Associate Professor in Medical Robotics Télécom Physique Strasbourg / ICUBE

Curriculum Vitae

2021: Habilitation to direct research (HDR) (defended on Sept. 7, electronic document) (Rev.: A. Menciassi, P. Poignet, J.Szewczyk, Pres. J. Troccaz)
Since 2020: Head of IRMC and Healthtech Master tracks of IRIV Master
2019: Internal transfer to Telecom Physique Strasbourg (Engineering school)
2018-2020: Expert in the Health technology committee (CES 19) of French National Research Funding Agency (ANR)
2006: Recruited as Associate Pr. at University of Strasbourg (formerly Louis Pasteur University)
2005: PhD from Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, in Medical Robotics under the supervision of M. de Mathelin.
2000: Master in Photonics, Image and Cybernetics, ULP, Strasbourg. Intern at the Center for Distributed Robotics at the University of Minnesota, under the direction of N. Papanikolopoulos
2000: Engineering diploma from ENSPS shool, Strasbourg. Major in robotics.

Responsibilities

Member of the Executive Committee of the Healthtech Interdisciplinary thematic Institute
Scientific manager of Medical axis in national robotic equipment platform (TIRREX)
Head of the Healthtech track of IRIV master , funded by Healthtech ITI
Head of the IRMC track of IRIV master hosted by Telecom Physique Strasbourg (M1 IMed / M2 IRMC)
Referent for Alumni for the engineering school, responsible of yearly poll by the "Conférence des Grandes Ecoles" on former students professional future

Teaching

Associate Professor at Université de Strasbourg, attached to Télécom Physique Strasbourg, (engineering school) since February 2019 (previously at the Physics and engineering department). I mainly teach medical robotics and computer vision for student in engineering at Télécom Physique Strasbourg, mainly at the master 2 level. I also teach automatic control at the Bachelor and Master level for student in the Physics and Engineering department. .

Courses

In TPS, Healthtech Master and Third year TIS DTMI (M2 level),

CAMI in digestive surgery

Computer vision for medical robotics (pose estimation de pose, robotic registration and visual servoing)

TPS, M2 IRIV / IRMC

Registration in medical robotics.

Electronic systems and Mechatronics Bachelor (Third year)

Course and tutorials on continuous-time systems control

Micro and Nano Electronics Master (First year)

Course and tutorials on discrete-time systems control

TPS FIP Third year

Medical robotics course

Summer school on Surgical Robotics in Montpellier

Tutorial on visual servoing applied to medical robotics, given during the 10th Summer School on Surgical Robotics, on September 2021. Link to the summer school webpage

Research

My research is driven by medical applications where robotics and computer vision can be useful for improving the capabilities of surgeons. In the past years, I have been especially interested in the development of robotic solutions based on cable-driven flexible instruments and endoscopes (STRAS system) and in the use of images (endoscopic white light and OCT) to guide robotic motions (ROBOT project).

PhD theses supervision (defended theses)
- Gaelle Thomas, defended on October 2021, with J. Vappou and L. Barbé (Robotic Assistance to Blood-Brain barrier opening with focused ultrasounds), in the scope of ANR project 3BOPUS led by CEA - Neurospin (B. Larrat)
- Rafael Aleluia Porto, defended on January 2021 (Learning-based control of flexible endoscopes, partly funded by CAMI labex)
- Laure-Anaïs Chanel, thèse soutenue en mars 2016 (Traitement par HIFU robotisé sous imagerie échographique, funded by CAMI labex)
- Paolo Cabras, defendd in février 2016 : 3D Pose Estimation of Continuously Deformable Instruments in Robotic Endoscopic Surgery (funded by CAMI labex): manuscript
- Antonio De Donno, defended in December 2013 (Assistance à la chirurgie endoluminale et à trocart unique)
- Bérengère Bardou, defended in November 2011 (Développement et commande d'un système robotique pour l'assistance à la chirurgie transluminale)
- Laurent Ott, defended in November 2009 (compensation de mouvements physiologiques en endoscopie flexible). Prix de thèse de l'UDS.

Theses in progress:
- Guillaume Lods (with Benoit Rosa and Bernard Bayle), since October 2021
- Valentina Scarponi (with Stéphane Cotin, funded by Healthtech), since October 2021
- Thibault Poignonec (with Nabil Zemiti (LIRMM) and Bernard Bayle, funded by CAMI Labex), since October 2019 (Shared control for minimally invasive surgery)

Co-supervisions:
- Fernando Gonzalez Herrera, (with Benoit Rosa,Gianni Borghesan and Emmanuel Vander Poorten (KUL)) since February 2020
- Guiqiu Liao (with Michalina Gora, Benoit Rosa and Diego Dall'Alba (University Verona), since October 2019
- Paul Mondou (with Jonathan Vappou and Benoit Larrat (CEA Neurospin)), funded by CAMI Labex, since October 2020

Recent Master students
- François Lavieille
- Thibault Poignonec
- Xuan Thao Ha
- Mohamed Amine Falek

Research interests

Robotic Assistance to flexible endoscopy, STRAS project
Vision-based control for medical instruments
Estimation through vision
Trajectory planning
Cable-driven robotic systems
Image-based registration

Projects

ProteCT (2012-2016), 36 monthes, led by B. Bayle (AVR-ICube), partners: IHU Strasbourg, Siemens, funded by ARC fundation,

Development of a robot for positioning and inserting needles in non vascular interventional radiology.

EASE (2014 – 2018), 42 monthes. Coordination: ICube, funded by SATT Conectus. Partners: IRCAD, Karl Storz.
- Development of a version of the STRAS robot compatible with clinics: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02377106/
- Preclinical validation in the IRCAD: https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(19)30367-1/pdf

ROBOT (2017-2020), 48 monthes, led by Nicolas Andreff (FEMTO-ST), funded by INSERM Plan Cancer 2014-2019. Combining robotics and OCT for optical biopsies in the digestive tract.
- Post-doctoral position of Zhongkai Zhang. Robotic control of OCT for tissues scanning: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03281611/document
- Detection of flexible instruments using optical flow: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2019.00086/full

3BOPUS (2018-2021) Robotic Assistance to Blood-Brain Barrier opening with Focused Ultrasounds, funded by ANR, led by CEA Neurospin
- PhD thesis of Gaelle Thomas and Paul Mondou

ATLAS, Innovative Training Network (2019-2023), led by KU Leuven (Emmanuel Vander Poorten)
- PhD thesis of Fernando Gonzalez Herrera
- PhD thesis of Guiqiu Liao. Correction of OCT image acquisitions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841522000081?via%3Dihub, Robotic OCT acquisitions https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03274296/document

ALLEGRO-HM Endoscopic procedures guided by hyperspectral imaging

Publications

http://icube-publis.unistra.fr/?author=nageotte&allaut=or&title=&team=&platform=&national=&project=&tagmed=&year1=&year2=&=#hideMenu

Invited talks

Course on visual servoing at Summer School on Surgical Robotics (since 2011).
French-Belgian days of medical robotics in Brussels « Robotic assistance to intraluminal surgery for colorectal cancer treatment », June 14,15 2018
Rhenane association of Gastroenterology, 12/15/2018 : « Robotique en endoscopie : où en est-on en 2018 ? »
Plenary talk at Journées Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique organized by GDR robotique, oct. 2019, « Continuum robotics for intraluminal surgery – Towards safe and efficient minimally invasive surgery »

Open position for PhD thesis

We are looking for a student with background in computer vision or medical image processing for a PhD thesis to start in October 2022 on the correction of volumic OCT robotic-driven acquisitions. The complete description of the project can be found here.