Leo Joskowicz  Professor  Head, CASMIP Lab 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: josko "@" cs.huji.ac.il (without the quotes)   URL: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~josko  Phone: +972-2-658-6299  Fax: +972-2-658-5439  Secretary: +972-2-658-4983  Office: Room 223, Ross Building, Givat Ram Campus  Office hours: Mon 12-14 and by appointment  Directions to my office can be found here Business card

Biography

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Recent Events

• 2010 BOOK ON MIT PRESS
  The Configuration Space Method for Kinematic Design of Mechanisms
  by Elisha Sacks and Leo Joskowicz, to appear, April 2010
  MIT Press announcement
  Cover and table of contents

• 2009 CHAPTER in Rockwood and Green's Fracture in Adult, 7th edition
  Computer-Aided Orthopaedic Surgery in Skeletal Trauma
  by M. Liebergall, L. Joskowicz, R. Mosheiff, appeared Dec 2009.
  Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

• 2009-10 MADUA LECTURE SERIES
  The Digital Age Enters the Operating Room , Nov 15, 2009
  Video of the lecture (in Hebrew)

Prizes and Awards

• 2007 KAYE INNOVATION AWARD
  
  • Press release -- Hebrew University (English) (Hebrew)
    
  • Press release -- United Press International
  • Scientific article -- PDF File

• 2007 OUTSTANDING ISRAELI PROJECT
  ROBOCAST: ROBOt and sensors integration for Computer Assisted Surgery and Therapy
  European Union 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
  Awarded by the European Commission to the State of Israel, October 2007.

• 2006 BEST CLINICAL PAPER
  CAOS'06 -- 6th Annual Meeting Int. Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, Montreal, Canada.

Research and Publications

• Computer-Assisted Surgery and Medical Image Processing
• Computer-Aided Mechanical Assembly Design
• Geometric Reasoning and Applications
• Member, Center for Bioengineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  

Courses and Seminars (2009-10)

• Seminar on computer-assisted surgery, medical image processing, and medical robotics (fall)
• Computational geometry (fall)
• Medical image processing (spring)
• Projects for prospective students: this is only a sample -- contact me for more details
  Engineering and lab projects
  Previous projects

Editorial Boards

• Medical Image Analysis Journal, Elsevier Science.
• Int. Journal of Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer.
• Computer-Aided Surgery, Taylor and Francis.
• Advanced Engineering Informatics Elsevier Science.
• Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering ASME Press
• Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Professional duties

• CAOS-International: International Society of Computer-Aided Orthopaedic Surgery. Secretary General, elected June 2007.
• ISCAS: International Society of Computer-Aided Surgery. Executive council member since 2002.
• CARS 10: 24th Int. Congress on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Geneva, Switzerland, June 23-26, 2010. Organizing and program committees member.
• IPCAI 10: 1st Int. Conference on Infoirmation Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, Geneva, Switzerland, June 23-24, 2010. Executive and program committees member.
• CAOS 10: 10th Int. Symposium on Comp*uter Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, Paris, France, June 16-19, 2010. Program committee member.
• SPM2010: ACM-SIGGRAPH Int. Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling Sept 1--3, 2010, Haifa, Israel. Program Committee member.
• DCC 10: 4th Int. Conference on Design Computing and Cognition , Stuttgart, Germany, July 12-14 2010. Advisory Comittee.
• 3D Phyisiological Human 10: 2nd Workshop on the 3D Physiological Human , Zermatt, Switzerland, December 8--11, 2008, Program committee member.
• ISRACAS 09: 12th Israeli Symposium on Computer-Integrated Surgery, Medical Robotics, and Medical Imaging , Tel-Aviv, Israel, May 7, 2009. Co-chair.
• MICCAI 09: 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, London, UK. Sept 21-24, 2009. Program committee member.
• Geometric Accuracy in Medical Interventions MICCAI'09 Workshop on Geometric Accuracy in Medical Interventions , London, UK. Sept 21-24, 2009. Co-organizer.
• 3D Segmentation Challenge for Clinical Applications MICCAI'09 Grand Segmentation Challenge , London, UK. Sept 21-24, 2009. Co-organizer.
• MEXCAS 09: 10th Mexican Symposium on of Computer-Aided Surgery. Co-organizer, September 20-21, Inst. Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia, Mexico City, Mexico.
• 2nd Innovation Symposium: Hebrew University, Buenos, Aires, Argentina, July 2008.
• Activities in Mexico

Research collaborators and related sites

• Hadassah-University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
  • Profs. M. Liebergall, C. Milgrom, R. Mosheiff, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery
    
  • Dr. Y. Shoshan and Prof. F. Umansky, Dept. of Neurosurgery
    
  • Dr. J. Sosna, Dept. of Radiology
    
  • Dr. Rinat Abramovitch, Institute for Gene Therapy
    
• Drs. Dafna Ben-Bashat, Liat Ben-Sira, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv.
• Prof. Moshe Shoham, Medical Robotics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Eng., Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Prof. Elisha Sacks, Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA
• Prof. Russell H. Taylor, Johns Hopkins University,USA
• Mazor Surgical Technologies, Caesarea, Israel.
• Simbionix, Lod, Israel.
• Robotics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel.
• Visualization Center, Purdue University, USA.
• NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology , USA
• Traxtal Technologies, Tracked tools and instrumentation. Canada.