RCL Lab wins student paper awards at SPIE Medical Imaging 2019

RCL Lab wins student paper awards at SPIE Medical Imaging 2019

February 26, 2019

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Congratulations to the Robotics and Control Laboratory (Salcudean, Rohling, Abolmaesumi), whose team has received both the first place and the second place student paper awards in image guided procedures, robotics Interventions and modeling at SPIE Medical Imaging 2019.

The first place paper is titled “EpiGuide 2D: visibility assessment of a novel multi-channel out-of-plane needle guide for 2D point of care ultrasound”.

The second place paper is titled “Temporal enhanced ultrasound and shear wave elastography for tissue classification in cancer interventions: an experimental evaluation”.

The conference was held from February 16 to February 21 in San Diego, California.


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