Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Floris Ernst
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64,
Raum 97
| Email: | floris.ernst(at)uni-luebeck.de |
| Phone: | +49 451 31015200 |
Short Biography
Floris Ernst received the Dipl.-Math. degree (equivalent to M.Sc. in Mathematics) from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen/Nuremberg (Germany) in 2006 and a postgraduate diploma in sciences from the University of Otago (Dunedin/New Zealand) in 2004. In 2006, he joined the Institute of Robotics and Cognitive Systems at the University of Lübeck, where he completed his PhD focussing on motion prediction and correlation algorithms for robotic radiosurgery. From 2011 to 2012, he worked as a software engineer at an engineering consultancy, specialising on applications in medicine and life sciences. In 2013, he returned to the Institute of Robotics and Cognitive Systems at the University of Lübeck as a senior research associate where he was appointed Professor for Medical Robotics in 2017.
Research Interests
- Signal processing and analysis for medical purposes
- Sensors for robotics
- Motion tracking in clinical applications
- Augmented reality for surgical tasks
Memberships and Roles
- IEEE Senior Member
- IEEE EMB and RAS Societies
- VDE, DGBMT, DEGUM and CURAC
- Steering Committee of the Graduate School "Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences" of the University of Lübeck
- Associate Editor for Medical Robotics (IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters)
- Associate Editor for Biomedical Robotics (Frontiers in Robotics and AI)
2021
Superimposing holograms on real world objects using HoloLens 2 and its depth camera, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 111-115, 2021. De Gruyter.
| DOI: | 10.1515/cdbme-2021-1024 |
| File: | cdbme-2021-1024 |
Discrete Pseudohealthy Synthesis: Aortic Root Shape Typification and Type Classification with Pathological Prior, 2021. pp. 252-267.
Modern Applications of 3D/4D Ultrasound Imaging in Radiotherapy, Harris, Emma and Fontanarosa, Davide, Eds. IOP Publishing, 2021, pp. 9.1-9.27.
| DOI: | 10.1088/978-0-7503-2552-3ch9 |
| File: | 978-0-7503-2552-3ch9 |
Towards automated ultrasound imaging -- robotic image acquisition in liver and prostate for long-term motion monitoring, Physics in Medicine Biology , vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 094002, 2021.
| DOI: | 10.1088/1361-6560/abf277 |
| File: | abf277 |
3D Guidance Including Shape Sensing of a Stentgraft System, Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 2021, pp. 34-34.
Instrument localisation for endovascular aneurysm repair: Comparison of two methods based on tracking systems or using imaging, The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 17, no. 6, pp. e2327, 2021.
| DOI: | 10.1002/rcs.2327 |
| File: | rcs.2327 |
Automatic Segmentation of the Femoral Artery from 2D Ultrasound Images, Infinite Science Publishing GmbH, 2021.
| ISBN: | 9783945954652 |
Towards machine learning-based tissue differentiation using an ultrasonic aspirator: computer assisted radiology and surgery proceedings of the 35th international Congress and exhibition Munich, Germany, June 21--25, 2021, 2021. pp. 107-108.
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11548-021-02375-4 |
| File: | s11548-021-02375-4 |
Interdisciplinary clinical target volume generation for cardiac radioablation: Multi-center benchmarking for the RAdiosurgery for VENtricular TAchycardia (RAVENTA) trial, International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics , vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 745-756, 2021.
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.01.028 |
| File: | j.ijrobp.2021.01.028 |
Medical Device Development for Children and Young People: Reviewing the Challenges and Opportunities, Pharmaceutics , vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 2178, 2021.
| DOI: | 10.3390/pharmaceutics13122178 |
| File: | pharmaceutics13122178 |
2020
Visual servoing for semi-automated 2D ultrasound scanning of peripheral arteries, Infinite Science Publishing GmbH, 2020.
A 3D Slicer module for calibration of spatially tracked 3D ultrasound probes, Munich , 2020. pp. S14-S16.
Three-dimensional guidance including shape sensing of a stentgraft system for endovascular aneurysm repair, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 15, pp. 1033-1042, 2020.
3D catheter guidance including shape sensing for endovascular navigation: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 2020. pp. 1131504.
| File: | 12.2548094.full |
Abstract: 3D catheter guidance including shape sensing for endovascular navigation, 2020.
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-658-29267-6_58 |
| File: | 978-3-658-29267-6_58 |
Tracking Performance of 4D Ultrasound Systems with Real-Time Streaming Interfaces - A Robotic Phantom Study, 2020.
Target tracking accuracy and latency with different 4D ultrasound systems -- a robotic phantom study, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 6, no. 1, 2020.
| File: | article-20200038.xml |
Robotized ultrasound imaging of the peripheral arteries -- a phantom study, De Gruyter, 2020. pp. 20200033.
Catheter pose-dependent virtual angioscopy images for endovascular aortic repair: validation with a video graphics array (VGA) camera, De Gruyter, 2020. pp. 20200010.
Localization of endovascular tools in X-ray images using a motorized C-arm: visualization on HoloLens, De Gruyter, 2020. pp. 20200029.
Learning Local Feature Descriptions in 3D Ultrasound, 2020. pp. 323-330.
| DOI: | 10.1109/BIBE50027.2020.00059 |
| File: | BIBE50027.2020.00059 |
Fully Data-Driven Pseudohealthy Synthesis for Planning Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Reconstruction using Conditional Variational Autoencoders, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 284-287, 2020.
2019
Head Movement Detection from Radial k-Space Lines using Convolutional Neural Networks - A Digital Phantom Study, Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine , 2019.
Robotics from the bench -- Research for ultrasound automation with augmented reality visualization, 2019.
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Cluster Analysis in Latent Space: Identifying Personalized Aortic Valve Prosthesis Shapes using Deep Representations, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research , vol. 102, pp. 236-249, 2019.

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