Contact Dr. Bernhard Fuerst email location Johns Hopkins University address Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Hackerman Hall 200 Baltimore, MD 21218 United States profiles ResearchGate LinkedIn skype Research My Ph.D. Advisor is Prof. Nassir Navab. Fields of Interest Multimodal Image Registration (MR/US) Biomechanical Simulation Non-Fluoroscopic Tracking of Medical Devices Student Projects Active Master Thesis Ashkan Khakzar TBD Master Thesis Alexander Barthel TBD 2016 Master Thesis Sing Chun Lee Integration of RGBD Camera and mobile C-arm - Calibration, Accuracy and Application Master Thesis Alexander Winkler An Application for Head-Mounted-Displays for Paramedic Interventions 2015 Master Thesis Christoph Graumann Robotic Ultrasound Trajectory Planning for Volume of Interest Coverage Master Thesis Felix Bork A Multi-Sensory Augmented Reality Framework for Perceptual Localization in Image-Guided Needle Biopsies Master Thesis Francisco Pinto Interventional Robotic Multi-detector SPECT Reconstruction 2014 Master Thesis Markus Mueller Deformable multi-modal 3D+t ultrasound reconstruction 2013 Master Thesis Santiago Perez Catheter Tracking for Medical Interventions B.Sc. Thesis Alexander Schoch Combining fluorescence and freehand SPECT: A hybrid approach for intraoperative 3D tumor imaging and guided surgery Master Thesis Oliver Zettinig Efficient and Robost Patient-Specific Model of the Heart Function based on MRI Images Master Thesis Felix Achilles Hybrid Tracking for Intra-Operative Imaging: Fusion of optical, magnetic, robotic and radioactive tracking techniques

Publications 2020 J. Fotouhi, T. Song, A. Mehrfard, G. Taylor, Q. Wang, F. Xian, A. Martin-Gomez, B. Fuerst, M. Armand, M. Unberath, N. Navab Reflective-AR Display: An Interaction Methodology for Virtual-to-Real Alignment in Medical Robotics IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (bib) 2017 S.C. Lee, B. Fuerst, K. Tateno, A. Johnson, J. Fotouhi, G. Osgood, F. Tombari, N. Navab Multi-modal Imaging, Model-based Tracking and Mixed Reality Visualisation for Orthopaedic Surgery Healthcare Technology Letters Journal (IET HTL), September, 2017. This work won the outstanding paper award at AE-CAI 2017. The final publication is available at http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/htl.2017.0066 (bib) R. Kojcev, A. Khakzar, B. Fuerst, O. Zettinig, C. Fakhry, R. DeJong, J. Richmon, R. Taylor, E. Sinibaldi, N. Navab On the Reproducibility of Expert-Operated and Robotic Ultrasound Acquisitions International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery / International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), Barcelona, June 2017. J. Fotouhi, B. Fuerst, W. Wein, N. Navab Can real-time RGBD enhance intraoperative cone-beam CT? International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, July 2017, Volume 12 (bib) F. Bork, R. Barmaki, U. Eck, P. Fallavollita, B. Fuerst, N. Navab Exploring Non-reversing Magic Mirrors for Screen-Based Augmented Reality Systems 24th IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp. 373-374, Mar 2017 (bib) 2016 B. Frisch, O. Zettinig, B. Fuerst, S. Virga, C. Hennersperger, N. Navab Collaborative Robotic Ultrasound: Towards Clinical Application Radiological Society of North America Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 2016 (bib) C. Hennersperger, B. Fuerst, S. Virga, O. Zettinig, B. Frisch, T. Neff, N. Navab Towards MRI-Based Autonomous Robotic US Acquisitions: A First Feasibility Study IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 36, iss. 2, 2017 The original publication (open access) is available online at ieeexplore.ieee.org (bib) S.C. Lee, B. Fuerst, J. Fotouhi, M. Fischer, G. Osgood, N. Navab Calibration of RGBD Camera and Cone-Beam CT for 3D Intra-operative Mixed Reality Visualization International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery / International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), Heidelberg, June 2016 (bib) R. Kojcev, B. Fuerst, O. Zettinig, J. Fotouhi, S.C. Lee, B. Frisch, R. Taylor, E. Sinibaldi, N. Navab Dual-Robot Ultrasound-Guided Needle Placement: Closing the Planning-Imaging-Action Loop International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery / International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), Heidelberg, June 2016. The original publication is available online at link.springer.com (bib) M. Fischer, B. Fuerst, S.C. Lee, J. Fotouhi, S. Habert, S. Weidert, E. Euler, G. Osgood, N. Navab Pre-Clinical Usability Study of Multiple Augmented Reality Concepts for K-Wire Placement International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery / International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), Heidelberg, June 2016 (bib) N. Navab, C. Hennersperger, B. Frisch, B. Fuerst Personalized, Relevance-based Multimodal Robotic Imaging and Augmented Reality for Computer Assisted Interventions Medical Image Analysis (bib) O. Zettinig, B. Fuerst, R. Kojcev, M. Esposito, M. Salehi, W. Wein, J. Rackerseder, B. Frisch, N. Navab Toward Real-time 3D Ultrasound Registration-based Visual Servoing for Interventional Navigation IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, May 2016. The original publication is available online at ieeexplore.ieee.org (bib) C. Graumann, B. Fuerst, C. Hennersperger, F. Bork, N. Navab Robotic Ultrasound Trajectory Planning for Volume of Interest Coverage In Proceedings ICRA 2016: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (bib) 2015 B. Fuerst, J. Sprung, F. Pinto, B. Frisch, T. Wendler, H. Simon, L. Mengus, N. S. van den Berg, H.G. van der Poel, F.W.B. van Leeuwen, N. Navab First Robotic SPECT for Minimally Invasive Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2015. (bib) F. Pinto, B. Fuerst, B. Frisch, N. Navab Radiopositive Tissue Displacement Compensation for SPECT-guided Surgery Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), Munich, Germany, October 2015 (bib) B. Fuerst, J. Fotouhi, N. Navab Vision-based Intraoperative Cone-Beam CT Stitching for Non-overlapping Volumes Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), Munich, Germany, October 2015 (bib) F. Bork, B. Fuerst, A.K. Schneider, F. Pinto, C. Graumann, N. Navab Auditory and Visio-Temporal Distance Coding for 3-Dimensional Perception in Medical Augmented Reality International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2015 (bib) 2014 B. Fuerst, T. Mansi, F. Carnis, M. Saelzle, T. Zhang, J. Declerck, T. Boettger, J. Bayouth, N. Navab, A. Kamen Patient-Specific Biomechanical Model for the Prediction of Lung Motion from 4D CT Images IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2014. (bib) B. Fuerst, W. Wein, M. Müller, N. Navab Automatic Ultrasound-MRI Registration for Neurosurgery using the 2D and 3D LC2 Metric Medical Image Analysis, 2014(18), pp. 1312-1319. (bib) 2013 W. Wein, A. Ladikos, B. Fuerst, A. Shah, K. Sharma, N. Navab Global Registration of Ultrasound to MRI using the LC2 Metric for Enabling Neurosurgical Guidance Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), Nagoya, Japan, September 2013 (bib) A. Schoch, B. Fuerst, F. Achilles, S. Demirci, N. Navab A Lightweight and Portable Communication Framework for Multimodal Image-Guided Therapy The Sixth International Workshop on Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions (SACAI), Nagoya, Japan, September 2013 (bib) N. Aubry, E. Auffray, F. B. Mimoun, N. Brillouet, R. Bugalho, , O. Charles, D. Cortinovis, P. Courday, A. Cserkaszky, C. Damon, K. Doroud, J.-M. Fischer, G. Fornaro, J.-M. Fourmigue, B. Frisch, B. Fuerst, J. Gardiazabal, K. Gadow, E. Garutti, C. Gaston, A. Gil-Ortiz, E. Guedj, T. Harion, P. Jarron, J. Kabadanian, T. Lasser, R. Laugier, P. Lecoq, D. Lombardo, S. Mandai, E. Mas, T. Meyer, O. Mundler, N. Navab, C. Ortigão, M. Paganoni, D. Perrodin, M. Pizzichemi, J. O. Prior, T. Reichl, M. Reinecke, M. Rolo, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, M. Schwaiger, W. Shen, A. Silenzi, J. C. Silva, , I. Somlai-Schweiger, R. Stamen, J. Traub, J. Varela, V. Veckalns, V. Vidal, J. Vishwas, T. Wendler, C. Xu, S. I. Ziegler, M. Zvolsky EndoTOFPET-US: a novel multimodal tool for endoscopy and positron emission tomography JINST 8 C04002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/04/C04002 (bib) 2012 B. Fuerst, T. Mansi, P. Khurd, T. Zhang, J. Declerck, T. Boettger, N. Navab, J. Bayouth, A. Kamen, D. Comaniciu A Personalized Biomechanical Model for Respiratory Motion Prediction Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI), Nice, France, October 2012 (bib) B. Fuerst, T. Mansi, P. Khurd, T. Zhang, J. Declerck, T. Boettger, N. Navab, J. Bayouth, A. Kamen Patient-Specific Finite-Element Simulation of Respiratory Mechanics for Radiotherapy Guidance, A First Evaluation Study IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI 2012), Barcelona, Spain, May 2 - 5, 2012 (bib) Past Projects and Other Work Master's Thesis: Computational Modeling of Respiratory Motion Based on 4D CT, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ and TU Munich, Germany (2011-2012) Research Project: Automatic thrombus segmentation in in vivo micoscopic video sequences under low contrast and highly dynamic conditions, TU Munich, Germany (2010) Research Project: ITK Registration Parameter Tuning, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (2010) Research Project: Motion Capture for Quantitative Motion Analysis of Epilepsy Patients, Klinikum Großhadern, Munich, Germany (2009-2010) Bachelor's Thesis: Improving Life Sciences through Semantic Search Techniques, UMIT, Hall in Tirol, Austria (2009)