Abtin Rasoulian

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Honors and Awards

2nd place for the Reviewer's Best Paper award International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), June 2014.
Best Paper, International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), June 2013.
Graduate Student Initiative Award, University of British Columbia, May 2013.
Graduate Student Initiative Award , University of British Columbia, May 2012.
The first place prize in the UBC Research Day , Anesthesiology Trainee Category, 2010.

Journal articles

Mahdi Ramezani, Ingrid Johnsrude, Abtin Rasoulian, Rachael Bosma, Ryan Tong, Tom Hollenstein, Kate Harkness, Purang Abolmaesumi, Temporal-lobe morphology differs between healthy adolescents and those with early-onset of depression, Neuroimage: Clinical, 2014.
Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Abtin Rasoulian, Robert Rohling, and Purang Abolmaesumi, Local Phase Tensor Features for 3D Ultrasound to Statistical Shape+ Pose Spine Model Registration, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging , 2014.
Abtin Rasoulian, Robert N. Rohling, and Purang Abolmaesumi, Lumbar Spine Segmentation Using a Statistical Multi-vertebrae Anatomical Shape+Pose Model, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2014.
Abtin Rasoulian, Robert N. Rohling, and Purang Abolmaesumi, Group-wise registration of point sets for statistical shape models. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 13(11):2025-2034, 2012.
Abtin Rasoulian, Purang Abolmaesumi, and Parvin Mousavi, Feature-based multi-body rigid registration of CT and ultrasound images of lumbar spine, Medical Physics, 39(6):3154-3167, 2012.
Abtin Rasoulian, Jens Lohser, Mohammad Najafi, Hedyeh Rafii-Tari, Denis Tran, Allaudin A. Kamani, Victoria A. Lessoway, Purang Abolmaesumi and Robert N. Rohling, "Utility of prepuncture ultrasound for localization of the thoracic epidural space", Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, 58(9):815-823, 2011.

Conference Proceedings

Abtin Rasoulian, Jill Osborn, Samira Sojoudi, Saman Nouranian, Victoria A. Lessoway, Robert N. Rohling, and Purang Abolmaesumi, A System for Ultrasound-guided Spinal Injections: A Feasibility Study, (IPCAI'14), Fukuoka, Japan, 2014.
Simrin Nagpal, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Tamas Ungi, Abtin Rasoulian, Purang Abolmaesumi, Parvin Mousavi, CT to US registration of the lumbar spine: a clinical feasibility study, (IPCAI'14), Fukuoka, Japan, 2014.
Abtin Rasoulian, Robert Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, Automatic labeling and segmentation of vertebrae in CT images, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014.
Mahdi Ramezani, Abtin Rasoulian, Tom Hollenstein, Kate Harkness, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Purang Abolmaesumi, Joint source based analysis of multiple brain structures in studying major depressive disorder, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014.
Emran Mohammad Abu Anas, Abtin Rasoulian, Paul S. John, David R. Pichora, Robert N. Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, A statistical Shape+Pose model for segmentation of wrist CT images, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014.
Amin Suzani, Abtin Rasoulian, Sidney Fels, Robert N. Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, Semi-automatic segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric MR images using a statistical shape+pose model, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014.
Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Abtin Rasoulian, Robert N. Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, Statistical Shape Model to 3D Ultrasound Registration for Spine Interventions Using Enhanced Local Phase Features, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'13), Nagoya, Japan, 2013.
Mahdi Ramezani, Abtin Rasoulian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Tom Hollenstein, Kate Harkness, Purang Abolmaesumi, Independent Component Analysis on Lie groups for Multi-object analysis of First Episode Depression, 38th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'13) , Vancouver, Canada, 2013.
Abtin Rasoulian, Robert Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, Augmentation of Paramedian 3D Ultrasound Images of the Spine, Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI'13), Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
Mahdi Ramezani, Abtin Rasoulian, Purang Abolmaesumi, Tom Hollenstein, Ingrid Johnsrude, Kate Harkness, Multi-Object Statistical Analysis of Late Adolescent Depression, SPIE Medical Imaging, 2013.
Abtin Rasoulian, Robert N. Rohling, and Purang Abolmaesumi, A Statistical Multi-vertebrae Shape+Pose Model for Segmentation of CT Images, SPIE Medical Imaging , 2013.
Abtin Rasoulian,Robert N. Rohling, and Purang Abolmaesumi, Probabilistic registration of an unbiased statistical shape model to ultrasound images of the spine, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, 2012.
Abtin Rasoulian, Parvin Mousavi, Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari, and Purang Abolmaesumi, Group- wise feature-based registration of CT and ultrasound images of spine, SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, 2010.
Vahed Qazvinian and Abtin Rasoulian, Observation on Failure in Blogs, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, (ICWSM07). Boulder, Colorado, USA , March, 2007.
Vahed Qazvinian, Aabtin Rasoulian, and J. Adibi A Large Scale Study on Persian Weblogs, Workshop on Text-Mining & Link-Analysis (TextLink 2007), Hyderabad, India, Jan- uary, 2007.

Conference Abstracts

Abtin Rasoulian, Ali A. Kamani, Purang Abolmaesumi, Robert N. Rohling, Atlas-augmented ultrasound guidance of lumbar epidural needle insertions. Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) 43rd Annual Meeting , Henderson, Nevada, 2011.
Abtin Rasoulian, Purang Abolmaesumi, Robert N. Rohling, Ali A. Kamani, Charles Lo, and Victoria A. Lessoway, Porcine thoracic epidural depth measurement using 3D ultrasound resliced images. Canadian Anesthesiologists Society Annual Meeting , 2011.
Charles Lo, Abtin Rasoulian, Purang Abolmaesumi, Robert N. Rohling, Ali A. Kamani , and Denis Tran, Dual-source ultrasound identification of the lumbar epidural space allows real-time guidance of midline lumbar epidural needle insertion in a porcine model, Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP) 42nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2010.