Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE)
Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering at Vanderbilt University is a unique educational, training and research facility:
"Interventional processes, devices, and systems are complex. The conception, development, realization, and evaluation of novel solutions require a tight interaction between several engineering disciplines and clinicians. This necessitates environments in which engineering teams and practitioners can interact and exchange ideas on a daily basis. Vanderbilt University’s strong history of and commitment to interdisciplinary work and the close proximity of its Medical and Engineering Schools makes it the ideal campus for advancing the state of the art in this field. The Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering provides a structure that facilitates this interdisciplinary work and creates an environment in which traditional boundaries are eliminated.
Engineering expertise includes modeling, robotics, imaging, image processing and analysis, devices, system integration, and instrumentation. Clinical applications include image-guided brain, kidney, liver, pancreas, or prostate surgery; guidance for transorbital therapy; minimally invasive cochlear implant surgery; assistance for deep brain stimulators placement and programming; robotic-assisted cochlear implant surgery; or ophthalmic microsurgery.
Central to the mission of the institute is the translation of methods, techniques, and devices from the laboratory to the patient, first internally then externally through commercialization of the intellectual property center members have generated. Commercialization is achieved either via the creation of spin offs or licensing of the technology to industrial partners."
The center's research portfolio includes:
- Image guided robotic nephron-sparing surgery
- Novel Integrative Approach for the Early Detection of Lung Cancer using Repeated Measures
- Tracking brain arousal fluctuations for FMRI big data discovery
- Multimodal registration of the brain’s cortical surface
- Model-based cochlear implant programming
- MRI connectivity biomarkers of treatment response in focal epilepsy
- Automatic analysis of 3D skin images for chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) severity assessment
- Intraoperative imaging of macular hole repair to predict visual function outcomes
- Controlling quality and capturing uncertainty in advanced diffusion weighted MRI
- Deformation corrected image guided laparoscopic liver surgery
- The role of network connectivity in post-surgical seizure recurrence in temporal lobe epilepsy
- Early detection of Huntington’s disease: longitudinal analysis of basal ganglia and cortical thickness
- Multimodal mapping of subcortical and cortical functional network disturbances in focal epilepsy
- Intraoperative optical coherence tomography for ophthalmic surgical guidance
- CAREER: Ultrasound Brain-Computer Interface
- Transnasal diagnosis of middle ear disease
- Ocular therapeutic delivery through real-time endoscopic b-scan oct-guided tools and robotic assistance
- Computer-assisted, image-guided programming of cochlear implants
- Training Program for Innovative Engineering Research in Surgery and Intervention
- Clinical validation and testing of percutaneous cochlear implantation
- NSF Convergence Accelerator Track D: Scalable, TRaceable AI for Imaging Translation
- Robot-enabled natural orifice prostatectomy
- Computer-assisted functional neurosurgery
- CAREER: Modeling Personalized Brain Development with Big Data
- Suppression and analysis of ultrasonic clutter during liver focal lesion biopsy
- Relating vigilance to connectivity and neurocognition in temporal lobe epilepsy
Source: VISE
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