Dr. Baowei Fei received a CPRIT grant to develop twin augmented reality technologies for surgical applications

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A digital twin (DT) is a virtual counterpart of a real patient with predictive and testing capability through realistic simulation, modeling, and visualization. A digital model of the real patient recapitulates the physical body of the patient and predicts the future outcome including tissue deformation via modeling the organs and physiology. Digital twin is a new concept in medicine, which allows virtual interactions with the body before real interventions and can thus improve surgical precision. The research grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) will allow the investigators to develop a digital twin augmented reality (DTAR) platform for the operating room (OR) of the future. A digital twin will be synchronized dynamically with the real patient via feedback mechanisms and will guide the surgeon to the next steps. The DTAR technology can provide a powerful tool for many surgical applications.

Dr. Baowei Fei received a five-year NIH R01 grant to develop novel imaging technologies for image-guided surgery

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Faster recovery, reduced hospital stays, and a quicker return to normal activities are the most evident advantages of laparoscopic surgery. More than 13 million laparoscopic procedures are performed every year. Laparoscopic surgery has become the technique of choice for virtually every kind of abdominal surgery. Robot‐assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy is the most common surgical approach performed for prostate cancer. The NIH project will allow the investigators to develop an advanced hyperspectral imaging system for robotics assisted laparoscopic surgery. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) provides not only high‐resolution spatial images but also spectral data at each pixel. Both spectral and spatial information can be used to identify various types of tissues including malignant tumors. The utilization of quantitative hyperspectral imaging for robot‐assisted laparoscopic surgery represents a major innovation in minimally invasive surgery with the aim of improving surgical outcomes.

CPRIT Grants to Advance Cancer Detection, Treatment Technology

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Dr. Baowei Fei received a $1 million grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to develop a handheld imaging tool for early detection of oral and oropharyngeal cancers. Dr. Fei and his group will develop a handheld imaging tool for early detection of oral and oropharyngeal cancers.

Read more about the news: https://news.utdallas.edu/health-medicine/cprit-grants-2024/

Dr. Baowei Fei delivered an invited talk at the Stanford Symposium on Optical Surgical Navigation at Stanford University

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The Stanford Symposium on Optical Surgical Navigation gathered biomedical engineers, computer scientists, surgeons, and other clinicians to present and discuss the state-of-the-art optical imaging technologies and their clinical applications in surgical navigation.

Dr. Baowei Fei delivered a keynote talk at the Interventional Biophotonics Symposium & Summer School at UC Davis

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The National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies (NCIBT) at UC Davis is funded by the NIBIB to develop new optical imaging technologies for surgical and interventional medical decision-making. Dr. Fei’s talk focused on AI analysis of medical data – quantitative methods in precision medicine: Hyperspectral imaging for cancer detection and image-guided surgery.

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The Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation held Open House at the Richardson IQ

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The Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation at the University of Texas at Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center had a successful open house at the Headquarters for the Richardson Innovation Quarter (IQ) on December 1, 2022. More than 200 faculty, students, and industry leaders attended the Richardson IQ Centers Open House. Thank UT Dallas Office of Research and Innovation and the City of Richardson for providing the facility and space at the Richardson IQ.

Dr. Baowei Fei served as the Chair for the NIH Study Section – ZRG1 MOSS-V

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Review activities of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) are organized into Review Branches (RBs). Each RB represents a cluster of study sections around a general scientific area. NIH grant applications generally are assigned first to an RB, and then to a specific study section within that RB for evaluation of scientific merit. An NIH study section consists of experts focused on a particular research field who are charged with reviewing NIH grant proposals. Special Emphasis Panels (SEPs) are held to review applications on special topics and members conflict applications.  The NIH Center for Scientific Review invited Dr. Fei to chair the NIH Study Section Special Emphasis Panel ZRG1 MOSS-V – Member Conflict: Musculoskeletal Sciences in November 2022.

Dr. Baowei Fei organized a Special Panel Session on Engineering Medicine at the BMES Meeting

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At the Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Dr. Baowei Fei organized a Special Panel Session entitled “A new era of engineering medicine – how to educate the next generation of biomedical engineers” and invited national leaders in the space of bioengineering and engineering medicine to discuss the emerging trend on how to educate and train our next generation of biomedical engineers, how to shape and advance the science and technology of bioengineering through innovative research and inspiring education, and how to engage faculty, researchers, and students to play leading roles from basic science discovery to the creation, clinical evolution, and commercialization of new technologies, devices and therapies to improve human health. In a new era of precision medicine, engineering and medicine are converging to solve complex biological and medical problems. Biomedical engineering and computing will be a leading force where quantitative methods of engineering and systems sciences will have a pivotal role in disease detection, diagnostics, and treatment.

Dr. Baowei Fei organized the Inaugural Workshop on Imaging and Data Science

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The Workshop on Imaging and Data Science brought together the investigators at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) and built research collaborations between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). The workshop brought engineers, computer scientists, surgeons, radiologists, and clinicians together with the goal of translating innovative imaging and surgical technologies from our engineering laboratories at UT Dallas to clinical settings at UT Southwestern for improving human health. More information can be found from the Workshop website (https://imaging.utdallas.edu/workshop/).

Congratulations to all the winners of the poster awards: 1) Undergraduate Student Poster Award –- Sahil Chilukri from UT Southwestern; 2) Graduate Student Poster Award First Place – Milad Almasian from UT Dallas; 3) Graduate Student Poster Award Second Place –- Chanda Bhandari from UT Dallas; 4) Graduate Student Poster Award Third Place –- Xinyuan Zhang from UT Dallas; 5) Postdoctoral Associate Poster Award – Tianyuan Wang from UT Southwestern.

Summer Undergraduate Student Received the Poster Award

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The Summer Platform for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) is a unique, campus-wide symposium for students working on research at The University of Texas at Dallas. It is designed to be a “capstone” for student projects developed during the summer. The SPUR includes a number of on-going summer research programs at UTD, including the Clark Summer Research Program, the Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Scholars program, (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates and others. Ofelia Azucena Gomez Chacon is an REU undergraduate student who worked in Dr. Baowei Fei’s research lab and won a Poster Award for her research work on hyperspectral imaging.