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.

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Research interests

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

Projects pages

• Vessels-cut: a graph based approach for carotid arteries patient specific modeling
• 3D Liver segmentation and analysis
• fMRI based early detection of liver metastses
• A Variational approach for liver vessels segmentation and visualization

Publications

    Journal papers

• 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. 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. to appear.
  
  
• 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.  (to appear)
  
  
• 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.  (to appear)
  
  
• 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

• Medical Image Analysis (MIA)
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
• International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS)

Computer Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Conferences

• MICCAI
  
• CARS
• ISBI
• MMBIA workshop
• SPIE Medical Imaging