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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… Read More

TITLE:  Bringing New Technology into the Interventional Radiology Suite: Integration vs Workflow SPEAKER:  Filip Banovac, MD, FSIR Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, VUMC & Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Department of BME, VU DATE:  Thursday, April 14th, 2016 TIME: 12:20pm Start, 12:15 Lunch PLACE:  Stevenson Center 5326… Read More

TITLE:  Image synthesis and super-resolution: New approaches for medical image analysis SPEAKER:  Dr. Jerry L. Prince, William B. Kouwenhoven Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University DATE:  March 31st, 2016… Read More

Title:  Promote and Accelerate Commercialization and Translation (EmPACT) of Medical Device Technologies Speakers:  Dr. Pietro Valdastri, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, & Byron Smith, MS, VISE Corporate Outreach and Marketing Specialist Date:  March 17,… Read More

Recognition was given to several VISE affiliates at the February 2016 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego.  Neal Dillon was the runner up for the Young Scientist Award sponsored by Siemens with his paper “Increasing Safety of a Robotic System for Inner Ear Surgery Using Probabilistic Error Modeling Near… Read More

  Title: Implantable Artificial Kidney Speaker:  Dr. William H. Fissell, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, VUMC & Amanda K. W. Buck, PhD, Instructor in Radiology and Radiological Sciences, VUMC… Read More

Title: Histotripsy: Imaging Guided Ultrasound Therapy for Non-invasive Surgery Speaker:  Zhen Xu, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan Date: Thursday, February 18th, 2016 Time: 12:10pm start… Read More

VISE affiliates Brett Byram (PI) , Mike Miga (Co-I) and Dan Brown (Co-I) recently landed an NIH R01 surrounding ultrasound technology advancements.  The project is on ultrasound image formation applied to liver biopsy, and it represents a new programmatic research direction at Vanderbilt that leverages the spirit… Read More

 Title: An Adaptable Framework to Extract Abnormal Brain Networks Speaker:  Dr. Archana Venkataraman, Postdoctoral Associate, Image Processing and Analysis Group, Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale University Date: ***Wednesday, January 27th … Read More

Robert Webster, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Associate Professor of Urologic surgery was named as one of fourteen Chancellor Faculty Fellows. Webster’s research interests are in surgical robotics in particular and more generally… Read More