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VISE Fall Seminar – MICCAI COMES TO VISE 9.22.22
Sep. 13, 2022—VISE GOES TO MICCAI MICCAI COMES TO VISE VISE Fall Seminar to be led by: Han Liu, ModDrop++: A Dynamic Filter Network with Intra-subject Co-training for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation with Missing Modalities Can Cui, Survival Prediction of Brain Cancer with Incomplete Radiology, Pathology, Genomic, and Demographic Data Xin Yu, Reducing Positional Variance in Cross-sectional...
KUDOS: August 2022
Aug. 30, 2022—Share your good news with the VISE community by filling out this form. Keith Obstein, MD, director of STORM Lab, and his team recently published the paper, Robotic Autonomy for Magnetic Endoscope Biopsy. Emelina Vienneau, graduate student in BEAM Lab, won honorable mention in the poster competition during the Gordon Research Conference for In...
VISE Fall Seminar Xiaoguang Dong, PhD 9.8.22
Aug. 29, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Xiaoguang Dong, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Wireless Miniature Robots for Minimally Invasive Medical Operations Abstract: Wireless small-scale robots actuated by magnetic fields could revolutionize minimally invasive medical operations by allowing access...
VISE affiliate to use portion of $2.3 million grant on robot technology to help patients avoid invasive colectomies
Aug. 25, 2022—Robert Webster, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at Vanderbilt University, is part of a collaborative team that has received a more than $2.3 million grant to further develop technology that seeks to prevent patients from having invasive colectomies by using steerable robot-like instruments
VISE Fall Seminar – VISE Summer Fellows 8.25.22
Aug. 22, 2022—VISE Fall Seminar featuring the 2022 VISE Summer Fellows Aarushi Negi – BIEN Lab Leo Yang – MAPLE Lab Shannon Alpetikin – MED Lab Andrew Haworth – Miniature Robotics Lab Kate Wang – NEURDY Lab Stanley Vinet – NEURDY Lab Shirley Xu – DIIGI Lab William Wu – MedICL Lab Xander Stabile – BML Lab...
Biomedical Engineering scholar Brett Byram named as a Senior Member of global optics and photonics society, SPIE
Aug. 11, 2022— Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Brett Byram, joins a group of 77 international scholars who were named Senior Members of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, in August.
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 8.11.22
Jul. 28, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Bowen Xiang (BME), PhD Candidate and Jared Lawson (ME), PhD Candidate Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Speaker #1: Bowen Xiang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Comparison Study of Intraoperative Surface Acquisition Methods for Surgical Navigation via...
Simaan tapped as co-editor of IEEE special issue on surgical robots
Jul. 28, 2022—Mechanical Engineering Professor Nabil Simaan was named a co-editor of a special issue on surgical robotics for Proceedings of the IEEE. The July 2022 special issue, “Surgical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine,” provides a research overview of the major applications and enabling technologies in the growing field of surgical robotics.
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 7.21.22
Jul. 8, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Lucas Sainburg (BME), PhD Candidate and Emelina Vienneau (BME) PhD Candidate Date: Thursday, July 21, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Speaker #1: Lucas Sainburg, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Effects of temporal lobe epilepsy and surgical treatment on functional MRI...
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiP) Series 7.7.22
Jul. 1, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Nhung Hoang, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Frank Servin, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, July 7, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Speaker #1: Nhung Hoang, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science RiP #1: Title: Individual...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series 6.23.22
Jun. 14, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Graham Johnson, (BME), MSTP and Michael I. Miga, PhD Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering Date: Thursday, June 23, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Talk Title #1: Your First Grant Submission – How to Apply For an F31 Speaker #1: Graham Johnson, MD/PhD...
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series – Brooks Lindsey, PhD 6.9.22
May. 31, 2022—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Brooks Lindsey, PhD Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University Date: Thursday, June 9, 2022 Time: 11:45 am Room Admittance, noon start Location: MCN C-2209 Title: Guiding cardiovascular intervention with integrated ultrasound imaging Abstract: Approximately 19 million people in...
Two VISE affiliates among nineteen engineering students awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
May. 2, 2022—Sixteen engineering graduate students have been awarded a highly competitive government-funded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Three engineering undergraduate students also received NSF fellowships.
Taking the Wear-and-Tear out of Endoscopy for Patients – and Doctors
Apr. 26, 2022—Proprioceptive technology uses magnetic coupling to draw endoscopes forward, sparing patient and clinician injuries.
VISE affiliates receive inaugural Scaling Success Grants
Apr. 13, 2022—The Scaling Success Grant supports faculty as they leverage their research into larger, more competitive awards from federal, foundation or industry sponsors.