Personnel of the Biomedical Signal Analysis Group
The research staff in the Department of Physics that is currently involved in the Biomedical signal analysis group is:
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Professor Pasi Karjalainen, Docent, Ph.D. (Head of the group) Email: Pasi.Karjalainen@uef.fi Pasi A. Karjalainen received the Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the University of Kuopio, Finland. Since 1988 he has been working in University of Kuopio as researcher and in Kuopio University Hospital as physicist. He is currently a professor in the Department of Physics. His research areas include biomedical signal analysis and medical imaging applications. Most of his work has concerned to application of Bayesian and regularization methods to biomedical inverse problems. |
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Senior researcher Mika Tarvainen, Docent, Ph.D. Email: Mika.Tarvainen@uef.fi Mika P. Tarvainen received the Ph.D. degree in 2004 from University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. Since 1999 he has been working in University of Kuopio, Department of Physics as a researcher. His current research is focused on medical signal analysis and physiological modelling techniques. |
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Senior researcher Minna Valkonen-Korhonen, MD, Ph.D. Email: Minna.Valkonen@kuh.fi Minna Valkonen-Korhonen graduated as a licentiate of medicine in 1992, in Kuopio University; specialist in psychiatry in 2000. In 2003 she received the Ph.D. degree from University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. She is currently an associate lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Kuopio teaching medical students. She is doing research in collaboration with the departments of applied physics and clinical neurophysiology at the University of Kuopio and Brain and Rehabilitation Center Neuron. The studies concern event-related potentials and autonomic nervous system responses and functional imaging of acute psychosis. |
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Researcher Timo Bragge, M.Sc. Email: Timo.Bragge@uef.fi Timo Bragge has been studying physics at University of Kuopio, Department of Physics since 1999. His current research is focused on the applications of motion analysis, including photogrammetry and signal prosessing. |
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Researcher Stefanos Georgiadis, Ph.D.
Georgiadis Stefanos received a degree in Mathematics from University of Patras, Greece, in 1998, and a postgraduate degree in Statistics and Operations Research from University of Athens, Greece, in 2002. He received his PhD degree in Computational Engineering from University of Kuopio, Finland, in 2007. Since 2001 he has been working in University of Kuopio, Department of Physics as a researcher. His research interests include stochastic signal processing methods and their applications to biomedical signal processing and analysis. |
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Researcher Marko Hakkarainen, M.Sc. Email: Marko.Hakkarainen@uef.fi Marko Hakkarainen received the M.Sc. degree in 2002 from University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He is currently working in University of Kuopio, Department of Physics as a researcher. His current research is focused on the applications of electromyography (EMG) measurement and analysis. |
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Researcher Mikko Kervinen, M.Sc. Email: Mikko.Kervinen@uku.fi Mikko Kervinen received the M.Sc. degree in 2001 from University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. He is currently working in University of Kuopio, Department of Physics as a researcher. His current research is focused on the applications of time-varying reconstruction methods to medical imaging. |
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Researcher Eini Niskanen, M.Sc. Email: Eini.Niskanen@uef.fi Eini Niskanen received the M.Sc. degree in 2004 from University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. She is currently working in Kuopio University Hospital as a researcher/physicist and in University of Kuopio, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology as a part-time researcher. Her current research is focused on the applications of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). |
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Researcher Juha-Pekka Niskanen, M.Sc. Email: Juha-Pekka.Niskanen@uef.fi Juha-Pekka Niskanen received the M.Sc. degree in 2006 from University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. He is currently working in University of Kuopio, Department of Physics as a researcher. His current research is focused on the applications of biomedical signal processing. |
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Researcher Perttu Ranta-aho, M.Sc. Email: Perttu.Ranta-aho@uef.fi Perttu O. Ranta-aho has been studying physics at University of Kuopio since 1994. Since 1999 he has been working in University of Kuopio, Department of Physics as a researcher. His current research is focused on the estimation of the single trial evoked potentials from multi channel measurements. |
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Researcher Saara Rissanen, M.Sc. Email: Saara.Rissanen@uef.fi Saara Rissanen received the M.Sc. degree in 2003 from University of Kuopio, Finland. She is currently working in University of Kuopio, Department of Physics as a researcher. Her current research is focused on the nonlinear methods of EMG analysis. |
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