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VISE Fall Seminar – Sarah Frisken, PhD 10.12.23
Sep. 22, 2023—VISE Fall Seminar to be led by Sarah Frisken, PhD Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Lead Investigator in Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Improving precision in image-guided neurosurgery Abstract: Precision is particularly important in brain surgery where errors...
VISE affiliate Robert Webster helps develop innovative robotic technology to fight lung cancer
Sep. 21, 2023—Robert J. Webster III, Richard A. Schroeder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate professor of medicine and urology at Vanderbilt University, is part of a cross-disciplinary team that has developed novel robotic technology using bronchoscopic steerable needles that could aid in early detection of lung cancer.
Wernke and Huo awarded NEH grant to conduct the largest archaeological imagery survey in the Western Hemisphere using AI
Sep. 13, 2023—A $350,000 grant to develop next-generation archaeological mapping technology will let a Vanderbilt-led research team reveal information about vast settlement systems and human-modified landscapes in the Andes.archaeology
VISE Fall Seminar – Shuo Li, PhD, 9.7.23
Aug. 22, 2023—VISE Fall Seminar with Shuo Li, PhD Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University Date: Thursday, September 7, 2023 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: AI-in-imaging: Unlocking the Full Potential of Medical Imaging Abstract: Based on advanced machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to bring about significant transformations in healthcare practices....
VISE Fall Seminar – Summer Fellows Presentations 8.24.23
Aug. 21, 2023—VISE Fall Seminar featuring the 2023 VISE Summer Fellows Date: August 24, 2023 Time: 11:45 am Lunch, Noon start Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Rohan Rashingkar, computer science major, BIEN Lab Research project: Deep Learning Classification of Consciousness-Impairing Seizures in Focal Epilepsy Jiayi Kelly Xu, computer science and mathematics major, MAPLE Lab Research project: Development of an Augmented...
VISE affiliates part of an alliance supported by the NSF to boost AI-imaging in Middle Tennessee
Aug. 8, 2023—Vanderbilt researchers are part of an alliance supported by the National Science Foundation that seeks to build on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging in Middle Tennessee. Called the Mid-TN AI for Interdisciplinary Imaging Interpretation Alliance (AI4A), it is comprised of the School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Fisk University, Tennessee...
Vanderbilt names esteemed biomedical engineer Krishnendu Roy as next dean of School of Engineering
Aug. 1, 2023—Krishnendu “Krish” Roy, a Regents’ Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and a nationally renowned researcher, will be the next Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering of the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver announced today.
VISE Summer Research In Progress (RiPs) 8.10.23
Aug. 1, 2023—VISE Summer Seminar to be led by Jumanh Atoum (CS) and Xing Yao (CS) Date: Thursday, August 10, 2023 Time: 11:45 am for lunch, noon start Location: Stevenson Center 532 RiP Speaker #1: Jumanh Atoum, Computer Science Department RiP Title #1: “Ask me! I am the trainee.” Investigating Limitations...
VISE affiliates awarded $2.3M NIH grant to combat childhood blindness
Aug. 1, 2023—A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants. One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). “Clinical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and...
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 affiliate wins $2.7M NIH grant to develop AI-empowered 3D computer vision tool to better diagnose kidney diseases
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 affiliate Ipek Oguz wins $3M grant to expand toolkit that tracks fetal growth during pregnancy
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 Vanderbilt University 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...
How a graduate school “midlife crisis” inspired a breakthrough surgical device
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.
Vanderbilt students win best paper awards at SPIE international medical imaging forum
Mar. 10, 2023—Four Vanderbilt 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.
Brett Byram named inaugural Hoy Family Faculty Fellow in engineering school
Feb. 28, 2023—Brett Byram, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has been named the inaugural Hoy Family Faculty Fellow in recognition of his advances in medical ultrasound imaging.
VISE affiliate James Weimer and one other Vanderbilt faculty member win ‘TIME’ Best Inventions of 2022
Dec. 5, 2022—Two Vanderbilt faculty who conducted translational research have received the distinction of Best Invention of 2022 from TIME magazine. “These winning innovations exemplify the transformative potential of university research when it aims to solve society’s most urgent problems, and when universities partner with the broader innovation ecosystem to bring new solutions to market faster,” Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel...
VISE affiliate receives prestigious NIH award for her research on Alzheimer’s Disease
Nov. 4, 2022—Biomedical engineering doctoral student Sarah Goodale has been awarded a National Institute on Aging Transition to Postdoc Fellowship for her proposed work on investigating fatigue and sleep disturbance symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease and their relationship with functional and structural properties of the brain and intellectual decline.
Engineering researcher Catie Chang harnesses the power of computational analysis to gain new insights into how the brain works
Nov. 1, 2022—Advances in neuroimaging over the past 25 years have ushered in nothing short of a revolution in technology for understanding the human brain. These new technologies have opened broad vistas for scientists, from being able to pinpoint regions of the brain responsible for various functions and behaviors to targeting new treatments for illnesses ranging from...
Young researchers gain skills in new workshops offered by VISE Summer Fellows program
Oct. 7, 2022—Twelve exceptional undergraduates have benefited from the addition of new workshops to a 10-week Summer Fellows program that gives students first-hand experience in research laboratories and provides financial support.
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...
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.
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.
$8 million NIH grant awarded to Vanderbilt researchers for study of infant/child brain development
Nov. 15, 2021—Two Vanderbilt faculty have received an $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of a groundbreaking, multi-institutional overview of variables influencing infant and child brain development, including substance exposure.
VISE on the Virtual Road: 2021 MICCAI conference
Nov. 9, 2021—Members of five labs affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering took part in the 24th annual International Conference on Medial Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, sharing their work with like-minded scientists from around the world. The conference brings together leading biomedical scientists, clinicians, and engineers who focus on medical imaging and...
VISE researchers receive $1M grant to explore brain-body connections and advance understanding of how brains age
Oct. 15, 2021—An assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering has received a $1.1 million NIH grant to investigate connections between the brain and body to advance the understanding of aging in normal and pathological brains. Catie Chang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, leads the research team, which will focus on developing machine learning methods...
VISE researcher awarded $2.6M grant to improve Alzheimer’s patient management
Oct. 5, 2021—An electrical and computer engineering professor has received a $2.6 million NIH grant to improve the reliability of techniques to map of structural changes in the brains of people who have Alzheimer’s Disease. The goal is to identify opportunities for early intervention by developing more effective interventional strategies. Bennett Landman, who chairs the Department of...
VISE affiliate Graham Johnson awarded prestigious individual predoctoral fellowship
Oct. 4, 2021—Graham Johnson, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and VISE affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Johnson works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,...
Team awarded $2.3 million NIH grant to evaluate new, more accurate ultrasound methods
Sep. 9, 2021—New acquisition and reconstruction solutions for ultrasound imaging developed by a Vanderbilt team aim to fundamentally improve the ability to obtain high quality, clinically relevant images, especially in cases of heart disease.
VISE Summer Fellows program resumes, provides real-world lab experience to exceptional undergrads
Sep. 1, 2021—The VISE Summer Fellows Program resumed in May, with 10 remarkable undergraduate students who spent 10 weeks on research projects in areas that included connectivity patterns in the brain, computational modeling of vagus nerve stimulation, and brain tumor segmentation using machine learning. The 2021 Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) Summer Fellowship Program was...