PhD in Electrical Enginnering (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Enginnering, Slovenia)

MSc in Mechanical Engineering (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia)

Visiting researcher (Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering, Canada)

Junior researcher at the Laboratory of Imaging Technologies (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Enginnering, Slovenia)

Dejan Knez, Tomaž Vrtovec: Computerized three-dimensional pedicle morphometry from computed tomography images of the thoracic spine. Image Analysis & Stereology, 39(2):101-109, 2020 [doi:10.5566/ias.2349 ]

Hugo Jobidon-Lavergne, Samuel Kadoury, Dejan Knez, Carl-Éric Aubin: Biomechanically driven intraoperative spine registration during navigated anterior vertebral body tethering. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 64(11):115008, 2019 [doi:10.1088/1361-6560/ab1bfa ]

Dejan Knez, Imad S. Nahle, Tomaž Vrtovec, Stefan Parent, Samuel Kadoury: Computer-assisted pedicle screw trajectory planning using CT-inferred bone density: a demonstration against surgical outcomes. Medical Physics, 46(8):3543-3554, 2019 [doi:10.1002/mp.13585 ]

William Mandel, Olivier Turcot, Dejan Knez, Stefan Parent, Samuel Kadoury: Prediction outcomes for anterior vertebral body growth modulation surgery from discriminant spatiotemporal manifolds. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 14:1565-1575, 2019 [doi:10.1007/s11548-019-02041-w ]

Dejan Knez, Janez Mohar, Robert J. Cirman, Boštjan Likar, Franjo Pernuš, Tomaž Vrtovec: Variability analysis of manual and computer-assisted preoperative thoracic pedicle screw placement planning. Spine, 43(21):1487-1495, 2018 [doi:10.1097/BRS.0000000000002659 ]