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Artificial Intelligence Initiative in Oncology Receives NCI Grant

Scientists and clinicians from Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University recently received a $1.15 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Informatics Technology in Cancer Research (ITCR) program to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools that assist in the differentiation of tumor recurrence versus scar tissue on postoperative MRI scans in patients with certain colorectal and brain cancers.

CRAIN'S 2020 FORTY UNDER 40

CCIPD's Satish Viswanath joins Crain's 2020 Forty under 40

Powerful push to use AI for cancer immunotherapy

Case Western Reserve University works with NYU and pharmaceutical companies Bristol Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca to validate imaging-based solutions for predicting response to therapy for lung cancer patients

Your Brain, With a USB Port in It: Elon Musk’s Neuralink Vision Divides Experts

“We are very far from understanding what’s happening in the brain”

NY Times: The Mind Readers

Brains are talking to computers, and computers to brains. Are our daydreams safe?

Machine Learning Working Group virtual meeting, August 31, 12-1pm ET

Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD, Professor and Sally S. Morley Designated Professor in Brain Tumor Research, CWRU School of Medicine, will present “Cancer Data Sciences as a New Pillar for the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center".

Biomedical engineering’s Mehdi Alilou awarded grant from U.S. Department of Defense

Mehdi Alilou, a research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), was awarded a two-year, $383,000 early career lung cancer grant from the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (DOD CDMRP) Lung Cancer program. The funding will support his project, “Quantitative Vessel Tortuosity as Biomarker for Predicting and Monitoring Response to Immunotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer from Routine CT Scans.”

Andrew Janowczyk won 2nd place at the ITCR Annual meeting

Congratulations to Andrew Janowczyk, PhD, who won 2nd place for his presentation "Quick Annotator: A tool for Rapidly Annotative Digital Pathology Images" at the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR) Annual meeting

Ideastream

Artificial Intelligence Software May Prevent Unneeded Cancer Surgeries

Anant Madabhushi named to The Pathologist’s Power List 2020

This list celebrates 100 influential figures, thought leaders, and opinion shapers in pathology and laboratory medicine. Madabhushi was also named to the Power List in 2019.

Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech: “Keep a growth mindset” With Dr. Pallavi Tiwari of Case Western Reserve University

 

Keeping a growth mindset: I learn from my students, colleagues, and even from my toddler (he teaches me to be patient) every day. Productivity becomes stagnant when you stop learning.

Madabhushi presents at virtual Workshop on Machine Vision, NIT Jamshedpur

On July 28th, 2020, Anant Madabhushi, PhD, Director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was a speaker at the virtual Workshop on Machine Vision of the National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur. 

Artificial Intelligence in Oncology Symposium | Virtual Event October 19-20, 2020

The Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) at CWRU is delighted to be working with the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center to bring you the second Artificial Intelligence in Oncology Symposium.

Three CCIPD papers recently published

Congratulations to Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) researchers on three recently published papers.

Machine Learning Working Group virtual meeting, July 31, 2-3pm ET

Please join CCIPD for a virtual Machine Learning Working Group Meeting on July 31st, from 2-3pm EDT. Mirabela Rusu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Stanford University, will present “A RAPSODI of Radiology and Pathology Images to Learn MRI Signatures of Prostate Cancer".

Pranjal Vaidya awarded ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship

Congratulations to Pranjal Vaidya, PhD student, biomedical engineering and the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, for having been awarded the very competitive ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship.The award includes $15,000 to support Pranjal towards the completion of her PhD.

Scientists work to freeze-dry synthetic platelets

Newest research at Case Western Reserve University funded by $3.8 million U.S. Dept. of Defense grant, seeks to aid soldiers on battlefield

Catherine Jayapandian, PhD receives Neptune Kidney Consortium Award

Congratulations to Catherine Jayapandian, PhD, Senior Research Associate in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), who has been awarded a one-year $57,500 Career Enhancement Award from the Neptune Kidney Consortium.

Radiomics Can Identify High-Risk Early Stage Lung Cancer

Anant Madabhushi, PhD, a professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, commented that the new study is "complementary and supports the premise that radiomics both from inside and outside the tumor can tell us about outcome and treatment response."

CCIPD researchers awarded patents

On June 23rd, 2020, two patents were awarded to inventors from the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD): “Intra-Perinodular Textural Transition (IPRIS): A Three Dimensional (3D) Descriptor for Nodule Diagnosis on Lung Computed Tomography (CT) Images” and “Treatment planning and evaluation for rectal cancer via image analytics”. Congratulations to Anant Madabhushi, Satish Viswanath, Mehdi Alilou and Jacob Antunes. Read details about the patents below.