Members

 

Lab head – Professor Dan Adam

 
DanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering

Technion, Israel

Office: Silver 355

Email: dan@bm.technion.ac.il

My Site: http://www.bm.technion.ac.il/~DAN

Phone: +972(4)8294140

Fax     : +972(4)8294599

 

 

Lab members:

 

Zvi  Friedman, Ph.D.
Zvi FridmanE-mail:  zvi.friedman@med.ge.com

Cellular:  972-54-729-9594

 

 

 

Research interests:

  • Ultrasound
  • Beamforming
  • Signal processing
  • Echocardiography and strain imaging
  • Speckle tracing echocardiography

 Nahum Smirin, Ph.D.

E-mail: nsmirin@gmail.com

Phone: +647-772-1357

Research interests:

  • echocardiography strain imaging
  • Speckle tracking

Boris Gutkovich, Ph.D.

Office: Silver Bld. 361

E-mail: gboris@bm.technion.ac.il

Phone: +972-4-829-3384

Research interests:

  • combinatorial optimization
  • constraint programming
  • machine learning
  • echocardiography strain imaging

Avi Nahmany, MSc

Avi Nahmany

Office:  Silver Bld. 359

E-mail:  avi.nahmany@gmail.com

Phone:  +972-4-829-4136

 

 

Research interests:

  • Software development
  • c++
  • matlab
  • matlab coder

Ivgeni Kucherov, B.Sc.

Office:  Silver Bld. 359

E-mail:  ivgenikucherov@gmail.com

Phone:  +972-4-829-4136

 

GRADUATE STUDENTS:

 

Hanan Khamis

Hanan Khamis

Office:  Silver Bld. 359

E-mail: khamishanan@gmail.com , khhanan@tx.technion.ac.il

Phone:  +972-4-829-4136

 

 

Research interests:

  • Medical Image and signal processing
  • Speckle tracking echocardiography
  • Dictionary learning for classification

Others:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Women empowerment
  • Social activities

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, in progress (exp. September 2016): Quantitative 2D Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Function Utilizing a Constraint-Based
Algorithm.

 

Grigoriy Zurakhov

Grigoriy Zurakhov

Office: Silver Bld. 359

E-mail: grishaz@tx.technion.ac.il

Phone: +972-4-829-4136

 

 

Research interests:

  • Ultrasound Beamforming
  • Coded Excitation in Ultrasound Imaging
  • Signal/Image processing with applications in Ultrasound Imaging

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, in progress (exp. July 2017): Multi-channel coded excitation ultrasound transmission.

 

 

Shira Talmor

shira Talmor

Office: Silver Bld. 358

E-mail: Shira.alc@tx.technion.ac.il;

Phone: +972-4-829-4136

 

 

Research interests:

  • Signal & image processing
  • Clutter noise removal

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, in progress (exp. July 2016): Clutter Reduction in Echocardiographic Images by Filtering of the RF Signal.

 

Nadir Cohen

Nadir

Office: Silver Bld. 359

E-mail: nadircoh@campus.technion.ac.il

Phone: +972-4-829-4136

 

 

Research interests:

  • Carotid plaque neovasculariztion
  • 3D ultrasound image processing
  • Medical image segmentation

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, in progress (exp. July 2016): Evaluation of Flow in Carotid Plaque Neovasculature Using Three-Dimensional Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound.

 

 Amir Yahav MD.

Amir

Office:   Silver Bld. 358

E-mail: amiroosh@hotmail.com

Phone: +972-4-829-4136

 

 

Research interests:

  • Research and development of methods for assessing cardiac function by echocardiography.
  • Strain and strain rate imaging by echocardiography.

 

 Ivgeni Kucherov

Ivgeni Kucherov

Office: 357

E-mail: kucherov@bm.technion.ac.il ; ivgenikucherov@gmail.com

Phone: 0778874136

Cellular:  0547498101

Areas of interest: Image processing, C++ programming, Matlab.

Personal page: http://www.bm.technion.ac.il/~kucherov

 

 

Alumni:

 Ph.D. THESES 

Avinoam Bar-Zion
Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, in progress (exp. December 2015): Angiogenesis Imaging using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography

Amit Livneh

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, in progress (exp. December 2015): Extracorporeal Acute Cardiac Pacing by High Intensity Focused Ultrasound.

Shlomo Gilat

D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1989: Analysis and classification of body surface potential maps. (Prof. S. Sideman co-supervisor).

Ilia Vitsnudel

D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1991: The study of variance of body surface potential maps.

Arkadi Glukhovsky

D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1995: Myocyte calcium dynamics as related to pulsus alternans.  (Prof. S. Sideman co-supervisor).

Shay Levy

D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1997: Study of the improvement of electrical impedance tomography by using magnetic fields measurements for current densities estimation.

Giora Landesberg, M.D.

D.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1997: Role of autonomic nervous system in post-operative ischemia. (Prof. S. Akselrod co-supervisor).

Burstein Pablo

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2002: Blood flow orientation from Doppler ultrasound measurements.

Oleg Michaelovich:

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, 2003:  Improvement of ultrasound imaging tissue characterization by sub-aperture receiver.

Daniel Razansky

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering,. June 2006: Optimization of energy absorption in biological media for hyperthermic therapy. (Dr. P. Inziger co-supervisor).

Dan Rappaport

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, June 2007: Study of the Myocardial Electrical and Mechanical Regional Activation Sequences.

Noa Bachner

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, March 2010: Myocardial ultrasound phase imaging.

Michael Lysyansky

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, December 2009: Sparse representation of ultrasound images. (Dr. M. Zibulevsky co-supervisor).

Assaf Hoogi

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, September 2012: Quantification of carotid plaque volume and neovascularization.

Yossi Tsadok

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, June 2014: Cardiac Function/Substrate analysis using fusion of Cardiac-MRI and Echocardiographic images.

 

 

M.Sc. THESES

 

  1. Ofer Hareuveni

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, December 1985: Definition of features and closed    morphologies in images.

  1. Avi Zilberstein

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, November 1986: Study of the electrical activity of the        cardiac ventricles.

  1. Paul Friedman

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1987: A portable system for the analysis of minute changes    in heart rate.

  1. Dan Shavit

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, November 1987: Study of the correlation between Doppler    echocardiography and fetal ECG.

  1. Noch Friedland

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1988: Ultrasound boundary definition using stochastic           relaxation.

  1. Nir Hoffman

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1989: Matched adaptive filters for late potentials detection.

  1. Pascal Levi

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1990: Study of the generation of cardiac electrical sources     and their representation on the body surfaces.

  1. Orit Ronen

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1992:  Study of arrhythmia generation by finite-elements    modeling.

  1. Ariela Kamin

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1992: Global-local model of conditioning in the auditory    cortex.

  1. Yoram Wasserman

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1992:  Modeling and analysis of gating processes in ion          channels. (Prof. Y. Palti co-supervisor).

  1. Ronen Einat

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1992: Analysis of the heart pacemaker using a model and    signal analysis of heart rate variability.

  1. Shai Levy

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1992:  Classification of Gabor transformed Body Surface      Potential Maps by neural network classifier.

  1. Ivona Riemer

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1993:  Bispectral analysis of heart rate variability.

  1. Alexander Baylin

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1993:  Solving the inverse problem in electrocardiography   by neural nets: Calculation of epicardial potential maps.

  1. Elbaz Dalia

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1996: Inaccuracies of estimating flow velocity using cross   sectional Doppler ultrasound images.

  1. Gutman Orly

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1997: The relation between reactive forces and EMG of leg            muscles in standing sway. (Primary supervisor: Prof. J. Mizrahi).

  1. Klebanov Sergei

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1997: Reducing muscle artifacts in ECG and RPG recordings.

  1. Ran Revhon

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 1999: Boundary recognition of organs in ultrasound            imaging.

  1. Ram Krips

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 1999: Spatial/Temporal detection and feature extraction of     flow properties in dynamic vessels by Doppler ultrasound.

  1. Elina Burla

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2002: The study of noninvasive pressure estimation using    ultrasound contrast agents.

  1. Ronen Gabbai

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2002: Acoustic parameter estimation in biological tissue,     and the analysis of their changes as a result of heating.

  1. Dan Rappaport

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2002:  Study of cardiac tissue deformation and deformation           rate for investigating the cardiac sequence of activation.

  1. Olga Zviagintseva

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2002:  Improving image resolution by harmonic imaging      techniques.

  1. Haddas Yifrach-Weiss

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2002: Measuring by ultrasound temperature changes of       tissue heated by laser.

  1. Ben-Yishay Bet-Lachmy

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2002: Study of the interaction between ultrasound pressure field and laser beam in biological medium. (Prof. M. Horowitz co-supervisor).

  1. Guy Chevel

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2003:  Improving resolution of ultrasound images using       optimisation methods.

  1. Michal Sapuner

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2003: Study of the controlling parameters of hydrostatic     pressure estimation, based on non-linear properties of Contrast microbubbles.

  1. Raisa Raukhverger

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2003:  The study of transient changes of Echogenicity in     ultrasound images of heated tissue.

  1. Tal Ben-Harim

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2004:  Quantification of        heart perfusion using Contrast Doppler. (Dr. A. Landesberg co-supervisor).

  1. Simona Beilin

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2004:  Study of Spatial and Frequency Compounding for speckle Reduction.

  1. Dikla Sisman

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2004: Study of ultrasound imaging as a method for controlling ultrasonic hyperthermic treatment.

  1. Moris Zviri

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2006: Real-time control of RF-ablation by ultrasound.

  1. Nili Vitek

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, 2006: Quantifying the spatial and temporal distribution of myocardial strain by ultrasound. (Prof. R. Beyar co-supervisor).

  1. Amir Kishon

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, August 2007: Study of the processes involved in cardiac stimulation by ultrasound pulses in the presence of contrast agent.

  1. Alon Abrahami

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, November 2007: Design of a myocardial pacing system based on focused ultrasound.

  1. Meytal Lempel

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, February 2008: 3D Speckle Tracking in Ultrasound Data.

  1. Nir Zaguri

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, August 2009: Quantification of regional myocardial strain by Sparse Representation.

  1. Anat Roitberg

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, October 2009:  Study of efficient pacing of the myocardium using external high intensity focused ultrasound.

  1. Itai Vinkler

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, March 2010: Real Time Monitoring of Thermal Ablation with Ultrasound.

  1. Ran Marom

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, August 2011: Improvement of Spatial Resolution using Optimal Matched Filters in Medical Ultrasound Imaging. Co-advisor Dr. Zvi Friedman.

  1. Shlomi Harpaz

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, August 2011: Optimization of the Ultrasonic Pressure Field for Viscoelastic  Imaging of malignant soft Tissues.

  1. Anat Livne

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, August 2011: Subharmonic imaging of neovascularization using ultrasound contrast agents microbubbles.

  1. Tzvi Goldman

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, March 2012: MRI/Ultrasound Image Registration for Analysis of Cardiac Function.

  1. Shlomo Liron

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, November 2012: Early detection of small endocardial infarction in a rat model of ischemia-reperfusion utilizing echocardiography.

  1. Rebecca Nataf

M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, June 2013: Improvement of spatial resolution of ultrasound images using blind deconvolution when transmit and receive beams are at different orientations. Co-advisor Dr. Zvi Friedman.

 

M.D.  Basic Sciences THESES

 

  1. Michel Soybelman, M.D.

Basic Sciences in Biomedical Engineering, 1985: Estimation error analysis of left ventricular   volume measurement by long axis scanning echocardiography.

  1. Ilan Or, M.D.

Basic Sciences in Biomedical Engineering, 1987: Study of exercise testing left ventricular       wall motion abnormalities by curvature analysis.

  1. Reuver Achiron, M.D.

Basic Sciences in Biomedical Engineering, 1987: Fetal neonatal lung tissue characterization    by 2-D echocardiography.

  1. Amir Weisman, M.D.

Basic Sciences in Biomedical Engineering, 1987: Neonatal stress estimation by heart rate        variability analysis.

  1. Asher Pressman, M.D.

Basic Sciences in Biomedical Engineering, 1992:  Coronary arteries flow patterns under          different pacing conditions.

  1. Robert Drago, M.D.

Basic Sciences in Biomedical Engineering, 2005:  Heart Rate Variability as a predictor of Success of Myocardial Reperfusion therapy.

  1. Sobhi Abadi, M.D.

Basic Sciences in Biomedical Engineering, 2005:  Real time ultrasound monitoring of thermal changes during in vitro radiofrequency ablation of bovine liver