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

Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64,
Raum 97
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)
2018
Image-based analysis of individual movement patterns of C. elegans, International Conference on Systems Biology 2018 , 2018.
Efficient Registration of High-Resolution Feature Enhanced Point Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence , vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1102-1115, 2018.
DOI: | 10.1109/tpami.2018.2831670 |
File: | tpami.2018.2831670 |
Deep transfer learning for aortic root dilation identification in 3D ultrasound images, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 71-74, 2018.
An SVR-based Data-driven Leaflet Modeling Approach for Personalized Aortic Valve Prosthesis Development, Computing in Cardiology , vol. 45, 2018.
A visual probe positioning tool for 4D ultrasound-guided radiotherapy, 2018. pp. 883-886.
DOI: | 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512390 |
File: | EMBC.2018.8512390 |
Navigation and visualisation with HoloLens in endovascular aortic repair, Innovative Surgical Sciences , 2018.
File: | iss-2018-2001.xml |
2017
Impact of robotic ultrasound image guidance on plan quality in SBRT of the prostate, The British Journal of Radiology , vol. 90, no. 1078, pp. 20160926, 2017.
DOI: | 10.1259/bjr.20160926 |
File: | bjr.20160926 |
Towards X-ray free endovascular interventions - using HoloLens for on-line holographic visualisation, Healthcare Technology Letters , vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 184-187, 2017. Institution of Engineering and Technology.
DOI: | 10.1049/htl.2017.0061 |
File: | htl.2017.0061 |
Robotic 4D ultrasound solution for real-time visualization and teleoperation, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 559-561, 2017. De Gruyter.
Patient identification using a near-infrared laser scanner: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, Orlando, FL: SPIE, 2017. pp. 101352L.
DOI: | 10.1117/12.2254963 |
File: | 12.2254963 |
Experimental visualization of vascular structures using Microsoft HoloLens, 2017. pp. 33.
Force sensitive robotics for automated ultrasonic diagnostics and therapy, Dresden: De Gruyter, 2017. pp. s103-s108.
Endovascular interventions proceeded under contrast agent and radiation sparing using navigation and imaging techniques for holographic visualisation, Strasbourg (France) , 2017. pp. 173-180.
ISBN: | 978-2-9544771-2-1 |
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A safety module for active joint limit avoidance and intuitive hand guidance of a robotic ultrasound system, Springer, 2017. pp. 38-39.
2016
SU-G-JeP3-08: Robotic System for Ultrasound Tracking in Radiation Therapy, Medical Physics , vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 3672-3672, 2016.
DOI: | 10.1118/1.4957073 |
File: | 1.4957073 |
SU-G-JeP3-03: Effect of Robot Pose On Beam Blocking for Ultrasound Guided SBRT of the Prostate, Medical Physics , vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 3670-3671, 2016.
DOI: | 10.1118/1.4957068 |
File: | 1.4957068 |
Robust inverse kinematics by configuration control for redundant manipulators with seven DoF, 2016. pp. 49-55.
DOI: | 10.1109/iccar.2016.7486697 |
File: | iccar.2016.7486697 |
Robotic ultrasound-guided SBRT of the prostate: feasibility with respect to plan quality, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery , pp. 1-11, 2016.
DOI: | 10.1007/s11548-016-1455-7 |
File: | s11548-016-1455-7 |
Robots with seven degrees of freedom: Is the additional DoF worth it?, 2016. pp. 80-84.
Feasibility of robotic ultrasound guided SBRT of the prostate, Heidelberg , 2016.
Prediction of Individual Prosthesis Size for Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Reconstruction Based on Geometric Features, Orlando, FL, USA: IEEE, 2016. pp. 3273-3276.
DOI: | 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591427 |
File: | EMBC.2016.7591427 |
Enhanced Optical Head Tracking for Cranial Radiotherapy: Supporting Surface Registration by Cutaneous Structures, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics , vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 810-817, 2016.
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.01.041 |
File: | j.ijrobp.2016.01.041 |
Dosimetric Implications of Residual Tracking Errors during Robotic SBRT of Liver Metastases, International Journal of Radiation Oncology textbullet Biology Physics , pp. accepted, 2016. Elsevier.
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.11.041 |
File: | j.ijrobp.2016.11.041 |
An improved tracking framework for ultrasound probe localization in image-guided radiosurgery, Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering , vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 409-413, 2016.
DOI: | 10.1515/cdbme-2016-0091 |
File: | cdbme-2016-0091 |

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