{"id":2,"date":"2016-03-16T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagesperso.litislab.fr\/cpetitjean\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:10:54","slug":"caroline-petitjean-professor-university-of-rouen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pagesperso.litislab.fr\/cpetitjean\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left\">Welcome to my page! I am a Full Professor at the University of Rouen Normandy (URN).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left\"><strong>Research<\/strong>: I am with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litislab.eu\">LITIS<\/a> lab, and my research work deals with medical image\u00a0 analysis with machine learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching<\/strong>: I teach courses at both the undergraduate and the graduate level on topics such as digital signal and image processing, statistics, etc. Nothing related to teaching on this website. Everything is in our moodle: <a href=\"https:\/\/universitice.univ-rouen.fr\/\">https:\/\/universitice.univ-rouen.fr\/<\/a> (restricted access).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;text-align: left\">Contact : <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">caroline dot petitjean at univ-rouen dot fr<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Current duties and responsibilities (as of Oct 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>International activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Editor for <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=42\">IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging<\/a> since 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/computer-vision-and-image-understanding\">Computer Vision and Image understanding<\/a> since 2021 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/journal\/neurocomputing\">Neurocomputing<\/a> since 2020<\/li>\n<li>Member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwo.be\/en\/the-fwo\/organisation\/fwo-expertpanels\/panels-strategic-basic-research\/panels-phd-fellowship-strategic-basic-research\/sbwt5a-data-science\/\">\u00ab\u00a0SBWT5A &#8211; Data science\u00a0\u00bb panel<\/a> for the FWO (Research Foundation &#8211; Flanders, Belgium) since 2023<\/li>\n<li>Co- French PI of the STIC AmSud project CGFLRVE (2023-25)<\/li>\n<li>Senior Media Editor for IEEE TMI<\/li>\n<li>Late-breaking work\/demo Chair at the next <a href=\"https:\/\/xaiworldconference.com\/2026\/\">XAI 2026 conference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In France:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PI of the ANR project <a href=\"https:\/\/mediseg.projets.litislab.fr\/\">MEDISEG<\/a> (2022-2026)<\/li>\n<li>Co-Supervisor of Syed Hasany PhD thesis with F. M\u00e9riaudeau<\/li>\n<li>Co-Supervisor of Diane Chan Sock Line PhD thesis with N Debroux and C Le Guyader<\/li>\n<li>Co-supervisor of Manon Lefeuvre PhD thesis with Z. Lambert and N. Piton<\/li>\n<li>Co-animatrice de l\u2019axe Image de la FR 3638 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.normastic.fr\/\">Normastic<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Member (elected) of the Commission formation et vie \u00e9tudiante (CFVU) of the URN since 2024<\/li>\n<li>Member (elected) of the Conseil acad\u00e9mique (CAC) of the URN since 2024<\/li>\n<li>Member of the Conseil Scientifique Pl\u00e9nier of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensea.fr\/fr\">ENSEA, Cergy<\/a> (scientific board of an engineering school) from 2021<\/li>\n<li>Gender equity referring person of the LITIS lab since 2023<\/li>\n<li>Member of the LITIS Lab council\u00a0 since 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teaching related duties:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Head of the 2nd year of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mastersid.univ-rouen.fr\/\">Master SD (data science)<\/a> since 2020<\/li>\n<li>Membre nomm\u00e9e du D\u00e9partement de Physique de l\u2019URN depuis 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible for U<strong>E5 Introduction to artificial intelligence<\/strong> to L1 students (250 students)<\/li>\n<li>Tutor of one student of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minmacs.fr\/en\/\">MINMACS<\/a> graduate school (2023-25)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nov 2025: I will be <strong>Late-breaking work\/demo chair<\/strong> at the next <a href=\"https:\/\/xaiworldconference.com\/2026\/\">XAI 2026 conference<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oct 2025: Our new PhD student Manon Lefeuvre has started her PhD (copsupervision with Zo\u00e9 Lambert<\/li>\n<li>Oct 2025: explainability workshop<\/li>\n<li>TO DO : FILL THE GAPS<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"gsc_a_at\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.fr\/citations?view_op=view_citation&amp;hl=fr&amp;user=Mh4Ac54AAAAJ&amp;sortby=pubdate&amp;citation_for_view=Mh4Ac54AAAAJ:PklR0melJeUC\">On a Hybrid Joint Segmentation\/Multimodal Registration Model via Finite Distortion Mappings and Implicit Neural Representations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 2025: I gave a talk on to introduce Artificial intelligence to high schoolers, at the Lyc\u00e9e Camille Saint-Saens in Rouen (Un chercheur, un enseignant, une classe)<\/li>\n<li>January 2025: I am now a <strong>Senior Media Editor<\/strong> at<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeetmi.org\"> IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 2025: I am co-organizing <a href=\"https:\/\/xaiworldconference.com\/2025\/actionable-explainable-ai\/\">a special track on \u00ab\u00a0Actionable AI\u00a0\u00bb at the XAI world conference!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>January 2025: I have been elected at the CFVU at the Universit\u00e9 de Rouen Normandie (Committee about the bachelor and master program of the URN)<\/li>\n<li>November 2024: I gave a plenary talk in Marseille during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.univ-amu.fr\/system\/files\/2024-11\/R%26D%20IMAGING%202024%20-%20Program_0.pdf\">R&amp;D imaging workshop\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0Explainability in deep learning models in medical imaging<\/li>\n<li>July 2024: <a href=\"http:\/\/2024.midl.io\">MIDL 2024<\/a> took place!!!<\/li>\n<li>June 2024: Our paper on \u00ab\u00a0MiSuRe is all you need to explain your image segmentation\u00a0\u00bb is now on <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2406.12173\">ArXiV!<\/a> please check it out.<\/li>\n<li>June 2024: I was invited to make a seminar at <a href=\"https:\/\/mailab.io\/how-can-we-explain-medical-image-segmentation-models-dr-caroline-petitjean-compass-may-2024\/\">COMPASS<\/a>, University of Washington USA, title: \u00ab\u00a0Explainability in medical image segmentation models\u00a0\u00bb<\/li>\n<li>May 2024: Our article with N. Hasany and F. M\u00e9riaudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/forum?id=rnQUJLbODk\">The Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts of Grad-CAM in Image Segmentation as demonstrated on the Synapse multi-organ CT Dataset<\/a> has been accepted as a short paper at MIDL&rsquo;24!<\/li>\n<li>May 2024: the website for our <a href=\"https:\/\/expand.projets.litislab.fr\/\">Workshop on Explainability for Dense Prediction Models in Medical Image Analysis: EXPAND<\/a> at MICCAI 2024 is up and running!<\/li>\n<li>April 204: I did a conference on AI for high-schoolers, Lyc\u00e9e Camille Saint-Saens, Rouen, 16 avril 2024: \u00ab\u00a0L&rsquo;intelligence artificielle dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de la connaissance\u00a0\u00bb<\/li>\n<li>April 2024: Our article <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2402.03003\">\u00ab\u00a0<em>[Citation needed] Data usage and citation practices in medical imaging conferences\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/a> has been accepted at MIDL&rsquo;24!<\/li>\n<li>April 2024: I did a conference for the festival Entrevoir, <a href=\"https:\/\/rouen.fr\/breve\/2024\/04\/hauts-rouen-conference-lia-une-fenetre-sur-limage-au-centre-malraux\">Centre Andr\u00e9 Malraux, 6 avril 2024: \u00ab\u00a0L&rsquo;intelligence artificielle: une fen\u00eatre sur l&rsquo;image\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 2024: I did an expertise for the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark<\/li>\n<li>March 2024: Our worshop on \u00ab\u00a0Explainability for Dense Prediction Models in Medical Image Analysis\u00a0\u00bb EXPAND, has been accepted at MICCAI&rsquo;24! to be held in conjunction with iMIMIC<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2024: Our paper on <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2402.03003.pdf\">Data usage and citation practices in medical<\/a><br \/>\nimaging conferences is now available on ArXiV!<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2024: I am part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/xaiworldconference.com\/2024\/committees\/\">Program Committee of the XAI World Conference 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jan 2024: Our book chapter on \u00ab\u00a0Blending variational approach and deep learning to enforce prior constraints in medical image segmentation\u00a0\u00bb has been released!<\/li>\n<li>Oct 2023: I presented ChatGPT to high school students at the French National Science Fair (F\u00eate de la Science) <a href=\"https:\/\/webtv.univ-rouen.fr\/videos\/fdls2023-une-intelligence-artificielle-qui-discute-chatgpt-comment-ca-marche-caroline-petitjean\/\">link to video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sept 2023: co-guest editoring a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embs.org\/jbhi\/special-issues\/\">Special Issue to the IEEE JBHI on Foundation Models in Medical Imaging<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 2023: Honored to have been appointed as <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeetmi.org\/editorial-board\">Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 2023: I will be a co-chair for <a href=\"https:\/\/2024.midl.io\/\">MIDL 2024<\/a> in Paris France \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>July 2023: Our work on \u00ab\u00a0Can SegFormer be a True Competitor to U-Net for Medical Image Segmentation?\u00a0\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/mediseg.projets.litislab.fr\/2023\/08\/26\/presentation-at-the-27th-conference-on-medical-image-understanding-and-analysis-2023\/\">was presented at MIU 2023<\/a> in Abderdeen Scotland<\/li>\n<li>July 2023: Our work on \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-031-31975-4_28\">On the Inclusion of Topological Requirements in CNNs for Semantic Segmentation Applied to Radiotherapy<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb was presented at SSVM in Italy<\/li>\n<li>June 2023: Member of the midterm jury of Dovile Juoedlyte in IT University Copenhagen<\/li>\n<li>April 2023: Our paper \u00ab\u00a0Seg-XRes-CAM: Explaining Spatially Local Regions in Image Segmentation\u00a0\u00bb with N. Hasany and F. M\u00e9riaudeau has been accepted for publication at the <a href=\"https:\/\/xai4cv.github.io\/workshop_cvpr23\">2nd Explainable AI for Computer Vision Workshop (XAI4CV)<\/a> at CVPR in the *spotlight* session!<\/li>\n<li>April 2023: I am an Area Chair for MICCAI 2023.<\/li>\n<li>March 2023: I was invited to give a talk at <a href=\"https:\/\/iabm2023.sciencesconf.org\/\">IABM,<\/a> the 1st French Symposium on AI for biomedical imaging. My slides are <a href=\"http:\/\/pagesperso.litislab.fr\/cpetitjean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/04\/iabm-export.pdf\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 2023: I am appointed to promote gender equity in my lab with colleague Julien Saunier<\/li>\n<li>March 2023: Our paper with Zo\u00e9 Lambert and Carole Le Guyader \u00ab\u00a0On the Inclusion of Topological Requirements in CNNs for Semantic Segmentation Applied to Radiotherapy\u00a0\u00bb was accepted at <a href=\"https:\/\/events.unibo.it\/ssvm2023\">SSVM2023<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2023: I am an Area Chair for <a href=\"https:\/\/2023.midl.io\/\">MIDL 2023.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023: with Veronika Cheplygina, we have obtained a funding from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ddsa.dk\/\">Danish Data Science Academy<\/a> so that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/theo-sourget\/\">Th\u00e9o Sourget<\/a> (a <a href=\"http:\/\/mastersid.univ-rouen.fr\/\">M2 student<\/a>) can make an internship at IT University of Copenhagen<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023: The work of my PhD student Syed Nouman Hasany\u00a0 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/pagesperso.litislab.fr\/cpetitjean\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2023\/02\/Hasany-spie-2023.pdf\">A study of attention information from transformer layers in hybrid medical image segmentation networks<\/a>\u201d has been accepted at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference to be held in San Diego in 2023. Congratulations!<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Nov 2022: I was invited to a <a href=\"https:\/\/lia.univ-avignon.fr\/conference-debat-en-intelligence-artificielle\/\">conference-debate on AI and foundation models<\/a> by the chair LIAvignon.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">Sept 2022: I am part of <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesperso.litislab.fr\/cpetitjean\/miccai-2022-young-scientist-award-committee\/\">MICCAI 2022 Young Scientist Award Committee<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sept 2022: I am co-chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/miccai-remia.github.io\/\">MICCAI workshop on Resource-Efficient Medical Image Analysis (REMIA)<\/a>, Singapour, 2022<\/li>\n<li>May 2022: I gave a talk on to introduce Artificial intelligence to high schoolers, at the Lyc\u00e9e Camille Saint-Saens in Rouen.<\/li>\n<li>April 2022: our paper with Zo\u00e9 Lambert and Carole Le Guyader \u00ab\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10851-022-01102-1\">Enforcing geometrical priors in deep networks for semantic segmentation applied to radiotherapy planning<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb has been accepted for publication in JMIV!<\/li>\n<li>April 2022: I am an area chair for MICCAI 2022.<\/li>\n<li>April 2022: I co-organized a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.normastic.fr\/event\/apprentissageimage\/\">workshop<\/a> for the \u00ab\u00a0Image\u00a0\u00bb research axis of the FR Normastic with A. Mahoubi (GREYC).<\/li>\n<li>April 2022: my PhD student Jing Zhang has defended her PhD: \u00ab\u00a0Biomarker estimation from medical images: segmentation-based and segmentation-free approaches\u00a0\u00bb<\/li>\n<li>March 1st: My ANR project <a href=\"https:\/\/mediseg.projets.litislab.fr\/\">MEDISEG<\/a> has officially started!<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2022: We organized a workshop with the GdR ISIS <a style=\"font-size: inherit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gdr-isis.fr\/index.php\/reunion\/468\">Deep learning with weak or few labels in medical image analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Feb 2022: I am an Area Chair for the <a href=\"https:\/\/2022.midl.io\/\">MIDL 2022<\/a> (Medical Imaging with Deep Learning) conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my page! I am a Full Professor at the University of Rouen Normandy (URN). Research: I am with the LITIS lab, and my research work deals with medical image\u00a0 analysis with machine learning. 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