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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....
VISE Affiliates Land NIH R01
Feb. 4, 2016—VISE affiliates Brett Byram (PI) , Mike Miga (Co-I) and Dan Brown (Co-I) recently landed an NIH R01 surrounding ultrasound technology advancements. The project is on ultrasound image formation applied to liver biopsy, and it represents a new programmatic research direction at Vanderbilt that leverages the spirit and energy of VISE to confront challenging clinical...
Joint BME/VISE Guest Seminar: An Adaptable Framework to Extract Abnormal Brain Networks. WEDNESDAY January 27st, 12:10pm, Noon lunch. SC 5326.
Jan. 25, 2016— Title: An Adaptable Framework to Extract Abnormal Brain Networks Speaker: Dr. Archana Venkataraman, Postdoctoral Associate, Image Processing and Analysis Group, Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale University Date: ***Wednesday, January 27th *** Time: 12:10pm start Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: There is increasing evidence that complex neurological disorders reflect distributed impairments across...
VISE Affiliate named as 2016 Chancellor Faculty Fellow
Jan. 21, 2016—Robert Webster, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Associate Professor of Urologic surgery was named as one of fourteen Chancellor Faculty Fellows. Webster’s research interests are in surgical robotics in particular and more generally in applying scientific and engineering tools to...
Joint BME/VISE Guest Seminar: Advancing Brain-Machine Interfaces Towards Clinical Viability. Thursday January 21st, 12:10pm, Noon lunch. SC 5326.
Jan. 15, 2016—Title: Advancing Brain-Machine Interfaces Towards Clinical Viability Speaker: Dr. Chethan Pandarinath, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neural Prosthetics Laboratory, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Date: Thursday, January 21st Time: 12:10pm start, noon lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) aim to restore function for people with disabilities by directly...