Projects | Pedro Perrusi

Sperry

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Brain and scalp MRI segmentation

Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the IT for healthcare engineering program, the University of Strasbourg and partner companies propose a project to accomplished throughout school year. The company Axilum Robotics presented their need for an MRI brain and scalp segmentation tool.

Project requirements:

Developed in C#, using libraries VTK and SimpleITK
Compatible to the company Visual Studio workspace
Run in less than a minute

At the end of the project, both a semi-automatic and an automatic solutions were proposed to segment the scalp and the brain. The patient’s scalp was segmented using an automatic method based on morphological operations of dilatation and contour extraction. In order to segment the brain, a semi-automatic method based on region growing was implemented and required the user to select some points inside the brain. Both the solutions respect the project requirements and were validated by Axilum Robotics and the school tutors.

Hacking Health Camp 2019 - Kick the Cat

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Kick the Cat is a Serious game to promote physical activities using the 6 minutes walk test. A group of passionate volunteers met in Hacking Health Camp Strasbourg to work on the idea proposed by Indoor Santé. During the the weekend, we matured the idea and built a working prototype using Unity 3D, augmented reality and GPS tracking.

Awards

Jensen Award in Hacking Health Camp 2019

CLARA

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

CLARA is a robotic endoscope holder for laparoscopy developed at the automation and robotics lab LARA at the University of Brasília (UnB). The project was requested and founded by the Brazilian ministry of healthcare with the perspective to integrate the country unified healthcare system (SUS) in the future.

Research and development counted with three professors and over 20 master and undergraduate students from 2015 until 2019. My personal role was in the image acquisition and computer vision features of the system from 2015 until 2018. In 2019, a startup spin-off was created to advance the technology to clinical trials and closer to the market. For more information on the most recent news be sure to check the official website.

Awards

Honorable mention in the Science, Technology and Innovation Award for the Brazilian healthcare system in 2017.
Best paper presentation in the XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering for the work of Fernanda Melo and Mariana Bernardes in 2019.
Winner of Johnson & Johnson Latin America Innovation Challenge 2019 as a startup spin-off.

Publications

Melo F.A., Bernardes M.C. (2019) Virtual Reality Simulator for Laparoscopic Procedures Performed with a Robotic Endoscope Holder. XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 70/1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2119-1_113
Miranda G., Perruci P. H. S., Vergara R.; Bernardes M.C. (2016) Edges Based Surgical Instrument Tracking in Laparoscopic Images. XXV Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering.