Aaron Fenster, Western University

Research

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Imaging Physics Laser Thermal Ablation Medical Robotics Mr Therapy Guidance Prostate Cancer Thermal Ablation Ultrasound Imaging Ultrasound

Latest papers

Attention-driven framework to segment renal ablation zone in posttreatment CT images: a step toward ablation margin evaluation.
Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2026 · senior author
Evaluation of a commercial deep-learning-based contouring software for CT-based gynecological brachytherapy.
Brachytherapy · 2026
A Universal Multimodal Female Pelvic Phantom With Brachytherapy Applications.
Practical radiation oncology · 2026 · senior author

All 199 publications

Latest funding

Development and Testing of a Whole Breast 3D Ultrasound Imaging System
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$657,901
2D/3D Ultrasound Guided Musculoskeletal Intervention System-Phase I
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$121,527
Development of a 3D ultrasound-guided focal liver ablation system
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$48,000

All 37 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 199 publications.

01

Attention-driven framework to segment renal ablation zone in posttreatment CT images: a step toward ablation margin evaluation.

Rastegarpoor M, Cool DW, Fenster A

Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.)2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1117/1.jmi.13.1.014001 PMID: 41497560

02

Evaluation of a commercial deep-learning-based contouring software for CT-based gynecological brachytherapy.

Yang HJ, Patrick J, Vickress J, D'Souza D, Velker V, Mendez L, Starling MM, Fenster A, Hoover D

Brachytherapy2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2025.08.005 PMID: 41027778

03

A Universal Multimodal Female Pelvic Phantom With Brachytherapy Applications.

Trumpour T, Rodgers JR, Nasser J, Driediger R, Shin YY, Zhu L, Surry K, Fenster A

Practical radiation oncology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2026.02.012 PMID: 41775325

04

Effusion and synovial hyperplasia: Distinct constructs in early and late-stage knee OA.

Dima R, Birmingham T, Philpott H, Bryant D, Fenster A, Appleton CT

Osteoarthritis imaging2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.ostima.2026.100468 PMID: 42635962

05

Global and local pseudo-label filtering for semi-supervised carotid plaque classification from ultrasound.

Zhou R, Deng W, Yu W, Wang F, Cheng X, Gan H, Ye Z, Fenster A

Computer methods and programs in biomedicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2026.109568 PMID: 42537359

06

Virtual fluoroscopy for interventional guidance using magnetic tracking.

Xing S, Ahmed-Fazal I, Pardasani U, Jayarathne U, Illsley S, Fenster A, Peters TM, Chen ECS

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2025

DOI: 10.1007/s11548-025-03395-0 PMID: 40380074

07

Three-dimensional complementary breast ultrasound (3D CBUS): Improving 3D spatial resolution uniformity with orthogonal images.

Park CKS, Aziz A, Trumpour T, Bax JS, Tessier D, Gyacskov I, Gardi L, Fenster A

Medical physics2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/mp.17626 PMID: 39844441

08

Towards U-Net-based intraoperative 2D dose prediction in high dose rate prostate brachytherapy.

Knull E, Smith CW, Ward AD, Fenster A, Hoover DA

Brachytherapy2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2024.11.007 PMID: 39668102

09

Deep regression 2D-3D ultrasound registration for liver motion correction in focal tumour thermal ablation.

Xing S, Cool DW, Tessier D, Chen ECS, Peters TM, Fenster A

Healthcare technology letters2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1049/htl2.12117 PMID: 39968337

10

Roadmap: medical physics technologies in brachytherapy.

Song WY, Roumeliotis M, Lee J, Fenster A, Rodgers J, Trumpour T, Glicksman RM, Berlin A, Carlsson Tedgren Å, Vijande J, Beaulieu L, Morén B, Meyers S, Rink A, Gao Y, Fahimian BP, China D, Ding K, Podder TK, Carver EN, Rivard MJ, Richardson S, Grkovski M, Meftahi M, Gardner U, Kumar R, Scanderbeg D, Yashar C, Naqa IE, Viswanathan AN, Jia X

Physics in medicine and biology2025

DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ade21f PMID: 40480262

Development and Testing of a Whole Breast 3D Ultrasound Imaging System

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Fenster, Aaron

Keywords: Breast Cancer; Medical Imaging; Ultrasound

$657,901

2D/3D Ultrasound Guided Musculoskeletal Intervention System-Phase I

Co-investigatorNSERC2024Idea to Innovation

Principal investigators: Lalone, Emily EA

Keywords: 3dus; advanced medical imaging; biomedical engineering design; carpometacarpal; hand and wrist; image-guided; injection; intervention; osteoathritis; ultrasound

$121,527

Development of a 3D ultrasound-guided focal liver ablation system

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Fenster, Aaron

Keywords: medical imaging; ultrasound; image-guided intervention; mechatronic guidance; liver tumour ablation

$48,000

Prostate-targeted PET/TRUS dual-modality imaging system for diagnosis and image-guided biopsy.

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Reznik, Alla

Keywords: Pet/Trus Dual Modality Imaging; Prostate Cancer; Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (Psma) Pet; Prostate-Targeted Positron Emission Tomography (Pet); Transrectal Ultrasound (Trus) Imaging

$738,226

Combined gamma probe and ultrasound imaging system for cancer surgery

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Holdsworth, David W

Keywords: Additive Manufacturing; Biomedical Imaging; Cancer Surgery; Gamma Detection; Intra-Operative Guidance; Nuclear Medicine; Sentinel-Node Biopsy; Ultrasound Imaging

$807,075

CREATE Training Program in Medical Informatics: Preparing Canada's Workforce for Health Data of Tomorrow

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: Mousavi, Parvin P

Keywords: artificial intelligence; computer-aided interventions; data science; decision making in digital health; democratization of ai for health; digital health; imaging informatics; machine learning; medical image and signal procession; medical informatics

$1,116,420

Development of cost-effective 3D ultrasound imaging systems for pelvic floor imaging _x000d_ _x000d_

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Fenster, Aaron

$22,000

Development of cost-effective 3D ultrasound imaging systems for pelvic floor imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2020OCI - C2C

Principal investigators: Fenster, Aaron

Keywords: Medical equipment and apparatus; Biomedical engineering

$22,000

Generation of Temperature Maps of Heated Materials using 3D Ultrasound Imaging

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Fenster, Aaron

$375,000

Image-guided minimally invasive interventions

Nominated PICIHR2016Foundation Grant

Principal investigators: Fenster, Aaron

Keywords: Guidance Mechatronics; Guidance Software; Image Processing; Image-Guided Systems; Medical Imaging Technology; Therapy Instruments; Ultrasound

$2,092,225

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Medical Biophysics
Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Oncology
Electrical and Computer Engineering
School of Computing
Department of Medicine
Clinical Neurological Sciences
Other

Co-authors at Western University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Grace Parraga

Medical Biophysics

31 shared papers, latest 2024

Sandrine De Ribaupierre

Clinical Neurological Sciences

10 shared papers, latest 2024

Glenn Bauman

Oncology

6 shared papers, latest 2025

Jagath Samarabandu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

5 shared papers, latest 2013

Purang Abolmaesumi

Cardiology

5 shared papers, latest 2021

Maria Drangova

Medical Biophysics

4 shared papers, latest 2007

Parvin Mousavi

School of Computing

4 shared papers, latest 2021

Vadim Beletsky

Department of Psychiatry

3 shared papers, latest 2014

Sarah Svenningsen

Department of Medicine

3 shared papers, latest 2018

George Rodrigues

Oncology

3 shared papers, latest 2016

Craig Lewis

Department of Medical Biophysics

2 shared papers, latest 2012

Michelle Hilts

Medical Physics

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Luc Beaulieu

Physique

2 shared papers, latest 2015

Ting-Yim Lee

Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2010

Eranga Ukwatta

Engineering, School of

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Emily Lalone

Mechanical and Materials Engineering

2 shared papers, latest 2024

Shuo Li

Medical Imaging

2 shared papers, latest 2016

Abbas Samani

Medical Biophysics

2 shared papers, latest 2009

Roy Eagleson

Electrical and Computer Engineering

2 shared papers, latest 2022

Aaron Ward

Medical Biophysics

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Gabor Fichtinger

School of Computing

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Dianne Bryant

Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

2 shared papers, latest 2026

Craig Ainsworth

Department of Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2007

Qi Zhang

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2019

Walter Romano

Department of Medical Imaging

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Jeff Chen

Department of Medical Biophysics

1 shared papers, latest 2012

Trevor Birmingham

School of Physical Therapy

1 shared papers, latest 2026

Shahin Sirouspour

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

1 shared papers, latest 2015

Michael Connolly

Department of Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2010

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Imaging Physics Dear Professor Fenster, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Attention-driven framework to segment renal ablation zone in posttreatment CT images: a step toward ablation margin evaluation." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Development and Testing of a Whole Breast 3D Ultrasound Imaging System" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]