Rob Toth was awarded the prestigious Michael B. Merickel best student paper award at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, Fl, Feb 7-12. 2009. Rob was presented a check for $1000 and a plaque for his paper entitled, "A boosted ensemble scheme for accurate landmark detection for active shape models". This work was done under the supervision of Dr. Madabhushi.
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February 2009
February 13, 2009
Jay Naik (junior) and Scott Doyle (graduate student) were awarded an honorable mention award for their poster entitled "a boosted ensemble distance metric: applications to content based image retrieval of digitized breast cancer histopathology" at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando, Fl, Feb 7-12, 2009. This work was done under the supervision of Dr. Madabhushi.
February 13, 2009
Professors Anant Madabhushi and Dimitris Metaxas have been awarded patent on their invention on "Method and Apparatus for Automatically Detecting Breast Lesions and Tumors in Images", United States Patent No. 7,466,848.
December 2008
December 16, 2008
Kerri-Ann Norton has been selected for the Hosei International Fund Foreign Scholars Fellowship. This fellowship elects three candidates worldwide to conduct research at Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. The fellowship will take place from October 2009 to August 2010.
November 2008
November 7, 2008
Research performed in the laboratory of Professor Martin Yarmush on the use of transient transfection techniques for purifying differentiated cells derived from stem cells is spotlighted in the December 1 issue of Biotechnology and Bioengineering and singled out as the "Editor's Choice". Lead author on the work is BME graduate student Eric Wallenstein, with contributions from BME graduate student Jeff Barminko and ProfessorRene Schloss.
November 3, 2008
Anant Madabhushi has been appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (Letters). IEEE Transactions on BME (Letters) submissions are required to go through an expedited review which is focused on the need for fast publication for emerging and evolving novel concepts with high-impact potential.
October 2008
October 25, 2008
Jonathan Chappelow, post-doctoral fellow and James Monaco, 4th year BME graduate student, received honorable mentions for their presentations entitled "Histo-Stitcher: An Interactive Software Package for Reconstructing Digitized Whole Histological Sections from Fragmented Slices" and "Computerized Detection of Prostate Cancer from Whole Mount Prostate Histology" respectively, at the 2008 Advancing Practice, Instruction, and Innovation through Informatics (APIII) meeting recently held in Pittsburgh, PA.
October 10, 2008
Troy Shinbrot has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE is leading advocacy group for medical and biological engineering and is comprised of some of the most important leaders in science and engineering.
October 6, 2008
Lawrence Sasso received a $500 travel support grant to attend the 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (CBMS), MicroTAS 2008 held in San Diego, CA October 12-16, 2008. Lawrence is a doctoral student of Prof.Jeffrey Zahn developing a continuous microimmunoassay and will present his work at the conference
October 6, 2008
Jeffrey Zahn and David Shreiber received a $111,289 grant from the NIH funded Point of Care Center for Emerging Technologies at the University of Cincinnati to develop microdevices for monitoring inflammation in the CSF and allowing localized drug delivery following spinal cord injuries.