Josh Passenger
Team Leader - Surgical Simulation and Planning
Contact
The Australian e-Health Research Centre
Level 7 - UQ CCR Building 71/918
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
HERSTON QLD 4028
Tel: 61 7 3253 3622
Email
Themes
- Preventative Health
- Colorectal Cancer
Projects
- Colonoscopy Simulation
Science Area
- Medical Imaging
Biography
Josh Passenger is the Team Leader for Surgical Simulation and Planning and the Project Leader for the Colonoscopy Simulation Project. The Colonoscopy Simulation Project aims to provide a no-risk-to-patient surgical simulation of the colonoscopy procedure for training and certification of gastroenterologists.
Josh Passenger holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Queensland and has over 9 years of commercial software design and development experience.
Josh's previous roles have included Technical Lead at lastminute.com and Technical Architecture at Gartmore Investment Management, London.
Prior to joining the surgical simulation research team in September 2006, Josh worked for a year within the CSIRO HDI development team and before that spent two years developing the Brisbane Southside Health Connect Trial with DSTC.
His research interests include surgical simulation, surface mesh generation, physical modeling of soft tissues, photo-realistic rendering, game programming, GLSL and OpenGL shading for organic surfaces and real-time programming in C++.
Academic Qualifications
| 1994 | Bachelor of Science, University of Queensland |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2007- | Project Leader - Colonoscopy Simulation, Biomedical Imaging (CSIRO) |
| 2006-2007 | Software Design and Development Manager, BioMedIA Lab (CSIRO) |
| 2005-2006 | Senior Software Engineer, e-Health Research Centre (CSIRO) |
| 2004-2005 | Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC) |
| 2002-2004 | EJB Designer Developer, Brisbane City Council (BCC) |
| 2001-2002 | Technical Architect, Gartmore Investment Management Pty Ltd |
| 1999-2000 | Technical Lead, lastminute.com |
| 1998-1999 | Freelance Graphics Artists and programmer, Self Employed |
| 1995-1998 | Marketing Manager, EML Consulting Services |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters | 0 |
|---|---|
| Journal | 1 |
| Refereed Conference/Workshop | 13 |
| Technical/Client Reports | 5 |
| Invited Presentations | 0 |
| Patents | 0 |
Student Supervision
| 2009 | J. Borda, Industrial Trainee, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá. |
| 2009 | D. McClymont, University of Queensland, Vacation Student. |
| 2008-2009 | C. Russ, Industrial Trainee, Otto-von-Guericke-University. |
| 2008 | T. Reichl, Industrial Trainee, Technische Universitat Munchen. |
| 2008 | B. Evans, 3rd year project, Queensland Univeristy of Technology. |
| 2008-2009 | O. Comas, PhD, Lille University. |
| 2008-2009 | M. Cheng, PhD, University of Queensland. |
| 2008-2009 | D. Hellier, PhD, University of Queensland. |
Top 10 Publications
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| O. Comas, Z. Taylor, J. Allard, S. Ourselin, S. Cotin, and J. Passenger. Efficient nonlinear FEM for soft tissue modelling and its GPU implementation within the open source framework SOFA. In In Proceedings of ISBMS 2008, London, United Kingdom, July 7-8 2008 (In press) |
| D Hellier, E Samur, J Passenger, U Spälter, H Frimmel, M Appleyard, H Bleuler, and S Ourselin. A modular simulation framework for colonoscopy using a new haptic device. In James D. Westwood, Randy S. Haluck, Helene M. Hoffman, Greg T. Mogel, Roger Phillips, Richard A. Robb, and Kirby G. Vosburgh, editors, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 16 - parallel, combinatorial, convergent: NextMed by Design, volume 132 of Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, pages 165-170, 2008 |
| Pascal Maillard, Lionel Flaction, Evren Samur, David Hellier, Josh Passenger, and Hannes Bleuler. Instrumentation of a Clinical Colonoscope for Surgical Simulation. In 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008 (Accepted) |
| J. Passenger, O. Acosta, H. de Visser, S. Bauer, C. Russ, and S. Ourselin. Texture Coordinate Generation of Colonic Surface Meshes for Surgical Simulation. In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Paris, France, pages 640-643, April 2008. IEEE |
| Z. Taylor, O. Comas, M. Cheng, J. Passenger, D.J. Hawkes, D. Atkinson, and S. Ourselin. Modelling anisotropic viscoelasticity for real-time soft tissue simulation. In In Proceedings of MICCAI 2008, New York, USA, September 6-10 2008 (Accepted) |
| H. de Visser, O. Comas, D. Conlan, S. Ourselin, J. Passenger, and O. Salvado. Deforming a High-Resolution Mesh in Real-Time by Mapping onto a Low-Resolution Physical Model. In Proceedings of ISBMS 2008, London, UK, July 2008 (In press) |
| David Hellier, Josh Passenger, Mark N. Appleyard, and Sébastien Ourselin. Development of a new Colonoscopy Skills Trainer using Virtual Reality and Haptic Feedback. In SimTecT 2007 Healthcare Simulation Conference, pages 8, 2007. |
| T. Reichl, J. Passenger, O. Acosta, S. Riek, and O. Salvado. Ultrasound goes GPU: real-time simulation using CUDA. In SPIE Medical Imaging 2009, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, pages 726116-1--10, February 2009. |
| Z. Taylor, O. Comas, M. Cheng, J. Passenger, D.J. Hawkes, D. Atkinson, and S. Ourselin. On Modelling of anisotropic viscoelasticity for soft tissue simulation: Numerical solution and GPU execution. Medical Image Analysis, 13(2):234-244 , April 2009 |
| M. Watson, S. Riek, J. Passenger, D. Hewett, A. Plooy, G. Wallis and M. Horswill. Examining Design Considerations for Developing Simulators and Training Programs, SimTecT 2008 (Accepted) |