Publications
"3D Ultrasound to Stereoscopic Camera Registration through an Air-Tissue Boundary",
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), vol. 6362, Beijing, China, pp. pp. 626-634, September, 2010.
"High frame rate 2D wave imaging on conventional ultrasound using sector subdivision, delay compensation and angular compounding",
Proc. of 9th International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Snowbird, Utah, pp. 111, October, 2010.
"A Curl-Based Approach to Ultrasound Elastography",
Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, BC, November 2010.
"Automatically-optimized local phase features of ultrasound images: first clinical study",
the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery, Paris, France, pp. 257 - 260, June 2010.
"Registration of ultrasound to CT angiography of kidneys: a porcine phantom study",
SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, CA, pp. 762518-1-8, February 2010.
"Automatic detection of lumbar anatomy in ultrasound images of human subject",
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 57, issue 9, pp. 2248-2256, 2010.
"Automatic detection of the ligamentum flavum on ultrasound images of the lumbar spine",
Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology 42nd Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2010.
"A High Frame Rate Ultrasound System for the Study of Tissue Motions",
IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 57, issue 7, pp. 1535-1547, 2010.
"Ligamentum flavum detection in ultrasound of porcine thoracic spine",
Canadian Anesthesiologist’s Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, pp. S48, 2010.
"Adaptive ultrasound imaging of the lumbar spine for guidance of epidural anesthesia",
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 593-601, 2009.
"Automatic measurement of human subcutaneous fat with ultrasound",
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 1642-1653, 2009.
"Bone Surface Localization in Ultrasound Using Image Phase-Based Features",
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1475-1487, 2009.
"The influence of the boundary conditions on longitudinal wave propagation in a viscoelastic medium",
Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 54, no. 13, pp. 3997-4017, 2009.
"Instrumentation of the loss-of-resistance technique for epidural needle insertion",
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 820-827, 2009.
"Measurement of viscoelastic properties of tissue-mimicking material using longitudinal wave excitation",
IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1405-1418, 2009.
"Preinsertion paramedian ultrasound guidance for epidural anesthesia",
Anesthesia and Analgesia, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 661-667, 2009.
"Single-operator real-time ultrasound-guidance to aim and insert a lumbar epidural needle",
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, pp. 1-9, 2009.
"Theoretical limitations of the elastic wave equation inversion for tissue elastography",
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 126, no. 3, pp. 1541-1551, 2009.
"Adaptive spatial compounding for ocular imaging",
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Rome, Italy, September 2009.
"The effects of the boundary conditions and shape of excitation on the phase speed and inverse problems",
8th International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Vlissingen, Netherlands, pp. 63, September 2009.
"Filtering and scan conversion of 3D displacement vectors from a 4D curvilinear transducer",
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Rome, Italy, September 2009.
"A high-frame rate ultrasound system for the study of tissue motions",
International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Vlissingen, Netherlands, pp. 76, September 2009.
"Improved 2D motion tracking for elastography using dual transducers",
International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Vlissingen, Netherlands, pp. 77, September 2009.
"Iterative reconstruction of tissue elasticity and viscosity using finite elements",
International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Vlissingen, Netherlands, pp. 110, September 2009.
"Live estimation and visualization of 4D×3D ultrasound motion vectors",
International Conference on the Ultrasonic Measurement and Imaging of Tissue Elasticity, Vlissingen, Netherlands, pp. 90, September 2009.
