Saturday, 04 July 2015 00:00
Replicating Diseased Artery Mechanical Properties - Christopher Noble - July 2015
This short video from PhD Student Christopher Noble is a great introduction about Replicating Diseased Artery Mechanical Properties.
https://youtu.be/2RGJJfJ805M
https://youtu.be/2RGJJfJ805M
Diffusion UK Meeting - Edward A Cramphorn - November 2015
On the 05/11/2015 CISTIB hosted and ran a meeting of the Diffusion MRI UK Group (www.diffusion-mri.org.uk). Alongside this in the morning the scientific committee of the new research project OCEAN (www.ocean-mri.org) which is being led by CISTIB met with many of the attendees took part in the Diffusion MRI UK meeting in the afternoon.
This meeting drew together researchers from the field of Diffusion MRI this included academics and PhD students from different institutes. The day included poster and talks given by both senior academics and junior researchers working on the characterisation brain microstructure by means of diffusion MRI. The event was held in the Graduate Teaching Building of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sheffield (www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/engineering).
Diffusion MRI is a technique that allows to study the movement of water molecules in human tissue, both in vivo and non-invasively. This is useful for depicting tissue integrity and detecting early changes that may consequently lead to neurodegenerative pathologies such as Alzheimer’s. The meeting had a particular focus on these topics and their application. This has a great potential to investigate the interrogation of tissue improving our understanding of how neurodegenerative diseases and changes in tissue structure affect the body.
Presenters included Marc Jones (KCL), Fenglei Zhou (Manchester University), Jonathan Clayden (University College London), Jacques-Donald Tournier (KCL), and Andrada Ianus (UCL). The event had approximately 50 participants either presenting posters or attending the event. The day was led by Leandro Beltrachini (CISTIB, The University of Sheffield).
The event was a success, the excellent attendance and the quality of the posters and the presentations were engaging and explored the facets of Diffusion MRI. The meeting allowed the attendees to exchange of ideas and the fostering of future collaborations. Please, get in touch if you would like to know more.
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CISTIB at ICT2015 - Edward A Cramphorn - October 2015
In October as part of the VPH-DARE@IT (www.vph-dare.eu) project several member of CISTIB formed part of the team that attended ICT 2015 in Lisbon (link). This Event is organised by the European Commission (ec.europe.eu) to showcase the newest technology and development in the fields of Information and Computing Technology. The event consistent of an exhibition with parallel session exploring the EC policy and presentations from exhibitors, the opening ceremony was performed by Commissioner Gȕnther Oettinger (EC profile). As part of the exhibit that show cased the VPH-DARE Research and Clinical Platforms and other technology.
We presented the Research Platform and the project as a whole, alongside representatives from VTT/Combunostics (need to insert link) and Kinematics (need to insert link); who presented the Patient Care Platform and Citizen Portal and the latest generation of the Insole Insert used for collecting gait data for the lifestyle factors. We exhibited alongside other EHealth exhibits which allowed us to communicate to an audience of professionals and fellow researchers alongside the general public. ICT was also attended by the Mayor of Lisbon Antonio Costa and other notable figures.
The event allowed us to make contacts that could lead to new projects or provide the spark for new avenues of work, as well as raising our profile among the European Commission and the attendee’s. It also allowed us to see how CISTIBs work and the work of our partners reaches out to other projects, letting us understand how we fit into the big picture of eHealth, Personalised medicine and big data processing.
We are hoping to be able to take our contribution alongside our partners to ECR 2016 so watch this space for an update on how things go. If you have questions or would like to know more please get in touch.
Video presented in the event.
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Thursday, 03 December 2015 00:00
CISTIB Nuffield Research Placement 2015
Written by Mr. Edward A Cramphorn
CISTIB Nuffield Research Placement 2015 - Edward A Cramphorn - September 2015
Over this summer we took part in the Nuffield Research Placement (Nuffield-Research-Placements), the first time we had undertaken such a placement here at CISTIB. The Nuffield Research Placement gives the chance for secondary school students to experience what university research is like alongside the experience of university life in an active research group. The aim was that the students undertake projects that were based on current research, and to allow them to work alongside professors and other academics.
In CISTIB we opened the call for projects to our members. We are proud to say our PhD step up and proposed projects based on their own work as well as volunteered to be the student’s supervisors. This year we offered five projects and we are happy to say we had five students join us. As part of this we asked them to prepare a personnel statement as if they were applying for a position, this helped them practice this important skill.
Projects involved such topics as computational modelling, biomechanical experimental testing and image processing. As part of this the students explored using software that is crucial to our research; such as Matlab (uk.mathworks.com) and GIMIAS (www.gimias.org) our in house image process software. This allowed the students to get hands on experience with the tools that our group uses and students at the university use in there degree programs.
Alongside taking part in the active research the students produced reports written to a scientific standard that is expected from researchers. They also presented to the group on the project they had undertaken, as part of this they answered questions from members of the group. Not an easy task. This taught them the skills that engineers need to present their work and will hopefully help them in their future education or career.
All the students did brilliantly and impressed the research group with their enthusiasm and what they achieved in such a short time they were with us. We are currently looking at running the placement next year from the success of this year, so watch this space. Or if you are interested in what we do or getting involved please get in touch.
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Erasmus Student 2015 - Catarina Pinto, Pedro de Olivera, Ricardo Araujo - July 2015
In 2015 three portuguese Erasmus Research students, Catarina Pinto, Pedro de Olivera and Ricardo Araujo, made a 6 months research stay at CISTIB, this vshort video prepared by themselves shows their experience in Sheffield.
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Public Engagement Competiton 2015 - Edward A Cramphorn - June 2015
This year we have taken part in the Faculty of Engineering Public Engagement Competition. The challenge set was to submit an idea to a panel of judges for a public engagement exhibit. This was supposed to be to an exhibit that can be used for a wide range of events for a large group of different audiences.
A large team from the group took part consisting of researchers, students and support staff. We passed the application phase and proceeded to the dragons den phase where two of our team pitched our idea to a mixed group of representatives from the faculty of engineering. We passed the dragon den receiving funding to produce our exhibit with support from the research group.
We produced two items VIPER (Virtual Interactive Patient ExpeRience) consisting of a user lead presentation system and the IPPB (Interactive Patient Presentation Banner) a roller banner with linked QR codes that allow the viewer to view short presentation videos on youtube.
We supported this with a range of flyers and give away material to allow a take home message. We attended the final judging that was held at the University of Sheffield Engineering Symposium, which was an open event ran at the university. We are proud to say we came in a close second. We are aiming to refine our exhibit and move forward with the exhibit we produced.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/egs/uses/pec
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/egs/uses/pec
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Wednesday, 02 December 2015 00:00
Early detection of neurodegenerative diseases with diffusion MRI - Leandro Beltrachini - July 2015
Can we detect neurodegenerative diseases in early stages? This short presentation will hope to give you insight into how we use MRI to do so.
https://youtu.be/dhXRAdhvsUk
https://youtu.be/dhXRAdhvsUk
Wednesday, 02 December 2015 00:00
Simulating Measurement of the Mechanical Properties of the Brain using MRI - Deirdre McGrath - July 2015
Simulation of Magnetic Resonance Elastography in the brain, to understand the influence of brain anatomy.
https://youtu.be/kKzh-ic7c1c
https://youtu.be/kKzh-ic7c1c
Wednesday, 02 December 2015 00:00
Coronary Artery Disease - Serkan Cimen - Aug 2015
Can we use X-Ray angiography images to estimate physiological measurements that help us to understand the function of coronary arteries?
https://youtu.be/zODijsyIhwg
https://youtu.be/zODijsyIhwg
Thursday, 26 November 2015 00:00
Lung Image Registration - Rui Hua - July 2015
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OUTREACH
Outreach is an integral part of modern science, communicating what we do and why we do it to the community and the wider world. We are committed to this both here in Leeds, and through links with institutes and groups around the world. We are proud to support the engagement of students to raise the profile of science, technology and mathematics. If you wish to ask us a question or arrange for us to visit you or an event, please contact us.
Monday, 06 July 2015 00:00
International Clinical Trials' Day 2015
Written by Mr. Edward A Cramphorn
International Clinical Trials' Day 2015 - Edward A Cramphorn - Sheffield - March 2015
A group from the CISTIB team including PhD Students, our software team and Erasmus student, manned a stall at the medical school. We made use of our laparoscopic game and had videos provided from our software team to communicate how advancing technologies in imaging and simulation can contribute to clinical trials. The event was attended by the public and those who attended ranged from professionalsand students, to those who are taking part in clinical trials. The game saw a lot of interests and the public were excited to here how our work and engineering is contributing to medical advances.
https://www.hrb-tmrn.ie
https://www.hrb-tmrn.ie
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Friday, 03 July 2015 00:00
Sheffield Festival of Science & Engineering
Written by Mr. Edward A Cramphorn
Sheffield Festival of Science & Engineering - Edward A Cramphorn - Sheffield - March 2015
A team from CISTIB lead by Ali Gooya organised our contribution to the University’s Week of Science. We organised a combined seminar and exhibit, which included an interactive laparoscopic surgery game, poster of our current research and a mini talk by our in house software development team. Our researchers and students were present to engage everyone and answer questions from visitors. The event was headlined by a talk from our group’s director Professor Alejandro Frangi, entitled ‘The Virtual Physiological Human’. We had a wide range of the public in attendance and received excellent feedback. For video of event follow the link: https://youtu.be/NAZIg4Cd558
http://www.scienceweeksy.org.uk
http://www.scienceweeksy.org.uk
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Thursday, 02 July 2015 00:00
Dispersed axons - Leandro Beltrachini - July 2015
1. slightly dispersed axons with similar global orientation density function (gODF)
3. totally dispersed axons considering a uniform gODF
2. Same as 3. but without constraining the structures to the cube limits
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3. totally dispersed axons considering a uniform gODF
2. Same as 3. but without constraining the structures to the cube limits
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