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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 – 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...
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 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 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.
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,...
Labadie named chair of Otolaryngology at MUSC
Jul. 30, 2021—Robert Labadie, MD, PhD, professor of Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering, has been named professor and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) College of Medicine in Charleston, South Carolina.
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 8.5.21
Jul. 23, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, August 5, 2021 Time: Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Erin Bratu, PhD Candidate (EECS) RiP #1: Title: Development of Novel Methods for Image-Guided Cochlear Implant Programming RIP #1 Description: Although many cochlear implant recipients experience improved hearing ability and speech recognition, a significant number of...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.22.21
Jul. 9, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, July 22, 2021 Time: Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Emelina Vienneau, PhD Candidate (BME), Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Towards Noninvasive Functional Ultrasound Neuroimaging RIP #1 Description: Transcranial ultrasound imaging of blood flow is extremely challenging due to various forms of image degradation that are...
Five receive Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards
Jun. 24, 2021—The Vanderbilt Graduate Student Council has announced the winners of its inaugural Graduate Leadership Anchor Awards. The awards were designed by the Graduate Student Council to identify and honor the hard work and leadership of graduate students at Vanderbilt.
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar 7.8.21
Jun. 23, 2021—VISE Research in Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, July 8, 2021 Time: Noon admittance, 12:05 p.m. remarks, 12:10 p.m. start Speaker #1: Rachel Eimen, PhD Candidate (BME) RiP #1: Title: Real-time clinician guidance to improve 3D bladder reconstructions RIP #1 Description: Due to the high recurrence rate of bladder cancer, patients receive lifelong cystoscopies every three months...
SPIE and Vanderbilt University announce $1 million optical engineering faculty fellowship
Jun. 23, 2021—The SPIE Faculty Fellowship will support a Vanderbilt University faculty member who is working in optics and photonics. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Yuankai “Kenny” Tao has been selected as the recipient of the first gift.
A Novel Clinically Immersive Pre-doctoral Training Program for Engineering in Surgery and Intervention
Jun. 8, 2021—A novel pre-doctoral program is presented that combines (1) immersive observation in the surgical/interventional theatre and (2) thought-provoking exposition activities focused on answering clinically provocative questions.