Keynotes

Prof. Bell Delivers Lopez Lecture to NIH NIBIB National Advisory Council

Prof. Bell was invited to give the annual Lopez Lecture to a prestigious group of individuals who are members of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Her lecture took place on September 10, 2024, followed by Q&A with council members and awarding of a crystal memento from NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Director Bruce Tromberg.

The National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering advises the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH, and the NIBIB on matters relating to the conduct and support of research, training, health information dissemination and other programs that address biomedical imaging, biomedical engineering and associated technologies and modalities with biomedical applications. Council members provide the second level review for all applications for funding of research and training grants or cooperative agreements by the NIBIB. The Council also advises on policy and program priorities.

This council meets three times per year, typically in January, May, and September. The September 2024 session was live-streamed and recorded, with the introduction to Prof. Bell’s lecture starting at the 2:55:30 timestamp of the NIH videocast: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54954.

Prof. Bell Delivered the NSF Waterman Awardee Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Bell delivered the the NSF Waterman Awardee Distinguished Lecture on Equitable Medical Imaging on August 21, 2024, followed by Q&A with attendees. The session was live-streamed and recorded.

The recorded lecture is also available at the bottom of the webinar event page at this link: https://players.brightcove.net/679256133001/NkgrDczuol_default/index.html?videoId=6360892996112. This version has no lag in start time and includes videos of the co-hosts and presenter as they speak, but the upper right corner of slides are blocked by each speakers’ videos. The copy above has no speaker videos and as a result, none of the slides are blocked.

Prof. Bell Speaks to PCAST

Prof. Bell delivered an outstanding invited talk to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on July 11, 2024. She was the third speaker on a panel of three impressive back-to-back talks, presenting in the “Research and Researchers on the Horizon” session, followed by Q&A with PCAST. The session was live-streamed and recorded.

Agenda: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PUBLIC-AGENDA-JULY-2024-MEETING_as-of-28June-1.pdf
Speaker bios: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Speaker-Bios-Public-Sessions-July-11-2024.pdf

30 Invited Talks by Prof. Bell in 2020-2021

Prof. Bell delivered a total of 17 invited talks to date in 2021 (compared to 13 in 2020 and over 70 talks total). Here is a summary of the 2020-2021 talk titles, dates, and locations, with additional highlights, announcements, and links to recordings wherever available:

2021

  1. Distinguished Keynote: 19th Annual Imaging Network Ontario (ImNO) Symposium, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Toronto, ON, March 22-23, 2021 [delivered via Zoom to ~180 participants]
  2. Plenary: IEEE EMBS Grand Challenge on Data Science: Medical Imaging, Ultrasound Image Formation in the Deep Learning Age, February 10, 2021 [delivered via Zoom webinar to ~230 participants]
  3. Invited: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Computational Medicine Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Chapel Hill, NC, May 20, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  4. Invited: SPIE Women in Optics Spotlight Series, Representation Matters: Role Models and Allies, May 12, 2021 [virtual delivery, recording available for SPIE members]
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  5. Invited: University of Virginia, Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Charlottesville, VA, April 30, 2021 [virtual delivery via Zoom to ~50 attendees]
  6. Invited: Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Milwaukee, WI, April 23, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  7. Invited: OSA Therapeutic Laser Applications Technical Group Special Event at the OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, April 14, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  8. Invited: AIUM Machine Learning in Application to Ultrasound Beamforming Session, Deep Learning Architectures and Applications for Ultrasound Image Formation, New York, NY, April 10-14, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  9. Invited: University of Colorado at Boulder, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Ultrasound Image Formation in the Deep Learning Age, April 2, 2021 [virtual delivery, recording available on YouTube]
  10. Invited: Medtronic, Inc., Photoacoustic Vision for Surgical Guidance, San Francisco, CA, March 19, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, EECS Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Cambridge, MA, March 15, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  12. Invited: SPIE Photonics West, Photoacoustic Vision for Surgical Guidance, San Francisco, CA, March 6-11, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  13. Invited: University of Toledo, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Bioengineering Seminar Series, Toledo, OH, March 5, 2021 [virtual delivery]
  14. Invited: University of Pennsylvania, Photoacoustic Vision for Surgical Robotics, GRASP On Robotics Seminar Series, Philadelphia, PA, February 26, 2021 [delivered via Zoom, recording available on YouTube]
  15. Invited: University of Washington, Bioengineering Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Seattle, WA, February 11, 2021 [delivered via Zoom]
  16. Invited: Photonics Spectra Conference, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, January 19-22, 2021
  17. Invited by AIUM’s Artificial Intelligence Summit Task Force: American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Ultrasound Imaging Summit, AI enabled US Signal Processing, January 13 & 20, 2021 [virtual delivery via Zoom to ~90 attendees]

2020

  1. Keynote: NeurIPS Black in AI Workshop, Ultrasound Image Formation in the Deep Learning Age, December 7, 2020 [virtual delivery via live stream with Zoom Q&A, recording available]
  2. Keynote: King’s College London (KCL) Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) Postgraduate Research (PGR) Symposium, Photoacoustic Imaging for Surgical and Interventional Guidance, July 20, 2020 [virtual delivery via MS Teams to approximately 175 participants]
  3. Plenary: SPIE Photonics West, BiOS Hot Topics Plenary Event, Photoacoustic Imaging Assistants for Minimally Invasive Surgeries & Procedures, San Francisco, CA, February 1, 2020 [Inaugural Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO) Speaker, selected for being the senior author of the most impactful paper published in JBO in 2019, recording available, livestream recording also available with over 1.2k views]
  4. Invited: 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Special Technical Session, “Death to Delay and Sum: Advanced Beamforming” Deep Learning the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, December 8-12, 2020 [virtual delivery via Zoom to ~45 attendees]
  5. Invited: University of California Irvine, Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Irvine, CA November 19, 2020 [delivered via Zoom to ~30 attendees, recording available on YouTube]
  6. Invited: University of Rochester, ECE Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Rochester, NY, November 11, 2020 [delivered via Zoom to ~30 attendees]
  7. Invited: University of Texas Austin, Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Austin, TX, October 29, 2020 [delivered via Zoom to ~35 attendees]
  8. Invited: University of California Davis, Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar Series, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Davis, CA, October 9, 2020 [delivered via Zoom to 170+ attendees]
  9. Invited: OSA Frontiers 2020 (FiO), Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Washington, D.C., September 13-14, 2020 [delivered via Zoom to 20+ attendees]
  10. Invited: IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Photoacoustic Vision for Surgical Guidance, September 9, 2020 [delivered via Zoom to 80+ attendees]
  11. Invited: SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics Hot Topics Webinar Series, Photoacoustic Imaging for Surgical and Interventional Guidance, one of three co-presenters in series entitled Photoacoustic Imaging: The Next Generation, August 17, 2020 [delivered via Demio to 200+ attendees, recording available]
  12. Invited: Duke University Ultrasound Seminar Series, Photoacoustic Spatial Coherence Theory, June 26, 2020 [delivered via Zoom with 40+ attendees]
  13. Invited: Ryerson University Physics Colloquium, Listening to the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Toronto, CA, March 2, 2020 [Last in-person talk before COVID-19 travel restrictions were imposed]

CANCELLED or POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19

  1. Invited: 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Special Technical Session, “Death to Delay and Sum: Advanced Beamforming” Deep Learning the Sound of Light to Guide Surgeries, Chicago, IL, May 11-15, 2020 (postponed to December 8-12, 2020 due to COVID-19)
  2. Invited: University of Rochester, Distinguished Lecture Series, Rochester, NY, April 15, 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19)
  3. Invited: Columbia University, ECE Seminar Series, New York, NY, March 24, 2020 (postponed due to COVID-19)
  4. Invited: AIUM Machine Learning in Application to Ultrasound Beamforming Session, Deep Learning Architectures and Applications for Ultrasound Image Formation, New York, NY, March 21-25, 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19)

Prof. Bell Presents Keynote Lecture at King’s College London

Prof. Bell was invited to give a keynote presentation at the annual King’s College London School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) Postgraduate Research (PGR) Symposium. Her presentation was delivered via Microsoft Teams on the topic “Photoacoustic Imaging for Surgical and Interventional Guidance,” which included a discussion of her career path. After this presentation, she received a thoughtful appreciation award for her participation:

King’s College London News

SPIE Photonics West Recap

The PULSE Lab recently returned from SPIE Photonics West 2020, after enjoying multiple opportunities for exposure throughout various aspects of this grand annual event with 23,000+ attendees. First, Professor Bell was invited to give a Hot Topics presentation during the conference Plenary session. She was selected as the inaugural Journal of Biomedical Optics speaker for having the most impactful paper in 2019.

We are live at the 2020 #SPIEBiOS Hot Topics with Muyinatu Lediju Bell (Johns Hopkins University)! Watch her tech talk on photoacoustic imaging assistants for minimally invasive surgeries, sponsored by the Journal of Biomedical Optics.

Posted by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics on Saturday, February 1, 2020

Three PULSE Lab students additionally presented aspects of their work on this hot topic.

Michelle Graham presented “Photoacoustic image guidance and robotic visual servoing to mitigate fluoroscopy during cardiac catheter interventions”

Alycen Wiacek presented “Dual-wavelength photoacoustic imaging for guidance of hysterectomy procedures”

Eduardo Gonzalez presented “A GPU approach to real-time coherence-based photoacoustic imaging and its application to photoacoustic visual servoing”

    In addition to these four technical presentations, PULSE Lab members who were involved in the first known in vivo demonstration of photoacoustic image guidance for abdominal surgeries were featured in the Show Daily Weekend Edition (see pg. 3).

    SPIE Event Highlights

    Optics Show Daily

    ECE Department Announcement

    LaserFocusWorld Announcement (see first paragraph & “Hot Topics and Other Plenaries” section)

    SPIE Newsroom

    Prof. Bell Invited to Speak at AAPM in San Antonio, TX

    Prof. Muyinatu Bell will present an invited talk on in the Advanced Ultrasound Imaging in Clinical Applications session at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) annual meeting in San Antonio, TX, July 14-18, 2019. The title of her talk is Novel Ultrasound Imaging Methods to Distinguish Cancer and Improve Surgery. A recording of this talk will be available after the conference.

    Prof. Bell to Deliver Keynote Presentation at Medical Imaging with Deep Learning Conference in London, UK

    Prof. Muyinatu Bell will travel to London, UK to deliver a keynote presentation at the International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, taking place July 8-10, 2019 at Imperial College’s South Kensington Campus. Her talk, entitled Ultrasound Image Formation in the Deep Learning Age, will take place on Day 2 of the conference (Tuesday, July 9) and will be live streamed on YouTube.

    Prof. Bell to Deliver Keynote Presentation at OSA-Sponsored Conference in Sydney, Australia

    Prof. Muyinatu Bell will travel to Sydney, Australia to deliver an invited plenary talk and keynote presentation at the OSA-Sponsored IONS Conference on Optics, Atoms, and Laser Applications (KOALA), taking place December 4-8, 2018 at Macquarie University.