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)

2011

Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Predicting the Outcome of Respiratory Motion Prediction, Medical Physics , vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 5569-5582, 2011.
DOI:10.1118/1.3633907
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Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Adaptive Motion Compensation in Radiotherapy., .... Taylor Francis, 2011.
Birgit Stender, Michael Scharfschwerdt, Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Hamid Hadjar, and Alexander Schlaefer,
Optical Imaging of Cardiac Function: System setup and calibration, Berlin, Germany , 2011. pp. S42-S43.
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Ralf Bruder, Florian Griese, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
High-accuracy ultrasound target localization for hand-eye calibration between optical tracking systems and three-dimensional ultrasound, Handels, Heinz and Ehrhardt, Jan and Deserno, Thomas M. and Meinzer, Hans-Peter and Tolxdorff, Thomas, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. pp. 179-183.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-19335-4_38
ISBN:978-3-642-19335-4
File: 978-3-642-19335-4_38
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Forecasting Pulsatory Motion for Non-invasive Cardiac Radiosurgery, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 93-101, 2011.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-010-0424-9
File: s11548-010-0424-9
Floris Ernst,
Compensating for Quasi-periodic Motion in Robotic Radiosurgery., .... New York: Springer, 2011.
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4614-1912-9
ISBN:978-1-4614-1911-2
File: 978-1-4614-1912-9
Floris Ernst,
Algorithms for Compensation of Quasi-periodic Motion in Robotic Radiosurgery, 2011.
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Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
A Framework for Real-Time Target Tracking in Radiosurgery using Three-dimensional Ultrasound, Berlin, Germany , 2011. pp. S306-S307.
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2010

Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Processing of Respiratory Motion Traces for Motion-Compensated Radiotherapy, Medical Physics , vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 282-294, 2010.
DOI:10.1118/1.3271684
File: 1.3271684
Floris Ernst, Birgit Stender, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Using ECG in Motion Prediction for Radiosurgery of the Beating Heart, Yang, Guang-Zhong and Darzi, Ara, Eds. The Royal Society, London , 2010. pp. 37-38.
ISBN:978-0-9563776-1-6
Floris Ernst, Christoph Koch, and Achim Schweikard,
A Novel Recording Tool for Education and Quality Assurance in Digital Angiography, Chicago, IL/USA , 2010.
Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Melanie Pohl, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Prediction of Cardiac Motion, Geneva, Switzerland , 2010. pp. 273-274.
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Lars Richter, Floris Ernst, Volker Martens, Lars Matthäus, and Achim Schweikard,
Client/Server Framework for robot control in medical assistance systems, Geneva, Switzerland , 2010. pp. 306-307.
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Floris Ernst, Ralf Bruder, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
Improving the Quality of Biomedical Signal Tracking using Prediction Algorithms, Coventry, United Kingdom; Coventry, UK , 2010. pp. 301-305.
DOI:10.1049/ic.2010.0298
ISBN:978-184600-0386
File: ic.2010.0298

2009

Ralf Bruder, T. Cai, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
3D ultrasound-guided motion compensation for intravascular radiation therapy, Berlin, Germany , 2009. pp. 25-26.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-009-0309-y
File: s11548-009-0309-y
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
A Survey of Algorithms for Respiratory Motion Prediction in Robotic Radiosurgery, Fischer, Stefan and Maehle, Erik, Eds. Lübeck, Germany: Bonner Köllen, 2009. pp. 1035-1043.
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Floris Ernst, Volker Martens, Stefan Schlichting, Armin Beširević, Markus Kleemann, Christoph Koch, Dirk Petersen, and Achim Schweikard,
Correlating Chest Surface Motion to Motion of the Liver using ε-SVR -- a Porcine Study, Yang, Guang-Zhong and Hawkes, David J. and Rueckert, Daniel and Noble, Alison and Taylor, C., Eds. London, United Kingdom; London: Springer, 2009. pp. 356-364.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-04271-3_44
File: 978-3-642-04271-3_44
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Forecasting Respiratory Motion with Accurate Online Support Vector Regression (SVRpred), International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 439-447, 2009.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-009-0355-5
File: s11548-009-0355-5
Floris Ernst,
Motion Compensation in Radiosurgery, Lübeck, Germany: Institute for Robotics, University of Lübeck, 2009.
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Predicting Respiratory Motion Signals using Accurate Online Support Vector Regression (SVRpred), Berlin, Germany , 2009. pp. 255-256.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-009-0340-z
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Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, and Achim Schweikard,
TH-C-304A-07: Real-Time Tracking of the Pulmonary Veins in 3D Ultrasound of the Beating Heart, Anaheim, CA, USA , 2009. pp. 2804.
DOI:10.1118/1.3182643
File: 1.3182643

2008

Norman Rzezovski, and Floris Ernst,
Graphical Tool for the Prediction of Respiratory Motion Signals, Bartz, Dirk and Bohn, S. and Hoffmann, J., Eds. Leipzig, Germany , 2008. pp. 179-180.
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Prediction of respiratory motion using a modified Recursive Least Squares algorithm, Bartz, Dirk and Bohn, S. and Hoffmann, J., Eds. Leipzig, Germany , 2008. pp. 157-160.
Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Predicting Respiratory Motion Signals for Image-Guided Radiotherapy using Multi-step Linear Methods (MULIN), International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , vol. 3, no. 1--2, pp. 85-90, 2008.
DOI:10.1007/s11548-008-0211-z
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Floris Ernst, Alexander Schlaefer, Sonja Dieterich, and Achim Schweikard,
A Fast Lane Approach to LMS Prediction of Respiratory Motion Signals, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control , vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 291-299, 2008.
DOI:10.1016/j.bspc.2008.06.001
File: j.bspc.2008.06.001