Thesis and Project Guidelines

Please read the following guidelines carefully if you are planning to conduct a final thesis or research project (e.g., the Computational Imaging Project) at the Computational Imaging Lab!

Getting a Topic

You can contact any member of the lab about potential thesis or project topics. Please send us your current transcript of records and specify your research interests and relevant prior experience (especially in MRI) when contacting a member of the lab. In general, for most topics we expect students to have completed the course Computational MRI (lecture and exercise) before starting a project or a thesis, because this course teaches the necessary skills to work on a topic that is connected to our research.

Registration

The thesis has to be registered in the examinations office. This should be done soon after you have started working on your topic. For students of Medical Engineering, please review the [homepage of the study program] for the latest version of the registration form and fill it together with your supervisor. Students of other study programs coordinate directly with their supervisor regarding the registration procedure.

Presentation

The results of your thesis should be presented in a 30-minute final presentation in the MRI colloquium. This presentation should be given 2-4 weeks before your deadline. This gives you the chance to include additional aspects from the discussion in your thesis. If your deadline is during the semester break, your final presentation can also be given afterwards, as the MRI colloquium only takes place during the lecture period. Please discuss the date of your presentation with your supervisor as early as possible to make sure that your favored date is still available. The contribution of the presentation to your final grade depends on your study program.

Lab Meetings

The CIL staff team meets every week for a lab meeting. After certain milestones in your project or thesis, your supervisor will encourage you to join the meeting to give a short presentation (≈15 min) to all lab members.

MRI Colloquium

The MRI colloquium is hosted together with other labs working on MRI and takes place on Thursdays at 11am during the lecture period. We encourage you to attend the colloquium regularly.

Code

All of your code is required to be archived in a Git repository in our group on the [GitLab server of the RRZE]. Your supervisor will create a repository for you and invite you to it. We recommend to get familiar with Git as early as possible and to use it right from the beginning of your implementation work. Please find more information about the GitLab server [here]. Access to the GitLab server needs to be requested via the [IdM-Portal]. Note that Git is intended for text-based files (i.e., source code), and not for large files like PDFs or images. For this reason, projects on [gitlab.rrze.fau.de] have a quota of 2GB.

Language

The common language at the lab is English. Hence, all oral presentations should be given in English. Master’s theses should be written in English. Bachelor’s theses may be written in German, if your supervisor agrees. However, we highly recommend to write it in English as well.

Writing your Thesis / Project Report

The thesis or report needs to be written with LaTeX using the CIL thesis [template]. Your thesis should follow the common structure of scientific documents. Please also consider style, syntax, grammar, and punctuation as this highly influences the readability of your thesis and will also be taken into account for your grade. Please also refer to the guidelines of the Pattern Recognition Lab [PR Thesis Guidelines] when preparing your thesis.

Submission