending in fMRI Data Analysis. NeuroImage, 2004; 22(2): 645-655   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg P, Knutsson H. Adaptive Analysis of fMRI Data. NeuroImage, 2003; 19(3):837-845   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg P, Knutsson H. Exploratory fMRI Analysis by Autocorrelation Maximization. NeuroImage, 2003; 16(2): 454-464   (pdf)

• Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg P, Knutsson H. Detecting Neural Activity in fMRI Using Maximum Correlation Modeling. NeuroImage, 2002; 15(2):386-395   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Friman O, Carlsson J, Lundberg P, Borga M, Knutsson H. Detection of Neural Activity in fMRI using Canonical Correlation Analysis. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2001; 45(2):323-330   (pdf) © Elsevier

• Tautz L, Hennemuth A, Andersson M, Seeger A, Knutsson H, Friman O. Phase-Based Non-Rigid Registration of Myocardial Perfusion MRI Image Sequences. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI’10), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 2010   (pdf)

• Lassen B, Kuhnigk J-M, Friman O, Krass S, Peitgen H-O. Automatic Segmentation of Lung Lobes in CT Images Based on Fissures, Vessels, and Bronchi. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI’10), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, April 2010   (pdf)

• Klein J, Groetsch A, Betz D, Barbieri S, Friman O, Stieltjes S, Hildebrandt H, Hahn H. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of probabilistic and deterministic fiber tracking. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging (SPIE’10), Vol. 7623, San Diego, USA, February 2010   (pdf)

• Friman O, Dahlqvist-Leinhard O, Lundberg P, Borga M. A General Method for Correction of Intensity Inhomogenity in Two Point Dixon Imaging. Proceedings of the 17th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM’09), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2009   (pdf)

• Friman O, Kühnel C, Peitgen H-O. Coronary Artery Centerline Extraction Using Multiple Hypothesis Tracking and Minimal Paths. MICCAI’08 Workshop – 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge. The Midas Journal, September 2008   (pdf)

• Weiler F, Hahn H,  Köhn A, Friman O, Klein J, Peitgen, H-O. Dealing with Inaccuracies in Multimodal Neurosurgical Planning - A Preliminary Concept. Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress and Exhibition of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS’08), Barcelona, Spain, June, 2008   (pdf)

• Friman O, Hindennach M, Peitgen H-O. Template-Based Multiple Hypotheses Tracking of Small Vessels. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'08), Paris, France, May 2008   (pdf)

• Hennemuth A, Seeger A, Friman O, Miller S, Peitgen H-O. Automatic Detection and Quantification of Non-Viable Myocardium in Late Enhancement Images. Proceedings of the 16th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM’08), Toronto, Canada, May 2008

• Friman O, Hennemuth A, Peitgen H-O. A Rician-Gaussian Mixture Model for Segmenting Delayed Enhancement MRI Images. Proceedings of the 16th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM’08), Toronto, Canada, May 2008   (pdf)

• Klein J, Bartz D, Friman O, Hadwiger M, Preim B, Ritter F, Vilanova A, Zachmann G. Advanced Algorithms in Medical Computer Graphics. Proceedings of Eurographics 2008, State-of-the-Art Report (EG-STAR‘08), Crete, Greece, April, 2008   (pdf)

• Valbuena D, Cyriacks M, Friman O, Volosyak I, Gräser A. Brain-Computer Interface for high-level control of rehabilitation robotic systems. Proceedings of the 10th  International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR'07), Noordwijk aan Zee , The Netherlands, June 2007   (pdf)

• Lüth T, Ojdanic D, Friman O, Prenzel O, Gräser A. Low Level Control in a Semi-autonomous Rehabilitation Robotic System via a Brain-Computer Interface. Proceedings of the 10th  International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR'07), Noordwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, June 2007   (pdf)

• Friman O, Lüth T, Volosyak I, Gräser A. Spelling with Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials. Proceedings of the 3rd  International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Hawaii, USA, May 2007   (pdf)

• Friman O, Westin CF. Uncertainty in White Matter Tractography. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’05), Palm Springs, USA, October 2005   (pdf)

• Friman O, Morocz I, Westin CF. Examining the Whiteness of fMRI Noise. Proceedings of the 13th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM’05), Miami, USA, May 2005   (pdf)

• Friman O, Westin CF. Bias in Resampling-Based Thresholding of Statistical Maps in fMRI. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’04), Rennes-St. Malo, France, September 2004   (pdf)

• Hardoon D, Shawe-Taylor J and Friman O. KCCA for fMRI Analysis. Proceedings of the 8th Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Meeting (MIUA’04), London, UK, September 2004

• Friman O. Subspace Models for Functional MRI Data Analysis. Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'04), Washington DC, USA, April 2004   (pdf)

• Ragnehed M, Friman O, Lundberg P, Söderfeldt B and Knutsson H. Comparing CCA and SPM99. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM’03), New York, USA, June 2003

• Nystrom P, Ragnehed M, Friman O, Engstrom M, Lundberg P, Knutsson H and Soderfeldt B. Localization of Signed and Heard Episodic and Semantic Memory Tasks using fMRI. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM’03), New York, USA, June 2003

• Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg M, Tylén U, Knutsson H. Recognizing Emphysema - A Neural Network Approach. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’02), Québec City, Canada, August 2002   (pdf)

• Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg P and Knutsson H.  Hierarchical Temporal Blind Source Separation of fMRI Data. Proceedings of the 10th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM’02), Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA, May 2002   (pdf)

• Borga M, Friman O, Lundberg P and Knutsson H. A Canonical Correlation Approach to Exploratory Data Analysis in fMRI. Proceedings of the 10th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM’02), Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA, May 2002  (pdf)

• Rudner M, Cedefamn J, Friman O, Knutsson H, Lundberg P, Söderfeldt B. Are Levels of Language Processing Reflected in Neural Activation?- An fMRI Study. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM’01), Brighton, UK, June 2001

• Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg P, Knutsson H. A Correlation Framework for Functional MRI Data Analysis. Proceedings of the 12th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA’01), Bergen, Norway, June 2001 (pdf)

• Friman O, Lundberg P, Cedefamn J, Borga M and Knutsson H. Increased detection sensitivity in fMRI by adaptive filtering. Proceedings of the 9th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM’01), Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001   (pdf)

• Tylén U, Friman O, Borga M, Angelhed JE. An improved algorithm for computerized detection and quantification of pulmonary emphysema at high resolution computed tomography (HRCT). Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference (SPIE’01), San Diego, USA, February 2001

• Carlsson J, Friman O, Borga M, Lundberg P and Knutsson H Novel Applications of Canonical Correlation Analysis in True Spatio-Temporal fMRI Analysis. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB’00), Paris, France, September 2000