
Racha EL Berbari has a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering, Signal and Image Processing from Telecom Paris-Tech University (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunication), France. She was a part-timer at Notre Dame University, Shouf Campus (NDU-SC) besides several universities before joining the Faculty of Engineering at NDU-SC as a full-time faculty member in the rank of Assistant Professor at October 2010.
As a research engineer at the INSERM (Institut National Superieur de la Sante et de la recherche medicale), she worked with the collaboration of the european hospital Georges Pompidou (HEGP) on several clinical research projects concerning cardiac MR image processing.

Doctorate Image and Signal Processing, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Telecom (Telecom Paris-Tech), Paris, France, 2009.
M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, Images and Signals (ranked first), University of Paris XII Val de Marne, Paris, France, 2005.
B.E. Electrical Engineering, Lebanese University, Lebanon, 2004.
Conference Proceedings
El Berbari, R., Bloch, I., Kachenoura, N., Mousseaux, E., Herment, A., Frouin, F. (2009) An automated quantification of the transmural myocardial infarct extent in cardiac DE MR images. Proceedings of the 31th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, 1: 4403- 4406. Minnesota, USA.
El Berbari, R., (2009) Functional and anatomical medical image matching. Proceedings of the international Conference on Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA), 648-651, Lebanon.
El Berbari, R., Kachenoura, N., Redheuil, A., Herment, A., Bloch, I., Mousseaux, E., Frouin, F. (2008) An Automated Evaluation of Regional Left Ventricular Function on Cine MR Images.. IEEE Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology Conference, 35:777-780, Bologna, Italy.
El Berbari, R., Bloch, I., Redheuil, A., Angelini, E., Mousseaux, E., Frouin, F., Herrment, A. (2007) An automated myocardial segmentation in cardiac MRI. Proceedings of the 29th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, 4508 – 4511, Lyon, France.
El Berbari, R., Bloch, I., Redheuil, A., Angelini, E., Mousseaux, E., Frouin, F., Herment, A. (2007) Automated segmentation of the left ventricle including papillary muscles in cardiac magnetic resonance images. Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Computer Sciences 4466, 453-462, Salt Lake City, USA.
El Berbari, R., Kachenoura, N., Redheuil, A., Bloch, I., Mousseaux, E., Frouin, F. (2006) Using cine MR images to evaluate myocardial infarct transmurality on delayed enhancement images. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 145-148, Washington, USA.
Kachenoura, N., El Berbari, R., Redheuil, A., Ruiz-Dominguez, C., Herment, A., Mousseaux, E., Frouin, F. (2005) A quantitative technique to assess the infarct size by delayed contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. IEEE Computers in Cardiology, 32: 25-28, Barcelona, Spain.
Refereed Journal Articles
El Berbari, R., Frouin, F., Kachenoura, N., Mousseaux, E., Herment, A., Bloch, I. (2009) An automated evaluation of mean time contraction and ra- dial velocities on Cine Magnetic Resonance normal subjects Images. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 30 : 236-242.
El Berbari, R., Bloch, I., Kachenoura, N., Mousseaux, E., Herment, A., Frouin, F., (2009) Quantification automatisée de la transmuralité de l’infarctus du myocarde sur des images de rehaussement tardif en IRM.. ITBM-RBM, 30: 184-187.
Constantinides, C., El Berbari, R., De Cesar, A., Chenoune, Y., Roullot, E. Herment, A., Mousseaux, E., Frouin, F. (2009) Developpement et evaluation d’un algorithm de segmentation automatisée des ventricules gauche et droit sur des images ciné d’IRM.. ITBM-RBM, 30:188-191.
El Berbari, R., Frouin, F. Redheuil, A., Angelini, E., Mousseaux, E., Bloch, I., Herment, A. (2007) Development and evaluation of an automatic segmentation method of endocardial border in cardiac magnetic resonance images. ITBM-RBM, 28, 117 - 123.
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