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.

Four Perk Lab students receive Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Dear All,

Please join me in congratulating the four Perk Lab students who received Ontario Graduate Fellowship for 2015-2016. Jennifer Andrea, Kyle Sunderland, Mark Schumacher, and Matthew Lougheed.

New PLUS software release

We are happy to announce the new stable release of the PLUS toolkit (PLUS-2.2.0) that contains several major features and many improvements. Click "Read more" and check out the release highlights and corresponding short demo videos.

The Manjunath Anand Undergraduate Research Fund at the Perk Lab

It is my delight to announce the Manjunath Anand Undergraduate Research Fund in the Perk Lab. The fund was established by a generous annual cash donation by Manjunath Anand, MSc, a Perk Lab alumnus who graduated from our lab in 2014.

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!

Andras Lasso receives the 2015 Outstanding Research Award of the School of Computing

I am delighted to share with you the news that Andras Lasso received the 2015 Outstanding Research Award of the School of Computing, for his exceptional research achievements, international leadership and dedicated service to student mentoring. Bravo, Andras!

Perk Lab receives two major research awards

The Perk Lab receives two major research awards last week from CIHR/NSERC

Maggie Hess receives Second Place Poster Award at ImNO 2015

At the 13th Imaging Network of Ontario Symposium in London (ON), Nisrin Abou-Seido, Jennifer Andrea, Kaci Carter, and Maggie Hess represented the Perk Lab brilliantly. Between them they authored 5 posters and 3 oral podium papers. During the conference, I kept receiving praises from poster judges, session chairs and many senior colleagues about how well prepared our students were. The icing on the cake was that Maggie Hess received the Second Place Poster Award of the Cancer Imaging Network of Ontario (CINO) Consortium.

Emily Heffernan and Maggie Hess receive NSERC USRA Grants

Emily Heffernan and Maggie Hess received NSERC USRA Grants to do summer research in the Perk Lab.

Emily is our newest member, a 2nd year student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She will be working on evaluation of sensory and visual feedback instrumentation for breast conserving surgery navigation.

Maggie is a seasoned and well published Perk Lab researcher, a 3rd year Life Science student. She will be developing a visualization and planning module in SlicerIGT for an articulated snake robot being developed for pediatric ventricular surgery at Sick Kids in Toronto.

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