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...
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.
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.
The award, presented to Tempany during a ceremony at the...
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...
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....
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. ...
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...
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...
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.
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”.
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...
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...
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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