Dr. rer. nat. Susanne Heim

Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Ludwig Fahrmeir

Department:

Project A5, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 386 "Statistical Analysis of discrete structures"

Chair of statistics and applied statistics in economics, business administration and the social sciences

Institute of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Contact details:

Institute of Statistics

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Ludwigstr. 33

80539 München

Germany

Phone: +49-89-2180-2226

Fax: +49-89-2180-5040

Office hour:

Tuesday, 2 - 3 pm, Room 210

Teaching:

Schätzen und Testen I, WS07/08

Matrixtutorium (Wahlfach Statistik) WS07/08

Einführungskurs in SPSS SS07

Lebensdauer- und Ereignisanalyse SS06

Räumliche Statistik und Imaging WS05/06

Software:

Space-varying coefficient models;
written in R.

Publications:

• Heim S (2007). Statistical Diffusion Tensor Imaging: From Data Quality to Fiber Tracking. PhD Thesis. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen, Germany. Availabe online from Munich University Library.
• Fahrmeir L, Belitz C, Biller C, Brezger A, Heim S, Hennerfeind A, Jerak A (2007). Statistische Analyse der Nettomieten. In: Mietspiegel für München 2007. Statistik, Dokumentation und Analysen. Landeshauptstadt München, Sozialreferat, Amt für Wohnen und Migration.
• Heim S, Fahrmeir L, Eilers PHC, Marx BD (2007). 3d Space-Varying Coefficient Models with Application to Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 51:6212-6228.
  Preliminary version (2006): SFB Discussion Paper 455 [pdf]
• Heim S (2006). Wavelets for Diffusion Tensor Imaging. SFB Discussion Paper 505 [pdf], corrected February 14, 2007
• Hahn K, Prigarin S, Heim S, Hasan K (2006). Random Noise in Diffusion Tensor Imaging, its Destructive Impact and Some Corrections. In: Weickert J and Hagen H (eds): Visualization and Image Processing of Tensor Fields. Berlin: Springer, Series: Mathematics and Visualization, ISBN: 3-540-25032-8. [pdf]
• Heim S, Hahn K, Sämann PG, Fahrmeir L, and Auer DP (2004). Assessing DTI Data Quality Using Bootstrap Analysis. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 52:582-589. [pdf]

Talks/Posters:

• Heim S (2007). The 3d space varying coefficient model and its influence on diffusion tensor estimation and fiber tractography. Gemeinsame Arbeitstagung der Arbeitsgruppen Bayes-Methodik, Ökologie und Umwelt und Räumliche Statistik, Schloss Reisensburg, Germany.
• Heim S (2007). On the Impact of a 3d Space Varying Coefficient Model on Diffusion Tensor Estimation and Fiber Tractography. Seminar "Modern Methods in Applied Stochastics and Nonparametric Statistics" Summersemester 2007, Invited talk at the Weierstraß Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany. [abstract-txt] [slides-pdf]
• Heim S (2006). 3d space-varying coefficient model using wavelets. SFB Workshop on Statistical Modelling of Complex Systems, Munich, Germany. [abstract-txt] [slides-pdf]
• Heim S, Sämann PG, Fahrmeir L (2006). Unified diffusion tensor estimation using space-varying coefficients models. NeuroImage 31, Supplement 1: 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy. [abstract-pdf] [poster-pdf]
• Heim S and Fahrmeir L (2005). 3d smoothing of brain data using a varying coefficient model. Proceedings of the 25th European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo, Norway. [abstract-pdf] [slides-pdf]
• Eilers PHC, Heim S, and Marx BD (2005). Varying Coefficient Tensor Models for Brain Imaging. In: Statistical Solutions to Modern Problems. Proceedings of the 20th IWSM, Sydney, Australia; 154-164. Presented by BD Marx, [pdf]
• Heim S, Hahn K, Auer DP, and Fahrmeir L (2004). Optimization of fiber tracking in human brain mapping: Statistical challenges. In: Statistical Modelling. Proceedings of the 19th IWSM, Florence, Italy; 296-300. [abstract-pdf] [poster-pdf]
• Heim S, Hahn K, Auer DP, Fahrmeir L (2004). Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Human Brain Research. Biometrical Journal 46, Supplement: Joint Meeting of IBS-DR and the DAE, Heidelberg, Germany. [abstract-doc] [slides-pdf]