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Name: Dr Jane Courtney , BE MEngSc PhD MIEI MIEEE
Email: Jane.Courtney@dit.ie
Extension: 4969
Room: 10
Department: Control/Electrical Engineering
Homepage:
http://eleceng.dit.ie/courtney
Biography: Jane graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering (BE) from UCD in 1998. After a year working as a project engineer with ESBI, she returned to UCD to pursue research in biomedical engineering and graduated with a masters (MEngSc) in 2001 and a doctorate (PhD) in 2005. Her research focused on using digital image processing to develop a novel gait analysis system.

Jane’s research and teaching interests include computer vision and image processing, biomedical engineering and power systems engineering. In 2004, she taught on the intervarsity MSc in biomedical engineering. She has been a member of several programme committees including the Medical Imaging and Telemedicine conference (MIT) held in FuJian, China, in August 2005, the International Machine Vision and Image Processing conference (IMVIP) in 2006, 2007 and 2011 and the Ninth International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering held in Prague in May 2010. She was also a reviewer for the European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD) held in August 2005 and is currently a reviewer for the Journal of Biomechanics and the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement. She is currently on the local organising committee for the 48th International Universities' Power Engineering Conference (UPEC) to be held in September 2013. She is part of the Health Engineering and Rehabilitation Team (HEaRT) and People Oriented Technology (TeaPOT) research groups in DIT and an adjunct member of the Vision Systems Group, DCU.

From September 1999 to April 2001, Jane worked as an assistant lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering in DIT. While pursuing her PhD, she worked as a lecturer in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering in UCD. She returned to DIT as a full-time lecturer in September 2004.

Responsibilities and Duties:
DT009/2 Electrical Energy Systems 2.1 & 2.2
DT021/2 Electrical Energy Systems 1
DT021/4 Power Systems Analysis
DT021/4 Power Systems Economics & Operations
DT015/DT711/DT704-5 Embedded Generation
DT021/4 Projects
DT021/3 Projects
DT015/DT711/DT704-5(Masters) Projects
DT021/4 DT211/4 DT228/4 Image Processing


Publications:
2013
Tracking protein dynamics with photo-convertible Dendra2 on Spinning Disk Confocal Systems, Woods, Elena; Courtney, Jane; Scholz, Dimitri ; Hall, William W.; Gautier, Virginie W. BioPIC 2013, Dublin, Ireland, 2013 [Download]
2012
Non-Gaussian Anisotropic Diffusion for Medical Image Processing using the OsiriX DICOM, Blackledge, Jonathan; Blackledge, Matthew; Courtney, Jane;  International Society for Advanced Science and Technology (ISAST) - Transaction on Computing and Intelligent Systems, vol: 4, issue: 1, pages: 24 - 31, 2012 [Download]
Location, Location, Location: Insights into the dynamic inter-nucleolar trafficking of HIV-1 Tat and Rev in live cells, Woods, E.; Courtney, Jane; McCartin, A.; Marcello, A.; Hall, W.A.; Gautier, V.W. Wellcome Trust conference Sub-Nuclear Structures and Disease, Cambridge, UK, 2012 [Download]
2011
Blood Vessel Diameter Estimation System Using Active Contours, Ana Tizón; Courtney, Jane;  Proceedings of the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, pages: 98 - 103, DCU, 2011 [Download]
2010
A Monocular Marker-Free Gait Measurement System, Courtney, Jane; de Paor, A. M. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol: 18, issue: 4, pages: 453 - 460, 2010 [Download]
2006
Preliminary results for a monocular marker-free gait measurement system, Courtney, Jane; dePaor, A.M. Journal of Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, vol: 5, issue: 1-2, pages: 218 - 222, 2006 [Download]
2004
Simple Feature Identification and Matching for Stereoscopic Imaging, Courtney, Jane; dePaor, A.M. Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Queens University Belfast, 2004 [Download]
Direct Least-Squares Ellipse Fitting, Courtney, Jane; dePaor, A.M. Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, Kauai, Hawaii, 2004 [Download]
2001
Application of Digital Image Processing to Marker-free Analysis of Human Gait, Courtney, Jane; dePaor, A.M.; Burke, David Measurement Science Review, vol: 1, issue: 1, pages: 11 - 14, 2001 [Download]