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Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Winona Richey
Mar. 2, 2018—Winona Richey is a first-year biomedical engineering graduate student whose area of research includes image guidance for breast cancer surgery. Richey, who is in the Biomedical Modeling Lab (BML), a 国产原创 Institute of Surgery and Engineering (VISE) lab, was among the VISE students who presented work at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting. As lead...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Mark George
Mar. 2, 2018—Mark George is an undergraduate student at 国产原创 School of Engineering and a member of the Biomedical Elasticity and Acoustical Measurement (BEAM) Lab. Under the direction of Brett Byram, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, George participated for the first time at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting, an internationally recognized the premier forum...
Spring Seminar – Lori Jordan, MD
Feb. 23, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Lori Jordan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Director, Pediatric Stroke Program, 国产原创 Medical Center Date:聽Thursday, March 15, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: 鈥淪ickle Cell Disease, Cerebral Hemodynamics, and Stroke鈥 Abstract: Children and adults...
Spring Seminar – Diandra Ayala-Peacock, M.D.
Feb. 9, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Diandra Ayala-Peacock, M.D. Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology 国产原创 Medical Center Date:聽Thursday, February 22, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Image Guidance in the Management of Gynecologic Malignancies Bio: Dr. Ayala-Peacock is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology specializing in...
Jan. 30, 2018—A new device that can image diseases of the retina more quickly will soon be tested during ophthalmic surgeries with 国产原创 Eye Institute collaborators. The prototype was designed by a 国产原创 engineering undergraduate, who is first author on a paper about the work she will present today at the largest photonics conference in the world.
VISE Spring Seminar – Jack Abbott, PhD
Jan. 30, 2018—to be delivered by Jake Abbott,聽PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah Robotics Center Date:聽Thursday, February 8, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start,聽12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Magnetic Manipulation in Medical Robotics Abstract: Microscale and mesoscale robotic devices that navigate the natural pathways of the human body...
BIEN Lab wins three awards at NANS 2018
Jan. 22, 2018—The BIEN Lab was honored three times during this year鈥檚 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Annual Meeting. Dr. Dario Englot, assistant professor of neurological surgery, radiology and radiological sciences, and biomedical engineering, won the prestigious Kumar New Investigator Award for his paper titled, 鈥淎ltered structural and functional connectivity of brainstem arousal centers in temporal lobe...
VISE Spring Seminar – Jason A. Spector, M.D., FACS
Jan. 12, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jason A. Spector, M.D., FACS Professor of Plastic Surgery, Otolaryngology, and Bioengineering, Weill Cornell Medical College (Hosted by VU Biomedical Engineering, co-sponsored by VISE) Date:聽Thursday, January 25, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: The Ultimate Plastic Surgery: Tissue Regeneration, Biomimicry and Precision Medicine....
Jan. 10, 2018—PhD candidates, including two VISE affiliates, work with law and business school students on tech commercialization
MASI Lab teams up with EnvoyAI to develop segmentation algorithms
Jan. 9, 2018—The MASI lab is collaborating on the development of deep learning algorithms for abdomen segmentation that leverage artificial intelligence to better understand and diagnose disease. The MASI lab, affiliated with the 国产原创 Institute for Surgery and Engineering, is working with a team from EnvoyAI, which aims to simplify access to new AI algorithms by providing...
Jan. 2, 2018—Using fluorescently labeled antibodies as a contrast agent can give cancer surgeons highly specific real-time detection of tumors that may accelerate diagnosis, preserve more healthy tissue, and improve patient outcomes. Dr. Eben Rosenthal, keynote speaker at the VISE symposium, discusses using near-infrared fluorescence to improve detection of cancer margins. (Joe Howell/国产原创) 鈥淭here is a tension...
VISE Spring Seminar: David Sarment, DDS, MS
Jan. 2, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by David Sarment, DDS, MS President, Xoran Technologies Date:聽Thursday, January 11, 2018 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: 鈥淧oint of Care Computed Tomography: Imaging Where You Need It鈥 Abstract: Intra-operative Computed Tomography (iCT) in head and neck surgery is scarcely...
BONUS VISE Seminar: Elena A. Kaye, PhD
Dec. 4, 2017—VISE Seminar to be delivered by Elena A. Kaye, PhD, Assistant Attending Physicist, Department of Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 (notice different day) Time: 12:10pm start, noon 鈥 folks, cookies and coffee on this one… Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Achieving Sufficient Margins...
Nov. 10, 2017—Ultrasonic energy can be harnessed to alter brain activity and treat disease 鈥 but first, scientists need to learn how it works.
VISE Fall Seminar – Andrew Larson, PhD
Nov. 9, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Andrew Larson, PhD Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Date:聽Thursday, November 16, 2017 Location:聽Stevenson Center 5326 Time:聽12:10 p.m. start,聽Noon lunch Title: Development of Image-Guided Therapies for Liver Cancer Abstract: Image-guided loco-regional therapies are playing an increasingly critical...