Clare Tempany, MD, presented via Zoom at the University of Utah GRAND ROUNDS - Radiology and Imaging Science

William Wells III is Executive Editor of the newly launched Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA), a web-based journal devoted to the free and unrestricted access of high quality articles in the broad field that bridges machine learning and biomedical imaging. Read more about Newly Launched Journal of Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging (MELBA)

How Imaging and Image Analysis can Impact Neurosurgical Care

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Ron Kikinis, MD, vice chair of Biomedical Informatics Research and founding director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory in the Department of Radiology, was named the second B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) in honor of his outstanding contributions to the field.

This appointment honors the legacy and memory of nuclear medicine pioneer B. Leonard Holman, MD, former chair of Radiology at the Brigham and the Philip Cook Professor of Radiology at HMS, who died in 1998. Kikinis’ appointment follows that of his mentor and the position’s first...

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Change at Fraunhofer MEVIS: Ron Kikinis assumes professorship in the USA.

Prof. Ron Kikinis, the former director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in Bremen, has accepted a renowned appointment at Harvard Medical School in the United States. Since March 1, 2020, Prof. Horst Hahn has been the sole director of the Institute – for the prior six years, both had acted in dual leadership roles. Kikinis has assumed the B. Leonard Holman Endowed Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. This endowed chair is one of the highest academic distinctions at the...

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Ron Kikinis, MD, and Andriy Fedorov, PhD, both of the Department of Radiology, were selected for the Imaging Data Commons (IDC) award from the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI's) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology.

Source: Cancer Data Science Pulse

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Clare Tempany, MD, vice chair of Research in the Brigham's Department of Radiology, medical director of the Advanced Multi-modal Image-Guided Operating (AMIGO) Suite and the Ferenc A. Jolesz, MD, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, received the Massachusetts Prostate Cancer Coalition’s (MPCC) 2019 Jack Colbert Award. It is awarded periodically to a distinguished individual in the medical community who has significantly advanced the fight to conquer and cure prostate cancer through research and practice.

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Fiona Fennessy, MD, PhD, of the Department of Radiology, was named to the 2019 Council of Distinguished Investigators by The Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research.

This honor recognizes individuals who have advanced the field of medical imaging. Recipients must meet strict criteria, including at least 25 peer-reviewed scientific research publications and at least six cumulative years of funding as the principal investigator of a major competitive extramural research grant. Fennessy will be inducted into the Academy Distinguished Investigator Council during a...

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Clare M. C. Tempany, MD delivered  the 45th  Pendergrass Lecture at the Pendergrass Day Symposium at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. Pendergrass Day marks its sapphire anniversary, celebrating 45 years of research and innovation. Dr. Stanley Baum started the tradition of the Pendergrass Symposium in 1976 wanting to mark the end of the academic year with a luminary speaker. The Department of Radiology has invited world-renowned speakers to... Read more about 45th Pendergrass Day Symposium at Penn Medicine

The BWH Department of Radiology held their 7th Annual Radiology Research Symposium on Thursday May 23, 2019 in the BWH Hale Building for Transformative Medicine. The conference was attended by 118 members of the Radiology department and showcased 47 posters representing the various facets of research in the department. Department Chair Giles Boland, MD provided the opening remarks in which he marveled at the number of countries and diverse backgrounds of the researchers in the department and the richness of science provided by such a wide spectrum of perspectives and initiatives....

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The Excellence in Mentoring Awards were established to recognize the value of quality mentoring relationships and the impact they have on professional development and career advancement in basic/clinical medicine, research, teaching, and administration. ...

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Dr. Ron Kikinis is honored for his contributions in the fields of MR image-guided interventions and in medical image computing with open-source software for image visualization, analysis, and surgical navigation. 

Treatment of epidural tumours located in the spinal canal can be highly challenging, due to the risk of causing irreversible damage. To address this challenge, a medical team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute have performed a study showing that MRI-guided cryoablation is feasible for treating such epidural tumours.

Principal investigator Thomas Lee demonstrates an active cryoprobe that had just been tested in water to ensure formation of...

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William M. Wells, III, PhD (Sandy), Professor of Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been awarded the 2017 Enduring Impact award from The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (The MICCAI Society), tweeted about here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/MICCAI2018?src=hash&lang=en, among many other achievements, Dr. Wells is recognized for the STAPLE algorithm, Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation for the validation of... Read more about William M. Wells, III, PhD Receives 2017 Enduring Impact Award

Frank Preiswerk, PhD, of the Department of Radiology, earned the Second Best Abstract Award at the 2018 International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging (IWOAI) for his work on detection of bone marrow lesion (BML) segmentation using deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Preiswerk’s project examined whether an advanced computer algorithm could identify BML segmentation as accurately as experienced radiologists – ultimately finding that both methods were nearly equivalent. Preiswerk and his team noted that, given the time and resources...

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Drs. Natalie Agar, "Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Surgical Pathology and Oncology" and Andrey Fedorov, "Data Standardization for Advancing the Role of AI in Radiology", gave talks in the “First Look” session at the World Medical Innovation Forum: Artificial Intelligence, in Boston, MA. Drs. Natalie Agar, Alex Golby and Bruno Madore are recipients of Partners Innovation Discovery Grant Awards.

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Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD, chaired a Oral Presentations Session at the International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) in Atlanta, GA. He also gave a semi-plenary lecture on “Precision-enabled Image-guided Surgery”.

This year, “Top Doctors” highlighted more than 1,600 doctors in 60 different specialties who have made a... Read more about Alexandra Golby is named one of Boston's best doctors on Boston Magazine's 2017 annual 'Top Doctors' list

The original article appered in the October 2017 issue of the BWH Clinical & Research News.

Sarah Frisken’s career path has taken her from academics to industry and back again. An electrical engineer by training, Frisken is skilled in computer graphics and has applied her computational expertise in a variety of...

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At Boston’s HUBweek session on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, practitioners—including two MIT alumnae—shared some challenges and opportunities. Tina Kapur SM ’95, PhD ’99 and Dina Katabi SM ’99, PhD ’03 discussed their work in AI and medicine at HUBweek 2017. The October 12 session explored how AI and deep learning are transforming the practice of medicine by helping clinicians diagnose and treat problems more quickly and accurately.... Read more about AI to Shape the Future of Medicine?

Tina Kapur PhD is  an invited speaker at this event that hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital in partnership with HUBweek and Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Boston Globe.

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) and deep learning have the...

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To clinicians, researchers and technology enthusiasts, the BWH AMIGO suite represents the state-of-the-art in medical and surgical research environments. It offers advanced imaging equipment and interventional surgical systems in an operating room setting to guide treatment before, during and after surgery.
To many of our patients, AMIGO represents something more: hope in the face of a frightening diagnosis.
When Martha Zentis’ cancer returned, the mother of two found reason to hope, thanks to Alexandra Golby, MD, director of Image-Guided Neurosurgery, and Jessica... Read more about Breakthrough Briefing: The Light We Share

From the discovery of x-rays in 1895 to the utilization of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners in the 1960s and 70s, health care has long depended on imaging to provide the best quality diagnostics and care for patients. Now, as new forms of imaging such as virtual reality and augmented reality hit the scene, researchers including Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD, of the Surgical Planning Lab in the Radiology Department at BWH, look to bring these imaging techniques into the operating room. As the most immersive type of imaging, virtual reality (VR) takes the user into a completely...

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The 25th Project Week was held in Catanzaro Lido, Italy. More...

 

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This 100-case, two-day course with 40 participants and 4 faculty is designed to provide practicing radiologists with intense training in the interpretation of multiparametric prostate MRI (mpMRI) and the use of Prostate Imaging – Reporting and Data System version 2 (PI-RADS v2) for standardized communication of imaging findings. More ... Read more about American College of Radiology Prostate MRI Course

Martin Schostak, MD, PhD, gives a talk at our Prostate Group Meeting. Dr. Schostak comes to us from Magdeburg in Germany, where he is Professor of Urology and Chairman of the University Department of Urology. He is Head of the Group of German Focal Treatment Experts. His specialty is uro-oncologic surgery and focal treatment of prostate and kidney cancer.

Frank Preiswerk, PhD honored with the Young Investigator Cum Laude Award of the ISMRM for his pioneering work on "Hybrid MRI-Ultrasound Acquisitions, and Scannerless Real-Time Imaging”. Dr. Preiswerk is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Image Guided Therapy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in the Advanced Lab for MRI and Acoustics. Each year, the Young Investigator Awards recognize outstanding research by trainees and junior members of the ISMRM. The award ceremony took place at this year’s ISMRM annual meeting in Honolulu, HI, in April 2017. ...

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Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD, an Assistant Professor working in the Surgical Planning Lab in the Radiology department at Brigham and Women’s hospital, has been named one of the 2017 Medtech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovators for his work in surgical robotics and image-guided procedures in the BWH AMIGO Suite. Read more...

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Experts, Clare M. Tempany-Afdhal, MD, Sung Yoon Park, MD, PhD, and Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD, weigh in on PI-RADS v2 — a simplified scoring system focusing on the detection and exclusion of clinically significant prostate cancer. More...

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