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VISE Spring Seminar Natasha Sheybani, PhD
Feb. 8, 2022—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Natasha Sheybani, PhD Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location:聽Stevenson 5326 Talk title: Immunoengineering Next-Generation Cancer Therapies with Focused Ultrasound Abstract: Despite the remarkable promise of cancer immunotherapy, a significant fraction of patients with...
VISE Spring Seminar – Theodore Zanos, PhD,
Jan. 21, 2022—VISE Spring seminar to be led by Theodore Zanos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research Date:聽Thursday, January 20, 2022 Time:聽12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title:聽 Machine Learning in Bioelectronic Medicine and Healthcare Abstract: One of the exciting areas of innovation in healthcare lies at...
Jan. 19, 2022—Bennett Landman, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his achievements in medical image processing with robust and scalable methods for large-scale data analysis.
VISE Spring Seminar – Kamran Idrees, MD, MSCI, MMHC, FACS
Jan. 14, 2022—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Kamran Idrees, MD, MSCI, MMHC, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery Director, Pancreas and Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncology Director, Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Program Chair, Clinical Cancer Committee Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location:...
Dec. 7, 2021—A 国产原创 engineering professor is leading part of an international initiative to create advanced artificial intelligence programs that will enable machines to learn progressively over a lifetime and share those experiences with each other. Researchers hope the technology will allow machines to reuse information, adapt quickly to new conditions and collaborate by sharing information.
Dec. 6, 2021—The聽国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering聽hosts its 10th annual Surgery, Intervention and Engineering Symposium Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. CT. The event will feature a keynote lecture by Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
Nov. 18, 2021—Join the聽国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering聽on Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. CT for its 10th annual Surgery, Intervention and Engineering Symposium. The event will feature a keynote lecture by聽Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
Nov. 15, 2021—Two 国产原创 faculty have received an $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of a groundbreaking, multi-institutional overview of variables influencing infant and child brain development, including substance exposure.
VISE Fall Seminar – Jared Weiss, MD and Michael Topf, MD November 18, 2021
Nov. 12, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Jared M. Weiss, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Oncology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michael Topf, MD Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology 鈥 Head and Neck Surgery 国产原创 Medical Center Date: November 18, 2021 Time:聽11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location:聽Stevenson Center...
VISE on the Virtual Road: 2021 MICCAI conference
Nov. 9, 2021—Members of five labs affiliated with the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering took part in the 24th annual International Conference on Medial Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, sharing their work with like-minded scientists from around the world. The conference brings together leading biomedical scientists, clinicians, and engineers who focus on medical imaging and...
Engineering鈥檚 Nabil Simaan named ASME Fellow
Nov. 3, 2021—Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a distinction awarded to ASME members who have made significant engineering achievements.
VISE Fall Seminar – Soheil Kolouri, PhD
Oct. 29, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Soheil Kolouri Assistant Professor of Computer Science Date: November 11, 2021 Time:聽11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Title:聽 Transport-Based Embeddings in the Deep Learning Era
VISE researchers receive $1M grant to explore brain-body connections and advance understanding of how brains age
Oct. 15, 2021—An assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering has received a $1.1 million NIH grant to investigate connections between the brain and body to advance the understanding of aging in normal and pathological brains. Catie Chang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the research team, which will focus on developing machine learning methods...
VISE Fall Seminar – Ahmed Ghazi, MD, MSc
Oct. 8, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Ahmed Ghazi, MD, MSc Associate Professor of Urology and Oncology George W Conner Deans Teaching fellow Endourology Fellowship Director Director of Simulation Innovation Laboratory University of Rochester Medical Center Date: October 28, 2021 Time:聽11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Title:聽 Leveraging Engineering Technologies to...
VISE researcher awarded $2.6M grant to improve Alzheimer鈥檚 patient management
Oct. 5, 2021—An electrical and computer engineering professor has received a $2.6 million NIH grant to improve the reliability of techniques to map of structural changes in the brains of people who have Alzheimer鈥檚 Disease. The goal is to identify opportunities for early intervention by developing more effective interventional strategies. Bennett Landman, who chairs the Department of...
VISE affiliate Graham Johnson awarded prestigious individual predoctoral fellowship
Oct. 4, 2021—Graham Johnson, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and VISE affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Johnson works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,...
VISE Fall Seminar 10.7.21 John Gore, PhD
Sep. 28, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by John Gore, PhD Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine, Director of the 国产原创 Institute of Imaging Science, 国产原创 and 国产原创 Medical Center Date: October 7, 2021 Time: 11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Title:聽 Functional MRI of White Matter Abstract:聽 Blood...
Sep. 17, 2021—The 国产原创 School of Engineering announces the appointment of 14聽faculty members to its full-time teaching staff, which includes聽10 new computer science faculty members appointed during the first year of the Destination 国产原创: Computer Science initiative, part of a $100 million university excellence initiative to recruit new faculty.
VISE Fall Seminar – Archana Venkataraman 9.23.21
Sep. 13, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Archana Venkataraman, PhD John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Date: September 23, 2021 Time: 12:05pm start, Noon Lunch-ticket hand out Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title:聽 Unlocking the Translational Potential of Resting-State Data Abstract:聽 Resting-state data has become ubiquitous in computational neuroscience...
Sep. 9, 2021—New acquisition and reconstruction solutions for ultrasound imaging developed by a 国产原创 team aim to fundamentally improve the ability to obtain high quality, clinically relevant images, especially in cases of heart disease.
VISE Summer Fellows program resumes, provides real-world lab experience to exceptional undergrads
Sep. 1, 2021—The VISE Summer Fellows Program resumed in May, with 10 remarkable undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks on research projects in areas that included connectivity patterns in the brain, computational modeling of vagus nerve stimulation, and brain tumor segmentation using machine learning. The 2021 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Fellowship Program was...
Aug. 27, 2021—The results are in: Five cohorts of 国产原创 engineering doctoral students have experienced 鈥榩aradigm-shifting training鈥 in surgery and intervention.
Aug. 19, 2021—The School of Engineering has created two new departments from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to encourage innovation, accommodate enrollment growth, and focus on areas of strategic excellence.
Aug. 5, 2021—This MRM Highlights Pick interview is with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman, researchers at 国产原创 in Nashville. Their paper is entitled 鈥淧reQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images鈥. It was chosen not only because the authors聽share their pipeline code聽with their paper,...
Jul. 30, 2021—Robert Labadie, MD, PhD, professor of Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering, has been named professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Medicine in Charleston, South Carolina.
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 8.5.21
Jul. 23, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, August 5,聽 2021 Time:聽Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Erin Bratu, PhD Candidate (EECS) RiP #1: Title: 聽 Development of Novel Methods for Image-Guided Cochlear Implant Programming RIP #1 Description: Although many cochlear implant recipients experience improved hearing ability and speech recognition, a significant number of...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.22.21
Jul. 9, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021 Time:聽Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Emelina Vienneau, PhD Candidate (BME),聽Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Towards Noninvasive Functional Ultrasound Neuroimaging RIP #1 Description: Transcranial ultrasound imaging of blood flow is extremely challenging due to various forms of image degradation that are...
Jun. 24, 2021—The 国产原创 Graduate Student Council has announced the winners of its inaugural Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards. The awards were designed by the Graduate Student Council to identify and honor the hard work and leadership of graduate students at 国产原创.
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.8.21
Jun. 23, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, July 8, 2021 Time:聽Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Speaker #1: Rachel Eimen, PhD Candidate (BME) RiP #1: Title: 聽Real-time clinician guidance to improve 3D bladder reconstructions RIP #1 Description: Due to the high recurrence rate of bladder cancer, patients receive lifelong cystoscopies every three months...
Jun. 23, 2021—The SPIE Faculty Fellowship will support a 国产原创 faculty member who is working in optics and photonics. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yuankai 鈥淜enny鈥 Tao has been selected as the recipient of the first gift.