Associate professor of Bioengineering
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Department of Bioengineering
The University of Tokyo
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Phone: + 81-3-5802-4854
E-mail: nakajima@image.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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, |
1998-2000 |
Research Project Team Leader, Vision 21 Wellness Business Development |
2000-2001 |
Research Associate, Division of Functional Diagnostic Imaging, Osaka |
2001-2005 |
Assistant Professor, Division of Multidisciplinary Image Analysis, Osaka |
2001-2005 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Information and Computer Science, |
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, |
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 |
2002 |
Scientific Exhibit Award, American Society for Surgery of the Hand |
2003 |
Presentation Paper Award, The 12th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of |
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 |
2008 |
Best Poster Award, The 17th Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Computer |
2009 |
Best Paper Award, The 5th International Conference of Leading Edge Manufacturing in |
Publications
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.