Awards

Christina Yan and Vinyas Harish received SPIE Travel Fellowship

Christina Yan and Vinyas Harish received SPIE Travel Fellowship to the SPIE Medical Imaging 2016 conference to be held in 27 February - 3 March 2016, San Diego, USA.

They will present their papers authored as summer research students at Perk Lab in the summer of 2015.

SPIE Medical Imaging is one of the largest conferences in medical image computing and computer-assisted interventions; 8-10 page long papers are archived in the SPIE Digital Library.

Congrats Christina and Vinyas - onto the next one!

Vinyas Harish national finalist for the Sunnybrook Research Prize

This past Friday Vinyas went to Toronto to speak at Sunnybrook as one of ten national finalists for the Sunnybrook Research Prize. Although he did not win the grand prize of $10,000, he made an excellent presentation and had an amazingly positive learning experience at the meeting and throughout the several weeks of preparations leading up it. He represented the Perk Lab and the Queen's biomedical Computing Program splendidly.

 

Gabor Fichtinger is the inaugural recipient of the Principal's Student Inquiry Teaching Award

Our lab director, Gabor Fichtinger, received the Principal's Student Inquiry Teaching Award. This award is offered to one professor at Queen's University each year, recognizing innovative instructional design which enables active student engagement in learning. This award is yet another recognition of the world class academic and research work conducted in our lab.

Vinyas Harish receives Best Poster Presentation Award at the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare

The 11th annual Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare took place this Sunday with brilliant Perk Lab students on the big stage. 

Vinyas Harish, 3rd year Biomedical Computing undergrad, received the Best Poster Presentation Award for his project “Monitoring Electromagnetic Tracking Error in Computer Navigated Breast Cancer Surgery.”

Christina Yan, 2nd year Biomedical Computing undergrad, gave an invited podium presentation on "Comparison of portable and conventional ultrasound imaging in spinal curvature measurement".

Tamas Ungi received a Best Paper Award from the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery

Tamas Ungi received a Best Paper Award from the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery for his paper:

Ungi T., Gauvin G., Yeo C.T., Engel C.J., Rudan J., Fichtinger G., Real Time Navigation In Breast Tumor Surgery, presented at the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 29th International Congress, Jun 24-27, Barcelona, Spain, 2015, and published in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, volume 10, Suppl. 1, pp. 59-60, 2015.

Amélie Meyer receives Région Alsace Award for Outstanding Graduate Internship Research

Please join me in congratulating Amélie Meyer on receiving the Région Alsace Award for outstanding graduate internship research. As many of you may remember, she came to the Perk Lab for a master's internship in 2014 from the Telecom Physique Strasbourg, France. Amélie produced superb research work and added a major module to our open source platform. Her work was summed up in a paper at SPIE Medical Imaging 2015: 

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Matthew Holden receives the 2015 Distinguished Masters Thesis Award Outstanding Research Award of the School of Computing

Please join me in congratulating Matthew Holden on receiving the Distinguished Masters Thesis Award of the School of Computing for his thesis entitled "LINEAR OBJECT REGISTRATION FOR IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS". On to the PhD now, Matthew! 

 

 

 

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