Faculty
Associate Professor
Purang Abolmaesumi
Purang Abolmaesumi received his BSc (1995) and MSc (1997) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and his PhD (2002) from UBC, all in electrical engineering. From 2002 to 2009, he was a faculty member with the School of Computing, Queen’s University. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, where he is a Canada Research Chair, Tier II, in Biomedical Engineering and an Associate Professor, with Associate Membership to the Department of Urologic Sciences.
Dr. Abolmaesumi is internationally recognized and has received numerous awards for his pioneering developments in ultrasound image processing, image registration and image-guided interventions. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a Board Member of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery – ISCAS, and serves on the Program Committees of the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference and the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions.
Research Areas
Research Groups
Courses
| EECE 375 |
Computer-Based Instrumentation Design Laboratory Theory and practice of electronic instrumentation for software engineers. Computer-based data acquisition and control techniques. Design project. |
| EECE 542 |
Computer-Integrated Surgery Computer-integrated surgery systems such as point-based and intensity-based registration, targeting error estimation, surgical interface design, surgical robotics, and virtual reality, learned through hands-on applications and problems. |
| EECE 474 |
Instrumentation and Design Laboratory Theory and practice of electrical measurements and electronic instrumentation. |
Latest Publications
| In Press |
Biomechanically constrained groupwise ultrasound to CT registration of the lumbar spine Journal Article | Medical Image Analysis |
| 2010 |
2D/3D Registration of Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy: is image preprocessing useful? Conference Proceedings | International Conference of Society for Medical Innovation and Technology |
| 2010 |
Registration between ultrasound and fluoroscopy or CT in prostate brachytherapy Journal Article | Medical Physics |
| 2010 |
Localization of brachytherapy seeds in ultrasound by registration to fluoroscopy Conference Proceedings | SPIE Medical Imaging |
| 2010 |
C-arm tracking by intensity-based registration of a fiducial in prostate brachytherapy Conference Proceedings | Information Processing in Computer Assisted Interventions |
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Contact
Office: KAIS 4052The University of British Columbia
4052 - 2332 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~purang/
