24/11/2020: GS. Theo van Walsum (Erasmus MC, Netherlands), Image guidance in interventions and therapy
Minimally invasive interventions are beneficial for patients, but come at
the expense of the physician: tactile and visual feedback is often limited.
Traditionally, navigation systems have been used to assist physicians in
(minimally invasive) interventions. Such systems are not applicable in
minimally invasive interventions in soft tissue. At the BIGR group, we have
been developing and assessing multimodal image guided navigation approaches
for minimally invasive interventions in soft tissue. In the presentation,
we will detail and discuss some of these approaches, e.g. for TACE, PCI,
TIPS and RFA. In addition, we will discuss current developments and the
impact of deep learning on the developments in this field.
Speaker: GS. Theo van Walsum, Erasmus MC
Time: 15:30, Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Venue: E3-212, 144 Xuan Thuy, Cau Giay, Hanoi
Theo van Walsum graduated in Informatics (Computer Science) at the Delft University of Technology in 1990. In 1995 he received his PhD at Scientific Visualization Group of Delft University of Technology. Subject of his thesis was flow visualization on curvilinear grids. From June 1995 to May 1996, he was a research fellow at the Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Image Processing (LKEB), at the University Hospital Leiden, where he worked on visualization of MRI and MRA data. From June 1996 to January 2005, he worked as a Postdoc at the Image Sciences Institute at the UMC Utrecht, on simulation and visualization for endovascular treatment of AAA, the image processing software environment, catheter tracking for image guidance and image guidance using 3D Rotational X-Ray imaging. Since 2005, he is heading the “Image Guidance in Interventions” theme group at the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam. His interests are medical imaging, image guidance and navigation, visualization and software engineering.