This year, our Health-X Lab had a number of presentations on medical AI and VR research, including generative AI and foundation models at MICCAI 2024, the leading venue for medical image computing and image-guided surgery. 

Notably, our MSc graduate Reihaneh Teimouri received nomination for the best paper and young investigator awards, and MSc trainee Christopher Neves won the best paper award (1st place) at the MICCAI Machine Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging (MLCN) workshop! 

We are grateful for the insightful discussions and interests for our works from the community. Look forward to sharing more exciting research in the coming year!

Congrats to our undergraduate trainee Owen Hellum (CUSRA2021&2023), who has been featured in the Concordia University news!

Check out the news piece: ​
​https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2024/02/06/gina-cody-school-undergrad-publishes-three-peer-reviewed-papers-co-authored-with-computer-science-and-psychology-profs.html

This year, our Health-X Lab had a number of presentations on various perspectives of medical AI research at MICCAI 2023, the leading venue for medical image computing and image-guided surgery. 

It has been great to meet up with old friends and make new connections in beautiful Vancouver, and we look forward to the next MICCAI in 2024!

After the success of Summer 2021 (Kudo to our trainee Owen Hellum), Health-X is looking for undergraduate trainees to participate in exciting research projects in medical imaging and surgical science in Summer 2022!

Potential students will be sponsored by Health-X for the Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) program for 16 weeks of research experience, and will be compensated for $7.5K for their research work. They will also have the opportunity to publish their work in peer-reviewed journals and attend international conferences.

The candidates should have experience in programming (C++, C# or Python), are in good academic standing in their program (a CGPA of 3.3 or higher), have completed at least 30 credits in the program, and will return to their academic program after the summer.  If you are interested, please forward your CV and transcript to yiming.xiaoATconcordia.ca. 
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We strongly encourage students who have previous experience with Unity3D with interests in virtual reality and human-computer interaction to apply.

The details regarding the USRA programs can be found below:

Concordia USRA program (application deadline: March 1st, 2022)
https://www.concordia.ca/research/students-and-postdocs/undergraduate-opportunities/cusra.html
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Four new members have just joined Health-X starting from Jan 2022. They will be working on themes including intelligent surgical microscope, surgical decisions on neurological conditions, and estimating human factors in medical image processing.

Welcome everyone!

Health-X Lab's work on the diagnosis of low back pain has been featured in Concordia's university news portal!  Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eRa7WRSq

Low back pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal conditions that require medical attention and in most cases, the cause are not clear. This makes it challenging to recommend effective treatment strategies to ease the suffering. We investigated the shape of low back muscles to probe the relevant degeneration as a potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis. The article was published in Scientific Reports. 

Great to announce that Health-X have three papers on medical AI and neurosurgical virtual reality accepted in the upcoming MICCAI workshops!

Looking forward to having the articles online soon! 

A winner of the 2021 Concordia USRA award, Mr. Owen Hellum will conduct his research project on virtual-reality in surgery during this summer at Health-X.

Welcome, Owen!

Health-X is actively looking for undergraduate trainees to participate in exciting research projects in medical imaging and surgical science in Summer 2021!

Potential students will be sponsored by Health-X for the Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) program for 16 weeks of research experience, and will be compensated for $6K~7.5K for their research work. They will also have the opportunity to publish their work in peer-reviewed journals and attend international conferences.

The candidates should have experience in programming (C++, C# or Python), are in good academic standing in their program (a CGPA of 3.3 or higher), have completed at least 30 credits in the program, and will return to their academic program after the summer.  If you are interested, please forward your CV and transcript to yiming.xiaoATconcordia.ca. 
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Currently, we are looking for interested students for two projects: 

1. Software interface design and implementation for deep learning-based automatic MRI segmentation 
2.  Application of mixed/virtual reality in facilitating neurosurgical training

The details regarding the USRA programs can be found below:

NSERC USRA program (deadline to be announced)
https://www.concordia.ca/students/financial-support/scholarships-awards/internal/nserc-usra-competition---summer2018.html

Concordia USRA program (application deadline: Feb 26, 2021)
https://www.concordia.ca/research/students-and-postdocs/undergraduate-opportunities/cusra.html