Leo Joskowicz  Professor  Head, 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

Research and Publications

• Computer-Assisted Surgery and Medical Image Processing
• Computer-Aided Mechanical Assembly Design
• Geometric Reasoning and Applications

Courses and Seminars (2009-10)

• Seminar on computer-assisted surgery, medical image processing, and medical robotics (fall)
• Computational geometry (fall)
• Medical image processing (spring)
• Student projects (includes topics for prospective students -- contact me for details)

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 Computer 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.