Jussi Tohka

University of Eastern Finland

Jussi Tohka is a Full Professor of Biomedical Image Analysis and head of Biomedical Image Analysis Group at A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences of University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on developing new methods to analyze imaging data and developing machine learning approaches for predicting the course of brain diseases at individual level. He received his PhD degree (with commendation) in Signal Processing from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2003. Within FAME, he is seeking to translate advanced mathematical and computational methods into medical image analysis.