Nicolas Duchateau

Nicolas Duchateau is an Associate Professor at Université Lyon 1 and researcher at the CREATIS lab in Lyon, France. He is also a Junior member of the prestigious Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and serves as Associate Editor for the Neurocomputing journal. His academic career includes positions at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and INRIA Epione in Sophia-Antipolis, with his current role at Polytech Lyon's Biomedical Engineering department since 2016.

His research focuses on characterizing diseases from medical imaging populations, with methodological development centered on statistical atlases and machine learning approaches to represent populations. On the applicative side, he concentrates on cardiac function and imaging modalities such as echocardiography and magnetic resonance. His work spans computational anatomy, pattern statistics, representation learning, manifold learning, auto-encoders, information fusion, cardiac imaging, shape and deformation analysis, risk stratification, and image synthesis.

Duchateau's recent publications reveal strong trends in multimodal data fusion, particularly combining echocardiography with clinical records for patient stratification. He has made significant contributions to representation learning for cardiac population analysis, with increasing emphasis on diffusion models, uncertainty estimation, and domain adaptation techniques. His work bridges deep learning methodologies with clinical cardiology applications, focusing on interpretable AI solutions for cardiac function assessment.

• Junior Member of Institut Universitaire de France (2021)
• PhD prize for knowledge transfer from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2014)
• Young Investigator Award at Euroecho conference (2010)

Duchateau actively supervises numerous PhD and Master's students, including Anita Salvador, Thierry Judge, Pierre-Elliott Thiboud, and Romain Deleat-Besson. He has secured major research funding including a €75k grant from the Institut Universitaire de France (2021-2026), a €251k French ANR Young Researchers grant for the "MIC-MAC" project (2019-2024), and a €139k grant from the Fédération Française de Cardiologie for the "MI-MIX" project (2020-2023).

He leads a vibrant research team at CREATIS lab focused on medical image analysis, where his group develops computational approaches to characterize cardiac diseases through population analysis. The team works at the intersection of machine learning, medical physics, and clinical cardiology, with ongoing projects spanning echocardiography analysis, MRI processing, synthetic data generation, and clinical decision support systems.