Prof. Purang Abolmaesumi is a Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, and member of ECE’s Robotics and Control Laboratory. The Killam Prize will support his on-going research in computer-assisted surgery, image-guided therapy and medical image analysis. Prof. Abolmaesumi’s work has had a significant impact in several biomedical areas. His contributions to ultrasound image calibration, ultrasound-guided interventions, cancer diagnosis and treatment, image segmentation and image registration are used globally at leading research institutions. As some of these techniques are commercialized and others become the “standard of care” for planning cancer treatment procedures in B.C., thousands of cancer patients are directly benefiting from his technological advances.
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UBC computer engineer amoung UBC’s research stars