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KUDOS: September 2022 edition
Sep. 29, 2022— Congratulations to our VISE affiliates. Read about our faculty, staff and student awards, honors and achievements Share your good news with the VISE community by filling out this form. Bennett Landman, PhD, Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Chancellor’s Award for Research along with Josh Caldwell. Kristy Walsh, BEAM Lab, presented her...
A team of VISE affiliates, the NIH, and the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale team up to tackle monkeypox
Sep. 15, 2022—Vanderbilt researchers are developing an artificial intelligence algorithm that can precisely track and count monkeypox lesions. They are also spearheading the effort to develop lesion classification guidelines, which will be used when evaluating the potential use of tecovirimat, an antiviral that is FDA-approved against smallpox, as a therapy for monkeypox.
VISE Fall Seminar – MICCAI COMES TO VISE 9.22.22
Sep. 13, 2022—VISE GOES TO MICCAI MICCAI COMES TO VISE VISE Fall Seminar to be led by: Han Liu, ModDrop++: A Dynamic Filter Network with Intra-subject Co-training for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation with Missing Modalities Can Cui, Survival Prediction of Brain Cancer with Incomplete Radiology, Pathology, Genomic, and Demographic Data Xin Yu, Reducing Positional Variance in Cross-sectional...
KUDOS: August 2022
Aug. 30, 2022—Share your good news with the VISE community by filling out this form. Keith Obstein, MD, director of STORM Lab, and his team recently published the paper, Robotic Autonomy for Magnetic Endoscope Biopsy. Emelina Vienneau, graduate student in BEAM Lab, won honorable mention in the poster competition during the Gordon Research Conference for In...
VISE Fall Seminar Xiaoguang Dong, PhD 9.8.22
Aug. 29, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Xiaoguang Dong, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Wireless Miniature Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Operations Abstract: Wireless small-scale robots actuated by magnetic fields could revolutionize minimally invasive medical operations by allowing access...
VISE affiliate to use portion of $2.3 million grant on robot technology to help patients avoid invasive colectomies
Aug. 25, 2022—Robert Webster, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at Vanderbilt University, is part of a collaborative team that has received a more than $2.3 million grant to further develop technology that seeks to prevent patients from having invasive colectomies by using steerable robot-like instruments
VISE Fall Seminar – VISE Summer Fellows 8.25.22
Aug. 22, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar featuring the 2022 VISE Summer Fellows Aarushi Negi – BIEN Lab Leo Yang – MAPLE Lab Shannon Alpetikin – MED Lab Andrew Haworth – Miniature Robotics Lab Kate Wang – NEURDY Lab Stanley Vinet – NEURDY Lab Shirley Xu – DIIGI Lab William Wu – MedICL Lab Xander Stabile – BML Lab...
Biomedical Engineering scholar Brett Byram named as a Senior Member of global optics and photonics society, SPIE
Aug. 11, 2022— Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Brett Byram, joins a group of 77 international scholars who were named Senior Members of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in August.
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 8.11.22
Jul. 28, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Bowen Xiang (BME), PhD Candidate and Jared Lawson (ME), PhD Candidate Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Speaker #1: Bowen Xiang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Comparison Study of Intraoperative Surface Acquisition Methods for Surgical Navigation via...
Simaan tapped as co-editor of IEEE special issue on surgical robots
Jul. 28, 2022—Mechanical Engineering Professor Nabil Simaan was named a co-editor of a special issue on surgical robotics for Proceedings of the IEEE. The July 2022 special issue, “Surgical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine,” provides a research overview of the major applications and enabling technologies in the growing field of surgical robotics.
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 7.21.22
Jul. 8, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Lucas Sainburg (BME), PhD Candidate and Emelina Vienneau (BME) PhD Candidate Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Speaker #1: Lucas Sainburg, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Effects of temporal lobe epilepsy and surgical treatment on functional MRI...
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 7.7.22
Jul. 1, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Nhung Hoang, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Frank Servin, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, July 7, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Speaker #1: Nhung Hoang, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science RiP #1: Title: Individual...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series 6.23.22
Jun. 14, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Graham Johnson, (BME), MSTP and Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, June 23, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Talk Title #1: Your First Grant Submission – How to Apply For an F31 Speaker #1: Graham Johnson, MD/PhD...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series – Brooks Lindsey, PhD 6.9.22
May. 31, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Brooks Lindsey, PhD Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University Date: Thursday, June 9, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Title: Guiding cardiovascular intervention with integrated ultrasound imaging Abstract: Approximately 19 million people in...
Two VISE affiliates among nineteen engineering students awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
May. 2, 2022—Sixteen engineering graduate students have been awarded a highly competitive government-funded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Three engineering undergraduate students also received NSF fellowships.
Taking the Wear-and-Tear out of Endoscopy for Patients – and Doctors
Apr. 26, 2022—Proprioceptive technology uses magnetic coupling to draw endoscopes forward, sparing patient and clinician injuries.
VISE affiliates receive inaugural Scaling Success Grants
Apr. 13, 2022—The Scaling Success Grant supports faculty as they leverage their research into larger, more competitive awards from federal, foundation or industry sponsors.
VISE Spring Seminar with Susan Gregurick, PhD 4.7.22
Mar. 30, 2022—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Susan Gregurick, PhD Associate Director for Data Science National Institutes of Health Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022 NOTE Time Change: 4:15 p.m. NOTE Location Change: Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium/Featheringill Hall Title: Connecting Data, Enhancing Software, and Creating a Digital Data Health Ecosystem Abstract: The NIH works to...
VISE Spring Seminar – Chris Holsinger, MD, FACS 3.24.22
Mar. 9, 2022—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Chris Holsinger, MD, FACS Professor and Chief, Head and Neck Surgery Stanford University Date: Thursday, March 24, 2022 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Robotics and the Transformation of Head & Neck Surgery Abstract: Head and neck surgery is experiencing a renaissance and revolution,...
Advisory Board established for ESI program
Mar. 7, 2022—A distinguished advisory board has been established for the Master of Engineering in Surgery and Intervention program, a novel professional degree designed to enhance training in the development of platform technologies used in procedural medicine.
VISE Spring Seminar Zachary Bercu, MD 3.3.22
Feb. 23, 2022—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Zachary Bercu, MD Associate Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences Emory University School of Medicine Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: A Futurist Viewpoint on Innovation in Image-Guided Medicine Abstract: Interventional radiologists (IRs) and proceduralists in image-guided medicine find...
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: 12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location: 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: Thursday, January 20, 2022 Time: 12:15 p.m. Room Opens, 12:20 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Machine Learning in Bioelectronic Medicine and Healthcare Abstract: One of the exciting areas of innovation in healthcare lies at...
Engineering Professor Bennett Landman is a 2022 SPIE Fellow
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:...
Vanderbilt engineer leads DARPA project to enable AI machines to gain, share knowledge
Dec. 7, 2021—A Vanderbilt 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.
10th annual VISE symposium features keynote on heart ‘digital twins’
Dec. 6, 2021—The Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering 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.
10th Annual Surgery, Intervention and Engineering Symposium features expert in AI-powered computational cardiology
Nov. 18, 2021—Join the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering 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 Natalia Trayanova, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
$8 million NIH grant awarded to Vanderbilt researchers for study of infant/child brain development
Nov. 15, 2021—Two Vanderbilt 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 – Head and Neck Surgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: November 18, 2021 Time: 11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location: Stevenson Center...