VISE affiliate Bennett Landman, Ph.D., uses big data to solve big medical problems in the MASI lab

Written by Bennett Landman, Ph.D.  As an initial member of the Vanderbilt Institute on Surgery and Engineering, the Medical-image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation (MASI) lab seeks to transform medical imaging from pixels to information to improve patient care. We lead Personalized Medicine with Medical Imaging Informatics (PM2I2) efforts in translational research to explore innovative, clinically useful…

Posted by anderc8 on February 2, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

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The Program for Music, Mind, and Society makes Music City more musical through the SeREnADe project

Written by Rita Pfeiffer, M.S. Candidate in Speech-Language Pathology and Graduate Research Assistant in the Music Cognition Lab I’m a Nashville native, so it should come to no surprise that music is an integral part of who I am. Growing up, I enjoyed the Pied Piper Series and the Nashville Children’s Theater, was involved in…

Posted by anderc8 on February 2, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

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Putting NetsBlox in the Classroom at Vanderbilt

Written by Vanderbilt Professor Akos Ledeczi Computer Science education is receiving increased attention today. Introductory programming classes are popping up everywhere. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no programming environment or curriculum that introduces distributed programming to young learners. On the one hand, this is understandable because teaching computer programming in K12…

Posted by anderc8 on January 25, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

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The Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering (VISE): Bringing Engineers and Surgeons Together to Improve Patient Care

Written by Dr. Benoit M. Dawant Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Engineering VISE Steering Committee Chair and Center Director Watch a short video that features Dr. Dawant providing an overview of VISE Innovation in processes, devices, and systems is at the center of recent advances that are transforming medical interventional procedures. The conception, development, realization, and evaluation of novel…

Posted by anderc8 on January 24, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

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Update on “A Trans-Institutional Big Data Infrastructure at Vanderbilt”

Written by Will French, ACCRE’s Manager of Research Computing Operations The world is drowning in data. This is the reality that has become increasingly apparent across virtually all areas of industry, medicine, business, higher education, and research, among other sectors, over the last several years. In 2012, IBM stated that 2.5 exabytes (i.e. 2.5 billion gigabytes)…

Posted by anderc8 on January 19, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

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Program for Music, Mind and Society brings together researchers to examine how and why music affects us

PhD Candidate Examines Link Between Music Making and Kindness Written by Sara L. Beck, PhD Candidate in Psychological Sciences and Graduate Assistant to the Program for Music, Mind, & Society Have you ever felt a shiver singing along with a group of people –  around a campfire, in a place of worship, or even in…

Posted by anderc8 on January 6, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

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Introducing the Pre3 Initiative

Written by Vanderbilt School of Medicine professor David Aronoff The Vanderbilt Pre3 Initiative (Preventing adverse Pregnancy outcomes and Prematurity) is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and learners with a shared interest in reducing the burden of preterm birth and other adverse pregnancy outcomes through discovery, innovation, implementation, and education. Why does Vanderbilt need to be…

Posted by anderc8 on January 6, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

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