Surgery and Engineering
Surgery and engineering concentrate on the collaborative efforts of engineers and surgical experts to create, develop, implement and evaluate technology, methods and tools that improve patients' outcomes and experiences.
Faculty involved in surgery and engineering research:
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Shilo AndersResearch Focus: Human factors engineering, cognitive systems engineering and human-system interaction, healthcare informaticsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Justin BabaResearch Focus: Optical biosensing; non-invasive diagnostics; motion corrected imaging and sensingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Eric BarthResearch Focus: Dynamic systems and control. Design, modeling and control of mechatronic and fluid power systems, free-piston internal combustion and free-piston Stirling engines, power supply and actuation for autonomous robots, and applied non-linear control.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Audrey BowdenResearch Focus: Biophotonics tools for applications in early detection, diagnosis and therapy for cancer; development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing point-of-care technologies for rural and global health applicationsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Amanda BuckResearch Focus: hemodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, MRI, cardiovascular imagingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Brett ByramResearch Focus: Medical ultrasound; signal processing; elasticity imaging; ultrasonic imaging and beamformingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Catie ChangResearch Focus: Functional neuroimaging techniques and applications; signal processing and computational analysisIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Andre ChurchwellResearch Focus: Engineering Design EducationIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Christos ConstantinidisResearch Focus: Neuroengineering, deep brain stimulation, working memory, cognitive development, prefrontal cortexIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Benoit DawantResearch Focus: Medical image processing and analysis, image registration, image segmentation, image-guided surgery.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
Pierre DHaeseResearch Focus: medical image processingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 | |
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Mark DoesResearch Focus: MRI, neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, MR microscopyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Xiaoguang DongResearch Focus: The design, manufacture and control of miniature soft robots, and their applications in minimally invasive medicine, microfluidics and biomechanics. The design, manufacture and control of miniature swarm robots, and their applications in biomedicine and biomechanics. The modeling, design, manufacture and control of intelligent soft materialsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Dario EnglotResearch Focus: Brain networks in epilepsy and other neurological disorders; Functional and anatomic neuroimaging; Human electrophysiology; Functional neurosurgeryIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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J. Michael FitzpatrickResearch Focus: Medical imaging, image processing, image registration, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Kevin GallowayResearch Focus: Design of robotic systems from the micro- to the macro-scale, soft robotics, rapid prototyping materials and methods, human-centered design, mechanical design, medical device design, assistive technology.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Robert GallowayResearch Focus: Technology-guided therapy, medical devices, medical imagingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Yurui GaoResearch Focus: Small animal and human MRI imaging (diffusion/functional MRI), medical image processing and analysis.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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John GoreResearch Focus: Development and application of biomedical imaging techniquesIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Kevin HarkinsResearch Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging, computational modeling, optimizationIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Yuankai HuoResearch Focus: Biomedical data representation, biomedical image processing, machine learning, data scienceIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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E. Duco JansenResearch Focus: Laser-tissue interaction; optical neural interfaces; modulation of neural activity using infrared laser light; cellular effects of laser-induced stimuli; application of light, lasers and optical technology in medicine and biologyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Karen JoosResearch Focus: Applications of optical techniques for ophthalmic surgery. Primary research areas use of optical coherence tomography.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Weng Poo KangResearch Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI designIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Bennett LandmanResearch Focus: Magnetic resonance imaging & statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Haoxiang LuoResearch Focus: Computational fluid dynamics, biofluids, fluid-structure interaction, microfluidics; biomimetic aerial/underwater vehicles, biomedical flows.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Ilwoo LyuResearch Focus: Computer vision, surface registration, computational neuroanatomy, shape analysisIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Anita Mahadevan-JansenResearch Focus: Applications of optical techniques for diagnosis of pathology. Primary research areas use of fluorescence and Raman spectroscopics for cancer and precancer detection.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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David MerrymanResearch Focus: Mechanobiology, GPCR targeted drug strategies, percutaneous interventions, tissue engineeringIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
Michael MigaResearch Focus: Image-guided surgery and intervention, computational modeling for therapeutic applications, soft-tissue mechanics, biotransport, and inverse problems in therapeutics and imaging.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 | |
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Jason MitchellResearch Focus: Human augmentation through engineering, wearable sensors, exoskeletons, prosthetics; mechanical simulation and designIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Jack NobleResearch Focus: Medical image processing including image segmentation as well as other techniques related to computer-aided surgery.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Jeffry NymanResearch Focus: Diagnosing bone disease with MRI and Raman spectroscopy, Effect of diabetes on the fracture resistance of bone, Regulators of bone toughness and fracture healingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Ipek OguzResearch Focus: Medical image analysis, image segmentation, machine learning, image registrationIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Reed OmaryResearch Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiologyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Richard Alan PetersResearch Focus: Digital image processing, computer vision, Digital signal processing, computer graphics, software engineering, electromagnetic theory, applied mathematicsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Bernard RousseauIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Ranjana SahaiResearch Focus: Design, simulation, development, and testing of bio-inspired, robotic systems and microfluidic devicesIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Nabil SimaanResearch Focus: Robotic systems for surgical assistance, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy and kinematic redundancyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Yuankai (Kenny) TaoResearch Focus: Optical imaging systems for clinical diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring in ophthalmology, gastroenterology, and oncologyIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Robert WebsterResearch Focus: Image guidance, robotic surgery, screw theory, mechanics-based modeling, and optimal mechanism designIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Matt WeingerResearch Focus: Human factors and systems engineering; human-system interaction, decision making, health care informaticsIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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D. Mitchell WilkesResearch Focus: Digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, digital signal processing hardware, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, signal modelingIntellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |
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Thomas WithrowResearch Focus: Development, design and testing of surgical robots, improvement of design methods, cyber physical systems, biomechanics, especially the biomechanics of the ACL and injury prevention.Intellectual Neighborhoods: Surgery and Engineering | 10 |