Mohammad Najafi

PhD Candidate, ECE Dept, University of British Columbia

[1]      M. Najafi, N. Afsham, P. Abolmaesumi, and R. Rohling. “A closed-form differential formulation for ultrasound spatial calibration: Single wall phantom”. Ultrasound in medicine & biology (in press).    

[2]      M. Najafi, N. Afsham, P. Abolmaesumi, and R. Rohling. “A closed-form differential formulation for ultrasound spatial calibration: Multi-wedge phantom”. Ultrasound in medicine & biology, Volume 40, Issue 9, Pages 2231-2243, September 2014.

[3]       Abeysekera, Jeffrey M., Mohammad Najafi, Robert Rohling, and Septimiu E. Salcudean. “Calibration for Position Tracking of Swept Motor 3-D Ultrasound.”Ultrasound in medicine & biology 40, no. 6 (2014): 1356-1371.

[4]       Afsham, N.; Najafi, M.; Abolmaesumi, P.; Rohling, R., “A Generalized Correlation-Based Model for Out-of-Plane Motion Estimation in Freehand Ultrasound,” Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on , vol.33, no.1, pp.186,199, Jan. 2014.

[5]       Najafi, M., N. Afsham, P. Abolmaesumi, and R. Rohling, “A Closed-Form Differential Formulation for Ultrasound Spatial Calibration”, Proc. International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI), vol. 7330, Berlin, Germany, pp. 44-53, 2012. (Best Paper Award)

[6]       Najafi, M., N. Afsham, P. Abolmaesumi, and R. Rohling, "Single wall closed-form differential ultrasound calibration", Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Bellingham, WA, SPIE Press, 2012.

[7]       Afsham, N., M. Najafi, P. Abolmaesumi, and R. Rohling, "Out-of-plane motion estimation based on a Rician-Inverse Gaussian model of RF ultrasound signals: speckle tracking without fully developed speckle", Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Bellingham, WA, SPIE Press, 2012. (Best Paper Award)

[8]       Afsham, N., M. Najafi, P. Abolmaesumi, and R. Rohling, "3D ocular ultrasound using gaze tracking on the contralateral eye: a feasibility study", Medical Image Processing and Computer Aided Interventions (MICCAI), vol. 6891, Toronto, Ontario, LNCS, pp. 65-72, September, 2011.

[9]       Najafi, M., and R. Rohling, “Single camera closed-form real-time needle trajectory tracking for ultrasound”, Proc. of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Bellingham, WA , SPIE Press, 2011.

[10]       Rasoulian, A., Lohser, J., Najafi, M., Rafii-Tari,H., Tran, D., Kamani, A.A., Lesooway, V.A, Abolmaesumi, P., Rohling, R.N., “Utility of pre-puncture ultrasound for thoracic epidural space localization”, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, vol. 58, issue 9, pp. 815-823, 2011.

 

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