The Perk Lab
Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery
Name
Javier
Pascau Prof.
Short Biography
Javier Pascau is Full Professor from the Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) since 2011. He received his degree on Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1999, a Master in Biomedical Technology and Instrumentation in 2005 and his PhD from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2006. Before joining UC3M he was a research fellow at Laboratorio de Imagen Médica (Hospital Gregorio Marañón) in Madrid, where he also supervised the digital radiology migration project.
His research topics include multimodal image quantification and registration both in clinical and preclinical areas, surgical guidance by combining image studies and tracking systems and machine learning methods for medical image analysis. He has published more than 70 papers in indexed journals, is co-inventor of two patents and has contributed to several proceedings in medical and engineering meetings. As principal investigator he has led several projects from competitive calls in Health Technology Evaluation, Public-Private collaboration, National Research Plan for Societal Challenges, Technological Development and EraPerNet H2020 Consortium. He collaborates with several international research groups in Image Guided Treatments. Details of his research are found here: https://biig-igt.uc3m.es
Affiliation
Institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Department: Bioengineering
Designation: Faculty
Lab membership period: Since July 2022
Projects
Publications
| (2018). 3D Gaze tracking for skill assessment in ultrasound-guided needle insertions. Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 32nd International Congress and Exhibition. 13(Supplement 1), S52-S53. |
