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.

Selected Publications

A reduced order explicit dynamic finite element algorithm for surgical simulation,
Taylor, Z. A., Crozier, S. & Ourselin, S.,
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (In Press)

MR to ultrasound registration for image-guided prostate interventions,
Hu, Y., Ahmed, H. U., Taylor, Z., Allen, C., Emberton, M., Hawkes, D. & Barratt, D.,
Medical Image Analysis, (In Press)

A comparison of the accuracy of statistical models of prostate motion trained using data from biomechanical simulations,
Hu, Y., Van den Boom, R., Carter, T., Taylor, Z., Hawkes, D., Ahmed, H. U., Emberton, M., Allen, C. & Barratt, D. (2010),
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 103(2-3), pp. 262-272.
Online (Open Access)
Fast free-form deformation using graphics processing units,
Modat, M., Ridgway, G. R., Taylor, Z. A., Lehmann, M., Barnes, J., Hawkes, D. J., Fox, N. C. & Ourselin, S. (2010),
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 98(278-284),
Online (Open Access)
On modelling of anisotropic viscoelasticity for soft tissue simulation: numerical solution and GPU execution,
Taylor, Z. A., Comas, O., Cheng, M., Passenger, J., Hawkes, D. J., Atkinson, D. & Ourselin, S. (2009),
Medical Image Analysis, 13(2), pp. 234-244,
Online (Subscription Required)
High-speed nonlinear finite element analysis for surgical simulation using graphics processing units,
Taylor, Z. A., Cheng, M. & Ourselin, S. (2008)
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 27(5), pp. 650-663,
Online (Subscription Required)
Subject specific nonlinear biomechanical model of needle insertion into brain,
Wittek, A., Dutta-Roy, T., Taylor, Z., Horton, A., Washio, T., Chinzei, K. & Miller, K. (2008),
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomechanical Engineering, 11(2), pp. 135-146,
Online (Subscription Required)
Confocal arthroscopy-based patient-specific constitutive models of cartilaginous tissues - II: Prediction of reaction force history of meniscal cartilage specimens,
Taylor, Z. A., Kirk, T. B. & Miller, K. (2007),
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 10(5), pp. 327-336,
Online (Subcription Required)
Confocal arthroscopy-based patient-specific constitutive models of cartilaginous tissues - I: Development of a microstructural model,
Taylor, Z. A., Kirk, T. B. & Miller, K. (2007),
Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 10(4), pp. 307-316,
Online (Subscription Required)
Constitutive modelling of cartilaginous tissue: A review,
Taylor, Z. A. & Miller, K. (2005),
Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 22(3), pp. 212-229

Using numerical approximation as an intermediate step in analytical derivations: Some observations from biomechanics,
Taylor, Z. & Miller, K. (2005),
Journal of Biomechanics, 38(12), pp. 2497-2502
Online (Journal Subscription Required)
Towards computing brain deformations for diagnosis, prognosis and neurosurgical simulation,
Miller, K., Taylor, Z. & Nowinski, W. L. (2005),
Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 5(1), pp. 105-121,
Online (Journal Subscription Required)
Reassessment of brain elasticity for analysis of biomechanisms of hydrocephalus,
Taylor, Z. & Miller, K. (2004),
Journal of Biomechanics, 37, pp. 1263-1269,
Online (Open Access)