PhD Student Medical Visualization at the TU Delft
Room 11.260, EEMCS Building
Office Phone: +31 (0)15 278 4698
E-mail: <N.N.Smit@tudelft.nl>
Blog
Update
This page is no longer maintained. I accepted a position at the University of Bergen as a researcher. Please find my current personal page here.
Overview
After working as a radiographer for three years, I decided to study Computer Science (Media and Knowledge Engineering track) at the TU Delft. Since April 2012 I worked as a PhD candidate in the field of medical visualization at the TU Delft in collaboration with the Anatomy and Embryology department at the LUMC in Leiden. My research project was called The Virtual Surgical Pelvis and aimed to create a detailed 3D model of the pelvic area from heterogeneous anatomical data that can be used in education and pre-operative surgical planning. I am currently employed as a researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway. I’m a contributor at medvis.org, the blog on all things medical visualization and also have my own blog.
Research
Available Master Thesis Projects
- If you’re interested in working with me for your master thesis project, please contact Dr. A. Vilanova to discuss the possibilities.
Publications






Awards
- ESSO Best Video 2nd Prize at the 34th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology in 2014
Conference contributions
On current project
- EG VCBM (Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine), Chester, UK (2015): Speaker.
- IEEE VIS, Paris, France (2014): Poster.
- STW annual congress, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (2014): Poster.
- EG VCBM (Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine), Vienna, Austria (2014): Speaker.
- STW annual congress, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands (2013): Poster.
- ICT.OPEN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2012): Speaker + Poster.
- EG VCBM (Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine), Norrköping, Sweden (2012): Poster.
- Eurovis, Vienna, Austria (2012): Speaker.
- CASA (International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents), Singapore (2012): Speaker.
On previous projects
- WEBIST (International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), Valencia, Spain (2010): Poster.
Masters projects supervised
- Berend Klein Haneveld
- Degree: MSc. in Computer Science – Media and Knowledge Engineering (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
- Thesis: RegistrationShop – an interactive 3D medical volume registration tool
- Successfully defended thesis on 26 March 2014
- Cees-Willem Hofstede
- Degree: MSc. in Computer Science – Media and Knowledge Engineering (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
- Thesis: The Online Anatomical Human – an online browser and annotation system for real human anatomy
- Successfully defended thesis on 28 March 2014