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Étienne Léger

I completed a Ph.D. in the applied perception lab. My primary focus was building new augmented reality visualization techniques to facilitate surgical interventions. I built a prototype tablet application communicating through OpenIGTLink to the IbisNeuronav system to generate an overlay of pre-segmented structures with the real-time camera view [5]. The application has been tested on iOS with Ibis, but it should also work in conjunction with Slicer and with minor changes could run on Android devices as well.

My previous experience was in computational geometry, specifically automatic detection of intersection on parametric surfaces.

Publications

  1. Asadi, Z., Asadi, M., Kazemipour, N., Léger, É., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2024). A decade of progress: bringing mixed reality image-guided surgery systems in the operating room. Computer Assisted Surgery, 29(1), 2355897. https://doi.org/10.1080/24699322.2024.2355897
  2. Kögl, F. V.*, Léger, É.*, Haouchine, N., Torio, E., Juvekar, P., Navab, N., Kapur, T., Pieper, S., Golby, A., Frisken, S. (2023). A Tool-free Neuronavigation Method based on Single-view Hand Tracking. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 11(4), 1307-1315. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2022.2163428 (Preprint PDF)
  3. Ansari, N., Léger, É., Kersten-Oertel, M. (2023). VentroAR: An Augmented reality platform for ventriculostomy using the Microsoft HoloLens. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 11(4), 1225-1233. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681163.2022.2156394 (Preprint PDF)
  4. Léger, É., Horvath, S., Fillion-Robin, J. C., Allemang, D., Gerber, S., Juvekar, P., Torio, E., Kapur, T., Pieper, S., Pujol, S., Bardsley, R., Frisken, S., Golby, A. (2022). NousNav: A low-cost neuronavigation system for deployment in lower-resource settings. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 17(9), 1745-1750. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-022-02644-w
  5. Léger, É., Gueziri, H. E., Collins, D. L., Popa, T., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2021). Evaluation of Low-Cost Hardware Alternatives for 3D Freehand Ultrasound Reconstruction in Image-Guided Neurosurgery. Proceedings of Simplifying Medical Ultrasound, Proceedings of Simplifying Medical Ultrasound. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12967, 106-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87583-1_11
  6. Léger, É., Reyes, J., Drouin, S., Popa, T., Hall, J. A., Collins, D. L., Kersten-Oertel, M. (2020). MARIN: an Open Source Mobile Augmented Reality Interactive Neuronavigation System, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 15(6), 1013–1021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-020-02155-6 (Preprint PDF)
  7. Léger É.,  Vassallo, R.  Popa, T., Peters T., Xiao, Y., Kersten-Oertel, M. A prototype for hemodynamic analysis in neurosurgery implemented on a mobile augmented reality system. CARS 2020 — Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Proceedings of the 34th International Congress and Exhibition, Munich, Germany, June 23–27, (2020): 15(1) Supplement, S91-S92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-020-02171-6
  8. Léger, É., Reyes, J., Drouin, S., Collins, D. L., Popa, T., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2018). Gesture-based registration correction using a mobile augmented reality image-guided neurosurgery system. Healthcare Technology Letters, 5(5), 137-142. http://doi.org/10.1049/htl.2018.5063
  9. Léger, É., Drouin, S., Collins, D. L., Popa, T., & Kersten-Oertel, M. (2017). Quantifying attention shifts in augmented reality image-guided neurosurgery. Healthcare Technology Letters, 4(5), 188–192. https://doi.org/10.1049/htl.2017.0062
  10. Bischoff, A. R., Pokhvisneva, I., Léger, É., Gaudreau, H., Steiner, M., Kennedy, J. L., O’Donnell, K. J., Diorio, J., Meaney, M. J., Silveira, P. P. (2017). Dynamic interaction between fetal adversity and a genetic score reflecting dopamine function on developmental outcomes at 36 months. PLoS ONE, 12(5), e0177344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177344
  11. Pokhvisneva, I., Léger, É., Meaney, M. J., & Silveira, P. P. (2017). Systematic Overestimation of reflection impulsivity in the Information Sampling Task: age dependency in children. Biological Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.12.027