The PULSE Lab welcomes Ole Marius Hoel Rindal, a visiting 4th year PhD student from Andreas Austeng’s lab at the University of Oslo in Norway.
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Prof. Bell Speaks at EmTech MIT
Prof. Muyinatu Bell will be taking the stage to speak at EmTech on October 18, 2016. This emerging technologies event, hosted by the MIT Media Lab, provides an opportunity to discover future trends and to understand the technologies that will drive the new global economy.
Three Abstracts Accepted to SPIE Photonics West
Three abstracts from the PULSE Lab were accepted to SPIE Photonics West, which will take place January 28 – February 2, 2017 in San Francisco, California:
- Paper 10064-18: A machine learning approach to identifying point source locations in photoacoustic data (29 January 2017 • 5:30 – 7:30 PM)
- Paper 10064-101: Optimizing light delivery for a photoacoustic surgical system (29 January 2017 • 3:00 – 3:15 PM)
- Paper 10064-125: Accuracy of a novel photoacoustic-based approach to surgical guidance performed with and without a da Vinci robot (29 January 2017 • 5:30 – 7:30 PM)
Welcome to PULSE Lab PhD Students
The PULSE Lab welcomes its first three graduate students: Derek, Josh, and Michelle!
New Course
Prof. Muyinatu Bell is teaching EN.520.631, Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Beamforming, during the Fall 2016 semester. This is a new course that she is developing.
Prof. Bell Named Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review
Professor Bell was named by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 Innovators Under 35 for her innovative work in the fields of biotechnology and medicine. She is recognized as an Inventor on the list.
REU student wins first place award
Congratulations to PULSE Lab undergraduate student Blackberrie Eddins for winning the first place final presentation award in the 2016 NSF Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CSMR) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at JHU! She tied in first place for this award with Luke Arend, another student participant.
IEEE TBME Paper Accepted
Prof. Bell’s co-authored paper, “System integration and in-vivo testing of a robot for ultrasound guidance and monitoring during radiotherapy”, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.
Biomedical Optics Express Paper Accepted
Dr. Bell’s co-authored paper, Synthetic-aperture based photoacoustic re-beamforming (SPARE) approach using beamformed ultrasound data was accepted for publication in Biomedical Optics Express.
STEM Dialogue
Dr. Bell makes a guest appearance on The STEM Dialogue, a podcast series designed to expose high school students to the world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math:
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Welcome REU Students
Welcome to undergraduate students Blackberrie Eddins and Neeraj Gandhi who will be working with us this summer through the NSF Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics (CSMR) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.
BioRob Paper Accepted
Our paper, Feasibility of photoacoustic image guidance for telerobotic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery, which describes the first telesurgical photoacoustic image-guided navigation system setup implemented on a research da Vinci Surgical System, has been accepted as an oral presentation at the 6th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, June 26-29, 2016, in University Town, Singapore.
Early Career Spotlight
Dr. Bell delivered an invited talk on MIT’s campus as part of the Early Career Spotlight for the NSBE National Convention Academic Research Leadership thread.
Lab Renovations Underway
Weekly meetings to renovate the three PULSE lab rooms on the Homewood campus have commenced
IEEE TMI Paper Accepted
Dr. Bell’s paper entitled “Spatial Angular Compounding of Photoacoustic Images” was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. You can view a pre-print of the paper here.
Dr. Bell accepts a tenure track faculty position
Dr. Bell accepts a tenure track faculty position with a start date of July 1, 2016. Her appointments will be in the ECE and BME Departments at Johns Hopkins University.
New Online Course
Dr. Bell is pleased to announce the lauching of her first interactive online course, Introduction to Medical Imaging. Interested students may use this link to enroll in the course and receive a special discount.
Two “Best” Awards in One Week
- Dr. Bell’s co-authored paper, System Integration and Preliminary In-Vivo Experiments of a Robot for Ultrasound Guidance and Monitoring during Radiotherapy, was the runner-up for the Best Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Advanced Robotics in Istanbul, Turkey. The paper received honorable mention.
- Dr. Bell’s student, Alicia Dagle, received the Best Presentation Award at the 2015 NSF Computational Sensing and Medical Robotics Research Experience for Undergraduates (CSMR REU) Award Ceremony. Alicia is an undergraduate student at Clark University who will pursue a joint engineering program with Columbia University. She worked closely with Dr. Bell at Johns Hopkins University throughout the ten-week summer program.
Four Articles Published This Year, One Featured on Journal Cover
Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell published a total of three first-author and one co-author manuscripts in the following journals in 2015: JBO, Photoacoustics, PMB, and IEEE UFFC, which featured Dr. Bell’s work on the front cover.
Dr. Bell Featured in Diversity Careers
Dr. Bell is featured in the STEM Minority Summer/Fall 2014 issue of Diversity/Careers. You can read her inspiring story here.
NIH K99 Pathway to Independence Award
Dr. Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell received the NIH Pathway to Independence Award for her project entitled Coherence-Based Photoacoustic Image Guidance of Transsphenoidal Surgeries. This award promises support for 1-2 more years of postdoctoral training and the first 3 years of Dr. Bell’s independent faculty position.
JHU Whiting School of Engineering Announcement
JHU Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) Announcement
Thank You Video
Dr. Bell has a role in the Annual Johns Hopkins Thank You Video with the President of JHU.
Six Abstracts Accepted to SPIE
Dr. Bell’s six abstracts were recently accepted to SPIE Photonics West (San Francisco, CA, February 1-6, 2014) and SPIE Medical Imaging (San Diego, CA, February 16-20, 2014). She is the first author on five of the six abstracts.
Dr. Bell Wins the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell is selected as an awardee in the Ford Foundation Fellowship 2013 postdoctoral competition, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The competition seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Two-Time UNCF-Merck Fellowship Recipient
Dr. Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell was one of 10 postoctoral fellows to win the prestigious UNCF-Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship. She is officially a two-time recipient of the award, as she also won the graduate level award to complete her PhD dissertation entitled, Improved Visualization of Endocardial Borders with Short-Lag Spatial Coherence Imaging. The postdoctoral award totals $92,000 for a maximum of two years.