Csaba Pinter, Finalist in the IOMP 2015 Young Investigator Competition

Csaba Pinter is a Finalist in the IOMP 2015 Young Investigator Competition at the UPESM World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Toronto, June 7-12, 2015.

His paper on "Performing radiation therapy research using the open-source SlicerRT toolkit" is 1 of the 7 finalists from over 1,600 submissions. We do not know what the end may still hold, but he is already in the top 0.4% :-) Good luck, Csaba, to the presentation and come home with the grand prize!

Maggie Hess receives SPIE Student Travel Grant

Maggie Hess has been awarded an SPIE Student Travel Grant to assist her attending the SPIE Medical Imaging 2015 conference in Florida.

SPIE Medical Imaging is one of the largest conferences in medical image computing with about 1,000 participants. SPIE issues only a handful of Student Travel Grants, and receiving one was a major scoop. Congrats Maggie, bon voyage to Orlando!

Maggie Hess wins the Grand Prize at the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare

Please join me in congratulating Maggie Hess who received the Grand Prize in the healthcare research competiton oral presentations of the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on Healthcare, held on November 15-16, 2014.

Maggie gave a masterly presentation of her project on "Quantification of intra-ventricular blood clot in MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery". This work was previously accepted to SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015.

Great run, Maggie, on to the next one!

Seven Perk Lab papers accepted to SPIE Medical Imaging 2015

Seven Perk Lab papers were accepted to SPIE Medical Imaging 2015.

New doctor in the Perk Lab -- Dr. Hossein Sadjadi

We have a new doctor in the Perk Lab -- Dr. Hossein Sadjadi.

Earlier today Hossein, following an absolutely splendid defense, earned the Doctor of Philosophy title for his work entitled "ELECTROMAGNETIC INSTRUMENT TRACKING". Congratulations!

New master's in the Perk Lab: Manju Anand

Please join me in congratulating Manju who defended his MSc thesis today. It was a masterly performance from the master's of science. Manju will hand in the final thesis next week and then start on his new job in Toronto.

Gabor Fichtinger has been elected to the Administrative Committee of IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society

Gabor Fichtinger has been elected to the Administrative Committee of IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS). His term will begin 1 January 2015 and expire 31 December 2017. IEEE EMBS is the premiere professional organization of our field, with a current membership over 9,600. If Gabor did not have enough to do before, this new post will certainly keep him busy.

Plus and SlicerIGT now supports color image acquisition and display

SlicerIGT and the Plus toolkit now supports color image acquisition, streaming through OpenIGTLink, and live display in 3D Slicer. This allows using SlicerIGT to display color Doppler ultrasound images, endoscopy, and other full-color video during image-guided procedures. Currently Epiphan, ImagingControls, and any Microsoft Media Foundation-compatible framegrabber devices are supported. Thanks to Adam Rankin, the key developer of this feature.

Ron Kikinis visited the PerkLab

Dr. Kikinis is the founding Director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School visited the PerkLab on 29-30 April, 2014. His presentation slides are available here.

2014-04-30-Kikinis-Slicer-reduced.pdf

Matthew Holden and Thomas Vaughan receive prestigious NSERC award

Matthew Holden and Thomas Vaughan received the prestigious Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship at the doctoral level from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). The length of the grant is three years, at a total value of $105,000. Congratulations to their fantastic achievement!

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