biomedical engineering

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was recently awarded U.S. patent 9,292,933, titled “Method and apparatus for shape based deformable segmentation of multiple overlapping objects.” The present inv...

A Case Western Reserve University researcher has been awarded more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants to turn common plant viruses into cancer sleuths and search-and-destroy emissaries. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, will customize tobacco mosaic v...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was recently awarded U.S. patent: 9,286,672, titled “Integrated, multivariate histologic image-based method for disease outcome prediction.” U.S. patent 9,286,672...

Kavya Ravichandran, a student at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, was honored last month for her work with Case Western Reserve University researchers. She finished third in the innovation category at the 2016 Society for Science and the Public's Intel Science Talent Search. The Intel Scien...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was recently awarded U.S. patent: 9,262,583, titled “Image similarity-based finite element model registration.” U.S. patent 9,262,583 relates to a method and appa...

Three Case Western Reserve University faculty members have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for research enriching specific areas of human health. Biomedical engineering professors Eben Alsberg and Cameron McIntyre, and ...

Faster, cheaper test predicts who needs chemotherapy or just hormonal regimen For women with the most common type of breast cancer, a new way to analyze magnetic resonance images (MRI) data appears to distinguish reliably between patients who would need only hormonal treatment and those who also nee...

Note: This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced as soon as more information is available. The Case Western Reserve University community is invited to attend the spring 2016 Ford Distinguished Lecture, featuring Carla Mann Woods, CEO of Mann Healthcare Partners. She will present “...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, has been awarded U.S. patents 9,235,887 (titled “Classification of Biological Tissue by Multi-mode data registration, segmentation, and characterization”) and 9,23...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, gave a keynote lecture at a workshop in Doha, Qatar, in December. His lecture, titled "Quantitative Data Convergence: Integration of Radiology Pathology Omics Data for Predicting Disease Aggressiveness,” was part of the "Computer Vision for Hea...