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Join us to celebrate this exciting milestone and explore the future of immersive AI translation. Date: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Ribbon Cutting and Remarks, Provost C. Cybele Raver and Dean Krish Roy at 2:00 pm) Location: Featheringill (FGH/Jacobs Hall) 385. We look forward to celebrating… Read More

February 2025 Friends, Last week I attended the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference where the talk of the crowd was on science and careers.* Our work doesn’t stop at groundbreaking research—we strive to ensure that our students and faculty are equipped with the tools to translate… Read More

Studio in AI, taught by Bennett Landman, director of the Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT), launched last semester, providing students with an immersive, hands-on experience to develop or enhance independent AI projects. Utilizing Python and PyTorch as primary tools, the course encourages creative problem-solving and innovation. Graduate student… Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are at the forefront of a global collaboration that advances preclinical imaging with diffusion MRI. Three seminal articles, published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, establish best practices for using diffusion MRI (dMRI) in research, addressing critical challenges in data collection, processing, and reproducibility. Among the 58 international… Read More

Join us on Feb 13 at 4:15 PM in Stevenson 5326 for “Advances in Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Learning-based Medical Image Analysis,” presented by Brayden Schott, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health! Date: Feb 13 Time: 4:15pm Location: Stevenson 5326 Speaker:… Read More

January 2025                                 Friends, 2025 is off to an adventurous start. This past weekend,… Read More

Mark your calendars for February 11th at 5:30 PM for Cookies & Crochet for VAL-entine’s Day in FGH 203! Learn to crochet a coaster and enjoy some cookies! No experience required – we will supply you with a hook and yarn and teach you how to get started!  … Read More

On January 14, President Biden recognized nearly 400 outstanding scientists and engineers with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Among the 6 faculty awardees was Eric Tkaczyk, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on biophotonics for the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases. Dr. Tkaczyk is an… Read More

Bennett A. Landman, Director of the Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) and Stevenson Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This prestigious recognition celebrates Landman’s contributions to MRI… Read More

Join us this  Thursday, January 23rd, from 10-11 AM in FGH 308, where Nancy Newlin will be continuing the conversation from Dr. Landman’s recent diffusion talk.  This will be an informal discussion on tractography/connectomics. Read More