The research on hyperspectral imaging and image guided surgery was recoconized by the editor of MDPI Sensors as the Editor’s Choice Article. The full citation of the paper is listed as: Fabelo, H.; Halicek, M.; Ortega, S.; Shahedi, M.; Szolna, A.; Piñeiro, J.F.; Sosa, C.; O’Shanahan, A.J.; Bisshopp, S.; Espino, C.; Márquez, M.; Hernández, M.; Carrera, D.; Morera, J.; Callico, G.M.; Sarmiento, R.; Fei, B. Deep Learning-Based Framework for In Vivo Identification of Glioblastoma Tumor using Hyperspectral Images of Human Brain. Sensors 2019, 19, 920. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19040920.

Undergraduate Student, Matthew Pfefferle and co-authors from Dr. Baowei Fei’s Lab in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas won the Intuitive Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference of SPIE Medical Imaging, which is held in Houston, Texas on February 16-20, 2020. The SPIE Medical Imaging Conference is the internationally recognized premier forum for reporting state-of-the-art research and development in medical imaging. The title of the paper is “Renal biopsy under augmented reality guidance” by Matthew Pfefferle, Sarah Shahub, Maysam Shahedi, Jeffrey Gahan, Brett Johnson, Phuc Le, Jose Vargas, Blake O. Judson, Yasmeen Alshara, Qinmei Li, and Baowei Fei. This is a collaborative project between UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The Undergraduate Research Scholar Awards are a one-time competitive award made by the Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of Texas at Dallas, designed to reward the contributions and facilitate the professional development of undergraduate researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas. Students selected to receive an Undergraduate Research Scholar Award receive $500 and the certificate, awarded upon participation in the Undergraduate Research Scholar Award poster competition held in mid-April. Three undergraduate students, Ka’Toria Edwards, Patric Bettati, and MD Fiaz Islam Bhuiyan, from Dr. Baowei Fei’s lab, won the 2020 Undergraduate Research Scholar Award.

Community Impact Newspaper reported the cancer research work that were conducted at the University of Texas at Dallas. Community Impact Newspaper is vested in the communities and has dedicated reporters in each community who attend city council and school board meetings. Community Impact Newspaper distributes hyperlocal news and information to millions of local residents and business owners each day online and monthly by mail. For more information, read the article from the following website:
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The research work by Dr. Baowei Fei’s Lab has been featured by AAAS and EurekAlert!. In a study published in the Sept. 14 edition of the journal Cancers, Dr. Fei and colleagues showed that hyperspectral imaging and artificial intelligence could predict the presence of cancer cells with 80% to 90% accuracy in 293 tissue specimens from 102 head and neck cancer surgery patients. Dr. Fei recently received a $1.6 million grant from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to further develop the technology, called a smart surgical microscope. For more information, visit the following website:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/uota-bab093019.php