Surgical planning and navigation for foetal surgery
Prof. Miguel A. González Ballester
BCN Medtech, Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra & ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
DEIB - Alario Seminar Room (building 21)
December 5th, 2019
4.00 pm
Contacts:
Monica Soncini
Raffaele Dellacà
Research Lines:
Biological and Biomechanical Engineering
Technologies for diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation
BCN Medtech, Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra & ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
DEIB - Alario Seminar Room (building 21)
December 5th, 2019
4.00 pm
Contacts:
Monica Soncini
Raffaele Dellacà
Research Lines:
Biological and Biomechanical Engineering
Technologies for diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation
Sommario
This talk will present some of the work of the BCN Medtech team at UPF in Barcelona, focusing on surgical planning and navigation. Particularly, we will focus on recent work on foetal surgery, including multimodal image fusion, segmentation using different deep learning architectures, surgical simulation, and integration in the operating room including navigation of the surgical tools.
Biografia
Prof. Miguel A. González Ballester holds a computer science degree from Universitat Jaume I, Spain (1996) and a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford, UK (2000). His doctorate, under supervision of Sir Michael Brady and Prof. Andrew Zisserman, focused on the analysis of brain MRI data for multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia. He was awarded the prestigious Toshiba Research Fellowship and moved to Japan to work for two years as a senior researcher at Toshiba Medical Systems, where he developed novel, patented systems for MRI parallel imaging. In late 2001 he obtained a faculty position at INRIA (Sophia Antipolis, France), where he led research projects on medical image analysis and mathematical modelling. In 2004 he joined the University of Bern (Switzerland), as head of the medical image analysis group, and later became head of the surgical technology division at the Faculty of Medicine. There, he supervised a division composed of 4 research groups (40+ staff) working on medical image analysis, computer-assisted surgery (mainly for orthopaedics and CMF surgery), and surgical robotics and mechatronics. From 2008 until September 2013 he was in charge of the Research Department of the company Alma IT Systems in Barcelona (Spain), where he led the development of a new generation of computer tools for diagnosis and surgical planning. In October 2013 he was awarded an ICREA Senior Research Professorship, and joined the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he leads the Barcelona Center for New Medical Technologies (BCN Medtech). He has more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conferences, and supervised 20 PhD theses. He is a regular contributor to scientific committees and journal review boards (IEEE TMI, IEEE TBME…), and member of the programme committee of conferences (MICCAI, CARS, ISBI…).