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I directed the Computer Assisted Surgery and Therapy laboratory in the Rutgers University, which focuses on development of ultrasound-based image guided surgery and therapy systems. Specifically we are aiming to: - Improve surgical accuracy and functional outcome - Reduce costs (Surgical, Therapy, Hospitalization) - Promote new technology in image guided surgery and therapy -Provide innovative technological solutions for understanding, treatment and monitoring of disease. All our projects involved algorithm development, extensive engineering validation, animal-cadaver-human validation studies. We incorporate lessons learned from areas such as medical image analysis, machine learning, deep learning, medical device development and surgical systems interfaces (robotics, tracking devices, user interface design, clinical system investigation and validation). Our group actively collaborates with industry and clinicians (surgeons, radiologist).

• Developing new methods for feature enhancement from ultrasound images using compressed sampling. These extracted features would provide important information for image guided applications such as orthopaedics (spine, femur, pelvis), biopsy (needle insertion), brachytherapy (seed detection) • Developing sparse recovery techniques for fast ultrasound image acquisition and image enhancement. Specifically for this project I am interested in the application of ultrasound imaging for soft tissue interventions such as prostate, liver, kidney, soft tissue sarcomas. • Working on the integration of ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) and marker based motion analysis, which will permit the development of patient-specific biomechanical models of hip anatomy and function to be used to better plan surgical procedures. Specifically I am interested in femoro-acetabular impingement (FAI) surgeries. • Developing fast, real-time, multi-modal image registration method for image guided surgery applications. • Conducting a clinical study at the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH, Vancouver, BC, Canada) where three dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging modality is used for the first time for fracture assessment in the operating room.• Conducting a clinical study at the University of British Columbia Hospital (UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada) where three dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging modality is used for the assessment of impingements of the femur. • Developing new image processing approaches for accurate and automatic extraction of bone surfaces from 3D ultrasound images to characterize the infant hip in developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). Conducting clinical studies at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital (Vancouver, BC, Canada) to validate the developed method.• Developing new and robust image processing methods that allow automatic and fast registration of bone surfaces of spine extracted from freehand ultrasound scans.• Supervision of M.Sc. students.

Taught the laboratory section for the undergraduate APSC 160 Introduction to Computation in Engineering Design course (240 hours per year). Designed laboratory demonstrations to illustrate course concepts. Had weekly office hours to advice students. Graded report and laboratory exams.

-PhD work was about the design, realization, and evaluation of a three dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) based minimally invasive computer assisted orthopaedic surgery (CAOS) system for bone fracture assessment in emergency departments and bone fracture reduction assessment during orthopaedic surgery.-Developed a new fully automatic, fast and accurate segmentation method for segmenting bone surfaces from 3D Ultrasound data.-Worked as an engineer in the operating room under the leadership of a surgeon.- Gained in-depth knowledge of medical imaging systems including MRI, fMRI, computed tomography and ultrasound gained through teaching and research.- Wrote protocols and ethics applications for biomedical research studies.-Gained experience with the process of making phantoms for medical imaging studies.

-Worked on international projects, including topics such as tracking for data acquisition, signal transmission, data archival and storage devices and troubleshooting and maintenance of hardware components, as well as handling various software packages (i.e., GSC, Open2000, SPF-RSAT, SPF-ERS, Swath Planner, SPM, PCI Geomatica), operating systems (i.e., Solaris, IRIX) and database systems (i.e., Oracle) for data acquisition planning, product generation, quality assessment and image interpretation.-Worked on image processing methods for oil slick detection and satellite image compression.

Taught the laboratory section for the undergraduate BIL 101 Introduction to Introduction to Computing and Information Systems course (240 hours per year). Duties included tutoring before each lab session, shared administrative responsibilities with faculty instructor, fielding of all student inquiries.