ESRs /PhDs
ESR 1: Andrea Teatini
ESR at IVC, Oslo University Hospital, in the project Navigation and Stereo-camera laparoscopic registration to pre-operative CT/MRI and intra-operative US.
Education: Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico of Milan and Masters with specialization in Biomechatronics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Nationality: Italy
ESR 2: Pravda Jith Ray Prasad
ESR at IVC, Oslo University Hospital, in the project Automatic Feature Extraction and Segmentation of Liver Using the Combination of DeepLearning and Traditional Methods.
Education: BTech and MTech in Computer Science, from Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT), India.
Nationality: India
ESR 3 Egidijus Pelanis
ESR at IVC, Oslo University Hospital, in the project: Clinical assessment and validation of navigation system during laparoscopic liver interventions.
Education: Medical Doctor (MD) diploma, Vilnius University Hospital, Lithuania.
Nationality: Sweden
ESR 4: Nitin Satpute
ESR at UCO, in the project: GPU acceleration for enhancement and denoising of pre-operative and intra-operative images
Education: BE in Electronics & Telecommunication from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, India, ME in Embedded Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
Nationality: India
ESR 5: Orestis Zachariadis
ESR at UCO, in the project Heterogeneous parallel computing for image registration algorithms
Education: MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Nationality: Greece
ESR 6: Rabia Naseem
ESR at NTNU in the project: Cross-modality guided image enhancement
Education: BSc (Honours) in Software Engineering and MSc in Software Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan.
Nationality: Pakistan
ESR 7: Shanmugapriya Survarachakan
ESR at NTNU in the project: Fast and automatic extraction of liver, vessels and tumor from both pre-operative CT/MR and intra- operative ultrasound in laparoscopic surgery
Education: Masters in Biomedical Computing with professional experience in computer vision & image processing.
Nationality: India
ESR 8: Zohaib Amjad Khan
ESR at UP13 in the project: Multimodal medical image quality assessment
Education: M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, KIT, Germany. Bachelors of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan.
Nationality: Pakistan
ESR 9: Raluca-Maria Sandu
ESR at UNIBE in the project: Quantitative assessment of ablation treatments for liver tumors – image based efficacy analysis and predictive modelling
Education: M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen, GermanyB.Sc. Automatic Control and Applied Informatics Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
Nationality: Romania
ESR 10: Benjamin Peter Eigl
ESR at CAS in the project: Stereotactic, minimally-invasive ablation treatment of pancreatic cancer.
Education: BSc Medical Engineering FH Kärnten and MSc Health Care IT from FH Kärnten, Austria.
Nationality: Austria
ESR 11: Ankit Gupta
ESR at UNIBE in project: Framework for the detection and navigation of surgical tool during the laparoscopic surgery
Education: BTech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Indore and MTech in Medical Imaging and Informatics Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Nationality: India
ESR 12: Jean-Nicolas Brunet
ESR at INRIA in project: Characterization of boundary conditions for biomechanical modeling of liver
Education: B.Sc. Computer sciences University of Montreal and M.Sc.A. Computer engineering from École polytechnique de Montréal (University of Montreal)
Nationality: Canada
ESR 13: Sergei Nikolaev
ESR at INRIA in the project: Identification and characterization of boundary conditions for patient-specific biomechanical simulation.
Education: Master’s Diploma in Software and Administration of Information Systems from Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint-Petersburg State University
Nationality: Russia
ESR 14: Javier Pérez de Frutos
ESR at SINTEF in project: CT–LUS Registration for minimal invasive liver surgery
Education: Industrial Engineering Degree, ETS Ingenieros Industriales from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, and MSc Automation and Robotics, ETS Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Nationality: Spain
ESR 15: Maryam Gholinejad
ESR at TUD in project: User interaction and workflow analysis in minimally invasive liver surgery
Education: Computer Engineering Degree. BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering from Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Nationality: Iran
ESR 16: Chun-Feng Lai
ESR at TUD in project: Workflow Sensing & Recording in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Education: BSc in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Nationality: Taiwan