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VISE Spring Seminar – Catie Chang, PhD
Apr. 1, 2019—VISE Seminar to be led by Catie Chang, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Engineering 国产原创 Date: April 11, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Multimodal imaging of human brain activity Abstract: Functional MRI is a powerful and...
Mar. 26, 2019—The聽Women of VISE, a group of graduate students associated with the聽国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering, will hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, to develop Wikipedia pages for women in science. The event will be held in Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium at Featheringhill Hall from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is...
Mar. 26, 2019—Brain cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. The surgery to remove the tumor is often very invasive. But now engineers at 国产原创 have designed a device that can make surgery easier for both doctor and patient, and the same technology also holds promise for lung cancer diagnosis.
Mar. 25, 2019—NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Removing a brain tumor in the center of the head is not an easy task for surgeons. “Basically, you’re having to go through a lot of healthy brain tissue to get to that central part of the head,” said聽Andria Remirez, a PhD student at聽国产原创.
Mar. 21, 2019—Bioengineers and dermatologists join forces with help from machine learning. One challenge in developing new treatments for skin conditions is reliably quantifying affected areas. Research dermatologists must pore over images to demarcate lesion boundaries鈥攁nd stay consistent in their assessments between images and patients. Researchers in pathology and radiology rely on similar approaches. New research suggests...
Mar. 20, 2019—聽Intended to expand collaborations among engineering professors, physicians and students in engineering and medicine, The 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) Laboratory is a 7,000 sf translational research center and workshop surrounding a transparent mock-operating room, where new medical technologies are studied and developed.
Mar. 19, 2019—Brain cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. The surgery to remove the tumor is often very invasive. But now engineers at 国产原创 have designed a device that can make surgery easier for both doctor and patient, and the same technology also holds promise for lung cancer diagnosis.
VISE Spring Seminar – Ipek Oguz, PhD
Mar. 15, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Ipek Oguz,PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science 国产原创 Date: March 28, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Multi-atlas medical image synthesis Abstract: Image synthesis is an important problem in medical image analysis,...
Mar. 14, 2019—With the aid of $2.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 国产原创 researchers are on a quest to develop early biomarkers of treatment outcomes for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy based on their individual brain networks.
Mar. 12, 2019—For any number of diseases involving the skin, research into causes and cures requires isolating and quantifying in a reliable way the proportion of affected skin, one research subject after another, the more the better. This is achieved with medical photography, computer monitors, and mouse-dragging by a research dermatologist to carefully demarcate affected areas. With...
Mar. 8, 2019—For our first Editor鈥檚 Pick for March, we were pleased to talk with Dr Kurt Schilling and Dr Bennett Landman about their new model for high angular resolution functional imaging.
Mar. 1, 2019—国产原创鈥檚 eight newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship and research by family members, donors, colleagues and friends during a Feb. 25 ceremony at the Student Life Center.
VISE Spring Seminar – Punit Prakash, PhD
Mar. 1, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Punit Prakash, PhD, Paul L. Spainhour Professorship in Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University Date: March 14, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Devices and energy-delivery strategies for precise image-guided microwave thermal therapy Abstract: Image-guided...
Feb. 25, 2019—Gummy bears, laser pointers, slinky toys and gooey, stretchy hands illustrated basics in optics, wave propagation and tumor registration to more than 100 Nashville public elementary students by biomedical engineering graduate students who took E-Week on the road.
Feb. 21, 2019—国产原创 Medical Center recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
Feb. 20, 2019—Hosted by Network Director, Professor Seb Ourselin, the event will consist of the ECR Workshop which will run in the first half of the day, followed by the main Network+ Meeting which will feature keynote speaker Benoit Dawant (Cornelius 国产原创 Professor of Engineering | Director, 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering).聽In addition, the event will...
VISE Spring Seminar – Steven Hetts, MD
Feb. 8, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Steven Hetts, MD Professor of Radiology, Chief of Interventional Neuroradiology at the UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals, University of California, San Fransisco Date: February 28, 2019 Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: ChemoFilter and MARC: A Tale of Two Translational...
Feb. 5, 2019—Every one in nine babies is born too early here in Tennessee. Now there’s a medical breakthrough, a device created in our own backyard, that 国产原创 doctors say could be a game changer.
MASI Lab to host multi-year MRI white matter challenge
Feb. 1, 2019—Submissions are due March 7 for a new global challenge hosted by the Medical-imaging Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab that focuses on a complex issue in brain mapping 鈥 microstructure validation using diffusion MRI. Diffusion MRI, which is non-invasive, has emerged as a key modality for studying normal and abnormal brain development, aging, and brain...
VISE Spring Seminar – Kristy Brock, PhD
Jan. 25, 2019—VISE seminar to be led by Kristy Brock, PhD, Professor, Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Date: February 7, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Biomechanical Modeling for Image Guided Cancer...
VISE Spring Seminar – Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA
Jan. 17, 2019—VISE Seminar to be led by Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, William Scott, Jr. Chair in Surgery, 国产原创 Medical Center Date: January 24, 2019 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Cross Circulation for Organ Recovery, Biohybrid Lungs and New Devices for...
VISE affiliate awarded 2019 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
Jan. 16, 2019—A biomedical engineering graduate student who is participating in the Medical Scientist Training Program has received a two-year fellowship aimed at improving global cardiovascular health. Camilo Bermudez Noguera, a VISE affiliate in the MASI Lab, received the 2019 Predoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association. 鈥淚 am incredibly excited for this opportunity. I believe this...
VISE Spring Seminar – Workshop with three guest speakers
Jan. 7, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Todd Peterson, PhD, Director of Nuclear Imaging, Associate Professor of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, VUIIS, and Anna Fisher, CNMT, PET Technologist, VUIIS and Michael I. Miga, PhD, Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, VU Date: Thursday, January 10, 2019 Time: 12:25pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place:聽 Stevenson Center...
Dec. 18, 2018—The 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering celebrated its opening of dedicated space in Medical Center North Dec. 12 with a technology showcase of more than two dozen cross-disciplinary collaborations advancing healthcare techniques from the lab to patient.
Dec. 5, 2018—The聽国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥攄edicated to cross-disciplinary collaborations that advance discoveries from the laboratory to the patient鈥攚ill celebrate its new physical space at 2323 Medical Center North with an open house and symposium Dec. 12.
Fall Seminar – Chris West
Nov. 19, 2018—to be led by Chris West President, ZeroTo510 Medical Device Accelerator Title: 鈥淲hat we鈥檝e learned in device innovation (the hard way): Practical tips in translation鈥 Abstract: ZeroTo510 is a Memphis-based medical device Accelerator, and is annually ranked among the top programs in the country. We鈥檝e taken 30 startup teams through our program in 7 cohorts,...
VISE affiliates awarded $2.5 million NIH grant for epilepsy project
Nov. 15, 2018—A team of 国产原创 engineers and surgeons were recently awarded a five-year, $2.5 million National Institutes of Health R01 grant to continue research into epilepsy-related seizures and brain networks. Victoria Morgan, associate professor of radiology and radiological sciences, is the principal investigator. Bennett Landman, associate professor of electrical engineering and Dario Englot, assistant professor...
VISE Fall Seminar – Erdem Erdemir, PhD
Nov. 6, 2018—Erdem Erdemir, PhD , Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Tennessee State University Date: Thursday, November 8, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 2:45 p.m. for snacks, 3:00 p.m. start Title: Design and Implementation of Intelligence in Biomechatronic Systems Abstract: In the future, biomechatronic robotic systems will need to accomplish more complex tasks in increasingly...
Fall Seminar – Jonathan Sorger, PhD
Oct. 12, 2018—to be led by: Jonathan Sorger Vice President, Research, Intuitive Surgical Title: 鈥淪urgical Robotics 鈥 A History of Intuitive + Opportunities for Research and Collaboration鈥 Abstract: Intuitive Surgical was founded 23 years ago as a spinoff from SRI in Menlo Park, CA to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make...
VISE summer fellowship program supports nine outstanding undergraduates in 2018
Oct. 9, 2018—Nine students worked with VISE faculty and graduate students over the summer on research projects that ranged from cochlear implantation and modeling to vessel phantom creation and imaging, ultrasound beamforming and deep whole brain segmentation. They took part in the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering鈥檚 2018 Summer Fellows program, which gives undergraduates hands-on experience...