Areas of Focus
- Medical image processing
- Pattern recognition
- Robot vision
- Computer graphics
- Computer-assisted minimally invasive surgery
- Computer-assisted diagnosis and treatment
- Surgical navigation
- Surgical robots
Work Experience
- 1999-2003 - Robarts Research Institute, Canada, Researcher
- 2003-2009 - School of Telecommunications, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Faculty Member
- 2009-present - Med-X Research Institute, School of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1999 - PhD in Computer Science, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
- First inventor of 25 national invention patents
Publications
- Vesselness-constrained robust PCA for vessel enhancement in X-ray coronary angiograms, Zhang Jingyang, Wang Guotai, Xie Hongzhi, Zhang Shuyang, Shi Zhenghui, Lixu Gu, 2018
- A new segmentation framework based on sparse shape composition in liver surgery planning system, Guotai Wang, Shaoting Zhang, Feng Li, Lixu Gu, 2013
- Intra-Operative 2-D Ultrasound and Dynamic 3-D Aortic Model Registration for Magnetic Navigation of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, Zhe Luo, Junfeng Cai, Terry M. Peters, Lixu Gu, 2013
- A Homotopy-Based Sparse Representation for Fast and Accurate Shape Prior Modeling in Liver Surgical Planning, Wang G., Zhang S., Xie H., Metaxas D.N., Lixu Gu, 2015
- Pulmonary nodule detection in CT images based on shape constraint CV model, Wang.B, Tian.X, Wang.Q, Yang.Y, Xie.H, Zhang.S, Lixu Gu, 2015
Awards
- 2012: Second Prize, Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award
- 2014: First Prize, Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award
