MALBOT - Research project

The MALBOT aims at addressing the problem of understanding the aging of human’s bone tissue as well as bone loss dynamics by studying it through the lens of the effect of space exposure. We will make use of a dataset made available by the SAINBIOSE lab and composed of bone Computed-Tomography (CT) images of a cohort of astronauts collected before and after their flight to space. CT images often suffer from poor spatial resolution quality due to radiation dose regulation, hardening post-processing and image analysis of bone micro-structures. To address this spatial resolution issue, we aim at designing new deep learning-based super-resolution method. Because state of the art super-resolution techniques are failing in recovering morphometric and topological parameters of bone images, we plan to conceive a biology guided super-resolution model to improve the quality of images with respect to those bone parameters.