Publications
Uncertainty estimation for margin detection in cancer surgery using mass spectrometry.
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery.
(2022). Ultrasound-guided Characterization of Interstitial Ablated Tissue Using RF Time Series: Feasibility Study..
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering.
Imani2013.pdf (844.77 KB)
(2013). 
Spinal Needle Navigation by Tracked Ultrasound Snapshots.
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 59, 2766-2772.
Ungi2012b.pdf (710.47 KB)
(2012). 
Spinal curvature measurement by tracked ultrasound snapshots.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 40(2), 447-54.
Ungi_2014a-manuscript.pdf (1.61 MB)
(2014). 
Real-time automatic tumor segmentation for ultrasound-guided breast-conserving surgery navigation.
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery.
(In Press). Navigated tissue characterization during skin cancer surgery.
Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg.
(In Press). Computerized training system for ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture on abnormal spine models: a randomized controlled trial.
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. 62, 777-784.
Keri2015a.pdf (1.65 MB)
(2015).
(2021).
(2022). 
Visualization of scoliotic spine using ultrasound-accessible skeletal landmarks.
SPIE Medical Imaging 2017.
Church2017a.pdf (814.95 KB)
(2017). 
Tissue characterization using multiscale products of wavelet transform of ultrasound radio frequency echoes.
Proc. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBC 2009. 479–482.
Aboofazeli2009.pdf (278.33 KB)
(2009). 
A System for Performance Analysis of Surgeon Dexterity in Percutaneous Needle-based Interventions.
7th Imaging Symposium of the Imaging Network of Ontario.
(2008). Step-wise identification of ultrasound-visible anatomical landmarks for 3D visualization of scoliotic spine.
SPIE Medical Imaging 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling. 10951,
Baum2019a.pdf (496 KB)
(2019). 
Simulink libraries for visual programming of VTK and ITK.
Workshop on Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions, held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.
(2008). Registration of a Statistical Shape Model of the Lumbar Spine to 3D Ultrasound Images.
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2010. 68-75.
Khallaghi2010.pdf (240.78 KB)
(2010). 
Phantom validation for ultrasound to statistical shape model registration of human pelvis.
SPIE Medical Imaging. 7964, 79642U.
Ghanavati2011_0.pdf (287.84 KB)
(2011). 
An open-source testbed for developing image-guided robotic tumor-bed inspection.
Imaging Network of Ontario (ImNO) Symposium.
Connolly2022b.pdf (838.81 KB)
(2022). 
An open-source platform for cooperative semi-autonomous robotic surgery.
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems.
(2021). A new scheme for curved needle segmentation in three-dimensional ultrasound images.
Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro ISBI ’09. 1067–1070.
Aboofazeli2009b_1.pdf (350.88 KB)
(2009). 
Multi-Slice to Volume Registration of Ultrasound Data to a Statistical Atlas of Human Pelvis.
SPIE Medical Imaging. 7625, 76250O-1 – 76250O-10.
Manuscript Atlas2USregistrationSPIE2010 Sahar_0.pdf (462.87 KB)
(2010). 
Monitoring of Tissue Ablation Using Time Series of Ultrasound RF data.
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2011). 379-386.
Imani2011.pdf (221.6 KB)
(2011). 
Mechanically-Controlled Spectroscopic Imaging for Tissue Classification.
SPIE Medical Imaging 2019: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling. 10951,
Connolly2019a.pdf (877.7 KB)
(2019). 
Intraoperative Prostate Tracking with Slice-to-Volume Registration in MRI.
20th International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology. 154-158.
Gill2008a.pdf (136.08 KB)
(2008). 
Group-wise Ultrasound to CT Registration of the Lumbar Spine.
7th Symposium of the Imaging Network of Ontario, Toronto. 73.
Gill2008.pdf (214.92 KB)
(2008). 
Group-wise Registration of Ultrasound to CT Images of Human Vertebrae.
SPIE Medical Imaging 2009: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling. 7261, na.
Gill2009.pdf (758.47 KB)
(2009). 