Lotta María Ellingsen

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
105 Barton Hall, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA, email: lotta@jhu.edu

Education

 

 

 

2002-Present               Johns Hopkins University

                                  Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

                                  Advisor: Dr. Jerry L. Prince

 

May, 2004                               Johns Hopkins University

                                  M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

1998-2001                                  University of Iceland

                                 B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering        

 

1994-1998                                 Reykjavik Junior College (Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík)

Physics major

                                     

Grants and awards

 

 

Jan. 2003-present       Graduate Research Assistantship, Image Analysis and Communications Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University.

Aug. 2002-present      Departmental Tuition Fellowship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University.

2002                                               Fulbright Fellowship

2002                                               The American-Scandinavian Foundation – Thor Thors Fellowship

2006                                               Student Award from Helga Jónsdóttir and Sigurliði Kristjánsson Memorial Fund

 

research experience

 

 

Jan. 2003-Present       Research Assistant at the Image Analysis and Communications Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

                                 Deformable Image Registration on MR brain images and CT pelvis and femur images.

June 2001-Aug. 2002   Software Engineer at deCODE Genetics Inc., Signal Processing Group, Reykjavík., Iceland.

                                 Algorithm research and software development in automatic genotyping.

June-Aug. 2000          Software Engineer at deCODE Genetics Inc., Signal Processing Group,    Reykjavík., Iceland.

                                 Algorithm research and software development in automatic genotyping.

June-Aug. 1999          Software Engineer at Strengur hf., Reykjavík, Iceland.

                                 Development of a web-based news system.  Software development and programming.

 

teaching experience

 

 

Jan. 2007-May 2007    Teaching Assistant in Medical Imaging Systems.  Professor: Dr. Jerry L. Prince. The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

                                

Publications

 

 

2006                Lotta M. Ellingsen and Jerry L. Prince, “Deformable Registration of CT Pelvis Images Using Mjolnir”, to appear in Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, Reykjavík, Iceland, 7.-9. June 2006.

2006                Lotta M. Ellingsen and Jerry L. Prince, “Mjolnir: Deformable Image Registration using Feature Diffusion”, in Proceedings of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, California, USA, 11.-16. February 2006.

2006                Ofri Sadowsky, Krishnakumar Ramamurthi, Lotta M. Ellingsen, Gouthami Chintalapani, Jerry L. Prince, and Russell H. Taylor, “Atlas-assisted Tomography: Registration of a Deformable Atlas to Compensate for Limited-angle Cone-beam Trajectory”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), Arlington, Virginia, USA, 6.-9. April 2006.

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2006                Hans T. Bjornsson, Lotta M. Ellingsen, and Jon J. Jonsson, “Transposon-derived Repeats in the Human Genome and 5-methylcytosine-associated Mutations in Adjacent Genes. Gene, January 2006.

2001                            Jóhann B. Fjalldal, Jakob Sigurðsson, Kjartan Benediktsson, and Lotta M. Ellingsen, “Automated Genotyping: Combining Neural Networks and Decision Trees to Perform Robust Allele Calling”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN01), Vol. Addendum, pp. A1-A6, 2001.

2000                           “Sjálfvirk arfgerðargreining” (e. Automated Genotyping), Poster presentation at the International Agora Exhibition, Reykjavik, Iceland, 12 –13 October 2000.

 

oral presentations

 

 

2006                7th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium, Reykjavík, Iceland, 7.-9. June 2006.

2006                Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, Seminar, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 12. April 2006.

2006                SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego, California, USA, 11.-16. February 2006.

 

computer skills

            Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Pascal.

            Script Languages: Unix Shell Scripts.

            Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows.

            Simulation Tools: Matlab, Mipav, IBM Visualization Data Explorer.

            Applications: LaTeX, HTML, SQL, UML, Windows spreadsheet and presentation

            softwares.

associations

            Student Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE).

            Student Member of The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE).

            Member of the Icelandic Association of University Women.

REsearch interests

            Deformable image registration, medical image analysis, image processing, signal processing,

            brain mapping and computer integrated surgery.

 

 e-mail lotta@jhu.edu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering •

Johns hopkins University• 105 Barton hall• Baltimore Md 21218•USA