Ramin Shahidi

Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Neurosurgery

Research Interests
Design and implementation of advanced computerized surgical tools for improved minimally invasive resection of brain lesions.

Email
shahidi@stanford.edu

Phone
498-7958

Fax
724-4846

Address
S-006A
Mail Code: 5327

Faculty Research Description
Ramin Shahidi received a B.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts in 1987, and an M.S. in biomedical engineering (bio-instrumentation) from Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey in 1990. He also received an M.S. in biomedical science (bio-materials) from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in 1990. In 1995, he completed a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering (biomedical imaging and biomedical sciences) from both Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. From 1995 to 1996, he worked as an imaging scientist, and later became the manager of medical programs at Vital Images Inc. Presently he is a research assistant professor and director of the Image Guidance Laboratories (IGL) at the department of neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Shahidi's primary research interests lie in pre-operative surgical planning and intra-operative volumetric image navigation techniques and apparatuses. His current research projects focus on "Image Enhanced Endoscopy", "Three Dimensional Ultrasonic Navigation" and "Intraoperative X-Ray and Flouroscopic Registration". Such techniques involve both research and the utilization of concepts such as real-time volume rendering of medical images, robotic-surgery, deformable models (in order to predict tissue movement during surgery), virtual user interfaces for surgeons, and deploying software for interfacing artificial intelligence machinery to the modern operating room's instrumentations such as ultrasound machines, endoscopes, surgical microscopes and stereotactic units.

Shahidi's ultimate goal is to make surgical procedures safer and less invasive. By bridging the gap between engineering research concepts and the medical sciences, he hopes to develop novel ideas, which, in turn, would result in advances in health care.

Shahidi R, Tombropoulos R, Grzeszczuk R, A Suvey of Volumetric Medical Imaging: Techniques and Applications, accepted for Proceddings of IEEE, TBP March 1998.

Shahidi R, Mathematics to the Aid of Surgeons (chapter): "GEOMETRY AT WORK",, Edited by Catherine Gorini, Academy of Mathematics, NewYork, To be published in January 2001.

Shahidi R, Argiro V, Napel S, Gray L, McAdams P, Rubin G, Beaulieu C, Jeffrey B, Johnson A, Assessment of Several Virtual Endoscopy Techniques using CT and Perspective Volume Rendering. Visualization in Biomedical Computing: 4th Int. Conf. Proc., Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 1996, pp 521-528.

McAdams P, Shahidi R, Argiro V, Tapson V, Kurylo W, Chotas H, Virtual Bronchoscopy: Assessment of Bronchial Anastamoses following Lung Transplantation using Helical CT and Perspective Volume Rendering Techniques. Proc. Int. Symp. on Comp. and Comm. Syst. for Image Guid. Diag. and Therapy, Springler. NewYork 1996, pp 112-119.

Shahidi R, Mezrich R, Silver D, A Proposed Simulation of Volumetric Image Navigation using a Surgical Microscope. Journal of Image Guided Surgery, Vol. 5, July 15, 1996.

Areas of Study
SBRC