biomedical engineering

A team of biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University took home first place in the collegiate division at the inaugural Medical Capital Innovation Competition. The team won for its technology, called NeuroRadVision, which is described as “a computerized decision support software…

Five Case Western Reserve University faculty members were inducted as American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellows. They are: Nicole Steinmetz, associate professor of biomedical engineering; Nick Ziats, professor of pathology and associate professor of…

The Hartwell Foundation, a Memphis-based philanthropic institution that funds innovative biomedical research to benefit children of the United States, has again selected Case Western Reserve University among its 2017 Top 10 Centers of Biomedical Research. The other 2017 Hartwell Top 10 Research…

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was invited to be a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Biodata Management and Analysis study section within the Center for…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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)…

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,…