Postdoctoral Position in AI for Medical Imaging & Bioinformatics in Sweden - Under tillsättning eller tillsatt, ej sökbar

As a part of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative related to EU projects, RISE invites candidates to apply for a postdoctoral position in AI for medical imaging and testing with health data. The search is conducted jointly by the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Digital Health Department. 

Project description
Through the program for a digital Europe (DIGITAL), the European Commission wants to increase the efficiency, resilience, and sustainability of the EU's healthcare system, and reduce inequalities in healthcare within the EU. AI and robotics are considered critical areas that need to be developed to achieve this goal. The DIGITAL program is designed to strengthen the EU's core capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) and is a key driver for the digital transformation of the public and private sectors.

The TEF HEALTH call is part of the European Artificial intelligence (AI) strategy’s aim to optimize the development of AI, and to promote trust in, and deployment of, AI-based software and hardware solutions. A critical part of Europe´s ability to execute this strategy is to interface the AI-development needs of SMEs with critical hardware infrastructures, health data and expertise within the health care and health research domains.

About the position
We are looking for strong candidates working in a broad set of areas of AI for medical imaging, including bioinformatics, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and AI platform pipelines for medical companies. The work will include validation of the quality of data for testbeds, data processing, quality control, statistical analysis, data visualization, interpretation, and presentation of findings in the form of scientific publications, projects meetings, EU-reports, and conferences in EU. Further, our tasks are to support small and medium-sized businesses and organizations to use AI solutions in health with our exiting AI-services (AI-centre in Sweden) at RISE.

You will help to manage our cooperation with EU partners and supporting SME by using dataset, images, and testbeds. Our tasks are Data mining, Algorithm development, Algorithm improvement, Machine learning feasibility investigation and implementation.

You will be involved in EU collaborations with clinical and medical partners. Our mission is that we perform both independent workflow and teamwork for training and project implementation together with EU-partners and international customers. Depending on your background, in AI and image analysis, your mission will be tailored to fit your competence and our tasks needs.

The position is located at RISE, Department of Digital health in Stockholm/Sweden (Kista). 

Qualifications
We seek a curious-minded postdoc who thrives in a data-rich environment, and who enjoy working with AI-services and medical images. Further, you share our passion for translational research and implementing EU-project, is ready to join our very collaborative team.

Necessary qualifications

Qualified to be employed as a post doctor is one who has obtained a doctorate. You should either have:

• o A first/second cycle university education in engineering or computer science and a PhD in Biomedical Imaging (Life Science Imaging analysis) a focus on clinical applications related to AI-imaging processing.
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• o A first/second cycle university education in engineering or computer science and a PhD in Software and Computer Systems with a focus on clinical applications.
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• o A first/second cycle university education in engineering or computer science and a PhD in Robotics, Perception and learning with a focus on clinical applications. PhD in AI, Engineering and Computer Science and focus on AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.
  
  

• Having published as first author, at least two peer-reviewed original research articles in a journal with an impact factor of 5 or higher, which should be relevant to the post doc position
• Solid experience in data analysis on health data
• Deep Learning Frameworks: Emphasize proficiency in TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras, especially the ability to build and fine-tune CNNs for medical image data
• Image Processing: Highlight the significance of expertise in medical image processing with libraries like SimpleITK or OpenCV, particularly in areas like segmentation and registration.
• You have experience in writing and documenting well-structured Python code
• Knowledge of statistical method. Machine and deep learning with Python
• Experience in supervised and unsupervised machine learning, including deep neural networks
• Strong interest in pathogenesis of complex human diseases
• Demonstrate fluency in the English language in oral and written communication
• Good collaborative skills helping to build a friendly and welcoming workplace

Merits of additional value

• Knowledge and experience in data and virtual simulations
• Knowledge in validation, data quality, certification process, and standardization
• Knowledge and experience in breast imaging
• Experience of data sharing and knowledge of GDPR
• Experiences of any kind showing that you are diligent, hard-working, and can think outside of the box
• Experience in testbeds, particularly AI-testbeds
• Experienced in working with different stakeholders to interpret and communicate data
• Knowledge in statistics or biostatistics

What do we offer?
A creative and inspiring environment full of expertise and curiosity. Through international collaboration with industry, academia, and the public sector, we ensure business competitiveness and contribute to a sustainable society.

Welcome with your application
An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work A complete list of publications A summary of current work (no more than one page) A page explaining how you meet each of the necessary qualifications and any merit of additional value listed above

If you have any questions, please contact Senior researcher Alireza Salehi, PhD, email: alireza.salehi@ri.se. Welcome to apply at the latest April 25, 2024. Our union representatives are Ulf Nordberg, Sveriges Ingenjörer, 010-5166959 and Linda Ikatti, Unionen, 010-5165161.