Siavash Khallaghi


Saman

Currently working at Clarius
PhD - November 2015
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia

Robotics and Control Lab

Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
5500 - 2332 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Canada

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Journal articles
  • Siavash Khallaghi, C. Antonio Sánchez, Abtin Rasoulian, Saman Nouranian, Cesare Romagnoli, Hamidreza Abdi, Silvia Chang, Peter Black, Larry Goldenberg, William Morris, Ingrid Spadinger, Aaron Fenster, Aaron Ward, Sidney Fels and Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Statistical Biomechanical Surface Registration: Application to MR-TRUS Fusion for Prostate Interventions'', IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 34(12):2535-2549, 2015.
  • Siavash Khallaghi, C. Antonio Sánchez, Abtin Rasoulian, Yue Sun, Farhad Imani, Amir Khojaste Galesh Khale, Orcun Goksel, Cesare Romagnoli, Hamidreza Abdi, Silvia Chang, Parvin Mousavi, Aaron Fenster, Aaron Ward, Sidney Fels and Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Biomechanically Constrained Surface Registration: Application to MR-TRUS Fusion for Prostate Interventions'', IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 34(11):2404-2414, 2015.
  • Andriy Fedorov, Siavash Khallaghi, C. Antonio Sánchez, Andras Lasso, Sidney Fels, Kemal Tuncali, Emily Neubauer Sugar, Tina Kapur, Chenxi Zhang, William Wells, Paul Nguyen, Purang Abolmaesumi, Clare Tempany, ``Open-source image registration for MRI-TRUS fusion guided prostate interventions'', International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 10(6):925-934, 2015.
  • H Al-Deen Ashab, Victoria A Lessoway, Siavash Khallaghi, Alexis Cheng, Robert Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``An augmented reality system for epidural anesthesia (AREA): Prepuncture identification of vertebrae'', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 60(9):2636-2644, 2013.
  • Siavash Khallaghi, Corina GM Leung, Keyvan Hastrudi-Zaad, Pezhman Foroughi, Chris Nguan, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Experimental validation of an intrasubject elastic registration algorithm for dynamic-3D ultrasound images'', Medical Physics, 39(9):5488-5497, 2012.
Conference Proceedings
  • Farhad Imani, Purang Abolmaesumi, Sahar Ghavidel, Siavash Khallaghi, Eli Gibson, Amir Khojaste, Mena Gaed, Madeline Moussa, José A Gomez, Cesar Romagnoli, Derek W. Cool, Mathew Bastian Jordan, Zahra Kassam, Robert Siemens, Michael Leveridge, Silvia Chang, Aaron Fenster, Aaron D. Ward and Parvin Mousavi, ``Fusion of multi-parametric MRI and temporal ultrasound for characterization of prostate cancer: in vivo feasibility study'', SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, USA, 2016.
  • Sahar Ghavidel, Farhad Imani, Purang Abolmaesumi, Siavash Khallaghi, Eli Gibson, Amir Khojaste, Mena Gaed, Madeline Moussa, José A Gomez, Robert Siemens, Michael Leveridge, Silvia Chang, Aaron Fenster, Aaron D. Ward and Parvin Mousavi, ``Classification of prostate cancer grade using temporal ultrasound: in vivo feasibility study'', SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, USA, 2016.
  • Siavash Khallaghi, C. Antonio Sánchez Saman Nouranian, Samira Sojoudi , Silvia Chang, Hamidreza Abdi, Lindsay Machan, Alison Harris, Peter Black, Martin Gleave, Larry Goldenberg, S. Sidney Fels, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``A 2D-3D Registration Framework for Freehand TRUS-Guided Prostate Biopsy'', MICCAI, Münich, Germany, 2015.
  • Siavash Khallaghi, Saman Nouranian, Samira Sojoudi, Hussam A Ashab, Lindsay Machan, Silvia Chang, Peter Black, Martin Gleave, Larry Goldenberg, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Motion and deformation compensation for freehand prostate biopsies'', SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego, USA, 2014.
  • Narges Afsham, Siavash Khallaghi, Mohammad Najafi, Lindsay Machan, Silvia D Chang, Larry Goldenberg, Peter Black, Robert Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Filter-Based Speckle Tracking for Freehand Prostate Biopsy: Theory, ex vivo and in vivo Results'', IPCAI, Fukuoka, Japan, 2014.
  • H Al-Deen Ashab, Victoria A Lessoway, Siavash Khallaghi, Alexis Cheng, Robert Rohling, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``An augmented reality system for epidural anesthesia (AREA)'', EMBC, San Diego, USA, 2012.
  • Siavash Khallaghi, Parvin Mousavi, Dan Borschneck, Gabor Fichtinger, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Biomechanically constrained groupwise statistical shape model to ultrasound registration of the lumbar spine'', IPCAI, Berlin, 2011.
  • Siavash Khallaghi, Purang Abolmaesumi, Ren Hui Gong, Elvis Chen, Sean Gill, Jonathan Boisvert, David Pichora, Dan Borschneck, Gabor Fichtinger, Parvin Mousavi, ``GPU accelerated registration of a statistical shape model of the lumbar spine to 3D ultrasound images'', SPIE Medical Imaging, Orlando, USA, 2011.
  • Siavash Khallaghi, Parvin Mousavi, Ren Hui Gong, Sean Gill, Jonathan Boisvert, Gabor Fichtinger, David Pichora, Dan Borschneck, Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Registration of a statistical shape model of the lumbar spine to 3D ultrasound images'', MICCAI, Beijing, China, 2011.
Conference Abstracts
  • Siavash Khallaghi, Arthur Schiro, Hani Eskandari, Saman Nouranian, Samira Sojoudi, Septimiu Salcudean and Purang Abolmaesumi, ``Motion and deformation compensation for freehand prostate biopsies'', 6th Lorne D. Sullivan Luctureship and Research Day, Vancouver, Canada, 2012.
Projects
Biomechanical Surface Registration
 
Dynamic Registration

Dynamic-3D Ultrasound Registration

A feature-based registration method for the registration of 3D-US sequences.
 
SSM Registration

Model to Ultrasound Registration of Lumbar Spine

Simulation-based registration of statistical shape models for lower back pain management.
 
Prostate Biopsy Guidance

3D Guidance for Freehand Prostate Biopsies

Intensity-based solutions for freehand prostate biopsies.
 
Invited Talks
Point Cloud Registration

UBC October 2016: Point Cloud Registration

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