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Dr Anna Breger

  • College positions:
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
  • Subjects: Mathematics

Degrees

Dr.rer.nat in Applied Mathematics (University of Vienna)

MSc Mathematics (University of Vienna)

BSc Mathematics (University of Vienna)

Research interests

My main research interests lie in mathematical image processing and real-world applications. In particular, I am interested in image quality assessment to evaluate machine learning algorithms and its impact to medical image applications. In addition, recently, I have started to look into the application of image processing and machine learning to musical cultural heritage data.

Teaching Interests

I teach or have taught topics related to mathematical image processing, programming and statistics. 

Awards and prizes

Research grants:

Austrian Science Fund, Hertha Firnberg Fellowship, 2022-2025
iDeal – Image based Data Evaluation Analyses and Medical Application Hosted at Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

L’OREAL Austria Fellowship for Women in Science (Unesco/ÖAW), 2021 Image Quality Assessment for Medical Imaging
Hosted at University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Marshall Plan Scholarship, 2019 Image Analysis in Medical Applications 
Hosted at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Prizes:

2024  City of Vienna Prize for Early Career Researchers 
2018  Award for best PhD project (Biostec Conference)

Publications (selected)

Basiswissen der mathematischen Bildbearbeitung – Zwischen Theorie und Anwendung
Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Essentials Book Series, 2024

A study on the adequacy of common IQA measures for medical images
Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Proceedings of 2024 International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis

visClust: A visual clustering algorithm based on orthogonal projections
Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), 2024  

A pipeline to further enhance quality, integrity and reusability of the NCCID clinical data
Scientific Data (Nature), 2023

On orthogonal projections for dimension reduction and applications in augmented target loss functions for learning problems 
Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV), vol 62 (2020)

Please find a full list of publications 

Other interests

I am also a baroque violinist and Nyckelharpa player and am enjoying to perform with several early music and Folk ensembles. In my projects I am combining research to lesser-known musical sources of the 17th/18th century, historical performance practice and innovation for modern concert formats.