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Computer-Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Laboratory

School of Engineering and Computer Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Student projects

Dental morphology

Retinal mosaicing

CT/MRI registration

Projects

• Intensity-based registration of X-ray images to CT data
  Dotan Knaan, 2002-2003 (MSc Thesis).
• Segmentation of X-ray mammography images
  Moti Melloul, 2000-2001 (MSc Thesis).
• Computer-based periaxial rotation measurement for aligning fractured femur fragments
  Ofer Ron, 2000-2001.
• Generation of Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs from CT data
  Drora Tsederboim, 2000-2001.
• Interactive live-wire segmentation for 2D medical images
  Ofer Hadassi, 2000.
• Computer aided dentistry -- state of the art survey
  Roi Fuchs, (Faculty of Medicine), 2000.
• Retinal image mosaicing and registration
  Tali Rodrig and Yoav Ben-Dor, 1999.
• A toolkit for comparative dental morphology
  Ram Shacked, 1998.
• Registration of medical images using Java and VRML
  Ofri Sadowski, 1998.

Theses topics for graduate students

• Navigation system for orthopaedic surgery
• Registration of medical images (CT, MRI, X-ray, Ultrasound)
• Nonrigid registration of MRI and 3D ultrasound images
• Fast visualization of volumetric medical data
• Selected topics in computer-assisted orthopaedics

Selected topics for laboratory projects

• Real-time tracking of surgical instruments in the operating room
  The goal of this project is to implement the next generation of accurate real-time tracking of the position and orientation of objects moving in space with a stereo electro-optical camera and active light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The project consists of refining and developing methods for position estimation and accuracy checking for the sophisticated commercial real-time tracking system in the lab, which is part of the computer-assisted surgery system we are developing. The work includes characterizing the accuracy of the system and developing methods to improve it.

• Design and implementation of a user interface for the operating room
  The goal of this project is to design and implement a user interface that will help the the surgeon use with ease the FRACAS system to plan and execute the surgery. The project consists of understanding the requirements of the surgery, determining a work-flow protocol, and implementing a user interface that ties together the different technical capabilities of the FRACAS system, which include image processing, 3D model construction, and real-time tracking. The project is ideally suited for those who want a general, integrative view of a computer-aided surgery system.