{"id":6482,"date":"2018-03-02T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2018-03-05T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:43:17","slug":"highlighting-spie-2018-student-presentations-srijata-chakravorti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/highlighting-spie-2018-student-presentations-srijata-chakravorti\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations &#8211; Srijata Chakravorti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6483\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2018\/03\/19170837\/40480702012_d927297311_z-2-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" \/>Srijata Chakravorti, a graduate student in the electrical engineering department, believes attending SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 and other professional conferences is a great way to connect with other researchers and learn about work is beyond the \u201cbubbles\u201d of their own labs and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>They also indicate where the field of medical imaging and image-guided patient care is headed. \u201cI feel that having that kind of awareness of the broader field is essential to have an impactful research career,\u201d said Chakravorti, who is a member of the Medical Imaging Processing (MIP) Lab, under the direction of Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Engineering, Benoit Dawant, professor of electrical engineering and director, Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE).<\/p>\n<p>She presented this year, which upped the ante. As lead author, Chakravorti presented the paper titled, \u201cA structural connectivity approach to validate a model-based technique for the segmentation of the pulvinar complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critical to know how to disseminate technical knowledge to the larger scientific community, and SPIE gave me an opportunity to do that,\u201d Charavorti said.\u00a0 \u201cPresenting at SPIE was a great way to connect to an engaging audience from diverse research backgrounds and having an exchange of feedback that I hope would improve my future work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much rapid development ongoing in both imaging technologies and their applications to clinical problems that I wouldn\u2019t have fully appreciated if I hadn\u2019t attended this conference,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the second of five short stories highlighting VISE students who presented SPIE Medical Imaging 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srijata Chakravorti, a graduate student in the electrical engineering department, believes attending SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 and other professional conferences is a great way to connect with other researchers and learn about work is beyond the \u201cbubbles\u201d of their own labs and institutions. They also indicate where the field of medical imaging and image-guided patient&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":6483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40,183,231,332,259,30],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2018\/03\/19170837\/40480702012_d927297311_z-2-e1520022290537.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-1Gy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6493,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6482\/revisions\/6493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}