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Tennessean article: Neurotargeting uses data to combat neurological disorders
Jul. 8, 2016—A Vanderbilt University neurosurgeon and two Vanderbilt engineers have launched a medical database that they hope will have a significant impact on addressing neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.
STORM Lab Hydrojet Team wins Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016
Jul. 7, 2016—The Science and Technology of Robotics in Medicine (STORM) Lab Hydrojet Team won Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016 for the Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics. The international competition, held at the Imperial College in London, showcases the latest developments in Surgical Robotics. STORM Lab’s project “Low-cost gastric cancer screening in low...
VISE Research in Progress (RIP) Summer Instruction Seminar Series. Thursday, June 30, SC 5326. 12:10pm start, Noon Lunch
Jun. 24, 2016—Rip #1: Title: Insights into Optic Nerve Pathology; PHOTON database Speaker: Shikha Chaganti, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rip #2: Title: Development of a Robotic System for Endonasal Surgery Speaker: Andria Remirez, PhD candidate Department: Mechanical Engineering _____________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thursday, June 30, 2016 Time: 12:10 p.m., noon Lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326
New VISE grant gives clinical boost to surgical device development
Jun. 22, 2016—Engineering graduate students from across several disciplines will experience intensive training and mentoring with the potential to help them create devices, then get those out of the lab and into clinical settings. Offered through the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering, this program for second- and third-year engineering PhD students includes sessions with surgeons and...
VISE affiliates win Best Paper Award at 2016 IEEE BHI
Jun. 13, 2016—Yuan Liu, PhD candidate in computer science, and Benoit Dawant, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and Director of the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering, won the 2016 IEEE BHI Best Paper Award. The award was presented during the third IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics. The BHI is a special topic...
VISE affiliates Robert F. Labadie, Professor of Otolaryngology and J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, have published “Image-Guided Surgery: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications in Otolaryngology”.
Jun. 8, 2016—VISE affiliates Robert F. Labadie, Professor of Otolaryngology and J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, have published “Image-Guided Surgery: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications in Otolaryngology”. Image-guided surgery (IGS) is the term used for surgical procedures in which the surgeon employs tracked surgical instruments in conjunction with preoperative or intraoperative images in order to...
VISE Research in Progress (RIP) Summer Instruction Seminar Series. Thursday, June 16, 12:20. SC 5326. 12:10pm start, Noon Lunch
Jun. 7, 2016—RIP # One: Consistent Surface Reconstruction and Multi-atlas Segmentation Speaker: Yuankai Huo, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science RIP # Two: Localizing landmark sets in head CT using random forest for image registration initialization Speaker: Dongqing Zhang, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Time: 12:10 p.m., Lunch served noon...
VISE Research in Progress (RIP) Summer Instruction Seminar Series. Thursday, June 2, 12:20. SC 5326. 12:10pm start, Noon Lunch
Jun. 1, 2016—Rip #1: Title: Patient-specific electro-anatomical modeling of cochlear implants Speaker: Ahmet Cakir, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rip #2: Title: Perfusion Ultrasound Imaging without Contrast Speaker: Jamie Tierney, PhD candidate Department: Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016 Time: 12:10 p.m., noon Lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326
VISE Technology Wins this Year’s Tech Venture Challenge
May. 24, 2016—In 2009, Dr. Joseph Neimat, assistant professor of neurological surgery, approached VISE engineers to find out if they could create a device that provided an alternative to invasive neurological surgical procedures. Fortunately, Dr. Robert Webster of the Medical Engineering and discovery (MED) Lab and Dr. Eric Barth of the Design and Control of Energetic Systems...
VISE Seminar: Bringing New Technology into the Interventional Radiology Suite: Integration vs Workflow. Thursday, April 14th, 12:20. SC 5326, Refreshments provided at 12:15.
Apr. 11, 2016—TITLE: Bringing New Technology into the Interventional Radiology Suite: Integration vs Workflow SPEAKER: Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, VUMC & Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Department of BME, VU DATE: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 TIME: 12:20pm Start, 12:15 Lunch PLACE: Stevenson Center 5326 ABSTRACT: Interventional Radiology, as a...
VISE Seminar: Image synthesis and super-resolution: New approaches for medical image analysis. Thursday March 31st, 12:20. SC 5326, Refreshments provided at 12:15.
Mar. 28, 2016—TITLE: Image synthesis and super-resolution: New approaches for medical image analysis SPEAKER: Dr. Jerry L. Prince, William B. Kouwenhoven Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University DATE: March 31st, 2016 TIME: 12:20pm Start, 12:15 Lunch PLACE: Stevenson Center 5326 ABSTRACT: Did you forgot to acquire an image? Or maybe the one you...
VISE Seminar: Promote and Accelerate Commercialization and Translation (EmPACT) of Medical Device Technologies.Thursday March 17th, 12:20. SC 5326, Refreshments provided at 12:15.
Mar. 14, 2016—Title: Promote and Accelerate Commercialization and Translation (EmPACT) of Medical Device Technologies Speakers: Dr. Pietro Valdastri, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, & Byron Smith, MS, VISE Corporate Outreach and Marketing Specialist Date: March 17, 2016 Time: 12:20pm Start, 12:15 Lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: In Fall of 2015 VISE piloted a new program...
VISE Affiliates shine at 2016 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.
Mar. 14, 2016—Recognition was given to several VISE affiliates at the February 2016 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego. Neal Dillon was the runner up for the Young Scientist Award sponsored by Siemens with his paper “Increasing Safety of a Robotic System for Inner Ear Surgery Using Probabilistic Error Modeling Near Vital Anatomy”. The award is...
VISE Seminar: Implantable Artificial Kidney. Thursday March 3rd, 12:20. SC 5326, Refreshments provided at 12:15.
Feb. 29, 2016— Title: Implantable Artificial Kidney Speaker: Dr. William H. Fissell, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, VUMC & Amanda K. W. Buck, PhD, Instructor in Radiology and Radiological Sciences, VUMC Date: Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 Time: 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch (***NOTE TIME CHANGE***) Place: Stevenson Center 5326
VISE Guest Seminar: Histotripsy: Imaging Guided Ultrasound Therapy for Non-invasive Surgery. Thursday Feb 18th, 12:10. SC 5326, Refreshments provided at 12:00.
Feb. 10, 2016—Title: Histotripsy: Imaging Guided Ultrasound Therapy for Non-invasive Surgery Speaker: Zhen Xu, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Date: Thursday, February 18th, 2016 Time: 12:10pm start Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Biography: Zhen Xu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI....