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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 – in collaboration with Vanderbilt University Medical Center — are performing groundbreaking research in areas… Read More

The Wall Street Journal names Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Robert Webster’s surgical robot one of six new medical technologies worth watching. … Read More

A Vanderbilt University neurosurgeon and two Vanderbilt engineers have launched a medical database that they hope will have a significant impact on addressing neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and epilepsy. Read More

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’s project “Low-cost… Read More

Rip #1: Title:  Insights into Optic Nerve Pathology; PHOTON database Speaker:  Shikha Chaganti, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science     Rip #2: Title:   Development of a Robotic System for Endonasal Surgery Speaker: … Read More

From left, Hernan Gonzalez, Jon Heiselman and Patrick Anderson. Not pictured, Megan Poorman. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) 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… Read More

Yuan Liu, PhD candidate in computer science, and Benoit Dawant, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and Director of the Vanderbilt 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… Read More

VISE affiliates Robert F. Labadie, Professor of Otolaryngology and J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, have published “Image-Guided Surgery: Fundamentals and Clinical Applications in Otolaryngology”. Image-guided surgery (IGS) is the term used for surgical procedures in which the surgeon employs tracked surgical instruments in conjunction with preoperative or… Read More

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… Read More

Rip #1: Title:   Patient-specific electro-anatomical modeling of cochlear implants Speaker:  Ahmet Cakir, PhD candidate Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   Rip #2: Title:   Perfusion Ultrasound Imaging without Contrast… Read More