Stanislav Emelianov
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Translation of Emerging Ultrasound Imaging Technologies
Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 3pm in Hodson 311 (reception to follow)
Hosted By Muyinatu Bell
Prof. Bell is the faculty advisor to the newly formed Graduate Association [of women] in CS & ECE (GRACE) group on campus. She served on a panel of technical and academic experts who fielded questions from the audience during the kick-off mentoring dinner
The PULSE lab presented a poster at the inaugural Malone Center Symposium for Engineering in Healthcare: http://malonecenter.jhu.edu/inaugural-johns-hopkins-research-symposium-engineering-healthcare/
Title: Integration of Real-Time Photoacoustic Image Guidance with the da Vinci Surgical System
Authors: Neeraj Ghandi, Sungmin Kim, Peter Kazanzides, Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell
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.
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 from the PULSE Lab were accepted to SPIE Photonics West, which will take place January 28 – February 2, 2017 in San Francisco, California:
The PULSE Lab welcomes its first three graduate students: Derek, Josh, and Michelle!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Additional episodes of this podcast series are available by visiting:
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.
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.
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.
Weekly meetings to renovate the three PULSE lab rooms on the Homewood campus have commenced
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 with a start date of July 1, 2016. Her appointments will be in the ECE and BME Departments at Johns Hopkins University.
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.
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 is featured in the STEM Minority Summer/Fall 2014 issue of Diversity/Careers. You can read her inspiring story here.
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
Dr. Bell has a role in the Annual Johns Hopkins Thank You Video with the President of JHU.
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. 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.
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.