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Yoshikazu Nakajima, PhD
Associate professor of Bioengineering

Education

1992

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electric and Electronic Engineering

Fukui University

1994

Master degree in Engineering, Electric and Electronic Engineering

Fukui University

1997

Ph.D. in Engineering, Information and Computer Science

Osaka University

Experience

1997-2000

Research Scientist, Information Technology R&D Center and the Headquater,
Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd

1998-2000

Research Project Team Leader, Vision 21 Wellness Business Development
Center, Head quarter, Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd.

2000-2001

Research Associate, Division of Functional Diagnostic Imaging, Osaka
University Medical School

2001-2005

Assistant Professor, Division of Multidisciplinary Image Analysis, Osaka
University Medical School

2001-2005

Assistant Professor, Department of Information and Computer Science,
School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

2005-2012

Associate Professor, Intelligent Modeling Laboratory, The University of Tokyo

2005-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo

2006-Present

Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo


Biography

Professor Yoshikazu Nakajima has PhD degree in the field of engineering from Osaka University. He is currently working as an associate professor for the university of Tokyo and active member for the Medical Imaging and Informatics (MII) Laboratory, Japan. He is having nearly 10 years of teaching experience and he also acted as a session chair for Japan-America frontier of engineering (JAFOE) symposium sponsored by national academy of engineering (NAE) in U.S. and the engineering academy of Japan (EAJ) in 2012 and A general chair of 2014 Japan-America frontier of engineering (JAFOE) symposium. Professor is having nearly 16 patents and he is the author for more than 120 original papers.

Research Interest

  • Medical image processing
  • Computer-integrated surgery
  • Surgical informatics
  • Medical/biomedical image analysis and the R&D for intelligent vision systems

Scientific Activities:

Honors and Award

2000

Center President Award, Information Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Co., ltd

2001

Presentation Paper Award, The 10th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of
Computer Aided Surgery

2002

Scientific Exhibit Award, American Society for Surgery of the Hand

2003

Presentation Paper Award, The 12th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of
Computer Aided Surgery

2003

CAS Young Investigator Award, Japanese Society of Computer Aided Surgery

2005

Incentive Award, Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology

2005

Certificate of Merit Award, 2005 Annual Meeting of Radiological Society of North
America (RSNA 2005)

2008

Best Poster Award, The 17th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Computer
Aided Surgery

2009

Best Paper Award, The 5th International Conference of Leading Edge Manufacturing in
21th Century


Publications

  1. Kim M, Kang DK, Wu T, Tabatabaei N, Carruth RW, Martinez MV, Whitesides GM, Nakajima Y, Tearney GJ: ``Miniature objective lens with variable focus for confocal endomicroscopy," Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 5, pp. 4350-4361 (2014).
  2. Y. Nakajima, T. Dohi, T. Sasama, Y. Momoi, N. Sugano, Y. Tamura, S. Lim, I. Sakuma, M. Mitsuishi, T. Koyama, K. Yonenobu, S. Ohashi, M. Bessho, I. Ohnishi: ``Surgical Tool, Alignment Guidance by Drawing Two Cross-Sectional Laser-Beam Planes," IEEE Trans. On Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 1467-1476 (2013).
  3. Y. Xu and Y. Nakajima: ``A Two-Level Predictive Event-Related Potential-Based Brain-Computer Interface," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 2839-2847 (2013).
  4. X. Qu, T. Azuma, J. T. Liang, Y. Nakajima: “Average sound speed estimation using speckle analysis of medical ultrasound data,” Int’l Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 891-899 (2012).
  5. JT. Liang, T. Doke, S. Onogi, S. Ohashi, I. Ohnishi, I. Sakuma, Y. Nakajima: ”A fluoro-laser navigation system to guide linear surgical tool insertion,” Int’l Journal of Comp Asist Radio Surg, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 931-9 (2012).
  6. T. Takeshita, M.K. Kim and Y. Nakajima: “3-D shape measurement endoscope using a single-lens system," Int’l Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 451-459 (2012).
  7. Sugita,N., Nakano,T., Nakajima,Y., Fujiwara,K., Abe,N., Ozaki,T., Suzuki,M., Mitsuishi,M.: Tool Path Generator for Bone Machining in Minimally Invasive Orthopedic Surgery," IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 471-479 (2009).
  8. Y. Nakajima, T. Tashiro, N. Sugano, K. Yonenobu, T. Koyama, Y. Maeda, Y. Tamura, M. Saito,S. Tamura, M. Mitsuishi, N. Sugita, I. Sakuma, T. Ochi, Y. Matsumoto: ``Fluoroscopic Bone Fragment Tracking for Surgical Navigations on Femur Fracture Reduction by Incorporating Optical Tracking of Hip Joint Rotation Center," IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering.
     
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