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)

2018

Philipp Jauer, Ivo Kuhlemann, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
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
Jannis Hagenah, Maximilian Hillemanns, Gereon Hüttmann, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Image-based analysis of individual movement patterns of C. elegans, International Conference on Systems Biology 2018 , 2018.
Martin A. Koch, Jannis Hagenah, Maximilian Wattenberg, and Floris Ernst,
Learning motion artefacts in non - Cartesian magnetic resonance imaging, Biomedical Technology/Biomedizinische Technik , vol. 63, no. S1, pp. S280, 2018.
DOI:10.1515/bmt-2018-6051
File: bmt-2018-6051

2017

Ivo Kuhlemann, Markus Kleemann, Philipp Jauer, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
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
Mohammed Al-Badri, Svenja Ipsen, Sven Böttger, and Floris Ernst,
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.
Jirapong Manit, Christina Bremer, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
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
Stefan Gerlach, Ivo Kuhlemann, Floris Ernst, Christoph Fürweger, and Alexander Schlaefer,
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
Sven Böttger, Svenja Ipsen, Mohammed Al-Badri, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Force sensitive robotics for automated ultrasonic diagnostics and therapy, Dresden: De Gruyter, 2017. pp. s103-s108.
Marco Horn, Floris Ernst, Erik Stahlberg, Jan Peter Goltz, Marcus Wiedner, and Markus Kleemann,
Experimental visualization of vascular structures using Microsoft HoloLens, 2017. pp. 33.
Jirapong Manit, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Deep Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Forehead Tissue Thickness Estimation from NIR Laser Backscattering Images, Dresden, Germany; Dresden , 2017. pp. submitted.
File:
Ivo Kuhlemann, and Floris Ernst,
A safety module for active joint limit avoidance and intuitive hand guidance of a robotic ultrasound system, Springer, 2017. pp. 38-39.
Marco Horn, Jan Peter Goltz, Erik Stahlberg, Nils Papenberg, Floris Ernst, and Markus Kleemann,
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
File: ESVB 2017_KLEEMANN.pdf

2016

Stefan Gerlach, Ivo Kuhlemann, Philipp Jauer, Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Christoph Fürweger, and Alexander Schlaefer,
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
Ivo Kuhlemann, P. Jauer, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
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
S. Gerlach, Ivo Kuhlemann, Floris Ernst, C. Fuerweger, and A. Schlaefer,
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
Ivo Kuhlemann, Achim Schweikard, Philipp Jauer, and Floris Ernst,
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
Ivo Kuhlemann, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
Robots with seven degrees of freedom: Is the additional DoF worth it?, 2016. pp. 80-84.
Philipp Jauer, Ivo Kuhlemann, Floris Ernst, and Achim Schweikard,
GPU-based real-time 3D workspace generation of arbitrary serial manipulators, 2016. pp. 56-61.
DOI:10.1109/iccar.2016.7486698
File: iccar.2016.7486698
Jannis Hagenah, Erik Werrmann, Michael Scharfschwerdt, Floris Ernst, and Christoph Metzner,
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
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Christian Erdmann, Christin-Sophie Deutz, Benjamin Sack, Jirapong Manit, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
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
Mark Chan, Melanie Grehn, Florian Cremers, Frank-Andre Siebert, Stefan Wurster, Stefan Huttenlocher, Jürgen Dunst, Guido Hildebrandt, Achim Schweikard, Dirk Rades, Floris Ernst, and Oliver Blanck,
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
Svenja Ipsen, Ralf Bruder, Philipp Jauer, Floris Ernst, Oliver Blanck, and Achim Schweikard,
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
Stefan Gerlach, Ivo Kuhlemann, Philipp Jauer, Ralf Bruder, Floris Ernst, Christoph Fürweger, and Alexander Schlaefer,
Feasibility of robotic ultrasound guided SBRT of the prostate, Heidelberg , 2016.

2015

Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Ralf Bruder, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Enhanced Tissue Thickness Computation by Exploiting Local Neighborhoods, Barcelona, Spain , 2015.
Tobias Wissel, Patrick Stüber, Benjamin Wagner, Achim Schweikard, and Floris Ernst,
Tissue Segmentation from Head MRI: A Ground Truth Validation for Feature-Enhanced Tracking, Lübeck, Germany , 2015. pp. S184.
DOI:10.1515/bmt-2015-5008
File: bmt-2015-5008