Dr Zeike Taylor

Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 7719
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 7890

Profile

Dr Zeike Taylor graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia in 2002 and obtained his PhD in Biomechanical Engineering from the same institution in 2006. His thesis research concerned development of image-based microstructural constitutive models of articular cartilage. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the CSIRO in Australia (2006), University College London (2007-2009) and the University of Queensland (2009-2011), and was appointed as an honorary lecturer at UCL in 2009. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield as a lecturer in 2011.

Dr Taylor’s major research theme is computational biomechanics for medicine, in particular with application to problems in medical image computing and surgical simulation. His work therefore stands at the interface between biomechanical modelling and medical imaging: development of modelling technologies that can aid tasks such as image registration and image-based surgical guidance, on the one hand, and methods of extracting patient-specific data from images to personalize models on the other.

Particular areas of development include:

Biomechanically-constrained medical image registration;
Computational biomechanics for image-guided therapies;
Nonlinear finite element analysis for modeling soft tissue deformation;
High-performance computing on graphics hardware (GPUs);
Interactive surgical simulation; and
Constitutive modeling of soft tissues.

Journal articles

Han L, Hipwell JH, Mertzanidou T, Cardoso J, Ourselin S, Hawkes DJ, Tanner C & Taylor Z (2012) Development of patient-specific biomechanical models for predicting large breast deformation. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 57(2), 455-472.
Hu Y, Ahmed HU, Taylor Z, Allen C, Emberton M, Hawkes D & Barratt D (2012) MR to ultrasound registration for image-guided prostate interventions.. Med Image Anal, 16(3), 687-703.
Taylor ZA, Crozier S & Ourselin S (2011) A reduced order explicit dynamic finite element algorithm for surgical simulation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 30(9), 1713-1721.
Hu Y, van den Boom R, Carter T, Taylor Z, Hawkes D, Ahmed HU, Emberton M, Allen C & Barratt D (2010) A comparison of the accuracy of statistical models of prostate motion trained using data from biomechanical simulations.. Prog Biophys Mol Biol, 103(2-3), 262-272.
Modat M, Ridgway GR, Taylor ZA, Hawkes DJ, Ourselin S, Lehmann M, Barnes J & Fox NC (2010) Fast free-form deformation using graphics processing units. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 98(3), 278-284.
Taylor ZA, Comas O, Cheng M, Passenger J, Hawkes DJ, Atkinson D & Ourselin S (2009) On modelling of anisotropic viscoelasticity for soft tissue simulation: numerical solution and GPU execution.. Med Image Anal, 13(2), 234-244.
Taylor ZA, Cheng M & Ourselin S (2008) High-speed nonlinear finite element analysis for surgical simulation using graphics processing units.. IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 27(5), 650-663.
Wittek A, Dutta-Roy T, Taylor Z, Horton A, Washio T, Chinzei K & Miller K (2008) Subject-specific non-linear biomechanical model of needle insertion into brain.. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 11(2), 135-146.
Taylor ZA, Kirk TB & Miller K (2007) Confocal arthroscopy-based patient-specific constitutive models of cartilaginous tissues - II: prediction of reaction force history of meniscal cartilage specimens.. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 10(5), 327-336.
Taylor ZA, Kirk TB & Miller K (2007) Confocal arthroscopy-based patient-specific constitutive models of cartilaginous tissues--I: development of a microstructural model.. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin, 10(4), 307-316.
Taylor ZA & Miller K (2006) Constitutive modeling of cartilaginous tissues: a review.. J Appl Biomech, 22(3), 212-229.
Miller K, Taylor ZA & Nowinski WL (2005) Towards computing brain deformations for diagnosis, prognosis and neurosurgical simulation. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 5(1), 105-121.
Taylor Z & Miller K (2005) Using numerical approximation as an intermediate step in analytical derivations: some observations from biomechanics.. J Biomech, 38(12), 2497-2502.
Taylor Z & Miller K (2004) Reassessment of brain elasticity for analysis of biomechanisms of hydrocephalus.. J Biomech, 37(8), 1263-1269.

Conferences

Mertzanidou T, Hipwell JH, Han L, Taylor ZA, Huisman HJ, Bick U, Karssemeijer N & Hawkes DJ (2012) Intensity-Based MRI to X-ray Mammography Registration with an Integrated Fast Biomechanical Transformation.. Digital Mammography / IWDM, 7361, 48-55.
Fazlollahi A, Dowson N, Meriaudeau F, Rose SE, Fay M, Thomas P, Taylor ZA, Gal Y, Coulthard A, Winter C, MacFarlane D, Salvado O, Crozier S & Bourgeat P (2011) Automatic Brain Tumour Segmentation in 18F-FDOPA PET Using PET/MRI Fusion.. DICTA, 325-329.
Taylor ZA, Cheng M & Ourselin S (2007) Real-Time Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis for Surgical Simulation Using Graphics Processing Units.. MICCAI (1), 4791, 701-708.
Modat M, Ridgeway GR, Taylor ZA, Hawkes DJ, Fox NC & Ourselin S () A parallel-friendly normalised mutual information gradient for registration: comparison with the analytic gradient
Taylor ZA, Ourselin S & Crozier S () A reduced order finite element algorithm for surgical simulation
Atkinson D, Hansen MS, Modat M, Ourselin S, Sorensen TS & Taylor ZA () Commodity graphics cards for image registration, biomechanical modelling and cardiac imaging
Taylor ZA, Kirk TB & Miller K () Development of confocal image-based patient-specific models of cartilaginous tissues, 846-851.
Comas O, Taylor ZA, Allard J, Ourselin S, Salvado O, Cotin S & Passenger J () Efficient nonlinear FEM for soft tissue modelling and its GPU implementation within the open source framework SOFA, 28-39.
Han L, Hipwell J, Taylor ZA, Tanner C, Ourselin S & Hawkes D () Fast deformation simulation of the breast using GPU-based dynamic explicit finite element method, 728-735.
Modat M, Taylor ZA, Barnes J, Hawkes DJ, Fox NC & Ourselin S () Fast Free-Form Deformation using the Normalised Mutual Information gradient and Graphics Processing Units
Taylor ZA, Kirk TB & Miller K () Microstructural modelling of articular cartilage using 3D confocal endoscopy, 386-386.
Taylor ZA, Comas O, Cheng M, Passenger J, Hawkes DJ, Atkinson D & Ourselin S () Modelling anisotropic viscoelasticity for real-time soft tissue simulation, 703-710.
Modat M, Taylor ZA, Ridgeway GR, Barnes J, Wilde EJ, Hawkes DJ, Fox NC & Ourselin S () Nonlinear elastic spline registration: Evaluation with longitudinal Huntington’s Disease dat, 128-139.
Taylor ZA, Cheng M & Ourselin S () Real-time nonlinear FEA for surgical simulation using graphics processing units, 701-708.
Taylor ZA, Crozier S & Ourselin S () Real-time surgical simulation using reduced order finite element analysis, 388-395.
Taylor ZA & Miller K () Significance of strain rate-dependence in modelling of organic materials, 408-412.
Cheng M, Taylor ZA & Ourselin S () Towards anatomical modelling of multiple organs interaction using real time GPU based nonlinear elasticity, 77-82.
Dutta-Roy T, Wittek A, Taylor ZA, Chinzei K, Washio T & Miller K () Towards realistic surgical simulation: biomechanics of needle insertion into brain, 297-304.

Reports

Miller K, Taylor ZA & Wittek A () Mathematical models of brain deformation behaviour for computer-integrated neurosurgery