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Constantinos Nikou
Research Programmer (Adjunct)

Associated centers: VASC and MRTC

Email address: costa@cs.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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My primary project is Preoperative Planning for Total Hip Replacement surgery. This planning includes implant sizing and orientation decisions along with an interactive range of motion simulator allowing the surgeon to predict the kinematic limitation of the post-operative joint.

I also work on automated segmentation/model generation, the Image Overlay project, and the interoperative HipNav and KneeNav systems.

medical applications, medical imaging, and medical robotics

Though I remain connected to the lab through common research, I currently am the Director of Software Development for CASurgica, Inc., a spin-off company working towards commercialization of technology developed in the MRCAS/ICAOS lab.

• Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery - Researching planning (medical image computing, simulation) and execution (intraoperative sensing and actuation) technologies for computer-assisted surgery.

• 3D Image Overlay - X-ray vision has always been the dream of surgeons; Image Overlay is the next best thing.
• Hip Navigation System - Preoperative and intraoperative planning and execution system for high-precision total hip replacement.
• Hip Range of Motion - Preoperative planning system for total hip replacement

• Investigation of the Kinematics of Double Bundle ACL Reconstruction
  C.R. Starman, H. Steckel, A. Buoncristiani, S. Kobo, T. Nakagawa, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, F. Fu, J.E. Moody, D. Davidson, C. Nikou, N. Waterson, K. Burns, M. Hafez, M. Seel, P. Murtha, G. Brisson, J. Cipriani, M. Maloberti, and B. Jaramaz
  The Pittsburgh Orthopaedic Journal, Vol. 17, 2006.

• Calibration Method for Determining the Physical Location of the Ultrasound Image Plane
  D. Amin, T. Kanade, B. Jaramaz, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, C. Nikou, R. LaBarca, and J.E. Moody
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2001), October, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [712 KB] copyrighted

• Computer assisted measurement of cup placement in total hip replacement.
  B. Jaramaz, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, M. Blackwell, and C. Nikou
  Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, No. 354, September, 1998.

• Computer Assisted Radiographic Measurement of Cup Placement in Total Hip Replacement
  B. Jaramaz, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and C. Nikou
  June, 1998.

• Image Overlay Techniques for Surgery
  M. Blackwell, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and C. Nikou
  June, 1998.

• Simulation of Prosthetic Range of Motion After Total Hip Replacement Surgery
  B. Jaramaz, C. Nikou, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  June, 1998.

• Sensitivity of Impingement Limits to Error in Cup Alignment
  B. Jaramaz, C. Nikou, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  March, 1998.

• An Image Guided Navigation System for Accurate Alignment in Total Hip Replacement Surgery
  A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, B. Jaramaz, M. Blackwell, D. Simon, F. Morgan, J.E. Moody, C. Nikou, B. Colgan, C. Aston, R. LaBarca, E. Kischell, and T. Kanade
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-98-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [836 KB], ps.gz [2471 KB] copyrighted

• An image overlay system for medical data visualization
  M. Blackwell, C. Nikou, A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the 1998 Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Conference (MICCAI '98), 1998.
  Download: pdf [115 KB] copyrighted

• Range of Motion After Total Hip Arthroplasty: Experimental Verification of the Analytical Simulator
  B. Jaramaz, C. Nikou, D. Simon, and A.M. Di Gioia, III, MD
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1997. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [179 KB], ps.gz [266 KB] copyrighted