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

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Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64, Raum 95

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)

2021

Sonja Jäckle, Verónica García-Vázquez, Tim Eixmann, Florian Matysiak, Felix Haxthausen, Malte Sieren, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, Gereon Hüttmann, Floris Ernst, Markus Kleemann, and {others},
3D Guidance Including Shape Sensing of a Stentgraft System, Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden, 2021, pp. 34-34.
Daniel Wulff, Jannis Hagenah, and Floris Ernst,
Comparison of Representation Learning Techniques for Tracking in time resolved 3D Ultrasound, 2021.
File: 2201.03319
Ana Estrada Lugo, Felix Haxthausen, Niclas Bockelmann, and Floris Ernst,
Automatic Segmentation of the Femoral Artery from 2D Ultrasound Images, Infinite Science Publishing GmbH, 2021.
ISBN:9783945954652
Sonja Jäckle, Annkristin Lange, Verónica García-Vázquez, Tim Eixmann, Florian Matysiak, Malte Maria Sieren, Marco Horn, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, Gereon Hüttmann, Floris Ernst, and {others},
Instrument localisation for endovascular aneurysm repair: Comparison of two methods based on tracking systems or using imaging, The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery , vol. 17, no. 6, pp. e2327, 2021.
DOI:10.1002/rcs.2327
File: rcs.2327

2020

Yenjung Chen, Nilay Yatinkumar Shah, Subhra Sundar Goswami, Annkristin Lange, Felix Haxthausen, Malte Maria Sieren, Jannis Hagenah, Floris Ernst, and Verónica García-Vázquez,
Localization of endovascular tools in X-ray images using a motorized C-arm: visualization on HoloLens, De Gruyter, 2020. pp. 20200029.
Felix Haxthausen, Till Aust, Holger Schwegmann, Sven Böttger, Floris Ernst, Verónica García-Vázquez, Markus Kleemann, and Mark Kaschwich,
Visual servoing for semi-automated 2D ultrasound scanning of peripheral arteries, Infinite Science Publishing GmbH, 2020.
Svenja Ipsen, Sven Böttger, Holger Schwegmann, and Floris Ernst,
Tracking Performance of 4D Ultrasound Systems with Real-Time Streaming Interfaces - A Robotic Phantom Study, 2020.
Sonja Jäckle, Verónica García-Vázquez, Tim Eixmann, Florian Matysiak, Felix Haxthausen, Malte Maria Sieren, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, Gereon Hüttmann, Floris Ernst, Markus Kleemann, and Torben Pätz,
Three-dimensional guidance including shape sensing of a stentgraft system for endovascular aneurysm repair, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 15, pp. 1033-1042, 2020.
Svenja Ipsen, Sven Böttger, Holger Schwegmann, and Floris Ernst,
Target tracking accuracy and latency with different 4D ultrasound systems -- a robotic phantom study, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 6, no. 1, 2020.
File: article-20200038.xml
Felix Haxthausen, Jannis Hagenah, Mark Kaschwich, Markus Kleemann, Verónica García-Vázquez, and Floris Ernst,
Robotized ultrasound imaging of the peripheral arteries -- a phantom study, De Gruyter, 2020. pp. 20200033.
Daniel Wulff, Jannis Hagenah, Svenja Ipsen, and Floris Ernst,
Learning Local Feature Descriptions in 3D Ultrasound, 2020. pp. 323-330.
DOI:10.1109/BIBE50027.2020.00059
File: BIBE50027.2020.00059
Jannis Hagenah, Mohamad Mehdi, and Floris Ernst,
Fully Data-Driven Pseudohealthy Synthesis for Planning Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Reconstruction using Conditional Variational Autoencoders, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 284-287, 2020.
Verónica García-Vázquez, Florian Matysiak, Sonja Jäckle, Tim Eixmann, Malte Maria Sieren, Felix Haxthausen, and Floris Ernst,
Catheter pose-dependent virtual angioscopy images for endovascular aortic repair: validation with a video graphics array (VGA) camera, De Gruyter, 2020. pp. 20200010.
Sonja Jäckle, Verónica García-Vázquez, Felix Haxthausen, Tim Eixmann, Malte Maria Sieren, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, Gereon Hüttmann, Floris Ernst, Markus Kleemann, and Torben Pätz,
Abstract: 3D catheter guidance including shape sensing for endovascular navigation, 2020.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-29267-6_58
File: 978-3-658-29267-6_58
Felix Haxthausen, Svenja Ipsen, Holger Schwegmann, Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, and Verónica García-Vázquez,
A 3D Slicer module for calibration of spatially tracked 3D ultrasound probes, Munich , 2020. pp. S14-S16.
Sonja Jäckle, Verónica García-Vázquez, Felix Haxthausen, Tim Eixmann, Malte Maria Sieren, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, Gereon Hüttmann, Floris Ernst, Markus Kleemann, and Torben Pätz,
3D catheter guidance including shape sensing for endovascular navigation: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 2020. pp. 1131504.
File: 12.2548094.full

2019

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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
File: S0167814019300283
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