Research

 

Publications

Computational Research Topics

  1. -medical image analysis

  2. -multi-modal 2D/3D image registration and tracking

  3. -automatic and interactive 2D & 3D medical image segmentation

  4. -shape reconstruction from colour stereo endoscopic video

  5. -shape correspondence and matching

  6. -measurement and visualization of uncertainty

M. Nosrati, A. Amir-Khalili, J-M Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, O. Al-Alao, A. Al-Ansari, R. Abugharbieh, G. Hamarneh. Endoscopic Scene Labelling and Augmentation using Intraoperative Pulsatile Motion and Colour Appearance Cues with Preoperative Anatomical Priors. The International Journal for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS), 2015 [PDF].



A. Amir-Khalili, G. Hamarneh, R. Abugharbieh. Automatic Vessel Segmentation from Pulsatile Radial Motion. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Munich, Germany, Oct 2015 [PDF ,YouTube].



M. Nosrati, R. Abugharbieh, J-M Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, O. Al-Alao, A. Al-Ansari, G. Hamarneh. Simultaneous Multi-Structure Segmentation and 3D Non-Rigid Pose Estimation in Image-Guided Robotic Surgery. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE TMI), 2015 [PDF].



A. Amir-Khalili, G. Hamarneh, J-M Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, O. Al-Alao, A. Al-Ansari, R. Abugharbieh. Automatic Segmentation of Occluded Vasculature via Pulsatile Motion Analysis in Endoscopic Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy Video. Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) (special issue on the 2014 Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI), 2015 [PDF].



A. Amir-Khalili, J-M Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, O. Al-Alao, A. Al-Ansari, G. Hamarneh, R. Abugharbieh. Auto Localization and Segmentation of Occluded Vessels in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Boston, USA, Sep 2014 [PDF ,YouTube].



J. Kawahara, J-M Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, O. Al-Alao, A. Al-Ansari, R. Abugharbieh, G. Hamarneh. Automatic Labelling of Tumourous vs Tumour-Free Frames in Free-Hand Laparoscopic Ultrasound Video. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Boston, USA, Sep 2014 [PDF].



M. Nosrati, J-M Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, O. Al-Alao, A. Al-Ansari, R. Abugharbieh, G. Hamarneh. Efficient Multi-Organ Segmentation in Multi-View Endoscopic Videos using Pre-Op Priors. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Boston, USA, Sep 2014 [PDF].



G. Hamarneh, A. Amir-Khalili, M. Nosrati, I. Figueroa, J. Kawahara, O. Al-Alao, J-M. Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, A. Al-Ansari, R. Abugharbieh. Towards Multi-Modal Image-Guided Tumour Identification in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy. IEEE Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering (IEEE MECBME), Doha, Qatar, Feb 2014 [PDF|slides].



I. Figueroa, J-M. Peyrat, G. Hamarneh, R. Abugharbieh. Biomechanical Kidney Model for Predicting Tumor Displacement in the Presence of External Pressure Load. In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (IEEE ISBI), Beijing - China, Apr 2014 [PDF]



F. Islam, A. Amir-Khalili, J-M. Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, A. Al-Ansari, R. Abugharbieh. Real-Time GPU Implementation of Correlation-Based Dense Matching of Stereo Endoscopic Images for Surface Reconstruction. The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (QF-ARC), Doha - Qatar, Nov 2013 [PDF]



A. Amir-Khalili, G. Younes, J-M. Peyrat, J. Abi-Nahed, G. Turkiyyah, R. Abugharbieh. Patient-Specific Geometry and Texture of Tissue Models for Surgical Simulations. The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (QF-ARC), Doha - Qatar, Nov 2013 [PDF]



G. Hamarneh, A. Amir-Khalili, M. Nosrati, I. Figueroa, O. Al-Alao, A. Al-Ansari, J. Abi-Nahed, J-M. Peyrat, R. Abugharbieh. Towards Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery for Partial Nephrectomy. The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (QF-ARC), Doha - Qatar, Nov 2013 [PDF|slides]


A. Amir-Khalili, J-M. Peyrat, G. Hamarneh, R. Abugharbieh. 3D Surface Reconstruction of Organs using Patient-Specific Shape Priors in Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery. MICCAI workshop on Computational and Clinical Applications in Abdominal Imaging (ABDI), Nagoya - Japan, Sep 2013, pp. 184-193 [PDF|slides]



A. Amir-Khalili, M. Nosrati, J-M. Peyrat, G. Hamarneh, R. Abugharbieh. Uncertainty-Encoded Augmented Reality for Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: A Phantom Study. MICCAI workshop on Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality (MIAR), Nagoya - Japan, Sep 2013, pp. 182-191 [PDF|slides]



S. Bernhardt, J. Abi-Nahed, R. Abugharbieh. Robust Dense Endoscopic Stereo Reconstruction for Minimally Invasive Surgery. MICCAI workshop on Medical Computer Vision (MCV), Nice - France, Oct 2012, pp. 198-207 [PDF|slides]