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SPIE 2018 Special Workshop organized by VISE steering committee member, Michael Miga
Mar. 6, 2018—Last year, when SPIE put out a Special Issue Call for Papers in SPIE’s Journal of Medical Imaging, Harvie Branscomb Professor of Biomedical Engineering Michael I. Miga, PhD, proposed the first issue ever devoted specifically to image-guided procedures, robotic interventions and modeling. Not only did SPIE welcome the idea, but it has become the largest...
VISE affiliates honored at the February 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference
Mar. 5, 2018—Four VISE affiliates were recognized for their outstanding work this year at the annual SPIE Medical Imaging meeting. Meg Bobo, a sophomore in electrical engineering, won the Cum Laude Poster Award in the Image Processing conference for her poster, “Fully convolutational neural networks improve abdominal organ segmentation.” Posters are reviewed by conference committees and chosen...
VISE takes SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 by storm
Mar. 2, 2018—Research is a huge component of involvement with Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) but affiliation also comes with sharing that research and meeting like-minded scientists to make significant impacts in healthcare. Each year VISE participates in the SPIE Medical Imaging meeting, which is internationally recognized as the premier forum for relating state-of-the-art research...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Cam Bermudez
Mar. 2, 2018—Cam Bermudez, an MD/PhD student in the Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation (MASI) Lab, attended SPIE Medical Imaging meeting once before but 2018 was a different experience entirely. Bermudez went as a speaker. As lead author, Bermudez presented the paper titled, “Learning implicit brain MRI manifolds with deep learning.” The lab, part of the Vanderbilt...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Srijata Chakravorti
Mar. 2, 2018—Srijata Chakravorti, a graduate student in the electrical engineering department, believes attending SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 and other professional conferences is a great way to connect with other researchers and learn about work is beyond the “bubbles” of their own labs and institutions. They also indicate where the field of medical imaging and image-guided patient...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – James Ferguson
Mar. 2, 2018—James Ferguson is a mechanical engineering graduate student in the Medical Engineering and Discovery (MED) Lab, said presenting at SPIE Medical Imaging this year was “a fantastic experience for me from a professional development standpoint.” As lead author, Ferguson presented the paper titled, “Toward image-guided partial nephrectomy with the da Vinci robot: exploring intraoperative re-...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Winona Richey
Mar. 2, 2018—Winona Richey is a first-year biomedical engineering graduate student whose area of research includes image guidance for breast cancer surgery. Richey, who is in the Biomedical Modeling Lab (BML), a Vanderbilt Institute of Surgery and Engineering (VISE) lab, was among the VISE students who presented work at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting. As lead...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Mark George
Mar. 2, 2018—Mark George is an undergraduate student at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering and a member of the Biomedical Elasticity and Acoustical Measurement (BEAM) Lab. Under the direction of Brett Byram, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, George participated for the first time at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting, an internationally recognized the premier forum...
Spring Seminar – Lori Jordan, MD
Feb. 23, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Lori Jordan, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Director, Pediatric Stroke Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 15, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: “Sickle Cell Disease, Cerebral Hemodynamics, and Stroke” Abstract: Children and adults...
Spring Seminar – Diandra Ayala-Peacock, M.D.
Feb. 9, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Diandra Ayala-Peacock, M.D. Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, February 22, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Image Guidance in the Management of Gynecologic Malignancies Bio: Dr. Ayala-Peacock is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology specializing in...
Engineering undergrads from DIIGI lab present their research at SPIE Photonics
Jan. 30, 2018—A new device that can image diseases of the retina more quickly will soon be tested during ophthalmic surgeries with Vanderbilt Eye Institute collaborators. The prototype was designed by a Vanderbilt engineering undergraduate, who is first author on a paper about the work she will present today at the largest photonics conference in the world.
VISE Spring Seminar – Jack Abbott, PhD
Jan. 30, 2018—to be delivered by Jake Abbott, PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah Robotics Center Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Magnetic Manipulation in Medical Robotics Abstract: Microscale and mesoscale robotic devices that navigate the natural pathways of the human body...
BIEN Lab wins three awards at NANS 2018
Jan. 22, 2018—The BIEN Lab was honored three times during this year’s North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Annual Meeting. Dr. Dario Englot, assistant professor of neurological surgery, radiology and radiological sciences, and biomedical engineering, won the prestigious Kumar New Investigator Award for his paper titled, “Altered structural and functional connectivity of brainstem arousal centers in temporal lobe...
VISE Spring Seminar – Jason A. Spector, M.D., FACS
Jan. 12, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Jason A. Spector, M.D., FACS Professor of Plastic Surgery, Otolaryngology, and Bioengineering, Weill Cornell Medical College (Hosted by VU Biomedical Engineering, co-sponsored by VISE) Date: Thursday, January 25, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: The Ultimate Plastic Surgery: Tissue Regeneration, Biomimicry and Precision Medicine....
Tech transfer course gives grad students real-world journey
Jan. 10, 2018—PhD candidates, including two VISE affiliates, work with law and business school students on tech commercialization
MASI Lab teams up with EnvoyAI to develop segmentation algorithms
Jan. 9, 2018—The MASI lab is collaborating on the development of deep learning algorithms for abdomen segmentation that leverage artificial intelligence to better understand and diagnose disease. The MASI lab, affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering, is working with a team from EnvoyAI, which aims to simplify access to new AI algorithms by providing...
VISE symposium explores interoperative fluorescence to light up tumors
Jan. 2, 2018—Using fluorescently labeled antibodies as a contrast agent can give cancer surgeons highly specific real-time detection of tumors that may accelerate diagnosis, preserve more healthy tissue, and improve patient outcomes. Dr. Eben Rosenthal, keynote speaker at the VISE symposium, discusses using near-infrared fluorescence to improve detection of cancer margins. (Joe Howell/Vanderbilt) “There is a tension...
VISE Spring Seminar: David Sarment, DDS, MS
Jan. 2, 2018—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by David Sarment, DDS, MS President, Xoran Technologies Date: Thursday, January 11, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: “Point of Care Computed Tomography: Imaging Where You Need It” Abstract: Intra-operative Computed Tomography (iCT) in head and neck surgery is scarcely...
BONUS VISE Seminar: Elena A. Kaye, PhD
Dec. 4, 2017—VISE Seminar to be delivered by Elena A. Kaye, PhD, Assistant Attending Physicist, Department of Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 (notice different day) Time: 12:10pm start, noon – folks, cookies and coffee on this one… Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Achieving Sufficient Margins...
Nature technology feature on ultrasound for the brain features work of VISE affiliates
Nov. 10, 2017—Ultrasonic energy can be harnessed to alter brain activity and treat disease — but first, scientists need to learn how it works.
VISE Fall Seminar – Andrew Larson, PhD
Nov. 9, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Andrew Larson, PhD Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch Title: Development of Image-Guided Therapies for Liver Cancer Abstract: Image-guided loco-regional therapies are playing an increasingly critical...
VISE team wins $1.4 million NIH grant to reboot robotic surgery system
Nov. 2, 2017—A Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team is developing an image guidance interface for the da Vinci robotic surgery system to make partial kidney removal a less invasive “gold standard” when small tumors are involved.
VISE Fall Seminar – Stephen Aylward, PhD
Oct. 31, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Stephen Aylward, PhD Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Kitware Inc. Date: Thursday, November 2, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch Title: Open Science and Computer-Augmented Point-of-Care Ultrasound Abstract: Open science is a bridge between academia and industry, and it is a way...
VISE collaboration results in NIH grant to develop steerable robotic needle to safely biopsy hard-to-reach lung nodules
Oct. 27, 2017—Collaboration between a mechanical engineer at Vanderbilt University and a pulmonologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has resulted in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant that will be used to develop a steerable robotic needle to safely biopsy hard-to-reach lung nodules.
The Robot Will Scope You Now – STORM lab present experimental endoscopy devices
Oct. 24, 2017—Picture sitting back while a robotically controlled capsule endoscope swims through your patient’s gut, or conducting an upper endoscopy and viewing the procedure on your smartphone instead of investing in a monitor. If two experimental devices presented at Digestive Disease Week 2017 pan out in clinical trials, these scenarios could become reality.
VISE affiliates developing imaging upgrade for robotic surgery
Oct. 16, 2017—Removing part of a kidney with minimally invasive robotic surgery rather than an entire kidney when operating for smaller tumors is often best for patients from a recovery and health standpoint, but many surgeons hesitate to do so because of the complexity of the robotic partial nephrectomy procedure. Investigators with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery...
VISE is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jack Noble to full-time teaching faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Oct. 11, 2017—The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering announces the appointment of 11 new members to its full-time teaching faculty.
ARMA lab members among the exhibitors who helped make the Maker Faire a success
Oct. 11, 2017—The Nashville Mini Maker Faire, held for the first time at The Wond’ry, attracted more than 4,000 visitors and 93 exhibitors – a jump in attendance of more than 50 percent and double the maker participation over 2016. At least 25 percent of the exhibits had Vanderbilt ties and many of them involved students, organizations...
VISE Fall Seminar – Caroline Chung, MD
Oct. 9, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Caroline Chung, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon lunch Title: “Personalizing radiotherapy for Cancer Care: The Next Frontier of Multidisciplinary Collaboration” Goals: 1. Review the evolution...
VISE Fall Seminar – Michael I. Miga, PhD
Sep. 28, 2017—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, Noon COFFEE & COOKIES Abstract: Being able to obtain an independent National Institutes of...