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VISE affiliates awarded $1.8 million grant to improve surgical guidance during eye surgery
Oct. 2, 2019—A team of ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ engineers and clinicians were recently awarded a five-year $1.8 million National Eye Institute grant to develop and translate of novel intraoperative imaging technologies to the ophthalmic surgical suite to enable real-time surgical guidance. Yuankai Kenny Tao, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering, is the principal investigator. Clinical collaborators at the ¹ú²ú´«Ã½...
VISE Fall Seminar – Zion Tse, PhD
Sep. 27, 2019—Fall Seminar to be led by Zion Tse, PhD Associate Professor School of Engineering and Computer Science University of Georgia Date: Thursday, October 10 Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, 12:25 p.m. start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract:Â Image-guided therapy is a clinical procedure under 2-D or 3-D image guidance...
VISE Fall Seminar – Walter Jermakowicz, MD, PhD
Aug. 29, 2019—VISE Fall seminar to be led by Walter Jermakowicz, MD, PhD Department of Neurological Surgery, ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Medical Center Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019 Time: 12:25pm start, 12:15pm Lunch Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Title: Predictive Modeling of Brain Tumor Laser Thermal Ablations Abstract: Laser interstitial thermal...
VISE affiliate receives Early Career Award
Jul. 25, 2019—Catie Chang, PhD, has received the 2019 Early Career Achievement Award from a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Chang, an assistant professor of computer science, electrical engineering and computer engineering, was honored this week at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) conference. Specifically, the award cites her “innovative contributions...
Jul. 18, 2019—¹ú²ú´«Ã½ collaborators focused on minimally invasive prostate surgery are developing an endoscopic robotic system with two-handed dexterity at a much smaller scale than existing options.
Jul. 16, 2019—Three engineering faculty have been named to the Center for Teaching’s Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program. Audrey Bowden Audrey Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering and associate professor of electrical engineering; Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science; and Ipek Oguz, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering; will receive $2,000...
Jun. 28, 2019—Eleven faculty-led proposals have been selected by the Office of the Provost for 2019 Discovery Grants, which advance new ideas and cutting-edge scholarship in the university’s core disciplines.
Jun. 17, 2019—The ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Data Science Institute welcomed its first cohort of undergraduate summer research fellows in early June. The Data Science Institute Summer Research Program aims to engage students who are interested in data science-related research with ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ faculty.
Two VISE affiliates named 2019 NSF Graduate Fellows
Apr. 22, 2019—Two biomedical engineering graduate students who participate in the ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Institute for Surgery and Engineering have received three-year fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The prestigious awards aim to identify individuals who will contribute significantly to scientific innovation and teaching. Sarah Goodale, a VISE affiliate in the Chang Lab, said she is extremely honored to...
Apr. 15, 2019—The ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III, PhD, and Duke Herrell, MD, have received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy.
Apr. 10, 2019—Researchers from the School of Engineering and ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Medical Center are working to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
Apr. 5, 2019—Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos presented prestigious university awards to seven faculty members at the Spring Faculty Assembly. The awards recognize teaching, research, service and commitment to diversity, and recipients are honored for their contributions and commitment to the university.
VISE affiliates to develop hand-held surgical robot for minimally invasive prostate surgery
Apr. 2, 2019—The ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III PhD and Duke Herrell MD is developing a surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy. The collaboration between a mechanical engineer (Webster) and a urologic surgeon (Herrell) resulted in an award of $2.1 million from a National Institutes of Health R01 grant to...
Mar. 26, 2019—The Women of VISE, a group of graduate students associated with the ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Institute for Surgery and Engineering, will hold a Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, to develop Wikipedia pages for women in science. The event will be held in Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium at Featheringhill Hall from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is...
Mar. 26, 2019—Brain cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. The surgery to remove the tumor is often very invasive. But now engineers at ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ have designed a device that can make surgery easier for both doctor and patient, and the same technology also holds promise for lung cancer diagnosis.
Mar. 25, 2019—NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Removing a brain tumor in the center of the head is not an easy task for surgeons. “Basically, you’re having to go through a lot of healthy brain tissue to get to that central part of the head,” said Andria Remirez, a PhD student at ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.
Mar. 21, 2019—Bioengineers and dermatologists join forces with help from machine learning. One challenge in developing new treatments for skin conditions is reliably quantifying affected areas. Research dermatologists must pore over images to demarcate lesion boundaries—and stay consistent in their assessments between images and patients. Researchers in pathology and radiology rely on similar approaches. New research suggests...
Mar. 20, 2019— Intended to expand collaborations among engineering professors, physicians and students in engineering and medicine, The ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Institute for Surgery and Engineering (ViSE) Laboratory is a 7,000 sf translational research center and workshop surrounding a transparent mock-operating room, where new medical technologies are studied and developed.
Mar. 19, 2019—Brain cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. The surgery to remove the tumor is often very invasive. But now engineers at ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ have designed a device that can make surgery easier for both doctor and patient, and the same technology also holds promise for lung cancer diagnosis.
Mar. 12, 2019—For any number of diseases involving the skin, research into causes and cures requires isolating and quantifying in a reliable way the proportion of affected skin, one research subject after another, the more the better. This is achieved with medical photography, computer monitors, and mouse-dragging by a research dermatologist to carefully demarcate affected areas. With...
Mar. 8, 2019—For our first Editor’s Pick for March, we were pleased to talk with Dr Kurt Schilling and Dr Bennett Landman about their new model for high angular resolution functional imaging.
Mar. 1, 2019—¹ú²ú´«Ã½â€™s eight newest endowed chair holders were celebrated for their path-breaking scholarship and research by family members, donors, colleagues and friends during a Feb. 25 ceremony at the Student Life Center.
VISE Spring Seminar – Punit Prakash, PhD
Mar. 1, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Punit Prakash, PhD, Paul L. Spainhour Professorship in Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University Date: March 14, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Devices and energy-delivery strategies for precise image-guided microwave thermal therapy Abstract: Image-guided...
Feb. 21, 2019—¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Medical Center recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
Feb. 20, 2019—Hosted by Network Director, Professor Seb Ourselin, the event will consist of the ECR Workshop which will run in the first half of the day, followed by the main Network+ Meeting which will feature keynote speaker Benoit Dawant (Cornelius ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Professor of Engineering | Director, ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Institute for Surgery and Engineering). In addition, the event will...
VISE Spring Seminar – Steven Hetts, MD
Feb. 8, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Steven Hetts, MD Professor of Radiology, Chief of Interventional Neuroradiology at the UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals, University of California, San Fransisco Date: February 28, 2019 Location:Â Stevenson 5326 Time:Â 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: ChemoFilter and MARC: A Tale of Two Translational...
Feb. 5, 2019—Every one in nine babies is born too early here in Tennessee. Now there’s a medical breakthrough, a device created in our own backyard, that ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ doctors say could be a game changer.
MASI Lab to host multi-year MRI white matter challenge
Feb. 1, 2019—Submissions are due March 7 for a new global challenge hosted by the Medical-imaging Analysis and Statistical Interpretation Lab that focuses on a complex issue in brain mapping – microstructure validation using diffusion MRI. Diffusion MRI, which is non-invasive, has emerged as a key modality for studying normal and abnormal brain development, aging, and brain...
VISE Spring Seminar – Kristy Brock, PhD
Jan. 25, 2019—VISE seminar to be led by Kristy Brock, PhD, Professor, Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Date: February 7, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Biomechanical Modeling for Image Guided Cancer...
VISE Spring Seminar – Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA
Jan. 17, 2019—VISE Seminar to be led by Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, William Scott, Jr. Chair in Surgery, ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Medical Center Date: January 24, 2019 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: Cross Circulation for Organ Recovery, Biohybrid Lungs and New Devices for...