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VISE Fall Seminar 8.23.16: Matthieu Chabanas, PhD
Aug. 23, 2016—Title:聽聽 Vessel-based brain-shift compensation using biomechanical modeling and intraoperative ultrasound Speaker:聽 Matthieu Chabanas, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Grenoble Institute of Technology, FR Date: Tuesday, August 23 Time: 12:10 start, noon lunch Place:聽 Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract:聽 During brain tumor surgery, planning and guidance are based on the pre-operative images...
Aug. 15, 2016—EB Jackson and surgeon Reid Thompson remember EB鈥檚 husband, Todd Jackson, who died from brain cancer in 2014. Reid, who had treated Todd ten years earlier, recalls his devastation when he learned about the re-occurrence and the futility of further treatments, and EB reflects on Todd鈥檚 passing. Todd鈥檚 battle against cancer inspired him and EB...
Mayor appoints faculty, staff representatives to Metro boards
Jul. 22, 2016—Metro Nashville Mayor Megan Barry has made a number of appointments to boards, committees and advisory committees in recent weeks. Among them are a number of members of the 国产传媒 and 国产传媒 Medical Center communities, including: Sri Pallavaram, research associate for the 国产传媒 Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE), to the Nashville New...
Six profs attract National Institutes of Health grants for wide-ranging research
Jul. 21, 2016—Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. With the grants, their teams 鈥 in collaboration with 国产传媒 Medical Center 鈥 are performing groundbreaking research in areas as diverse as percutaneous heart...
Jul. 8, 2016—The Wall Street Journal names Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster鈥檚 surgical robot one of six new medical technologies worth watching.聽
Jul. 8, 2016—A聽国产传媒 neurosurgeon and two 国产传媒 engineers have launched a medical database that they hope will have聽a significant impact on addressing neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy.
STORM Lab Hydrojet Team wins Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016
Jul. 7, 2016—The Science and Technology of Robotics in Medicine (STORM) Lab Hydrojet Team won Best Overall Award at the Surgical Robot Challenge 2016 for the Hamlyn Symposium of Medical Robotics. The international competition, held at the Imperial College in London, showcases the latest developments in Surgical Robotics. STORM Lab鈥檚 project 鈥淟ow-cost gastric cancer screening in low...
VISE Research in Progress (RIP) Summer Instruction Seminar Series. Thursday, June 30, SC 5326. 12:10pm start, Noon Lunch
Jun. 24, 2016—Rip #1: Title:聽聽Insights into Optic Nerve Pathology; PHOTON database Speaker:聽 Shikha Chaganti, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rip #2: Title:聽聽 Development of a Robotic System for Endonasal Surgery Speaker:聽 Andria Remirez, PhD candidate Department:聽Mechanical Engineering _____________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thursday, June 30, 2016 Time: 12:10 p.m., noon Lunch Place:聽Stevenson Center 5326
New VISE grant gives clinical boost to surgical device development
Jun. 22, 2016—Engineering graduate students from across several disciplines will experience intensive training and mentoring with the potential to help them create devices, then get those out of the lab and into clinical settings. Offered through the 国产传媒 Institute in Surgery and Engineering, this program for second- and third-year engineering PhD students includes sessions with surgeons and...
VISE affiliates win Best Paper Award at 2016 IEEE BHI
Jun. 13, 2016—Yuan Liu, PhD candidate in computer science, and Benoit Dawant, Cornelius 国产传媒 Professor of Engineering and Director of the 国产传媒 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 鈥淚mage-Guided Surgery: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications in Otolaryngology鈥.
Jun. 8, 2016—VISE affiliates Robert F. Labadie, Professor of Otolaryngology and J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, have published 鈥淚mage-Guided Surgery: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications in Otolaryngology鈥. 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:聽聽 Patient-specific electro-anatomical modeling of cochlear implants Speaker:聽 Ahmet Cakir, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rip #2: Title:聽聽 Perfusion Ultrasound Imaging without Contrast Speaker:聽 Jamie Tierney, PhD candidate Department: Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016 Time: 12:10 p.m., noon Lunch Place:聽Stevenson Center 5326
VISE Technology Wins this Year鈥檚 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:聽 Bringing New Technology into the Interventional Radiology Suite: Integration vs Workflow SPEAKER:聽 Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, VUMC & Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Department of BME, VU DATE:聽 Thursday, April 14th, 2016 TIME: 12:20pm Start, 12:15 Lunch PLACE:聽 Stevenson Center 5326 ABSTRACT:聽 Interventional Radiology, as a...