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VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020 Time: Noon – room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1:Dewei Hu, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science RiP #1 Title: Retinal OCT Denoising RIP #1 Description: Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful cross-sectional… Read More

VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, July 2, 2020 Time: Noon – room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1: Ziteng Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science RiP #1 Title:   Patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models RIP #1 Description: Cochlear implants (CIs) are considered the standard-of-care treatment… Read More

A team of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming. Traditional cochlear implant programming is done by expert audiologists using a guess-and-check approach based on subjective patient feedback regarding sound… Read More

VISE Research In Progress (RiP) Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 Time: Noon – room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start Speaker #1: Eric Tang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title: Handheld Spectrally Encoded Coherence Tomography and Reflectometry (SECTR) for Point-of-Care Ophthalmic Imaging RIP #1 Description:… Read More

VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series Date: Thursday, June 4, 2020 Time: Noon – room admittance, 12:05pm remarks, 12:10pm start VIA Zoom   Speaker #1:  Carli DeJulius, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Engineering RiP #1: Title:  Antioxidant Polymeric Systems for Synergistic ROS Scavenging in Osteoarthritis RIP #1 Description: Reactive… Read More

As hospital and health care staff across the country continue learning more about the transmission and spread of COVID-19, caregivers for coronavirus patients continue adapting to the changing needs and best practices for personal protective equipment (PPE). Now, a new collaborative project from clinicians at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center and…

Victoria Morgan, PhD, and Todd Peterson, PhD, Department of Radiology faculty in the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS), have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

Dario Englot, M.D., surgical director of epilepsy at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center and Catie Chang, Ph.D., assistant professor at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ School of Engineering are embarking on a novel imaging study to characterize seizure-induced differences in functional brain connectivity of patients with epilepsy,…

Life-saving ventilators have proved to be more complicated to mass produce in time for a COVID-19 surge that could overwhelm the health care industry. Many are feverishly working to find ways, including ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ engineers and doctors, to develop a low-cost do-it-yourself ventilator out of common household materials.

As the number of COVID-19 infections continues to grow, Nashville resident Kobie Pretorius was searching for some way to provide meaningful help to others. And she realized her apprehension was spiking each morning as her husband went out the door for work.