Dr Rudy Lapeer

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Senior Lecturer	R dot Lapeer at uea dot ac dot uk Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2305	Sciences 2.33

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Biography

Rudy Lapeer obtained an MSc in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction at University College Ghent (Belgium) in July 1988. His first job was as a production engineer at VOLVO Cars Europe in Ghent where he worked for three years. In 1992 he moved back to academia and took up the post of Software Engineer at the Department of Medical Informatics, University of Ghent (RUG). Meanwhile he embarked on a part-time MSc degree in Computer Science which he completed in 1993 with Distinction. He was then offered a Research Associate position at the University of Cambridge, working on the EU funded project Euro-Punch which involved the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes from clinical data. He started a PhD at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge in 1996, funded by the EPSRC, which he successfully completed in 1999. He was subsequently offered a Senior Research Fellowship at the Department of Medical Physics and Bio-engineering at University College London (UCL) working on an EPSRC funded project on augmented reality surgical navigation (CASSPAR). In 2001 he also worked as a Software Consultant for the UCL based company MTT (Medical Technology Transfer). In 2002, he was appointed as a Lecturer at the School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia. In the academic year 2007-8, he received the UEA’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer in 2010.

Key Research Interests

My research interests are in medical visualisation, surgical navigation and simulation, physics simulation and biomechanics. In the broader context this encompasses computer graphics, computer animation, computer vision, mechanics, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), finite element analysis (FEA) and numerical methods.

Below are a number of links to projects I have been working on:

Surgical Navigation - We developed a hardware/software platform, called ARView, for image enhanced (augmented reality) surgical navigation. This is in particular aimed at ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat) surgery where the stereoscopic surgical microscope and the rigid sinus endoscope are used as intra-operative imaging devices.
Medical Visualisation - In collaboration with Dr. Roger Rowland from RMR Systems we developed 3DView which is a software solution aimed at the rendering and post-processing of medical image data from different modalities (X-ray CT, MRI, PET). This is an ongoing project and additional features are frequently added.
Surgical Simulation - We use advanced computer graphics solutions with hardware acceleration, explicit finite element (FE) algorithms and haptic feedback to simulate open surgery procedures. In this context, we have also performed a series of in-vitro experiments on human skin to assess its hyper- and visco-elastic properties.
Human Childbirth Biomechanics - We have studied fetal head moulding using finite element analysis and more recently investigated the effect of forceps delivery on the fetal head and the biomechanics of shoulder dystocia.
Vehicle Dynamics - VPEX
Trotting Horse

Rudy Lapeer is part of the Computer Graphics Group

Medical computing

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Selected Publications:

Lapeer R., Chen M.S., Gonzalez G., Linney A. and Alusi G. Image-enhanced surgical navigation for endoscopic sinus surgery: evaluating calibration, registration and tracking. International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. 2008(4):32-45, DOI: 10.1002/rcs.175.

Lapeer R.J., Shah S.K. and Rowland R.S. An optimised radial basis function algorithm for fast non-rigid registration of medical images. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 40(2010):1-7.

Lapeer, R. J. and Prager, R. W. "Fetal head moulding: finite element analysis of a fetal skull subjected to uterine pressures during the first stage of labour." Journal of Biomechanics 34(9): 1125-1133, 2001.

Lapeer R.J. and Prager R.W. 3D shape recovery of a newborn skull using thin-plate splines. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 24(3)193-204, 2000.

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Teaching Interests

Rudy teaches Mathematics in the 1st year UG courses; Computer Graphics in the 2nd year UG courses; Computer Games and Advanced Programming at M-level.

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Article

Lapeer, R. J., Gasson, P. D. and Karri, V. (2010) A Hyperelastic Finite Element Model of Human Skin for Interactive Real-Time Surgical Simulation. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. ISSN 0018-9294 (In Press)

Lapeer, R. J., Shah, S. K. and Rowland, R. S. (2010) An optimised radial basis function algorithm for fast non-rigid registration of medical images. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 40 (1). pp. 1-7.

Lapeer, R. J., Gasson, P. D. and Karri, V. (2010) Simulating plastic surgery: from human skin tensile tests, through hyperelastic finite element models to real-time haptics. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 103 (2-3). pp. 208-216. ISSN 0079-6107

Gonzalez Garcia, Gerardo and Lapeer, Rudy (2009) An Evaluation of Photo-consistency for Intra-operative Registration in an Image Enhanced Surgical Navigation (IESN) System. Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA09). pp. 229-233.

Lapeer, R., Chen, M. S., Gonzalez, G., Linney, A. and Alusi, G. (2008) Image-enhanced surgical navigation for endoscopic sinus surgery: evaluating calibration, registration and tracking. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 4 (1). pp. 32-45. ISSN 1478-596X

Chen, M. S., Gonzalez-Garcia, G. and Lapeer, R. J. (2007) Intra-operative registration for image enhanced endoscopic sinus surgery using photo consistency. MMVR15 proceedings, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 125. pp. 67-72. ISSN 0926-9630

Gasson, P. and Lapeer, R. J. (2007) In Vitro Skin-Tissue Experiment for Increased Realism in Open Surgery Simulations. MMVR15 proceedings, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 125. pp. 143-145.

Lapeer, Rudy J., Gasson, Paul, Florens, Jean-Loup, Laycock, Stephen D. and Karri, Vasu (2004) Introducing a Novel Haptic Interface for the Planning and Simulation of Open Surgery. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 98. pp. 197-199. ISSN 0926-9630

Lapeer, R. J. and Prager, R. W. (2001) Fetal head moulding: finite element analysis of a fetal skull subjected to uterine pressures during the first stage of labour. Journal of Biomechanics, 34 (9). pp. 1125-1133. ISSN 0021-9290

Lapeer, R. J. A. and Prager, R. W. (2000) 3D shape recovery of a newborn skull using thin-plate splines. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 24 (3). pp. 193-204. ISSN 0895-6111

Book Section

Lapeer, R. J. (2005) A mechanical contact model for the simulation of obstetric forceps in a virtual/augmented environment. In: Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13: The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 111 . IOP Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 284-289. ISBN 978-1-58603-498-6

Lapeer, R. J., Tan, A. C. and Aldridge, R. V. (2002) Active watersheds: combining 3D watershed segmentation and active contours to extract abdominal organs from MR images. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention — MICCAI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2488 . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 596-603. ISBN 978-3-540-44224-0

Lapeer, R. J., Chios, P., Linney, A. D., Alusi, G. and Wright, K. M. (2001) HCI: The next step towards optimization of Computer-Assisted Surgical Planning, Intervention and Training (CASPIT). In: Human Computer Interaction: Issues and Challenges. IGI Global, pp. 232-246. ISBN 978-1878289919

Lapeer, R. J., Chios, P., Alusi, G., Linney, A. D., Davey, M. K. and Tan, A. C. (2000) Computer-assisted ENT surgery using augmented reality: Preliminary results on the CAESAR project. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1935 . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 42-52. ISBN 978-3-540-41189-5

Conference or Workshop Item

Shah, S. K., Rowland, R. S. and Lapeer, R. J. (2009) Fast non-rigid registration of medical image data for image guided surgery. In: Proceedings of the AMI-ARCS satellite workshop of MICCAI09, 24. September 2009, London, UK.

Gasson, P. and Lapeer, R. (2009) Fitting hyperelastic material models to stress-strain data from an in-vitro experiment on human skin. In: Proceedings of the Internation Conference on Polymers and Moulds Innovations (PMI) 17-18 September, Ghent, Belgium.

Gonzalez Garcia, Gerardo and Lapeer, Rudy (2009) Using Photo-consistency for Intra-operative Registration in Augmented Reality based Surgical Navigation. In: Proceedings of the AMI-ARCS satellite workshop of MICCAI09.

Lapeer, Rudy and Gonzalez-Garcia, G. (2009) Augmented Reality based Surgical Navigation system software for minimally invasive surgery. In: Proceedings of the AMI-ARCS satellite workshop of MICCAI09.

Shah, S. K., Rowland, R.S. and Lapeer, Rudy (2009) Fast non-rigid registration of medical image data. In: Proceedings of the AMI-ARCS satellite workshop of MICCAI09, 24. September 2009, London, UK.

Lapeer, R. and Chen, M.S. (2008) A brief account on 3D Image enhanced surgical navigation (IESN). In: Conference proceedings of Knowledge Transfer through Partnership: Delivering Innovation in Healthcare.

Rowland, R.S. and Lapeer, R. J. (2008) Fast non-rigid registration of medical images: comparing the thin-plate and biharmonic splines. In: Proceedings of the twelfth annual conference in medical image understanding and analysis.

Heatley, D. J. T., Rowland, R., Bell, G. D., Rowland, M. K., Hegarty, D .L., Smith, S. L., Dodd, N., Calvert, R., Scott, I. H. K., Rae, D. and Lapeer, R. J. (2006) A new laptop-based DICOM viewer for in-theatre procedures, multi-site MDT meetings and networked training. In: Health Informatics — Making the Difference, 20-22 March 2006, Harrogate, England.

Marsland, S. and Lapeer, R. J. (2005) Physics-based animation of a trotting horse in a Virtual Environment. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation, 6-8 July 2005.

Chen, M. S., Lapeer, R. J. and Rowland, R. (2005) Real-time rendering of radially distorted virtual scenes for endoscopic image augmentation. In: Proceedings of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR13) Conference.

Lapeer, R. J., Chen, M. S. and Villagrana, J. (2004) An augmented reality based simulation of obstetric forceps delivery. In: Proceedings of the Third IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR04, 2-5 Nov 2004, Arlington, VA, USA.

Lapeer, R. J., Chen, M. S. and Villagrana, J. (2004) Simulating Obstetric Forceps Delivery in an Augmented Environment. In: Proceedings of AMI/ARCS satellite workshop of MICCAI'04, September 30th, 2004, Rennes, France.

Gasson, P., Lapeer, R. J. and Linney, A. D. (2004) Modelling techniques for enhanced realism in an Open Surgery simulation. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2004), 14-16 July 2004, London, England.

Lapeer, R. J., Rowland, R. and Chen, M. S. (2004) PC-based Volume Rendering for Medical Visualisation and Augmented Reality based Surgical Navigation. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV 2004), 14-16 July 2004, London, England.

Hancock, J., Nylander, D., Abro, H., Burn, K., Bicker, R., Allen, C. R., Lapeer, R. J. and Bell, G. D. (2004) Basic Colonoscopy: Hoken colon model or computer simulator for teaching torque steering skills? In: British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, 21-24 March 2004, Glasgow, Scotland.

Smith, S., Rae, D., Rowland, R., Lapeer, R. J. and Bell, G. D. (2004) Experience with a laptop-based 3D DICOM reader at MDT meetings in DGH. In: British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, 21-24 March 2004, Glasgow, Scotland.

Pearce, D., Ryder, G., Lapeer, R.J. and Day, A.M. (2004) Exploiting Partial Visibility for Optimised Crowd Scene Rendering. In: Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation.

Lapeer, R. J., Tan, A. C., Linney, A. D. and Alusi, G. (2003) Stereo depth assessment experiment for microscope-based surgery. In: The Second IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ISMAR '03, 7-10 Oct 2003.

Gasson, P., Lapeer, R. J. and Karri, V. (2003) Inguinal Herniotomy Simulation and Planning using Virtual Reality. In: Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery - CARS'03, 25-28 June 2003, London, UK.

Lapeer, R. J. and Tan, A. C. (2003) Assessing the use of a flat panel stereo LCD display for augmented reality ENT surgery. In: International Symposium on Computer Aided Surgery around the Head, CAS-H, February 27-March 1, 2003, Interlaken, Switzerland.

Lapeer, R. J., Tan, A. C. and Aldridge, R. V. (2002) A combined approach to 3D medical image segmentation using marker-based watersheds and active contours: the active watershed method. In: Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2002), 22-23 July 2002, Portsmouth, UK.

Lapeer, R. J., Chios, P., Alusi, G., Linney, A. D., Davey, M. K. and Tan, A. C. (2000) Augmented Reality for ENT surgery: an overview of the CAESAR project. In: International ICSC Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications, Wollongong, Australia.

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External Activities and Indicators of Esteem

Member of EPSRC College

Business Fellow with the London Technology Network (LTN) 2007-2009

Reviewer for several international renowned journals and conferences

Key Responsibilities

Director of Admissions and External Relations
Course Director of the BSc in Computing Science, Imaging and Multimedia
Course Director of the MSc in Games Development
Medical Research Coordinator

Faculty

Computing Sciences