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Merence Sibomana

ImagXEco project leader

Merence Sibomana is a computer science engineer with 20+ years experience of working in medical imaging industry. He graduated from Université catholique de Louvain with a Master's in Computer Science Engineering. He started ImagX-Eco project in 12/2015 with the aim of developing a sustainable medical imaging solution for populations in low resource regions.  From 1991 to 2001, he worked on multi-modality (PET, MR, CT) with the PET Research laboratory at UCL in Louvain-La-Neuve. In 2002, he joined Siemens Medical Solutions (former CTI PET Systems) in Knoxville (TN, USA) where he worked PET/CT software with special focus on data corrections and reconstruction.  He worked as a consultant from 2008 to 2012 to lead the collaboration of several University Research Centers (5 in US, 3 in Canada and  8 in Europe) to  finalize the development of the Siemens PET High Resolution Research Tomograph (HRRT) scanner to bring the scanner from experimental status to an efficient tool for neurosciences research and clinical applications. He came back at UCL in 2013 to join the ImagX project (UCL/IBA projecf funded by the Walloon Region) and later started ImagXEco to reuse the experience from ImagX in developping solutions for low-resource regions.

Publications

2014

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Kremer, Florence ; Giard, Joachim ; Sibomana, Merence ; Rosa Seabra, José Carlos ; Orban de Xivry, Jonathan ; Labarbe, Rudi ; Macq, Benoît. Feasibility and preliminary validation of 2D/3D image registration using fixed 2-D-X-ray devices in image-guided radiotherapy in 1st International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing - ATSIP'2014, Sousse, Tunisia, du 17/03/2014 au 19/03/2014

2003

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Daisne, Jean-François ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Bol, Anne ; Cosnard, Guy ; Lonneux, Max ; Grégoire, Vincent. Evaluation of a multimodality image (CT, MRI and PET) coregistration procedure on phantom and head and neck cancer patients: accuracy, reproducibility and consistency. in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

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WALRAND, Stephan ; Jamar, François ; Mathieu, Isabelle ; De Camps, Joëlle ; Lonneux, Max ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Labar, Daniel ; Michel, Christian ; Pauwels, Stanislas. Quantitation in PET using isotopes emitting prompt single gammas: application to yttrium-86. in European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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Daisne, Jean-François ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Bol, Anne ; Doumont, Thomas ; Lonneux, Max ; Grégoire, Vincent. Tri-dimensional automatic segmentation of PET volumes based on measured source-to-background ratios: influence of reconstruction algorithms. in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

2002

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Vandermeeren, Yves ; Olivier, Etienne ; Sébire, Guillaume ; Cosnard, Guy ; Bol, Anne ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Michel, Christian ; De Volder, Anne. Increased FDG uptake in the ipsilesional sensorimotor cortex in congenital hemiplegia. in NeuroImage

1999

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Bentourkia, M'hamed ; Bol, Anne ; Ivanoiu, Adrian ; Michel, Christian ; Coppens, Ann ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Cosnard, Guy ; De Volder, Anne. A standardized blood sampling scheme in quantitative FDG-PET studies in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

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Lonneux, Max ; Borbath, Ivan ; Bol, Anne ; Coppens, Ann ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Bausart, Raymond ; Defrise, Michel ; Pauwels, Stanislas ; Michel, Christian. Attenuation correction in whole-body FDG oncological studies: the role of statistical reconstruction in European journal of nuclear medicine

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Lonneux, Max ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Pauwels, Stanislas ; Grégoire, Vincent. Données actuelles et perspectives de la tomographie par émission de positrons en oncologie-radiothérapie in Cancer radiothérapie

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Bentourkia, M. ; Bol, Anne ; Bodart, J.M. ; Michel, Christian ; Coppens, Ann ; Sibomana, Merence ; Labar, Daniel ; De Volder, Anne. Estimation of kinetic constants in double injection FDG-PETstudies: application in neurology and oncology in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference RecordIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Toronto, Canada, du 08/11/1998 au 14/11/1998

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Liu, Xingpeng ; Defrise, Michel ; Michel, Caroline ; Sibomana, Mérence ; Comtat, Claude ; Kinahan, Paul ; Townsend, David. Exact rebinning methods for three-dimensional PET in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

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Bentourkia, M. ; Bol, Anne ; Michel, Christian ; Coppens, Ann ; Sibomana, Merence ; Labar, Daniel ; De Volder, Anne. Flexible image smoothing and segmenting prior to parametricestimation in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference RecordIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Toronto, Canada, du 08/11/1998 au 14/11/1998

1997

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Goudemant, Jean-François ; Francaux, Marc ; Mottet, Isabelle ; Demeure, Roger ; Sibomana, Merence ; Sturbois, Xavier. 31P NMR saturation transfer study of the creatine kinase reaction in human skeletal muscle at rest and during exercise in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

1995

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Michel, Christian ; Sibomana, Merence ; Bodart, Jean-Michel ; Grandin, Cécile ; Coppens, Ann ; Bol, Anne ; De Volder, Anne. Interactive delineation of brain sulci and their merging into functional PET images. in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference RecordIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, du 21/10/1995 au 28/10/1995

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Sibomana, Merence ; Coppens, Ann ; Lonneux, Max ; Gerber, Bernhard ; De Volder, Anne. Volumic image analysis application bundle for UNIX workstations. in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference RecordIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Francisco, du 21/10/1995 au 28/10/1995

1990

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Sibomana, Merence ; Longree, Yvan ; Mareschal, Pierre ; Somers, Francis ; Alain Ninane ; Myriam Nemry. Direct-manipulation user interfaces in First International Workshop on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Lyon Villeurbanne (France), du 19/03/1990 au 24/03/1990