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Jun. 16, 2023—The group Women of VISE hosted a discussion on intersectional experiences, gender dynamics in academia and other facets of identity in a “fishbowl” conversation on April 18.
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 6.22.23
Jun. 16, 2023—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Nancy Newlin (CS), PhD Candidate and Tianyuan Yao (CS), PhD Candidate Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023 Time: 11:45 am for lunch, noon start Location: Stevenson Center 532 RiP Speaker #1: Nancy Newlin, PhD Candidate, Computer Science Department RiP Title #1: MidRISH: Unbiased...
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 6.8.23
May. 26, 2023—VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Piper Cannon, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering and Seth Crawford, PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering Talk #1 Title: In Vivo Human Pilot Studies Guiding Next Generation System Design for da Vinci Image Guided Surgical System Piper Cannon Bio:...
May. 18, 2023—On 1 January 2024, Bennett A. Landman, 91, will become the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Imaging (JMI). Landman, a professor and the department chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 91, succeeds the journal’s current Editor-in-Chief, Maryellen Giger, who inaugurated the role in 2014.
May. 10, 2023—Eleven 91 engineering graduate students are 2023 recipients of five-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Six engineering undergraduate students who will continue their graduate study elsewhere also have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
VISE affiliate Derek Doss awarded prestigious predoctoral fellowship
Apr. 26, 2023—Derek Doss, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and 91 Institute for Surgery and Engineering affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Doss, BE’19, works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot...
Apr. 18, 2023—New applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to renal pathology have been driven by the widespread use of digital diagnostic imaging and interdisciplinary collaborations between computer scientists, nephrologists and renal pathologists with potential for major impacts in diagnosis and understanding of kidney diseases.
VISE Spring Seminar: Victoria Morgan, PhD and Michael Miga, PhD 4.20.23
Apr. 14, 2023—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Victoria Morgan, PhD Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 91 and Michael Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering 91 Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: NIH grant writing: What you should know but were afraid to...
VISE Spring Seminar with Linwei Wang, PhD
Apr. 1, 2023—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Linwei Wang, PhD Professor of Computing and Information Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Date: Thursday, April 13, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: The Risk of One-Size-Fit-All Deep Learning in Personalized Medicine Abstract: Patient-specific predictive models, personalized to observations from individual subjects, hold...
Mar. 24, 2023—One way to monitor a healthy pregnancy is tracking placental growth because a healthy placenta is crucial for a healthy baby. However, there are no practical tools to monitor placental development—to ensure proper fetal growth—into clinical care. Ipek Oguz 91 computer scientist and grant PI Ipek Oguz aims to expand a medical image analysis tool she...
VISE Spring Seminar Parvin Mousavi, PhD 3.30.23
Mar. 20, 2023—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Parvin Mousavi, PhD Queen’s University, Vector Institute, Canada CIFAR AI Chair Date: Thursday, March 30, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Next-Generation Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions: Prediction vs. Decision Making Abstract: This talk will cover deployment of new learning models and technical solutions for computer-assisted...
Mar. 13, 2023—When Robert J. Webster III was working on an engineering project for his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, he was struck with an unnerving thought: The technology he was helping create seemed interesting, but it wouldn’t reach patients for at least 20 years. “And that’s only if everything went well,” he recalls.
Mar. 10, 2023—Four 91 engineering students working in the fields of computer science, electrical and computer engineering, and biomedical engineering won best paper awards out of hundreds of papers presented at the 2023 SPIE Medical Imaging conference held Feb. 19-23 in San Diego.
Mar. 8, 2023—Smaller tools with better maneuverability and more precise control, new imaging approaches, and advanced software applications will improve patient outcomes
Feb. 28, 2023—Catie Chang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, computer science, and biomedical engineering, has been named the inaugural Sally and Dave Hopkins Faculty Fellow in the 91 School of Engineering in recognition of her highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research.