Author: katiekonyn

Congratulations to Guotai Wang who has been awarded the annual PhD Prize from the UCL Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering for his paper on segmentation of the placenta from fetal MRI. The prize is awarded to students from

This summer we were fortunate enough to be assigned a student through the in2science placement scheme. in2science is an award winning organisation which gives students the opportunity to work alongside STEM scientists, and receive the advice and information they need to

  A team of doctoral students working on the GIFT-Surg project are running the Royal Parks Half Marathon this October Luis Garcia-Perraza, Michael Ebner and Stefano Moriconi will be running to fundraise in support of Bliss at the upcoming race, a UK-based

Recently we have a new paper accepted by MICCAI 2016: Dynamically Balanced Online Random Forests for Interactive Segmentation. The work is part of the Gift-Surg project. We proposed a new type of Random Forest aimed to deal with imbalanced training

On 18 February the team performed their first fetal research MRI scan at University College London Hospital (UCLH), after being awarded full ethical approval from the Hampstead Research Ethics Committee and the NHS Research & Development approval at UCLH. Additional participants for the

Real-time mosaicing of fetoscopic videos using SIFT Fetoscopic laser photo-coagulation of the placental vascular anastomoses remains the most effective therapy for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) in monochorionic twin pregnancies. However, to ensure the success of the intervention, complete photo-coagulation of

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have announced the nine researchers who were recipients of the EPSRC Healthcare Challenge Award, one of whom, Dr Adrien Desjardins, is an Investigator on the GIFT-Surg Research Project. The award winners will share in

Tune into the Al Jazeera England Newshour on Sunday 27 December at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm where the report into the GIFT-Surg Project will be airing live. If you missed the live Newshour you can catch up with the footage

Providing clinical-grade medical software applications for pre-operative planning and intra-operative navigation is a core vision of GIFT-Surg. In this process from bench to bedside, it is particularly important to follow a well-established software engineering process and to have a development