VISE Affiliates shine at 2016 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.
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 Vital Anatomy”. The award is given to the best paper(s) in the Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Conference at SPIE Medical Imaging. Graduate students and post-docs who are the first author of the paper are eligible for the award.
The paper presented a method for generating patient-specific safety margins around vital anatomy using stochastic models of the error sources present in an image-guided surgical robot. The margins are iteratively built by simulating the surgery until they provide a safety level that matches the value specified by the surgeon.
Shikha Chaganti won the Poster Cum Laude Award for the poster “A Bayesian Framework for Early Risk Prediction in Traumatic Brain Injury” with co-authors Andrew J. Plassard, Laura Wilson, Miya A. Smith, Mayur B. Patel and Bennett A. Landman.
Lastly, a 3rd year undergraduate BME student Rohan Vijayan gave a notable platform session based on the project he completed as a VISE Summer Fellow in 2015. The paper entitled “Determination of surgical variables for a brain shift correction pipeline using an Android application” was co-authored by Rohan C. Vijayan, Rebekah H. Conley, Logan W. Clements, Reid C. Thompson, Michael I. Miga