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Display of asthma cluster phenotypes

Paper on CT biomarkers to assess and phenotype asthma published

Wednesday, April 27, 2022
A new paper entitled "Quantitative CT Characteristics of Cluster Phenotypes in the Severe Asthma Research Program Cohorts" was just published in the Radiology. This paper shows the utility of biomechanical measures (especially Jacobian and ADI) in clustering and phenotyping asthma subgroups.
measurement of lung lobar sliding

Article on lobar contact mechanics is published

Monday, April 25, 2022
Adam Galloy (from Prof. Raghavan lab) just published an article on lung lobar sliding analysis using contact mechanics in Applications in Engineering Science.
Graphical abstract for Di Wang's PLOSL paper

PLOSL paper is published!

Friday, April 8, 2022
Di Wang's work on lung image registration was just published in Medical Image Analysis: PLOSL: Population Learning Followed by One Shot Learning Pulmonary Image Registration Using Tissue Volume Preserving and Vesselness Constraints. 
ISBI 2022 paper figure

New ISBI 2022 paper on generating lung expansion (Jacobian) maps from a single CT image

Friday, April 1, 2022
Faizyab Chaudhary just published an ISBI 2022 conference paper on "Single volume lung biomechanics from chest computed tomography using a mode preserving generative adversarial network." In this work, he describes how to generation synthetic Jacobian images depicting lung expansion from a single CT image.
Close-up photo of engineering building

Reinhardt among eight to receive named professorships in engineering

Monday, September 14, 2020
Joseph Reinhardt, director of the Reinhardt Biomedical Imaging Lab, is among eight scholars from the College of Engineering (COE) to receive named professorships and chairs, which are among the highest university honors faculty members can receive.
A student assembles face shields

College of Engineering helps fill UI face shield gap

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
When University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics put out the call for additional face shields this week, the College of Engineering jumped to help out. The college’s Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering spent the week making more than 1,000 face shields to protect health care workers while they tend to patients who have or are suspected of having the COVID-19 virus.