Peer-reviewed journals and conferences


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L. Mercier, V. Fonov, C. Haegelen, R.F. Del Maestro, K. Petrecca, D.L. Collins. Comparing two approaches to rigid registration of three-dimensional ultrasound and magnetic resonance images for neurosurgery. Int J CARS, DOI: 10.1007/s11548-011-0620-2.


L. Mercier, R.F. Del Maestro, K. Petrecca, D.L. Collins
"Experience using intraoperative 3D ultrasound in conjunction with preoperative MRI in brain tumor surgery"
1 page abstract accepted for poster presentation at the 15th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology, Montreal, Canada, Nov 2010.


L. Mercier, V. Fonov, R.F. Del Maestro, K. Petrecca, L.R. Ĝstergaard, D.L. Collins
"Rigid registration of 3D ultrasound and MRI: comparing two approaches on nine tumor cases".
11 pages abstract in CIM Symposium on Brain, Body and Machine, Montreal, Canada, Nov 2010.


L. Mercier, R.F. Del Maestro, K. Petrecca, A. Kochanowska, S. Drouin, C.X.B. Yan, A.L. Janke, S.J. Chen, D.L. Collins. New prototype neuronavigation system based on preoperative imaging and intraoperative freehand ultrasound: System description and validation. Int J CARS, 2011, vol 6(4): 507-522.


D. De Nigris, L. Mercier, R.F. Del Maestro, D.L. Collins, T. Arbel
"Hierarchical Multimodal Image Registration Based on Adaptive Local Mutual Information"
LNCS, vol. 6362, p.643-651. 8 pages abstract presented at the poster session of MICCAI 2010, Beijing, China, Sept. 2010.


L. Mercier, R.F. Del Maestro, K. Petrecca, D.L. Collins
Experience using intraoperative 3D ultrasound in 14 brain tumors cases.
1 page abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the Canadian Neuro-Oncology Meeting, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, May 2010.
* For this work I was given the 2010 Young Investigator Award in Clinical Investigation.


G. Wang, L. Mercier, D.L. Collins, J.R. Cooperstock
A Comparative Study of Monoscopic and Stereoscopic Display for a Probe-Positioning Task.
3 pages abstract at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) Medical Education Conference, Long Beach, Jan. 19-22, 2009.


L. Mercier, T. Lango, F. Lindseth, D.L. Collins
A review of calibration techniques for freehand 3-D ultrasound systems.
Ultrasound Med Biol, 2005;31(4):449-471 * **

  * An article with the same title was published two months earlier in the same journal (issue #2). It is in fact the same article, but it was unfortunately published without the corrections to the proofs, therefore it contains numerous errors. Please use the reference above.

  ** In 2010, this paper is the most cited article of the past 5 years in Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Journal (if we count both the references to the correct and wrong versions).


Recent presentations


December 10, 2010
Neurosurgical Conference Day 2010
Title: Intraoperative 3D ultrasound: using IBIS NeuroNav in 28 brain tumor surgeries (abstract)

November 11, 2010
CIM Symposium on Brain Body and Machine
Title: Rigid registration of 3D ultrasound and MRI: comparing two approaches on nine tumor cases

June 18, 2010
Fellow's Day 2010
Title: Intraoperative 3D ultrasound for brain tumor surgery: a case report (abstract)

May 15, 2010
2010 Canadian Neuro-Oncology Meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada
Title: Experience using intraoperative 3D ultrasound in 14 brain tumors cases.

December 12, 2008
Neurosurgical Conference Day 2008
Title: Brain tumor resection guided by ultrasound – initial experience at the Neuro (abstract)

May 30, 2008
Weekly operating room nurses' seminar at the Neuro
Title: Introduction to the basic principles of neuronavigation systems and ultrasound-guided surgery.

April 25, 2008
Montreal Regional Brain Tumour Interest Group (MRBTIG)
Title: Ultrasound-guided brain tumour resection


I have also been a reviewer for the following publications