Biography

Petra Perner is the director of the Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Her Ph.D. thesis is about "Data Reduction Methods for Industrial Robots with Direct Teach-in-Programing" and her habilitation thesis is about "A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems". Prof. Perner has been the project leader and principal investigator of various national and international research projects for which she received several research awards. Her projects are marked by the fact that they combine high-class research with the aspect of the application. She has been often invited as a guest professor for knowledge-based image inspection systems by national and international institutes and companies.

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Research Interest

Cell Image Analysis and Interpretation, High-Content Screening, Spectrum Analysis Computational Systems Biology