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Six PerkLab papers are accepted for MICCAI 2010

Submitted by lasso on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 10:21

The PerkLab did very well in MICCAI submission. We got in 6 out of 10 papers, which is almost twice the acceptance rate (31%). We got 1 oral and 5 posters this is great, because the general oral to poster ratio is about 1:10.

'Guided missile'vs. prostate cancer - article in the Whig Standard

Submitted by lasso on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 18:39

The Whig Standard published an article about the MRI guided prostate biopsy robot.

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2500354

Perk Station featured in the Queen's Journal

Submitted by lasso on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 12:01

PerkStation and Tamas Ungi is in the Queens Journal

The Perk Station is presented in the Queen's Journal as "The ‘perks’ of augmented reality - Surgical training and evaluation more accessible and cost-effective with overlay technology-based system."

http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2010-03-05/features/perks-augmented-reality/

Successful Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence program grant of $7,000,000

Submitted by lasso on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:16

The Ministry Of Research And Innovations has announced the successful Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence program grants. Under this program the "Ontario Consortium for Adaptive Interventions in Radiation Oncology" (PI Dr. David Jaffray, UHN, Toronto) was funded at $7,000,000. Gabor Fichtinger will co-lead with Dr. Terry Peters (UWO) one of the four themes of the Consortium on "Open Source Software Platforms and Databases for the Adaptive Process".

Perk Lab contributed to a podcast nominated for this year's National Magazine Awards for Digital Media

Submitted by lasso on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 11:14

The IEEE Spectrum show entitled "Robots for Real" is a finalist in this year's National Magazine Awards for Digital Media, category Podcasting.

New ECE PhD student

Submitted by lasso on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 15:03

Let us give a warm welcome to Hossein Sadjadi, PhD student in ECE arrived. He will be co-advised between Keyvan and Gabor and working closely with Ehsan and Tomi on the US guided brachy robot system.

New mechanical engineering PhD student

Submitted by lasso on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 23:40

We have Yashar Madjidi on board. He is PhD student in mechanical engineering.

New old doctoral student in the Perk Lab

Submitted by gabor on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 13:06

Please join me in congratulating our Helen Xu for her admission to the Queen's computer science PhD program. Looks like Helen will stay with us for a few more happy years! - Gabor

MRI-guided biopsy robot project in IEEE Spectrum

Submitted by lasso on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 14:27

The podcast and transcript are at http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/robotics/medical-robots/surgeons-and-robots-scrub-up. The original version with slide show are at http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/special-report-robots-for-real, select "surgeons and robots scrub up".

Collaborative grant awarded to the Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology (ACMIT)

Submitted by gabor on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 10:35

Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology (ACMIT) focuses on the development of new technologies for surgery, with special attention to minimally invasive procedures (MIP). The Perk Lab collaborates with ACMIT in research on percutaneous (through the skin) needle-based interventions used in diagnosis and treatment of solid cancers. The annual budget of the ACMIT is 4.3 million Euros. The guaranteed funding period is 4 years, to be followed by a non-competitive renewal of 3 years, contingent upon successful operation.