July 17, 2023
The National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies (NCIBT) at UC Davis is funded by the NIBIB to develop new optical imaging technologies for surgical and interventional medical decision-making. Dr. Fei’s talk focused on AI analysis of medical data – quantitative methods in precision medicine: Hyperspectral imaging for cancer detection and image-guided surgery.
April 15, 2023
Dr. Ding’s NIH grant entitled “Volumetric imaging and computation to characterize cardiac electromechanical coupling” is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Approximately 450,000 individuals in the United States die suddenly from cardiac arrhythmias every year. Many widely used medications such as antiarrhythmic agents, antimicrobials, anticancer drugs, and psychotropic drugs can cause or exacerbate a variety of arrhythmias. The ability to prospectively identify potentially arrhythmogenic compounds would be clinically valuable. Much remains unknown about the involved excitation-contraction coupling abnormalities and mechanisms of arrhythmias associated with specific drugs. For this reason, Dr. Ding seeks to integrate 4-dimensional (4D, 3D spatial + 1D temporal) volumetric imaging with computational model to investigate whether a common mechanism of action underlies drug-induced excitation-contraction coupling abnormalities. The success of this research will establish a new holistic strategy to in vivo investigate sophisticated electromechanical interaction, providing an entry point to further study the underlying mechanism of arrhythmias and prospectively identify arrhythmogenic compounds.
December 1, 2022
The Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center had a successful open house at the Headquarters for the Richardson Innovation Quarter (IQ) on December 1, 2022. More than 200 faculty, students, and industry leaders attended the Richardson IQ Centers Open House. Thank UT Dallas Office of Research and Innovation and the City of Richardson for providing the facility and space at the Richardson IQ.
November 3, 2022
Review activities of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) are organized into Review Branches (RBs). Each RB represents a cluster of study sections around a general scientific area. NIH grant applications generally are assigned first to an RB, and then to a specific study section within that RB for evaluation of scientific merit. An NIH study section consists of experts focused on a particular research field who are charged with reviewing NIH grant proposals. Special Emphasis Panels (SEPs) are held to review applications on special topics and members conflict applications. The NIH Center for Scientific Review invited Dr. Fei to chair the NIH Study Section Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 MOSS-V – Member Conflict: Musculoskeletal Sciences in November 2022.
October 13, 2022
At the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Dr. Baowei Fei organized a Special Panel Session entitled “A new era of engineering medicine – how to educate the next generation of biomedical engineers” and invited national leaders in the space of bioengineering and engineering medicine to discuss the emerging trend on how to educate and train our next generation of biomedical engineers, how to shape and advance the science and technology of bioengineering through innovative research and inspiring education, and how to engage faculty, researchers, and students to play leading roles from basic science discovery to the creation, clinical evolution, and commercialization of new technologies, devices and therapies to improve human health. In a new era of precision medicine, engineering and medicine are converging to solve complex biological and medical problems. Biomedical engineering and computing will be a leading force where quantitative methods of engineering and systems sciences will have a pivotal role in disease detection, diagnostics, and treatment.
October 7, 2022
The Workshop on Imaging and Data Science brought together the investigators at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) and built research collaborations between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). The workshop brought engineers, computer scientists, surgeons, radiologists, and clinicians together with the goal of translating innovative imaging and surgical technologies from our engineering laboratories at UT Dallas to clinical settings at UT Southwestern for improving human health. More information can be found from the Workshop website (https://imaging.utdallas.edu/workshop/).
Congratulations to all the winners of the poster awards: 1) Undergraduate Student Poster Award –- Sahil Chilukri from UT Southwestern; 2) Graduate Student Poster Award First Place – Milad Almasian from UT Dallas; 3) Graduate Student Poster Award Second Place –- Chanda Bhandari from UT Dallas; 4) Graduate Student Poster Award Third Place –- Xinyuan Zhang from UT Dallas; 5) Postdoctoral Associate Poster Award – Tianyuan Wang from UT Southwestern.
July 4, 2022
The objective of the International Association for Spectral Imaging (IASIM) is to provide a unified open and interactive forum for the exchange of information and ideas within the general spectral imaging community, regardless of the image spectral range (ultraviolet, visible, near, mid, or far infrared, or mass spectrometry) or spatial range (microscopic, macroscopic, remote sensing). The biannual conference brought together speakers, contributors, attendees and exhibitors from areas covering all aspects of spectral imaging (microscopic, macroscopic, remote sensing) and a large variety of spectroscopic techniques. Dr. Fei was invited to give a keynote talk on medical hyperspectral imaging at the international conference.
Febuary 11, 2022
UTD Bioengineer’s Rare Cancer Inspires Common Research Mission
July 27, 2022
Review activities of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) are organized into Review Branches (RBs). Each RB represents a cluster of study sections around a general scientific area. NIH grant applications generally are assigned first to an RB, and then to a specific study section within that RB for evaluation of scientific merit. An NIH study section consists experts focused on a particular research field who are charged with reviewing NIH grant proposals. The NIH Center for Scientific Review invited Dr. Fei to chair the NIH Study Section Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 SBIB-C (03) – Member Conflict: Medical Imaging Investigations in July 2022.
April 1, 2022
The Faculty Research Awards recognize three Jonsson School faculty members (one assistant professor, one associate professor, and one full professor) for their outstanding research contributions and are given annually at the Recognition of the School Annual Faculty Assembly. Dr. Fei is the recipient of the Faculty Research Award at the full professor level, which honors one senior faculty member of the Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, who has produced exceptional research.
