IPILab News Update

It has been several months since our last update, and we have several big news:

1. Congratulations to Dr. Anh Le, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Mining an ePR System Using A Treatment Plan Navigator for Radiation Toxicity to Evaluate Proton Therapy Treatment Protocol for Prostate Cancer” this April, and has since obtained her doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering. We would like to congratulate and commend her for her hard work and wish her well in her future careers.

2. IPILab has moved to our new location earlier this June. We are now located in Kerkhoff Hall on University Park Campus, closer to other research facilities in Department of Biomedical Engineering. We are very excited about new research possibilities, including collaborations with other engineering laboratories, with our move, and we will also continue our close relationships with our existing and new research collaborators at the Health Science Campus. Our official address is:

Annenberg Research Park
734 West Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-8300
Wk: 213.743.2520
Fx: 213.743.2962

Please stay tuned for our upcoming updates regarding our projects, our RSNA 2010 submissions, and other news.

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IPILab had a total number of 10 presentations and 1 poster presentation in this year’s SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego, CA. We would like to thank all of you who came to the conference and listened to our presentations and discussions. We would also like to congratulate Mr. Jasper Lee for winning the Cum Laude award for his poster presentation titled “Data Migration and Persistence Management in a Medical Imaging Informatics Data Grid.”

We have also completed and distributed our 2010 Annual Report during the SPIE conference. We also have made our past annual reports (from 2004 to 2010) available to download at http://www.ipilab.org/AnnualReport. Printed books are also available to pick up at our office.

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Happy New Year to all!

Here are some updates from the IPILab:

1. Congratulations to Ms Anh Le and Mr. Jasper Lee for passing their respective qualifying exams for the PhD program. They are expected to graduate with Biomedical Engineering PhD degrees later this year.

2. IPILab welcomes back Dr. James Fernandez as a post-doctoral T32 trainee for the year of 2009-2010. His projects include Computer-aided diagnosis of Acute Intracranial Hemorrhage and a electronic patient record for Multiple Sclerosis patients.

3. We have successfully showcased our projects and exhibits this past RSNA conference in November-December 2009. If you had a chance to visit our exhibits and posters, thank you for your interests. You can view our RSNA brochure by clicking here.

4. We will be attending this year’s SPIE Medical Imaging Conference ( http://spie.org/x12166.xml) in San Diego, CA from February 13th to 18th, 2010. The program is available to download from SPIE’s website. This year IPILab will have 10 oral presentations and 1 poster presentation, as well as 2 oral presentations from our collaborators. The complete list of our topics will be made available shortly.

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IPILab has moved to a new location. We are still located on the Health Science Campus at USC, but now our offices are located at CSC 105 and 106, next to the USC Molecular Imaging Center. Our mailing address has changed to: 2250 Alcazar St. CSC/IGM 105, Los Angeles, CA 90033. Our complete contact information will be available in the upcoming days. In the meantime, please email Angelica at avirgen@usc.edu or come visit us directly.

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IPILab has had several abstracts accepted to the upcoming RSNA 2009 meeting in Chicago, IL from November 29th to December 4th, 2009.

In addition, we have one paper poster accepted to ASTRO in Chicago as well. More information regarding our abstracts in ASTRO and RSNA will come as we approaches closer to November.

We hope to see you at RSNA this year, and you are always welcome to vist us at our posters and exhibits.

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IPILab member and PhD candidate, Ms. Anh Le, has published an article titled Integration of computer-aided diagnosis/detection (CAD) results in a PACS environment using CAD+PACS toolkit and DICOM SR in International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (JCARS): Volume 4, Issue4 (2009), Page 317.

IPILab congratulates Ms. Le’s hard work and her success into publishing the article. You can access a PDF version of the article here (Must have a Springerlink account to download).

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Our very own lab manager, Jorge Documet, has passed his final thesis defense on April 30th, 2009, and thus earning his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering at University of Southern California. Jorge’s thesis is titled “An Electronic Patient Record (ePR) System for Image-Assisted Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery (IA-MISS)”. Dr. Documet has accepted a post-doctoral research position here in IPILab. We would like to thank everyone who has been involved in Dr. Documet’s thesis, including Dr. HK Huang, Dr. Brent Liu, Dr. John Chiu, and many others.

In addition, our Dr. Mark Haney has just been accepted to the preliminary surgery residency program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, beginning his new career as a surgeon.

Every member here at IPILab hereby offers our most sincere congratulations to Dr. Documet and Dr. Haney, and we wish for nothing but success in their respective career paths.

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IPILab welcomes Mr. Colin Jacobs , a Biomedical Engineering master student from the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Colin will begin his 15-week internship here at IPI. His focus will be on image processing and system design for Multiple Sclerosis CAD. We are fortunate to host Mr. Jacobs and are looking forward to collaborations with him.

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IPILab continues its annual presence at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference this February at Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA. Our posters and presentations were available at the exhibition dates of Feb. 9 through 11, and Dr. Brent Liu will be the co-chair of Advanced PACS-based Imaging Informatics and Therapeutic Applications section. Congratulations to Jasper Lee for receiving an Honorable Mention for his poster, A Virtualized Infrastructure for Molecular Imaging Research using a Data Grid Model

Our 2009 Annual Report have been published and were distributed at SPIE. Additional copies can also be picked up at our lab location.

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IPILab again had a strong presence in Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago this year. Our exhibits include:

We would like to thank everyone who were involved in this year’s exhibits and those who attended our exhibits and educational sessions. You can download our RSNA brochure here. Please contact us if you would like more details on any of our exhibits.

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