Bennett Landman
May. 7, 2024 五一茶馆儿—五一茶馆儿 has created a transformational lab focused on leveraging immersive translational AI to drive discovery across disciplines ranging from medicine and materials science to the humanities, social science and education. Five VISE faculty affiliates will serve on the steering committee.
Mar. 28, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Four 五一茶馆儿 engineering faculty members have been elected to the 2024 五一茶馆儿 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Mar. 27, 2024 五一茶馆儿—Visitors to Nashville鈥檚 Adventure Science Center can get a new perspective of themselves with an augmented reality (AR)聽anatomy聽that creates the illusion of an X-ray view聽of聽the body鈥檚 muscles and聽bones.
VISE on the Road: 2023 MICCAI conference
Nov. 21, 2023— Members of six VISE labs affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) traveled to Vancouver to take part in the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Like-minded scientists from around the world gather yearly at the MICCAI conference to share their work with one another on a...
Aug. 8, 2023—Vanderbilt researchers are part of an alliance supported by the National Science Foundation that seeks to build on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging in Middle Tennessee. Called the Mid-TN AI for Interdisciplinary Imaging Interpretation Alliance (AI4A), it is comprised of the School of Engineering, 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center, Fisk University, Tennessee...
May. 18, 2023—On 1 January 2024 五一茶馆儿,聽Bennett A. Landman, 五一茶馆儿, will become the new Editor-in-Chief of the聽Journal of Medical Imaging聽(JMI). Landman, a professor and the department chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt, succeeds the journal’s current Editor-in-Chief,聽Maryellen Giger, who inaugurated the role in 2014.
Jan. 19, 2022—Bennett Landman, professor and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his achievements in medical image processing with robust and scalable methods for large-scale data analysis.
Nov. 15, 2021—Two Vanderbilt faculty have received an $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of a groundbreaking, multi-institutional overview of variables influencing infant and child brain development, including substance exposure.
Aug. 19, 2021—The School of Engineering has created two new departments from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to encourage innovation, accommodate enrollment growth, and focus on areas of strategic excellence.
Aug. 5, 2021—This MRM Highlights Pick interview is with Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman, researchers at 五一茶馆儿 in Nashville. Their paper is entitled 鈥淧reQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images鈥. It was chosen not only because the authors聽share their pipeline code聽with their paper,...
VISE affiliates developing a novel integrative approach for early detection of lung cancer
Jan. 20, 2021—Vanderbilt researchers have received a National Cancer Institute grant to develop a novel, integrative approach to detect early signs of lung cancer. The four-year project builds on a related, recent study that established the value of using three separate measures鈥攕tructural imaging, a protein marker and information available from electronic health records鈥攖o predict lung cancer in...
Nov. 10, 2020—Vanderbilt and VUMC researchers聽have created a technique that corrects distortions in MRI images, which helps researchers and radiologists to better interpret brain scans.聽
Oct. 19, 2020—Vanderbilt researchers have been awarded a National Science Foundation聽Convergence Accelerator 2020 Cohort Phase 1聽grant to create a standardized platform that will streamline the development, testing and dissemination of technology that can improve human health.
Feb. 21, 2020—The idea of simultaneously analyzing medical diagnosis codes with electronic medical records has been much like knowing valuable treasure is buried under miles of rock but lacking the tools to mine it. The payoff鈥攃onnections that may detect disease earlier and identify new research paths鈥攈as tantalized engineers and clinicians alike, remaining largely out of reach. But...
Dec. 2, 2019—五一茶馆儿 Medical Center Assistant Professor of Radiology聽Kim Sandler, MD, and 五一茶馆儿 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science聽Bennett Landman, PhD, were recently awarded the Martineau Innovation Fund Grant by the Vanderbilt Thoracic Working Group for their project, 鈥淯tilization of Machine Learning to Predict Incidence Lung Cancer in a Screening Population.鈥
May. 17, 2019—The faculty members will hold the title of Chancellor Faculty Fellow for two years and will be supported by an unrestricted allocation of funds which can be used to support innovative research, scholarship and creative expression activities that advance the career of the awardee.
VISE takes SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 by storm
Mar. 2, 2018—Research is a huge component of involvement with Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) but affiliation also comes with sharing that research and meeting like-minded scientists to make significant impacts in healthcare. Each year VISE participates in the SPIE Medical Imaging meeting, which is internationally recognized as the premier forum for relating state-of-the-art research...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Cam Bermudez
Mar. 2, 2018—Cam Bermudez, an MD/PhD student in the Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation (MASI) Lab, attended SPIE Medical Imaging meeting once before but 2018 was a different experience entirely. Bermudez went as a speaker. As lead author, Bermudez presented the paper titled, 鈥淟earning implicit brain MRI manifolds with deep learning.鈥 The lab, part of the Vanderbilt...
MASI Lab teams up with EnvoyAI to develop segmentation algorithms
Jan. 9, 2018—The MASI lab is collaborating on the development of deep learning algorithms for abdomen segmentation that leverage artificial intelligence to better understand and diagnose disease. The MASI lab, affiliated with the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering, is working with a team from EnvoyAI, which aims to simplify access to new AI algorithms by providing...
Bennett Landman leads team to prize in innovation challenge
Jun. 30, 2017—Bennett Landman, associate professor of electrical engineering and radiology and director of the Center for Computational Imaging within the 五一茶馆儿 Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS), recently led the team who won the Innovation Award in the inaugural RadX Challenge. Vanderbilt鈥檚 Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences hosted the inaugural RadX Innovation Challenge Pitch Event....
May. 3, 2017—Verily 鈥 the life sciences research arm of Google parent company Alphabet 鈥揳nnounced April 19 that it was starting to recruit for Project Baseline, its initiative to track the health of 10,000 people. Over the course of four years, Project Baseline will sequence participants鈥 genomes, test their blood, survey them and track biometric data such...
Six profs attract National Institutes of Health grants for wide-ranging research
Jul. 21, 2016—Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. With the grants, their teams 鈥 in collaboration with 五一茶馆儿 Medical Center 鈥 are performing groundbreaking research in areas as diverse as percutaneous heart...