Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Floris Ernst

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Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, Raum 97

Email: floris.ernst(at)uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 31015208
Fax: 0451 31015204

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)

2019

Stamatis Risto, Yenjung Chen, Felix Haxthausen, Florian Matysiak, Floris Ernst, and Verónica García-Vázquez,
Development of HoloLens Mount for Third-Person Perspective and Augmented Reality Application for Endovascular Aortic Repair Procedures, Lübeck (Germany): Infinite Science Publishing GmbH, 2019. pp. 47-50.
ISBN:978-3-945954-57-7
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Sven Böttger, Markus Kleemann, and Floris Ernst,
Ergebnisse einer Akzeptanzumfrage zur Roboter-assistierten Ultraschalldiagnostik unter Gefäßmedizinern, in 136. Kongress Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie , 2019.
Marco Horn, Floris Ernst, Kuhlemann Ivo, Erik Stahlberg, Jan Peter Goltz, Marcus Wiedner, and Markus Kleemann,
Experimental visualization of vascular structures with Microsoft Hololens -- Set-up for navigated contrast agent and radiation-sparing endovascular procedures (NAV-CARS EVAR), 2019. pp. e104.
Marco Horn, Sonja Jäckle, Felix Haxthausen, Tim Eixmann, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, Gereon Hüttmann, Juljan Bouchagiar, Florian Matysiak, Mark Kaschwich, Markus Kleemann, Floris Ernst, Verónica García-Vázquez, and Torben Pätz,
First steps into catheter guidance including shape sensing for endovascular aneurysm repair procedures, Hamburg (Germany) , 2019. pp. e610-e611.
Jannis Hagenah, Mohamad Mehdi, and Floris Ernst,
Generating Healthy Aortic Root Geometries from Ultrasound Images of the Individual Pathological Morphology Using Deep Convolutional Autoencoders, Computing in Cardiology , 2019.
Maximilian Wattenberg, Jannis Hagenah, Constantin Schareck, Floris Ernst, and Martin A. Koch,
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.
Yenjung Chen, Stamatis Risto, Felix Haxthausen, Floris Ernst, and Verónica García-Vázquez,
HoloLens: Third-person Perspective, Lübeck (Germany): Infinite Science Publishing GmbH, 2019. pp. 51-54.
ISBN:978-3-945954-57-7
Jirapong Manit, Luise Preusse, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Human Forehead Recognition: A Novel Biometric Modality based on NIR Laser Backscattering Feature Image using Deep Transfer Learning, IET Biometrics , vol. online first, 2019. Institution of Engineering and Technology.
DOI:10.1049/iet-bmt.2019.0015
File: iet-bmt.2019.0015
Judit Boda-Heggemann, Anika Jahnke, Mark K. H. Chan, Floris Ernst, Ardekani Leila Ghaderi, Ulrike Attenberger, Peter Hunold, Jost Philipp Schäfer, Stefan Wurster, Dirk Rades, Guido Hildebrandt, Frank Lohr, Jürgen Dunst, Frederik Wenz, and Oliver Blanck,
In-vivo treatment accuracy analysis of active motion-compensated liver SBRT through registration of plan dose to post-therapeutic MRI-morphologic alterations, Radiotherapy and Oncology , vol. 134, pp. 158-165, 2019.
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Jannis Hagenah, Sascha Leymann, and Floris Ernst,
Integrating Label Uncertainty in Ultrasound Image Classification using Weighted Support Vector Machines, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 285-287, 2019.
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2019-0072
File: cdbme-2019-0072
Svenja Ipsen, Ivo Kuhlemann, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
MO-K-303-3: Continuous long-term imaging with robotic 4D ultrasound for motion compensation in radiotherapy and beyond, 2019. pp. E287-E288.
Juljan Bouchagiar, Felix Haxthausen, Sonja Jäckle, Florian Matysiak, Mark Kaschwich, Jan Peter Goltz, Marco Horn, Erik Stahlberg, Verónica García-Vázquez, Floris Ernst, and Markus Kleemann,
NAV EVAR Auf dem Weg zur strahlungsfreien Stentgraft Implantation, Würzburg (Germany) , 2019.
Sven Böttger, Felix Haxthausen, Markus Kleemann, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Robotics from the bench -- Research for ultrasound automation with augmented reality visualization, 2019.
File: MIC_2019_Program.pdf
Daniel Wulff, Ivo Kuhlemann, Floris Ernst, Achim Schweikard, and Svenja Ipsen,
Robust motion tracking of deformable targets in the liver using binary feature libraries in 4D ultrasound, 2019. pp. 601-604.
DOI:10.1515/cdbme-2019-0151
File: cdbme-2019-0151
Svenja Ipsen, Floris Ernst, Verónica García-Vázquez, and Achim Schweikard,
SU-F-303-3: Assessment of CT artefacts caused by matrix array transducers for intra-modality registration in 4D ultrasound-guided radiotherapy, 2019. pp. E132-E133.

2018

Svenja Ipsen, Ralf Bruder, Ivo Kuhlemann, Philipp Jauer, Laura Motisi, Florian Cremers, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
A visual probe positioning tool for 4D ultrasound-guided radiotherapy, 2018. pp. 883-886.
DOI:10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512390
File: EMBC.2018.8512390
Jannis Hagenah, Tizian Evers, Michael Scharfschwerdt, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
An SVR-based Data-driven Leaflet Modeling Approach for Personalized Aortic Valve Prosthesis Development, Computing in Cardiology , vol. 45, 2018.
Jannis Hagenah, Mattias Heinrich, and Floris Ernst,
Deep transfer learning for aortic root dilation identification in 3D ultrasound images, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 71-74, 2018.
Philipp Jauer, Ivo Kuhlemann, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Efficient Registration of High-Resolution Feature Enhanced Point Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1102-1115, 2018.
DOI:10.1109/tpami.2018.2831670
File: tpami.2018.2831670
Jannis Hagenah, Maximilian Hillemanns, Gereon Hüttmann, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Image-based analysis of individual movement patterns of C. elegans, International Conference on Systems Biology 2018 , 2018.
Martin A. Koch, Jannis Hagenah, Maximilian Wattenberg, and Floris Ernst,
Learning motion artefacts in non - Cartesian magnetic resonance imaging, Biomedical Technology/Biomedizinische Technik , vol. 63, no. S1, pp. S280, 2018.
DOI:10.1515/bmt-2018-6051
File: bmt-2018-6051
Verónica García-Vázquez, Felix Haxthausen, Sonja Jäckle, Christian Schumann, Ivo Kuhlemann, Juljan Bouchagiar, Anna-Catharina Höfer, Florian Matysiak, Gereon Hüttmann, Jan Peter Goltz, Markus Kleemann, Floris Ernst, and Marco Horn,
Navigation and visualisation with HoloLens in endovascular aortic repair, Innovative Surgical Sciences , 2018.
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Florian Matysiak, Juljan Bouchagiar, Anna-Catharina Höfer, Floris Ernst, Jan Peter Goltz, Erik Stahlberg, Markus Kleemann, and Marco Horn,
New navigation method for the treatment of aneurysms: Navigated endovascular aortic repair (Nav EVAR), 2018. pp. e18.
Felix Haxthausen, Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, and Verónica García-Vázquez,
Real-Time Streaming of 3D Ultrasound Data to HoloLens, Aachen (Germany) , 2018. pp. S344.
Jirapong Manit, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Relationship between NIR laser power and the human forehead tissue backscattering image features: Photonic Solutions for Better Health Care VI, Popp, Jürgen and Tuchin, Valery V. and Pavone, Francesco S., Eds. Strasbourg (France): SPIE, 2018. pp. 136.
DOI:10.1117/12.2306827
ISBN:9781510618961
File: 12.2306827