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  • 2019 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to ultrasound for medical diagnosis and intervention

Overview

Robert Rohling is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has an extensive publication record primarily in medicine and engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields including biomedical engineering, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, as well as mechanics of materials.

The scientist's main research topics cover:

  • Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
  • Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
  • Renal and Vascular Pathologies
  • Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Medical Imaging and Analysis

Rohling's frequent coauthors include:

  • Septimiu E. Salcudean (26 joint publications)
  • Shahed K. Mohammed (12 joint publications)
  • Purang Abolmaesumi (11 joint publications)
  • Victoria A. Lessoway (11 joint publications)
  • Qi Zeng (10 joint publications)

They have contributed notably to several publication venues, with multiple publications in each, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) - 12 publications
  • International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery - 4 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging - 4 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control - 4 publications
  • 2022 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) - 4 publications

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Rohling are:

  • Enhancement of needle visualization and localization in ultrasound, 2020, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Kidney Ultrasound for Nephrologists: A Review, 2022, Kidney Medicine
  • Cardiac point-of-care to cart-based ultrasound translation using constrained CycleGAN, 2020, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
  • Three-Dimensional Multi-Frequency Shear Wave Absolute Vibro-Elastography (3D S-WAVE) With a Matrix Array Transducer: Implementation and Preliminary In Vivo Study of the Liver, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • Automated estimation of echocardiogram image quality in hospitalized patients, 2020, International Journal of Cardiac Imaging

Rohling has been recognized with the IEEE Fellow award in 2019 for contributions to ultrasound for medical diagnosis and intervention.

Best Publications

  • Rapid calibration for 3-D freehand ultrasound

    R.W. Prager;R.N. Rohling;A.H. Gee;L. Berman

  • Hand-held steerable needle device

    S. Okazawa;R. Ebrahimi;J. Chuang;S.E. Salcudean

  • A comparison of freehand three-dimensional ultrasound reconstruction techniques.

    Robert Rohling;Andrew H. Gee;Laurence H. Berman

  • Hand-Held Steerable Needle Device

    Richelle Ebrahimi;Stephen H. Okazawa;Robert Rohling;Septimiu E. Salcudean

  • Three-dimensional spatial compounding of ultrasound images.

    Robert Rohling;Andrew H. Gee;Laurence H. Berman

  • Lumbar Spine Segmentation Using a Statistical Multi-Vertebrae Anatomical Shape+Pose Model

    Abtin Rasoulian;Robert Rohling;Purang Abolmaesumi

  • Automatic registration of 3-D ultrasound images

    R.N. Rohling;A.H. Gee;L. Berman

  • Bone surface localization in ultrasound using image phase-based features.

    Ilker Hacihaliloglu;Rafeef Abugharbieh;Antony J. Hodgson;Robert N. Rohling

  • Correction to “Automatic Quality Assessment of Echocardiograms Using Convolutional Neural Networks: Feasibility on the Apical Four-Chamber View”

    Amir H. Abdi;Christina Luong;Teresa Tsang;Gregory Allan

  • Methods for segmenting curved needles in ultrasound images.

    Stephen H. Okazawa;Richelle Ebrahimi;Jason Chuang;Robert N. Rohling

  • Comparison of relative accuracy between a mechanical and an optical position tracker for image-guided neurosurgery.

    Robert Rohling;Patrice Munger;John M. Hollerbach;Terry Peters

  • Single-operator real-time ultrasound-guidance to aim and insert a lumbar epidural needle

    Denis Tran;Allaudin A. Kamani;Elias Al-Attas;Victoria A. Lessoway

  • Enhancement of needle visibility in ultrasound-guided percutaneous procedures.

    Stephanie Cheung;Robert Rohling

  • Ultrasound RF Time Series for Classification of Breast Lesions

    Nishant Uniyal;Hani Eskandari;Purang Abolmaesumi;Samira Sojoudi

  • SLIDE: automatic spine level identification system using a deep convolutional neural network.

    Jorden Hetherington;Victoria A. Lessoway;Vit Gunka;Purang Abolmaesumi

  • Fast Automatic Vertebrae Detection and Localization in Pathological CT Scans - A Deep Learning Approach

    Amin Suzani;Alexander Seitel;Yuan Liu;Sidney S. Fels

  • Adaptive Augmentation of Medical Data Using Independently Conditional Variational Auto-Encoders

    Mehran Pesteie;Purang Abolmaesumi;Robert N. Rohling

  • Tissue Tracking and Registration for Image-Guided Surgery

    Michael C. Yip;David G. Lowe;Septimiu E. Salcudean;Robert N. Rohling

  • Cardiac Phase Detection in Echocardiograms With Densely Gated Recurrent Neural Networks and Global Extrema Loss

    Fatemeh Taheri Dezaki;Zhibin Liao;Christina Luong;Hany Girgis

  • Group-Wise Registration of Point Sets for Statistical Shape Models

    Abtin Rasoulian;Robert Rohling;Purang Abolmaesumi

  • Fabrication and testing of polymer-based capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers for medical imaging

    Carlos D. Gerardo;Edmond Cretu;Robert Rohling

  • Bone Segmentation and Fracture Detection in Ultrasound Using 3D Local Phase Features

    Ilker Hacihaliloglu;Rafeef Abugharbieh;Antony Hodgson;Robert Rohling

  • Comparison of calibration methods for spatial tracking of a 3-D ultrasound probe

    Tony C. Poon;Robert N. Rohling

Frequent Co-Authors

Purang Abolmaesumi
Purang Abolmaesumi University of British Columbia
Septimiu E. Salcudean
Septimiu E. Salcudean University of British Columbia
Andrew H. Gee
Andrew H. Gee University of Cambridge
John M. Hollerbach
John M. Hollerbach University of Utah
Lutz Lampe
Lutz Lampe University of British Columbia
Gabor Fichtinger
Gabor Fichtinger Queen's University
Peter D. Lawrence
Peter D. Lawrence University of British Columbia
Sidney Fels
Sidney Fels University of British Columbia
Richard W. Prager
Richard W. Prager University of Cambridge
Dinesh K. Pai
Dinesh K. Pai University of British Columbia

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