Eric Moult received the Cameron Applied Science Scholarship

Join us in celebrating Eric Moult, the 2010 recipient of the Cameron Applied Science Scholarship. This award was established in February 2006 by Hugh Cameron, B.Sc. 1973, and Heather Hume, B.A. 1972, M.D. 1978. It is awarded on the basis of academic excellence to a student in third or fourth year of any program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science who has applied his or her engineering knowledge and/or techniques in an innovative manner related to non-traditional engineering fields.

Seven papers have been accepted for publication at SPIE Medical Imaging 2011

PerkLab members and affiliates submitted 7 papers to SPIE Medical Imaging 2011 conference and all of them were accepted. Congratulations to all authors, especially the two undergrad students, Laura Bartha and Eric Moult.

Ehsan received MICCAI Young Scientist Award

Congratulations to Perk Lab member Ehsan Dehghan, who received Young Scientist Award at the MICCAI 2010 Conference in Beijing.

Article about the Perk Lab in Alumni Review

Check out the article "THE VALUE OF DISCOVERY LIES IN ITS IMPACT" in Queen's Alumni Review.

http://queensu.ca/news/sites/default/files/QAR-2010-3.pdf

The PerkLab receives a new Idea to Innovation grant

The PerkLab received a Phase-2 NSERC Idea to Innovation program grant, entitled "Intraoperative Calibration (iCAL) for Prostate Brachytherapy".

Special thanks to our wonderful Karilee Reinbold for ushering this proposal from concept to funding!

Tamas Ungi receives Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Congratulations to our Tamas Ungi, who received an Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, for his project entitled "Computational modeling of image-guided needle-based surgery". This truly is a grand achievement for Tamas who has recently relocated to Queen's from Hungary.

ProstateNav tutorial won the first prize at the NA-MIC summer project week

The ProstateNav tutorial by Andras Lasso was awarded the best tutorial prize at the NA-MIC programming week. You can find the tutorial and the example dataset at this link: http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Slicer3:ProstateNav_TutorialContestSummer2010

Helen Xu received RS McLaughlin Graduate Fellowship

Let us celebrate our Helen again! She received the RS McLaughlin Graduate Fellowship for 2010/2011.

Mark Wu received The Governor General's Academic Silver Medal

Please join me in celebrating Mark Wu, who received The Governor General's Academic Silver Medal today at the convocation ceremony. This medal is awarded to the student deemed to have the highest academic standing in a Bachelor degree program.

Lab director Dr. Gabor Fichtinger has been awarded a Level 1 Research Chair in Medical Imaging by Cancer Care Ontario

"Dr. Gabor Fichtinger of the Queen's School of Computing has been awarded a Level 1 Research Chair in Medical Imaging by Cancer Care Ontario. This award is a recognition of the high quality of Dr. Fichtinger's contributions in the area of Biomedical Computing. The Research Chair is also the first in health care research to be awarded to a researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University by an external organization." (Selim G. Akl, Professor and Director, School of Computing, Queen's University)

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