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
EVENT: GIFT-Surg for Bliss Fundraising Pub Quiz | 15 September
The team of GIFT-Surg doctoral students running the Royal Parks Half Marathon in support of Bliss are putting on a Fundraising Pub Quiz! The quiz will take place on Thursday 15 September from 7-11pm at Mully’s Basement Bar on the UCL
in2science Placement: Interview with Sahil Jain
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
GIFT-Surg doctoral students fundraise for Bliss
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
Paper on ultrasonic tracking for surgical needles featured in Physics Today
Physics Today recently featured a paper on a device developed to improve tracking surgical needles in real time, authored by a postdoctoral research associate with the GIFT-Surg project. The paper, by Dr Wengfeng Xia and colleagues, describes an imaging device in which
Work on Interactive Segmentation to be presented at MICCAI 2016
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
UCLH Research Open Day
Find us at the UCLH Research Open Day on Tuesday 28 June University College Hospital opens it doors on Tue 28 June to showcase the latest research advances being made on site. A special exhibition of research and innovation will
First fetal research MRI scan at UCLH
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
Paper on Photoacoustic Imaging published in Physics Education
A paper presenting a system for demonstrating photoacoustic effect for educational purposes has been published in the Physics Education journal. Photoacoustic (PA) imaging has great potential for overcoming the limitations in penetration depth and spatial resolution of traditional optical imaging, improving
GIFT-Surg Researcher awarded Ramsay Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Sacha Noimark, post-doctoral research associate for GIFT-Surg, who has been awarded the Ramsay Fellowship to develop new miniaturised ultrasound/photoacoustic probes. Dr Noimark’s research is focused on the development of nanostructurepoylmer composite materials for laser-generated ultrasound, to be