biomedical engineering

First recipient of implanted brain-recording and muscle-stimulating systems reanimates limb that had been stilled for eight years Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and drank through the straw. His motions were slow and deliberate, but then Kochevar hadn’t moved his right arm...

The data an MRI machine pulls carries potential far beyond the images it provides for physicians. In fact, Case Western Reserve University Professor Anant Madabhushi is confident that, with the development and application of image analytics, information can be extracted from the MRI, which could th...

Event will explore global health issues of importance Case Western Reserve University, including the School of Medicine, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, Brazil, will be holding a three-day symposiu...

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of biomedical engineering, gave a keynote lecture on precision medicine at the Digital Pathology conference at the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 13. He delivered his lecture, titled "Prognostications and predictions: implic...

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded a patent for capturing cancer architecture in digital pathology images. His patent is titled “Histogram of hosoya index (HoH) fea...

Potential biomarker of disease appears to be free of troubling image variability Preliminary computerized imaging reveals the shape of the prostate and a compartment within the gland—called the transitional zone—consistently differ in men with prostate cancer than those without the disease, accordin...

Samuel Herberg, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a 2016 Young Investigator Award from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) – Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The award recognizes two individuals in...

Case Western Reserve University licenses new sensor technology to company pursuing fast-track FDA approval Case Western Reserve University researchers have developed a portable sensor that can assess the clotting ability of a person’s blood 95 times faster than current methods—using only a single dr...

A team of faculty members and a graduate student were jointly awarded U.S. patent 9,483,822 for their invention “Co-Occurrence of Local Anisotropic Gradient Orientations.” The team consisted of Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, Pallavi Tiwari, assistant pro...

The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) announced more than $1 million in funding and support for the 2016 cycle. Four projects were selected for full program funding. Projects range from diagnostic and screening technologies to cancer therapeutics. Six pilot grants also were awa...