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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Launches Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine
New Center Pursues Interdisciplinary Solutions
for Critical Health Care Challenges
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the new
Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine
(CeMSIM) within the School of
Engineering.
A true interdisciplinary endeavor, CeMSIM seeks to develop
advanced modeling, simulation, and imaging technology for
health care, and transition those technologies to clinical
practice—from the lab bench to the hospital bedside. Leading
CeMSIM as director is Suvranu De, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical,
Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer, with a
joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical
Engineering.
“The new Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in
Medicine will bring our faculty and students together to
examine some of the most pressing challenges — and greatest
opportunities — in the field of medical diagnostics,” said
David Rosowsky, dean of the School of Engineering at
Rensselaer. “We are proud to launch this new center in the
School of Engineering and look forward to its impact in this
rapidly changing and critically important field.”
“With CeMSIM, we are seeking to leverage the skills of a
major technological university to make significant advancements
in critical areas of health care that directly translate into
benefits for patients,” De said. “Along with fundamental
advances in imaging technology, the center will investigate
methods for improving diagnosis, surgical, and nonsurgical
interventional techniques, multiscale and high-performance
computing, visualization, and other areas.”
CeMSIM builds from De’s research into surgery simulation,
multiscale modeling, and other studies. The first institutions
to partner with CeMSIM are Harvard Medical School and Tufts
University. De said he is actively seeking additional partners
and funding opportunities.
To accomplish its goal of developing new technologies and
expediting them from the lab bench to the patient bedside,
CeMSIM will engage in fundamental and applied research in five
major areas:
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Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging (MSI) in
Medical Diagnosis | Diagnosis is the first step in
medical care. MSI will play a significant role in advancing
clinical diagnoses, including radiology, ultrasound, CAT
scans, magnetic resonance imaging, X-rays, and many other
technologies.
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MSI in Clinical Medicine and Therapy |
MSI can impact the nonsurgical treatment of many different
diseases and disorders. Research in this area includes
biofluids, mass transport, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal
biomechanics, soft tissue biomechanics, regenerative
medicine, nuclear medicine, and neural engineering.
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MSI in Surgery | For surgical planning
of all types, MSI will be used to help surgeons plan for
complex operations based on patient-specific image data and
models. For surgical training, patient-specific and other
models are used to train a surgeon’s physical and cognitive
skills. Research in this area includes efficient computing,
tissue modeling, and robotic interface design.
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MSI Algorithms, Multiscale and High-Performance
Computing, and Medical Visualization | To be able to
understand disease states tracing back to the smallest scales
— ranging from the studies of molecular mechanics to that of
the cell membranes — fundamental advancements in multiscale
and high-performance computing are necessary.
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MSI and Cognitive Issues | To better
understand cognitive issues related to using medical
simulations and multimodal interactive visualizations, it is
necessary to investigate fundamental aspects of the human
sensory-motor system to gain deeper insights into how we
perceive information.
CeMSIM will partner with and utilize many of the world-class
research platforms at Rensselaer, including the technologies of
the Center for Biotechnology and
Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), the supercomputing power
of the Computational Center
for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI), and the sensory and
visualization technologies of the Curtis R. Priem Experimental
Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). CeMSIM will also
closely partner with the Rensselaer Scientific Computation
Research Center (SCOREC).
For more information on De’s research at Rensselaer,
visit:
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Published
November 4,
2010 |
Contact: Michael Mullaney
Phone: (518) 276-6161
E-mail: mullam@rpi.edu |
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