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.