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dr. F.J. Siepel (Françoise)

Associate Professor

About Me

Françoise Siepel received her M.Sc. in Technical Medicine with specialization Robotics and Imaging in 2010. She obtained her PhD in 3 years and has spent more than 7 years on research, winning approx. 1 million euros of personal awards including one PhD and 2 Postdoc grants and has currently 40+ publications. She has international experience from the University of Bergen, Kings College and more than 5 years at the Stavanger University hospital where she worked out various technical medical related projects. In 2016 she joined the Robotics and Mechatronics group, and focuses on medical technology and especially image guided robotic interventions and is involved in research/education. She performs the daily coordination of the European DIH-HERO, MURAB and national SUNRAM project.

Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
# Biopsy
# Magnetic Resonance Imaging
# Needles
# Phantoms
# Pneumatics
# Robotics
# Robots
# Ultrasonics

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Recent
Ranjan, H., Hilten, M. V. , Groenhuis, V., Verde, J., Garcia, A., Perretta, S. , Veltman, J. , Siepel, F. J. , & Stramigioli, S. (2023). Sunram 7: An MR Safe Robotic System for Breast Biopsy. In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 10281-10288). Article 10342425 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342425
Groenhuis, V. , de Groot, A. G., Cornel, E. B. , Stramigioli, S. , & Siepel, F. J. (Accepted/In press). 3-D Visualization and Inter-Session Comparison for Robotic Assisted Bladder Cancer Screening. Abstract from Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, HSMR 2023, London, United Kingdom.
Jovanovic, K., Schwier, A., Matheson, E., Xiloyannis, M. , Rodijk-Rozeboom, E., Hochhausen, N., Vermeulen, B., Graf, B., Wolf, P., Nawrat, Z., Escuder, J., Mechelinck, M., Sørensen, B., Boscolo, P. R., Obach, M., Tognarelli, S., Jankovic, M., Leroux, C., Ferrigno, G. , ... Stramigioli, S. (2022). Robotic Innovations in Support of the Healthcare Workers Against COVID-19 - DIH-HERO Perspective. In A. Müller, & M. Brandstötter (Eds.), Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics - RAAD 2022 (pp. 375-382). (Mechanisms and Machine Science; Vol. 120). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04870-8_44
Welleweerd, M. K. (2022). Robot-assisted biopsies on MR-detected lesions. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553223
Welleweerd, M. K. , de Groot, A. G. , Groenhuis, V. , Siepel, F. J. , & Stramigioli, S. (2021). Out-of-Plane Corrections for Autonomous Robotic Breast Ultrasound Acquisitions. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2021 (pp. 12515-12521). (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; Vol. 2021). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560865
Jovanovic, K., Schwier, A., Matheson, E., Xiloyannis, M. , Rozeboom, E., Hochhausen, N., Vermeulen, B., Graf, B., Wolf, P., Nawrat, Z., Escuder, J., Mechelinck, M., Sorensen, B., Boscolo, P. R., Obach, M., Tognarelli, S., Jankovic, M., Leroux, C., Ferrigno, G. , ... Stramigioli, S. (2021). Digital Innovation Hubs in Health-Care Robotics Fighting COVID-19: Novel Support for Patients and Health-Care Workers Across Europe. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 28(1), 40-47. Article 9330556. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2020.3044965
Welleweerd, M. K., Pantelis, D. , de Groot, A. G. , Siepel, F. J. , & Stramigioli, S. (2021). Robot-assisted ultrasound-guided biopsy on MR-detected breast lesions. In 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 2965-2971). Article 9341695 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341695
Nikolaev, A., de Jong, L., Weijers, G. G. C. , Groenhuis, V. , Siepel, F. J. , Stramigioli, S., Hansen, H. H. G. , & de Korte, C. L. (2021). Automated Cone-Based Breast Ultrasound Scanner For Screening And Biopsy. In Proceedings of the 8th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference
Nikolaev, A. V., de Jong, L., Weijers, G. , Groenhuis, V., Mann, R. M. , Siepel, F. J., Maris, B. M. , Stramigioli, S., Hansen, H. H. G. , & de Korte, C. L. (2021). Quantitative Evaluation of an Automated Cone-based Breast Ultrasound Scanner for MRI - 3D US Image Fusion. IEEE transactions on medical imaging, 40(4), 1229-1239. Article 9319185. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMI.2021.3050525
Groenhuis, V., Nikolaev, A., Nies, S. , Welleweerd, M. K., de Jong, L., Hansen, H. H. G. , Siepel, F. J. , de Korte, C. L. , & Stramigioli, S. (2021). 3-D Ultrasound Elastography Reconstruction Using Acoustically Transparent Pressure Sensor on Robotic Arm. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 3(1), 265-268. Article 9286770. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMRB.2020.3042982
Bluiminck, M. , Groenhuis, V. , Siepel, F. J. , & Stramigioli, S. (2021). Design of 3D Printed Needle Insertion Device and Control Using Mobile Phone Application. In Proceedings of the 8th Dutch Bio-Medical Engineering Conference 2021 BME.
Maris, B. M., Fiorini, P., Calanca, A., Tenga, C. , Siepel, F. J. , Groenhuis, V. , & Stramigioli, S. (2020). Increasing the precision of the biopsy with robots: two case studies. In Proceedings of the I-RIM Conference 2020 (pp. 1-4)
Nikolaev, A. V., De Jong, L. , Groenhuis, V. , Welleweerd, M. K. , Siepel, F. J. , Stramigioli, S., Hansen, H. H. G. , & De Korte, C. L. (2020). Quantitative evaluation of automated robot-assisted volumetric breast ultrasound. In IUS 2020 - International Ultrasonics Symposium, Proceedings Article 9251310 (IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS; Vol. 2020). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IUS46767.2020.9251310
Welleweerd, M. K. , de Groot, A. G., de Looijer, S. O. H. , Siepel, F. J. , & Stramigioli, S. (2020). Automated robotic breast ultrasound acquisition using ultrasound feedback. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020 (pp. 9946-9952). Article 9196736 (Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA); Vol. 2020). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196736
Groenhuis, V., Tagliabue, E. , Welleweerd, M. K. , Siepel, F. J., Munoz Osorio, J. D., Maris, B. M., Dall'Alba, D., Zimmermann, U., Fiorini, P. , & Stramigioli, S. (2020). Deformation Compensation in Robotically-Assisted Breast Biopsy. Abstract from 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions, IPCAI 2020, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Abdelaziz, M. E. M. K., Kundrat, D., Pupillo, M., Kwok, T. M. Y., Chi, W. , Groenhuis, V. , Siepel, F. J., Riga, C. , Stramigioli, S., Yang, G.-Z. , & Dagnino, G. (2020). Toward a Versatile Robotic Platform for Fluoroscopy and MRI-Guided Endovascular Interventions: A Pre-Clinical Study. In 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 5411-5418). Article 8968237 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968237

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