I'm currently a post-doc (research fellow) at the
Computational Radiology Lab.,
Harvard Medical school .
My new e-mail address is: moti dot freiman at childrens dot harvard dot edu.

Moti Freiman

Ph.d Student under the supervision of Prof. L. Joskowicz.

Member, Computer-Aided Surgery and
Medical Image Processing Laboratory

School of Engineering and Computer Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Givat Ram Campus
Jerusalem 91904, Israel

E-mail: freiman@cs.huji.ac.il
URL: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~freiman
Phone: +972-2-6585371
Fax: +972-2-6585727
Office: Room 30, Ross Building, Givat Ram Campus
Office hours: by appointment only.

C.V

Research interests

Medical image analysis and visualization
Computitional radiology
Computer aided surgery and medical robotics

Projects pages

Publications

(Google scholar, PubMed)

Journal papers

Freiman, M. Werman, M. Joskowicz, L.
"A curvelet-based patient-specific prior for accurate multi-modal brain image rigid registration"
Medical Image Analysis, Accepted, Aug. 2010. (pdf,bib).
Freiman, M. Cooper, O. Lischinski, D. Joskowicz, L.
"Liver tumors segmentation from CTA images using voxels classification and affinity constraint propagation"
Int. Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Accepted, May 2010. (pdf,bib).
Shamir, R.R. Freiman, M. Joskowicz, L. Spektor, S. Shoshan. Y.
"Surface-based preoperative CT/MRI to intraoperative face scan registration: a clinical study"
Journal of Neurosurgery, Vol. 111(6) pp 1201-1206, December 2009. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Eliassaf. O. Taieb. Y. Joskowicz. L. Azraq. Y. and Sosna. J.
"An iterative Bayesian approach to liver segmentation: algorithm and validation"
Int. Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. Vol. 3(5) pp 439-446, November, 2008. (pdf,bib).
Joskowicz. L. Shamir. R. Freiman. M. Shoham. M. Zehavi. E. Umansky. F. Shoshan. Y.
"Image-guided system with miniature robot for precise positioning and targeting in keyhole neurosurgery."
Computer Aided Surgery. Vol 11(4) pp 181-193, July ,2006. (pdf,bib).

Peer-reviewed conference papers

Freiman. M. Kronman. A. Esses. S.J. Joskowicz. L. Sosna. J.
Non-parametric iterative model constraint graph min-cut for automatic kidney segmentation
In Proc. of the 13th Int. Conf. of Medical Image Computing and Computed Aided Interventions, MICCAI'10, 2010, (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Esses. S.J. Joskowicz. L. Sosna. J.
An iterative model-constrained graph-cut algorithm for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm thrombus segmentation.
In proc. of the 7th IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI'10, 2010. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Sela. Y. Edrei. Y. Pappo. O. Joskowicz. L. Abramovitch. R.
Multi-class SVM model for fMRI based classification and grading of liver fibrosis.
SPIE Medical Imaging: Computer Aided Diagnosis. Feb. 2010, San-Diego, CA. USA. (pdf,bib).
Cooper. O. Freiman. M. Joskowicz. L. Lischinski. D.
Affinity-based constraint optimization for nearly-automatic vessel segmentation.
SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing. Feb. 2010, San-Diego, CA. USA. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Broide. N. Natanzon. M. Weizman. L. Nammer. E. Shilon. O. Frank. J. Joskowicz. L. Sosna. J.
Vessels-Cut: a graph based approach to carotid arteries patient-specific modeling.
Proc. 2nd workshop on: 3D Physiological Human, 2009 (pdf,bib).
Safran. M.N. Freiman. M. Joskowicz. L. Werman. M.
"Curvelet-based sampling for accurate and efficient multimodal image registration",
SPIE Medical Imaging 2009. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Joskowicz. L. Sosna. J.
"A variational method for vessels segmentation: algorithm and application to liver vessels visualization",
SPIE Medical Imaging 2009. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Edrei. Y. Sela. Y. Shmidmayer. Y., Gross. E. Joskowicz. L. and Abramovitch. R.,
"Classification of suspected liver metastases using fMRI images: a machine learning approach",
In Proc. of the 11th Int. Conf. of Medical Image Computing and Computed Aided Interventions, MICCAI'08, 2008 (pdf,bib).
Excellent poster of the posters Faculty Posters day 11.6.2009 (link)
Freiman. M. Eliassaf. O. Taieb. Y. Joskowicz. L. and Sosna. J.
"A Bayesian approach for liver analysis: algorithm and validation study",
In Proc. of the 11th Int. Conf. of Medical Image Computing and Computed Aided Interventions, MICCAI'08, 2008 (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Edrei. Y. Gross. E. Joskowicz. L. Abramovitch. R.
"Liver metastases early detection using fMRI based statistical model",
In Proc. of the 5th IEEE Int. Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI'08, 2008. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Edrei. Y. Gross. E. Joskowicz. L. and Abramovitch. R.
"Computer assisted early detection of liver metastases from fMRI maps."
In proc. of the 21th Int. Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. CARS'2007. Elsevier, 2007. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Joskowicz. L. Lischinski. D. and Sosna. J.
"A feature-based transfer function for liver visualization."
In proc. of the 21th Int. Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. CARS'2007. Elsevier, 2007. (pdf,bib).
Shamir. R. Freiman. M. Joskowicz. L. Shoham. M. Zehavi. E. and Shoshan. Y.
"Surface-based preoperative CT/MRI to intraoperative face scan registration: a clinical study"
In proc. of the 21th Int. Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. CARS'2007. Elsevier, 2007. (pdf,bib).
Joskowicz. L. Shoham. M. Shamir. R. Freiman. M. Zehavi. E. and Shoshan. Y.
"Miniature robot-based precise targeting for keyhole neurosurgery: concept and preliminary results."
In proc. of the 19th Int. Conf. on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. CARS’2005. Elsevier, 2005. (pdf,bib).
Shamir. R. Freiman. M. Joskowicz. L. Shoham. M. Zehavi. E. and Shoshan. Y.
"Robot assisted image-guided targeting for minimally invasive neurosurgery: planning, registration, and in-vitro experiment."
In proc. of the 8th Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. MICCAI’2005, 2005. (pdf,bib).

Workshops, Abstracts and other publications

Hameeteman. K. Freiman. M. Zuluaga. M.A. Joskowicz. L. Rozie. S. Van Gils. M..J. Van den Borne. L. Sosna. J. Berman. P. Cohen. N. Douek. P. Sanchez. I. Aissat. M. Van der Lugt. A. Krestin. G.P. Niessen. W..J. Van Walsum. T.
Carotid Lumen Segmentation and Stenosis Grading Challenge.
Proc. 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge III workshop, Carotid bifurcation evaluation,
12th Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, London, UK, 2009. (pdf)
Freiman. M. Frank. J. Weizman. L. Nammer. E. Shilon. O. Joskowicz. L. Sosna. J.
Nearly automatic vessels segmentation using graph-based energy minimization.
Proc. 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge III workshop, Carotid bifurcation evaluation,
12th Int. Conf. on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, London, UK, 2009. (pdf)
Freiman, M., Natanzon, M. Broide, N. Joskowicz, L. Weizman, L. Sosna, J. Nammer, E. Shilon, O.
"Patient-specific modeling of the carotid arteries for surgical simulation".
In proc. of the 23rd Int. Conf. on Computer Aided Radiology and Surgery, CARS'09, 2009. (pdf).
Weizman, L. Freiman,M. Joskowicz, L.
"Implementation of weighted Dijkstras shortest-path algorithm for n-D images".
Insight journal, 2009. (web).
Eliassaf. O. Taieb. Y. Freiman. M. Joskowicz. L. and Sosna. J.
"An iterative Bayesian approach for liver analysis: tumors validation study",
In Proc. of the MICCAI 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge II workshop, in MICCAI'08, 2008 (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. Eliassaf. O. Taieb. Y. Joskowicz. L. Azraq. Y. and Sosna. J.
"An iterative Bayesian approach to liver segmentation: algorithm and clinical validation study",
In proc. of the 22nd Int. Conf. on Computer Aided Radiology and Surgery, CARS'08, 2008.
Shamir R. Freiman M. Joskowicz L. Shoham M. Zehavi E. and Shoshan Y.
"Robot-assisted image-guided targeting for minimally invasive neurosurgery: intraoperative robot positioning and targeting experiment”,
In proc. of the MICCAI Medical Robotics Workshop, Denmark, 2006. (pdf,bib).
Freiman. M. "Preoperative planning and intraoperative registration for robot-based keyhole neurosurgery",
M.sc thesis (pdf). The complete system was awared the Kaye award in 2007 (link to the award announcement).

Professional activities

Co-organizer, 3D Segmentation Challenge for Clinical Applications: The Carotid bifurcation algorithm evaluation framework.
A MICCAI 2009 workshop.
Reviewer, Int. J. of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgey (IJCARS) .
Reviewer, BMC Bioinformatics.
Reviewer, World Congress - Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, 2009 .
Reviewer, MICCAI 2007.

Scholarships & awards

The Harry and Sylvia Hofmann Leadership program for outstanding Ph.D students,
The Hebrew univ. of Jerusalem.(2008-10).

The Hebrew university travel grant for Ph.D student (Feb. 2009).

Leibniz Student Fellowship for graduate students (2006-7).

Teaching

Lecturer: Programming workshops in C (67316) and C++ (67317).

Computer Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Journals

Computer Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Conferences

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Last modified: October 18, 2009.

I'm currently a post-doc (research fellow) at the Computational Radiology Lab., Harvard Medical school . My new e-mail address is: moti dot freiman at childrens dot harvard dot edu.