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VISE on the Virtual Road: 2021 MICCAI conference
Nov. 9, 2021—Members of five labs affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering took part in the 24th annual International Conference on Medial Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, sharing their work with like-minded scientists from around the world. The conference brings together leading biomedical scientists, clinicians, and engineers who focus on medical imaging and...
Engineering’s Nabil Simaan named ASME Fellow
Nov. 3, 2021—Nabil Simaan, professor of mechanical engineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a distinction awarded to ASME members who have made significant engineering achievements.
VISE Fall Seminar – Soheil Kolouri, PhD
Oct. 29, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Soheil Kolouri Assistant Professor of Computer Science Date: November 11, 2021 Time: 11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Transport-Based Embeddings in the Deep Learning Era
VISE researchers receive $1M grant to explore brain-body connections and advance understanding of how brains age
Oct. 15, 2021—An assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering has received a $1.1 million NIH grant to investigate connections between the brain and body to advance the understanding of aging in normal and pathological brains. Catie Chang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the research team, which will focus on developing machine learning methods...
VISE Fall Seminar – Ahmed Ghazi, MD, MSc
Oct. 8, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Ahmed Ghazi, MD, MSc Associate Professor of Urology and Oncology George W Conner Deans Teaching fellow Endourology Fellowship Director Director of Simulation Innovation Laboratory University of Rochester Medical Center Date: October 28, 2021 Time: 11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Leveraging Engineering Technologies to...
VISE researcher awarded $2.6M grant to improve Alzheimer’s patient management
Oct. 5, 2021—An electrical and computer engineering professor has received a $2.6 million NIH grant to improve the reliability of techniques to map of structural changes in the brains of people who have Alzheimer’s Disease. The goal is to identify opportunities for early intervention by developing more effective interventional strategies. Bennett Landman, who chairs the Department of...
VISE affiliate Graham Johnson awarded prestigious individual predoctoral fellowship
Oct. 4, 2021—Graham Johnson, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and VISE affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Johnson works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,...
VISE Fall Seminar 10.7.21 John Gore, PhD
Sep. 28, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by John Gore, PhD Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine, Director of the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: October 7, 2021 Time: 11:50 am Lunch ticket distribution, Noon start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Functional MRI of White Matter Abstract: Blood...
School of Engineering announces 14 faculty appointments
Sep. 17, 2021—The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of 14 faculty members to its full-time teaching staff, which includes 10 new computer science faculty members appointed during the first year of the Destination Vanderbilt: Computer Science initiative, part of a $100 million university excellence initiative to recruit new faculty.
VISE Fall Seminar – Archana Venkataraman 9.23.21
Sep. 13, 2021—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Archana Venkataraman, PhD John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Date: September 23, 2021 Time: 12:05pm start, Noon Lunch-ticket hand out Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Unlocking the Translational Potential of Resting-State Data Abstract: Resting-state data has become ubiquitous in computational neuroscience...
Team awarded $2.3 million NIH grant to evaluate new, more accurate ultrasound methods
Sep. 9, 2021—New acquisition and reconstruction solutions for ultrasound imaging developed by a Vanderbilt team aim to fundamentally improve the ability to obtain high quality, clinically relevant images, especially in cases of heart disease.
VISE Summer Fellows program resumes, provides real-world lab experience to exceptional undergrads
Sep. 1, 2021—The VISE Summer Fellows Program resumed in May, with 10 remarkable undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks on research projects in areas that included connectivity patterns in the brain, computational modeling of vagus nerve stimulation, and brain tumor segmentation using machine learning. The 2021 Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Fellowship Program was...
Engineering doctoral students experience paradigm-shifting clinical training in surgery and intervention
Aug. 27, 2021—The results are in: Five cohorts of Vanderbilt engineering doctoral students have experienced ‘paradigm-shifting training’ in surgery and intervention.
New departments answer growing demand in computer science, computational science, electrical engineering
Aug. 19, 2021—The School of Engineering has created two new departments from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to encourage innovation, accommodate enrollment growth, and focus on areas of strategic excellence.
MASI Lab in the news! Q&A with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman
Aug. 5, 2021—This MRM Highlights Pick interview is with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman, researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Their paper is entitled “PreQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images”. It was chosen not only because the authors share their pipeline code with their paper,...