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Two more papers accepted to 2021 MICCAI
Two papers have been
accepted to the 2021 MICCAI conference
workshops.
Che H, Ramanathan S, Foran
D, Nosher JL, Patel VM, Hacihaliloglu I.
Realistic Ultrasound Image Synthesis for
Improved Classification of Liver Disease. 2021
MICCAI-International Workshop of Advances in
Simplifying Medical UltraSound (ASMUS2021),
September 27-October 1, Strasbourg, France.
COVID-19 diagnosis from lung ultrasound data
Hui Che's work on Covid-19 diagnosis from lung ultrasound data has been accepted for presentation at the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyOctober 31 - November 4, 2021, Virtual Conference.
MICCAI 2021
Joint work between the Vision & Image Understanding (VIU) Lab, directed by Prof. Vishal M. Patel JHU ECE, and CompAST has been accepted for presentation at the 2021 MICCAI conference.
NAFLD diagnosis from ultrasound
Hui Che's research work
entitled 'Liver Disease Classification from
Ultrasound Using Multi-Scale CNN' has been
accepted for publication at the International
Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and
Surgery. Congratulations to Hui on this
well-deserved acceptance.
Congratulations to Sumana and Alec for successful ME project presentations
CompAST members Sumana
Ramanathan and Alec Phipps have successfully
presented their ME projects. Sumana has
investigated the effect of using local phase
image features for improving the diagnostic
accuracy of deep learning architectures for
diagnosing Covid-19 from chest CT scans. Alec
has investigated the effect of transfer learning
on 6 different state-of-the-art neural network
architectures for classifying Covid-19 from
regular and viral pneumonia and healthy chest CT
scans. Huge congratulations especially given the
circumstances.
IPCAI 2021
Joint work between
CompAST laboratory and Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Makerere University
has been accepted for publication at the
International Journal of Computer Assisted
Radiology and Surgery. The work, entitled
'Time-Aware Deep Neural Networks for Needle Tip
Localization in 2D Ultrasound', will be
presented at the 2021 IPCAI meeting. We are
especially excited about this as this marks our
first collaboration with Makerere University
where our alumnus Cosmas Mwikirize is appointed
as Assistant Professor.
New publication
We have a new publication from Xiao Qi at the IJCARS journal: Chest X-ray Image Phase Features for Improved Diagnosis of COVID-19 Using Convolutional Neural Network. Congradulations Xiao...
Hui Che successfully defends her Master of Science thesis work
Huge congratulations go out to Hui Che who successfully defended her MS thesis. In her thesis work, entitled Improved Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Diagnosis from Ultrasound Data Based on Deep Learning, Hui developed novel machine learning models for improved diagnosis of fatty liver disease from ultrasound data.
New Dr. in the house …
CompAST member Ahmed Alsinan has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled Robust Bone Surface and Acoustic Shadow Segmentation from Ultrasound for Computer-Assisted Orthopedic Surgery. Special thanks go out to the committee members Profs. Zoran Gajic, and Laleh Najafizadeh from ECE, Rutgers University, and Dr. Claudia Errico from Philips Research North America. Ahmed was co-supervised with Prof. Vishal Patel from ECE, JHU.
2020 MICCAI Award
CompAST member Ahmed Alsinan has been awarded 2020 MICCAI NIH Award. This award will cover membership, main conference, and satellite events fees. Ahmed will present his work on the simulation of ultrasound bone images and corresponding labels. Congratulations again well deserved.
IEEE BIBE 2020
Happy to announce that CompAST alumna Hridayi Patel's work titled 'Improved Automatic Bone Segmentation Using Large-Scale Simulated Ultrasound Data to Segment Real Ultrasound Bone Surface Data' has been accepted to the 20th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics And BioEngineering Conference which will be held virtual this year.
MICCA 2020
Happy to announce
that ComPAST will have three publications at
this year’s MICCAI meeting. CompAST member Ahmed
Alsinan will present his work on synthesizing
B-mode ultrasound data and corresponding labels
using a novel GAN architecture. The other two
papers accepted about bone shadow segmentation
and ventricle segmentation from ultrasound data.
Very exciting work which is the results of a
great collaboration with Prof. Vishal Patel from
JHU.
Virtual IPCAI 2020 Meeting was success
Dr. H has
successfully co program chaired 2020 IPCAI
meeting which was held fully virtual this year.
CompAST lab had two papers this year. Our lab
member Ahmed Alsinan presented his work on bone
shadow segmentation from ultrasound data using a
GAN-based architecture. The second paper was
about real-time accurate bone segmentation from
ultrasound data. Both of these works came out of
a successful collaboration with JHU Prof. Vishal
Patel.
Best senior design project 2019-2020
Big congratulations to the CompAST 2019-2020 senior design group Hina Ishaque, Shunyao Lei, Arielle D'Elia, and Ranya Agarwal for winning the best senior design project award in Computational Biology and Imaging track at the 2019-2020 senior design conference. Job well done ... NOTE: Due to covid-19 pandemic we had to have a virtual awards ceremony and the image was captured from a cell phone.
Justin successfully defends his MS thesis
CompAST member Justin Mohabir has successfully defended his M.Sc. thesis entitled "Knee Cartilage Segmentation of Ultrasound Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Local Phase Enhancement". Job well done and big congratulations
Hridayi successfully defends her MS thesis
CompAST member Hridayi Patel has successfully defended her M.Sc. thesis entitled "Improved automatic bone segmentation using large scale simulated ultrasound data to segment real ultrasound bone surface data". Job well done and big congratulations
Xuxin successfully defends her MS thesis
CompAST member Xuxin Zeng has successfully defended her MS thesis entitled 'Hierarchical 3D registration of Ultrasound-Computed Tomography using reinforcement learning for femoral shaft fracture surgery '. Job well done and big congratulations. Moving to Intel ...
Cosmas representing CompAST at the 2019 MICCAI conference
Cosmas presenting his work on needle localization at the 2019 MICCAI meeting.
Amrita presents her work at the The Project Super Symposium
Amrita has presented her work about ventricle segmentation from brain ultrasound data at the The Project Super Symposium.
First Dr. in the house
Cosmas Mwikirize has successfully defended his PhD thesis. He will start his new positions as an Assistant Professor of College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) at the Makerere University, Uganda.
2019 MICCAI Travel Award for Cosmas
Cosmas has been awarded MICCAI 2019 Graduate Student Travel Award to present his work on 'Single Shot Needle Tip Localization in 2D Ultrasound' at the 2019 MICCAI meeting which will be held in Shenzhen, China, 13-17 Oct 2019.
Hridayi successfully presents her work at the NJSGC conference
Hridayi Patel sucessfull presents her work at the 2019 New Jersey Space Grant Consortium conference. Her work investigates the inter- and intra-user varibility observed during manual segmentation of bone surfaces from ultrasound data.
2018 MICCAI paper code available on GitHub
We are happy to announce that the code for our joint work with JHU (Prof. Vishal Patel) on Simultaneous Segmentation and Classification of Bone Surfaces from Ultrasound Using a Multi-feature Guided CNN is available on GitHub: https://github.com/XwK-P/MFG-CNN
One paper is accepted to MICCAI 2019
We are proud of Cosmas Mwikriize who has done it again. His work on needle localization is accepted for the 2019 MICCAI meeting which will be held in Shenzhen, China this year. The proposed method is the fastest reported method (65fps) with an accuracy of 0.6mm. If you are interested to learn more please contact us.
CAOS 2019
19th Annual Meeting of Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (CAOS) was a success. CompAST members Ahmed Alsinan and Xiao Qi successfully presented their work.
BME Senior Design Conference
CompAST senior design group successfully presented their project. Congratulations Pragya Hooda, Dan LeFever, Hedy Makris, Nina Ninua.
Undergradaute CompAST members receive summer fellowship awards
CompAST member Hridayi Patel, BS/MS student in BME, has received New Jersey Space Grant Consortium (NJSGC) Award. CompAST member Amrita Poddar, sophomore BME student, has received Douglass Project STEM Summer Stipend. Big congratulations.
Ultrsaound bone segmentation database initiative
We are very excited to co-lead, together with Prof. Antony Hodgson from University of British Columbia, the first initiative for forming a bone segmentation and validation database. This is an international multi-institutional effort. Our first workshop will be held at the 2019 CARS conference this year (See below). Please contact us if you are interested and can contribute to the database.
5/2019 CompAST member Hridayi Patel wins fellowship award
CompAST member Hridayi Patel has been awarded with the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium summer fellowship. Hridayi will be investigating inter- and intra-user varibility errors during manual segmentation of various bone surfaces from ultrasound data.Talk by Taylor Nelson, Stryker MAKO, April 11, 2019
We were very happy to have 2014-2015 senior design alumna Taylor Nelson from Stryker Orhopedics-MAKO to give a talk for the Computer Intergrated Inteventions in Medicine course.
2019 CAOS Conference
CompAST members Ahmed Alsinan, Xiao Qi, and Hridayi Patel will present their work in the 19th Annual Meeting of Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (2019 CAOS) which will be held in NYC USA from June 19-22, 2019.
2019 NEBEC conference
CompAST members will be presenting their work at the 2019 North East Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC) which will be held at Rutgers University Livingston Campus this year. Hui Che will present her work about liver tissue classification. Hridayi Patel will present her work on inter and intra-user variability error analysis during manual bone segmentation from ultrasound data. Senior design group (Pragya Hooda, Dan LeFever, Hedy Makris, Nina Ninua) will present their work on Point of Care Ultrasound for Spine Imaging in Space Explorations. Congratulations to all.
New publications from CompAST
We are happy to report that CompAST members Ahmed Alsinan and Cosmas Mwikrize's work will appear in the IJCARS journal. If you are interested in automatic bone segmentation or real-time needle localization from ultrasound check our publications or contact us.
2019 IPCAI Conference
Cosmas will present his work on 'Learning Needle Tip Localization from Digital Subtraction in 2D Ultrasound' at the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI) which will be held in Rennes, France, June 18-19, 2019. Congratulations again to Cosmas.
CompAST lab receives TechAdvnace Award
CompAST has received the Rutgers TechAdvance award for our surgical tool localization work. If you want real-time enhancement and localization of needles from ultrasound data please contact us.
2019 Johnson and Johnson Engineering Showcase
CompAST members Ahmed Alsinan and Cosmas Mwikirize will present their work at the 2019 @JNJCares Engineering Showcase on Thursday, February 28th, 2019.
UPDATE: Cosmas and Ahmed successfully presneted their work ...
2018 BME Symposium
First Rutgers-BME symposium was a success.
Our own Cosmas Mwikirize secured third place for
best podium presentation. Congratulations to all
the CompAST members.
10/2018 New Book Chapter
Dr. H. publishes a new book chapter: 3D Ultrasound for Orthopaedic Interventions, In Intelligent Orthopaedics: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Image-guided Technology for Orthopaedics, Ed. Guoyan Zheng and Wei Tan. Springer 2018.ISBN 978-981-13-1396-7
10/2018 Cosmas receives his Shatkin award
CompAST member Cosmas Mwikirize has received his 2018-2019 Shatkin scholarship award.
09/2018 Prajna successfully defends her MS thesis
Congradualations to Prajna Desai who has successfully defended her MS thesis entitled ' Real-time imaging and automated segmentation of cartilage from 2d ultrasound".
09/2018 Aaron Shatkin scholarship award
CompAST member Cosmas Mwikirize has received the prestigious 2018-2019 Rutgers University Aaron Shatkin scholarship award. The Shatkin scholarship award recognizes a student's academic and scholarly accomplishments in graduate school. Congratulations Cosmas on this achievement.
07/2018 CAOS was success
CompAST member Xiao has successfully presented his research at the 2018 CAOS conference. Looking forward to 2019 CAOS which will be held in New York City.
06/2018 Two papers at the 2018 MICCAI conference
Collaborative works between CompAST /Rutgers ECE department (Prof. Vishal Patel), and CompAST/CINJ (Prof. David Foran) have been accepted for the 2018 MICCAI conference which will be held in Granada, Spain, September 16-20, 2018.06/2018 IPCAI Travel Award
We are happy to report that Cosmas has been awarded with the 2018 NDI/IPCAI Young Investigator Travel Award. The purpose of the award is to help young investigators (including PhD and MSc students and junior researchers) with accepted papers at IPCAI conference to attend IPCAI/CARS 2018.Update: Cosmas has received his award at the 2018 IPCAI conference.
05/2018 CompAST member Nilay Vora wins fellowship award
CompAST 2017-2018 senior design group member Nilay Vora has been awarded with the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium summer fellowship. Nilay will be working on the bone segmentation from ultrasound project.05/2018 Publication at the 2018 CAOS conference
CompAST member Xiao will present his work on the use of ultrasound for spinal fusion surgery at the 18th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) which will be held in Beijing from June 6-9nd, 2018. Special thanks go to CompAST 2017-2018 senior design group who were a tremendous help during the validation studies of this publication.04/2018 Senior Design Conference
Congratulations to the CompAST laboratory 2017-2018 senior design group for successfully presenting their work at the Rutgers BME Senior Design conference and securing the first place in the Computational Imaging category. We are so proud.
From left to right: George Youssef, Nilay Vora, Amrut Sarangi, Luis Riera, Dr. H.
04/2018 IEEE ISBI
Prajna successfully presents her research at the 2018 IEEE ISBI conference.
04/2018 We are proud of Cosmas for securing the following awards.
1. Louis Bevier Fellowship offered to outstanding graduate students toward completion of their dissertation.2. Teaching Assistant Professional Development Award toward travel to present research work at IPCAI conference in Berlin, Germany, June 20-21, 2018.
3. Rutgers School of Graduate Studies Travel award toward travel to present research work at IPCAI conference in Berlin, Germany, June 20-21, 2018
03/2018 Two papers from CompAST at the 2018 NEBEC meeting
CompAST undergraduate members Mrudula, Nilay, and Amrut will be presenting their work at the 44th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference which will be held in Philadelphia, PA March 28-30 2018. Mrudula will have an oral presentation. Meanwhile Nilay and Amrut will be taking part at the undergraduate design competition. Congratulations to all. This is a very big achievement for our undergraduate members.03/2018 CompAST will be attending 2018 IPCAI
Cosmas Mwikirize will be presenting his work at the 2018 IPCAI conference which will be held in Berlin, Germany early June. Cosmas was reporting on a new work where deep learning was used for needle detection and tip localization. The early accepted work will appear at International Journal of Computer Assisted Surgery journal. Congratulations to Cosmas.12/2017 New publication
CompAST member Cosmas Mwikirize's work on localization of needles from ultrasound data has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery.12/2017 CompAST will be attending 2018 IEEE ISBI meeting
CompAST member Prajna Desai will present her work at the 2018 IEEE ISBI conference which will be held in Washington, DC this year. Prajna proposed a new method for segmenting knee cartilage from ultrasound data. Congratulations to Prajna.11/2017 Amrut receives award
Amrut Sarangi, senior BME undergraduate student, has been awarded with the outstanding research poster presentation award at this years 2017 STEM Community Outreach Symposium at Rutgers. Congratulations to Amrut on his achievement.STEM Community Outreach Symposium is a free symposium where Rutgers STEM meets the regional scientific community. This multidisciplinary event unifies undergraduate and graduate students, regional pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and high school and community college students to create meaningful connections and facilitate networking, recruitment, and knowledge transfer.
09/2017 Best paper award at 2017 MICCAI conference
Congratulations to Cosmas on receiving the best paper award at the 2017 MICCAI Conference Workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures. The annual MICCAI meeting is the premier conference in medical image computing and computer assisted interventions.
08/2017 Cosmas receives travel award
CompAST member Cosmas Mwikirize has been awarded a travel award from the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) Society to attend the 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI-2017) which will be held in Quebec City, Canada.07/2017 CompAST at the 2017 MICCAI conference
Dr. Hacihaliloglu will present his work at the 2017 MICCAI Workshop on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications in Musculoskeletal Imaging.07/2017 CompAST member Cosmas Mwikrize will present his work at the 2017 MICCAI Workshop on Clinical Image-based Procedures: Translational Research in Medical Imaging which will be held in Quebec City, Canada.
06/2017 Award at the 2017 CAOS meeting
Dr. Hacihaliloglu was awarded the second place for the ' Best Technical Podium Paper Competition' at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (CAOS) which was held in Aachen Germany from June 14-17. The research paper was reporting on the results obtained from the 2016-2017 Senior Design project (Christina Spinelli, Michael Cieslak, Nick Rupertus, Peidong He, Zahraa Alsinan) which was performed under the supervision of Dr. Hacihaliloglu.
05/2017 Imaging workshop at 2017 CAOS conference
Dr. Hacihaliloglu, together with Co-Chair Matias de la Fuente (Aachen/DE), is organizing 'Imaging and Image Processing' workshop at the 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery which will be held in Aachen (Germany) this year.05/2017 Ultrasound bone segmentation review paper
CompAST has a new review paper. Please check the publications link.04/2017 Senior Design Conference
CompAST members have successfully presented their Senior Design project.04/2017 Senior design work accepeted for presentation at the 2017 CAOS meeting
CompAST lab 2017 Senior Design students students work on extended field of view ultrasound for imaging spinal deformities has been accepted to the 2017 Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (CAOS) which will be help in Aachen, Germany this year. Congratulations to all the senior design members.04/2017 Robert obtains his MS degree. Congratulations !
CompAST member Robert Battikha successfully presented his research to earn the Master of Engineering degree. Congratulations Robert.04/2017 Robert reveives best paper award
CompAST member M.E. student Robert Battikha wins outstanding research poster award at the 43rd Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference. Robert proposed an automated method for segmenting brain ventricles from neonatal brain ultrasound data.
03/2017 CompAST is attending 2017 IPCAI
Dr. Hacihaliloglu will be presenting his work at the 2017 IPCAI conference which will be held in June 20-21,Barcelona, Spain.03/2017 CompAST is attending 2017 NEBEC
CompAST member Robert Battihka will present his work on segmentation of neonatal 2D ultrasound data at the 43rd Northeast Bioengineering Conference which will be help at the New Jersey Institute of Technology this year. Congratulations to Robert on his great work.11/2016 New publication
Our recent alumni Mikhiel Lim (M.Eng.) has a new publication titled 'Structure Enhanced Local Phase Filtering Using L0 Gradient Minimization for Efficient Semi-automated Knee MRI Segmentation' which will appear in the Journal of Medical Imaging.09/2016 Travel award
CompAST member Cosmas Mwikirize has been awarded a travel award from Fulbright Foreign Student Program to attend the 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI-2016) which will be held in Athens, Greece.08/2016 CompAST attending 2016 MICCAI conference
Congratulations to CompAST member Cosmas Mwikirize on being accepted to present his work at the 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) conference which will be held in Athens, Greece this year. MICCAI is the top tier conference in Medical Image Analysis and the accepted papers carry the effective impact factor of a journal, considering the number and weight of references in publications.04/2016 Senior Design Conference
CompAST members have successfully defended their Senior Design projects.
From left to right:John Sherban, Patrick Quinn, Aditya Dalal, Colleen Engler, Idin Jafari, Anuja Sarwate, Tyler Hoffman, and Dr. Ilker Hacihaliloglu.
Above: Ushma Majmudar one of the 2016 Senior Design members who was missing in the group picture.