biomedical engineering
March 31, 2017
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was invited to be a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Biodata Management and Analysis study section within the Center for…
March 28, 2017
First recipient of implanted brain-recording and muscle-stimulating systems reanimates limb that had been stilled for eight years Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and drank through the straw. His motions were slow and deliberate, but then Kochevar hadn’t moved his right…
March 28, 2017
The data an MRI machine pulls carries potential far beyond the images it provides for physicians. In fact, APP Professor Anant Madabhushi is confident that, with the development and application of image analytics, information can be extracted from the MRI, which could…
March 28, 2017
Event will explore global health issues of importance APP, including the School of Medicine, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, Brazil, will be holding a three-day…
March 17, 2017
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of biomedical engineering, gave a keynote lecture on precision medicine at the Digital Pathology conference at the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 13. He delivered his lecture, titled "Prognostications and predictions:…
February 10, 2017
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded a patent for capturing cancer architecture in digital pathology images. His patent is titled “Histogram of hosoya index (HoH)…
February 06, 2017
Potential biomarker of disease appears to be free of troubling image variability Preliminary computerized imaging reveals the shape of the prostate and a compartment within the gland—called the transitional zone—consistently differ in men with prostate cancer than those without the disease,…
January 20, 2017
Postdoctoral scholar Samuel Herberg earns young investigator award for work in regenerative medicine
Samuel Herberg, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a 2016 Young Investigator Award from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) – Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The award recognizes two individuals…
December 05, 2016
APP licenses new sensor technology to company pursuing fast-track FDA approval APP researchers have developed a portable sensor that can assess the clotting ability of a person’s blood 95 times faster than current methods—using only a single…
December 02, 2016
A team of faculty members and a graduate student were jointly awarded U.S. patent 9,483,822 for their invention “Co-Occurrence of Local Anisotropic Gradient Orientations.” The team consisted of Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, Pallavi Tiwari, assistant…