Denis Kouamé, Ph.D.

Denis Kouamé headshotDenis Kouamé is currently a Professor with the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse III, Toulouse, and a member of the IRIT Laboratory. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Senior Engineer with GIP Tours, Tours. From 1998 to 2008, he was an Assistant and then an Associate Professor with the University of Tours, France, where he was the Head of the Signal and Image Processing Group from 2000 to 2006, and then the Head of the Ultrasound Imaging Group from 2006 to 2008 with the Ultrasound and Signal Laboratory. He currently leads the Signals and Images Department, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), Toulouse, France. His current research interests include signal and image processing with applications to medical imaging and particularly ultrasound imaging, including high-resolution imaging, image resolution enhancement, Doppler signal processing, detection and estimation with application to cerebral emboli detection, multidimensional parametric modeling, spectral analysis, and inverse problems related to compressed sensing and restoration. Prof. Kouamé has been involved in the organization of several conferences. He has also led a number of invited conferences, special sessions, and tutorials at several IEEE conferences and workshops. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING.