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Michael I. Miga
VISE Director
Chair of Biomedical Engineering,
Harvie Branscomb Professor,
Professor Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Radiology
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Education:
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Dartmouth College
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island
Research Focus:
While research in diagnostic imaging, therapeutics, and drug delivery is quite extensive, advances in procedural medicine have lagged, largely due to the complexity and constraints associated with surgical and interventional research. However, with the recent breakthroughs in medical robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and device fabrication, new opportunities are on the horizon for creating platform technologies characterized by an intentional design toward the dual purpose of treatment and discovery. Projects in the Biomedical Modeling Laboratory (BML, https://migalab.org/) center on complex biophysical models, methods of automation and procedural field surveillance, efforts toward data-driven procedures and therapy forecasting, and approaches integrating disease information associated with digital twins. While it is difficult to be prescient on the forms that these forward-thinking platforms will take in precision medicine, it is clear that new requirements associated with data integration/acquisition, automation, real-time computation, novel device development, and cost will likely be critical factors. Technologies will need to be enabling, efficient, and cost-effective and for medical systems that do not adapt precision care models, they will be left behind. Similarly, immersive training environments will be critical for working at the cutting-edge. To achieve, BML PI Dr. Mike Miga has pioneered one of those most innovative immersive educational environments in the world for engineering researchers working in the fields of surgery and intervention.
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Areas of Research: Modeling