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Computer Science
Canada
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
74
Citations
19550
World Ranking
1514
National Ranking
50

Medicine

D-Index
90
Citations
26378
World Ranking
12319
National Ranking
499

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2017 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to medical Imaging and ultrasound-guided intervention

Overview

Aaron Fenster is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has a research focus in the field of Medicine, with 143 publications contributing to this area. Their work spans several subfields, including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiation. This multidisciplinary approach reflects a broad engagement with medical sciences.

Their research topics include:

  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • AI in cancer detection
  • Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms

Aaron Fenster has co-authored extensively with multiple collaborators. Frequent co-authors include Shuwei Xing, David D'Souza, David Tessier, Ran Zhou, and Douglas A. Hoover, each with more than ten joint publications.

Their research has been published in various scientific journals, with recurrent contributions to:

  • Medical Physics
  • Brachytherapy
  • Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Aaron Fenster are:

  • "Automatic prostate segmentation using deep learning on clinically diverse 3D transrectal ultrasound images" (2020, Medical Physics)
  • "Thanka Mural Inpainting Based on Multi-Scale Adaptive Partial Convolution and Stroke-Like Mask" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing)
  • "Deep Learning-Based Measurement of Total Plaque Area in B-Mode Ultrasound Images" (2021, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics)
  • "A Voxel-Based Fully Convolution Network and Continuous Max-Flow for Carotid Vessel-Wall-Volume Segmentation From 3D Ultrasound Images" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging)
  • "Deep Learning-Based Carotid Plaque Segmentation from B-Mode Ultrasound Images" (2021, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology)

In addition to journal publications, Aaron Fenster has published books, including a title with Frontiers Media: "Precision Medical Imaging for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment" (2023).

Their career includes recognition through professional honors such as being named a Fellow of the SPIE in 2017 and a Fellow of the IEEE in 2013, the latter awarded for contributions to medical imaging and ultrasound-guided intervention.

Best Publications

  • Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging

    Aaron Fenster;Dónal B Downey;H Neale Cardinal

  • Intravenous delivery of a multi-mechanistic cancer-targeted oncolytic poxvirus in humans

    Caroline J. Breitbach;James Burke;Derek Jonker;Derek Jonker;Joe Stephenson

  • 3-D ultrasound imaging: a review

    A. Fenster;D.B. Downey

  • Poly(vinyl alcohol) cryogel phantoms for use in ultrasound and MR imaging

    K J M Surry;H J B Austin;Aaron Fenster;Aaron Fenster;Terry M Peters;Terry M Peters

  • A review of electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs).

    Arthur L. Boyer;Larry Antonuk;Aaron Fenster;Marcel Van Herk

  • Intraoperative ultrasound for guidance and tissue shift correction in image-guided neurosurgery.

    Roch M. Comeau;Abbas F. Sadikot;Aaron Fenster;Terry M. Peters;Terry M. Peters

  • Three-dimensional imaging system

    Aaron Fenster;Shane Dunne;Janpeter T. Larsen

  • 3D Ultrasound Measurement of Change in Carotid Plaque Volume A Tool for Rapid Evaluation of New Therapies

    Craig D. Ainsworth;Christopher C. Blake;Arturo Tamayo;Vadim Beletsky

  • Clinical Utility of Three-dimensional US

    Dónal B. Downey;Aaron Fenster;Jacqueline C. Williams

  • A wall-less vessel phantom for Doppler ultrasound studies

    D.W. Rickey;P.A. Picot;P.A. Picot;D.A. Christopher;D.A. Christopher;A. Fenster

  • Image guided photothermal focal therapy for localized prostate cancer: phase I trial.

    U. Lindner;R.A. Weersink;M.A. Haider;M.R. Gertner

  • A spatial-frequency dependent quantum accounting diagram and detective quantum efficiency model of signal and noise propagation in cascaded imaging systems

    I. A. Cunningham;M. S. Westmore;M. S. Westmore;A. Fenster;A. Fenster

  • Clinical application of a 3D ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy system.

    Shyam Natarajan;Leonard S. Marks;Daniel J.A. Margolis;Jiaoti Huang

  • Dietary Intervention to Reverse Carotid Atherosclerosis

    Iris Shai;J. David Spence;Dan Schwarzfuchs;Yaakov Henkin

  • Robot-assisted 3D-TRUS guided prostate brachytherapy: system integration and validation.

    Zhouping Wei;Gang Wan;Gang Wan;Lori Gardi;Gregory Mills

  • Measurement of Carotid Plaque Volume by 3-Dimensional Ultrasound

    Anthony Landry;J. David Spence;Aaron Fenster

  • X-ray sources of medical linear accelerators: focal and extra-focal radiation.

    D. A. Jaffray;J. J. Battista;A. Fenster;P. Munro

  • Three-Dimensional Sonographic Reconstruction: Techniques and Diagnostic Applications

    Richard N. Rankin;Aaron Fenster;Donal B. Downey;Peter L. Munk

  • Prostate boundary segmentation from 2D ultrasound images

    Hanif M. Ladak;Fei Mao;Yunqiu Wang;Dónal B. Downey;Dónal B. Downey;Dónal B. Downey

  • Prostate volume contouring: A 3D analysis of segmentation using 3DTRUS, CT, and MR

    Wendy L. Smith;Craig Lewis;Glenn Bauman;George Rodrigues

  • A three-dimensional ultrasound prostate imaging system

    S. Tong;D.B. Downey;H.N. Cardinal;H.N. Cardinal;A. Fenster;A. Fenster

Frequent Co-Authors

J. David Spence
J. David Spence University of Western Ontario
Martin Rajchl
Martin Rajchl Imperial College London
Terry M. Peters
Terry M. Peters University of Western Ontario
Purang Abolmaesumi
Purang Abolmaesumi University of British Columbia
Martin J. Yaffe
Martin J. Yaffe University of Toronto
David A. Jaffray
David A. Jaffray The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Robert A. Hegele
Robert A. Hegele University of Western Ontario
John Trachtenberg
John Trachtenberg University of Toronto
David A. Steinman
David A. Steinman University of Toronto
Magdy M. A. Salama
Magdy M. A. Salama University of Waterloo

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