Francois Malan, M.Sc.
TU Delft: EWI Building, Room HB 11.260 (Thursdays only)
Leiden : LUMC, K5 Room 86 (Friday)
Office Phone: +31(0)15-278-3107 (Delft), +31(0)71-526-2852 (Leiden)
e-mail <fmalan AT medvis.org>
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Overview

Currently I am a PhD candidate at the LUMC in Leiden, working in conjunction with the TU Delft. Since April 2008 my research involves image processing and visualization, as applied to minimally invasive refixation of hip prostheses. For this project I take an active part in developing software tools to visually aid a surgeon in preoperative planning and analysis of CT images of the hip.

Research

Minimally invasive refixation of hip prostheses

Publications

D.F. Malan, C.P. Botha and E.R. Valstar,
Voxel classification and graph cuts for automated segmentation of pathological periprosthetic hip anatomy,
in International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 8(1), pp 63-74, 2013. (click for details)

D.F. Malan, C.P. Botha, G. Kraaij, R.M.S. Joemai, H.J.L. van der Heide, R.G.H.H. Nelissen, and E.R. Valstar,
Measuring femoral lesions despite CT metal artefacts: a cadaveric study,
in Skeletal Radiology 41(5), pp 547-555, 2012. (click for details)

G. Kraaij, D.F. Malan, H.J.L. van der Heide, J. Dankelman, R.G.H.H. Nelissen and E.R. Valstar,
Comparison of Ho:YAG laser and coblation for interface tissue removal in minimally invasive hip refixation procedures,
in Medical Engineering & Physics 34(3), pp 370-377, 2012. (click for details)

D.F. Malan, C.P. Botha, R.G. Nelissen, and E.R. Valstar,
Voxel classification of periprosthetic tissues in clinical computed tomography of loosened hip prostheses,
in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium On Biomedical Imaging, pp. 1341-1344, 2010. (click for details)

Conference contributions

On current project

CAOS2010 (Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery), Versailles, France (2010). Speaker.
MISP (Medical Imaging Symposium for Phds), Leiden, The Netherlands (2010). Speaker.
IEEE Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2010). Poster.
STW Jaarcongres, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (2009). Poster.

On previous projects

CMG Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Beit Gavri’el, Israel (2006). Speaker.
SANUM Applied Mathematics conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa (2006). Speaker.
IAA International Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, Berlin, Germany (2005). Speaker.
SANUM Applied Mathematics conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa (2005). Speaker.

Masters projects supervised

Christian Kehl
- Degree: M.Eng. in Multimedia Engineering (TU Delft, The Netherlands + University of Applied Science in Wismar, Germany)
- Thesis: Conformal multi-material mesh generation from labelled medical volumes
- Successfully defended thesis on 30 March 2012
Renata Raidou
- Degree: M.Sc. in Biomechanical Engineering (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
- Thesis: Visualization for the planning and guidance of minimally invasive cement injection in orthopaedics
- Successfully defended tesis on 25 October 2012
Bas van den Berg
- Degree: M.Sc. in Biomechanical Engineering (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
- Thesis: Optimally generating DRRs for guiding percutaneous cement injection

Recent publications

Publications in 2016

A fluoroscopy-based planning and guidance software tool for minimally invasive hip refixation by cement injection

Daniel F. Malan, Stefan van der Walt, Renata Georgia Raidou, Bas van den Berg, Berend C. Stoel, Charl P. Botha, Rob. G. H. H. Nelissen, Edward R. Valstar

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, Volume 11, Number 2, page 281--296 - 2016

Publications in 2014