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VISE Affiliates Dawant, Klein-Gardner, Landman elected as new AIMBE fellows
Mar. 28, 2024—Four Vanderbilt University engineering faculty members have been elected to the 2024 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
MASI Lab: A magic mirror reflects anatomy in an engaging way and enters White House open science challenge
Mar. 27, 2024—Visitors to Nashville’s Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR) anatomy that creates the illusion of an X-ray view of the body’s muscles and bones.
VISE Spring Seminar with Nicholas Kavoussi, MD 3.28.24
Mar. 25, 2024—VISE seminar to be led by Nicholas Kavoussi, MD Assistant Professor of Urology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Leaving No Stone Unturned: Improving Endoscopic Kidney Surgery Abstract: Ureteroscopy for treatment of urinary calculi has been utilized since the development of the pulsed...
VISE Spring Seminar Yuxiao Zhou, PhD, 4.4.24
Mar. 11, 2024—Yuziao Zhou, PhD, Assistant Professor J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas A&M University Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Imaging-based orthopaedic surgery planning and multi-scale bone biomechanics Abstract: Bone is a living tissue that senses and responds to external mechanical stimuli by adjusting its...
VISE Spring Seminar with Roza Bayrak, PhD, 3.21.24
Mar. 11, 2024—Roza Bayrak, PhD, Research Assistant Professor Computer Science Vanderbilt University Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Mining Brain Function from Structure and Peripheral Physiological Data Abstract: In functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data acquisition, it is common to collect various companion data alongside. These auxiliary data are typically...
VISE Spring Seminar with Rachel Clipp, PhD 3.7.24
Feb. 14, 2024—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by: Rachel Clipp, PhD, Assistant Director of Medical Computing Kitware Date: Thursday, March 7, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Towards a Human Physiological Digital Twin with the Pulse Physiology Engine Abstract: The Pulse Physiology Engine is an open source computational physiology engine. It was...
VISE Spring Seminar – Brett Byram, PhD, 2.15.24
Feb. 8, 2024—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Brett Byram, PhD, Hoy Family Faculty Fellow Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: All the data we cannot see—revealing hidden signals in ultrasound data. Abstract: Ultrasound has experienced a recent explosion of new applications and...
VISE affiliate James Weimer receives NSF CAREER Award to improve safety and efficacy of machine learning, AI systems
Feb. 2, 2024—James Weimer, assistant professor of computer science and noted medical-device entrepreneur, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve the safety and efficacy of systems that use advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques.
VISE Spring Seminar – Ross Whitaker, PhD 2.8.24
Jan. 22, 2024—Ross Whitaker, PhD Professor in the School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute University of Utah Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: An Image-Based, Deep-Phenotyping Analysis Toolset, Repository, and Online Clinician Interface for Craniosynostosis Abstract: Craniosynostosis, or abnormal cranial suture fusion, affects up to...
VISE affiliates receive NIH grant to fund novel brain network approach to improve epilepsy surgery
Jan. 12, 2024—A multidisciplinary group of investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million grant to develop novel brain network-based measures to guide surgical decisions and improve outcomes in the field of epilepsy surgery.
VISE affiliate Soheil Kolouri receives NSF CAREER Award to enhance machine learning
Jan. 11, 2024—Soheil Kolouri, assistant professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to explore ways to make machine learning more efficient and possibly impact the next generation of such methods.
Nanostructured flat lens uses machine learning to ‘see’ more clearly, while using less power
Jan. 10, 2024—A front-end lens, or meta-imager (see below), created at Vanderbilt University can potentially replace traditional imaging optics in machine-vision applications, producing images at higher speed and using less power.
VISE affiliate Keith Obstein receives inaugural Brock Family Center Innovator of the Year Award
Nov. 22, 2023—Keith Obstein, MD, MPH, professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, has received the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation in recognition of his achievements in developing and commercializing a magnetic, flexible colonoscopy system with the potential to...
VISE on the Road: 2023 MICCAI conference
Nov. 21, 2023— Members of six VISE labs affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) traveled to Vancouver to take part in the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Like-minded scientists from around the world gather yearly at the MICCAI conference to share their work with one another on a...
VISE affiliates participate in ‘Nature’ conference on Bioengineering for Global Health seeking to foster “radical collaboration” that will impact health disparities
Nov. 21, 2023—Researchers from around the globe gathered for the inaugural Nature conference “Bioengineering for Global Health” at Vanderbilt University Nov. 13–15. Faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and editors from Nature Communications, Nature Biomedical Engineering and Nature Reviews Bioengineering led the organization of the conference.