All Videos Tagged education (MedTech I.Q.) - MedTech I.Q.

Regenerative Medicine: Bio inspired Silicon Pancreas

2010-05-31T10:40:26.953Z

Dr Nick Oliver and Dr Pantelis Georgiou talk about the benefits of a silicon pancreas to regulate insulin in people with Type 1 diabetes. For more information please visit http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeve...

Telemedicine: Dr Ronald Merrell ... VCU Telemedicine

2010-05-31T10:34:00.038Z

Under normal circumstances, surgeons and anesthesiologists work side by side in the operating room, but recently for the first time known they work half a world apart to help ailing patients in one of the most remote areas of South America. Using a well-equipped mobile operating room housed inside a converted delivery truck, a medical team led by Ronald C. Merrell, M.D., chairman of surgery at Virginia Commonwealth Universitys School of Medicine, performs surgery in South America while monitoring patients' breathing and heart rhythms on a desktop computer 3,000 miles away in Richmond.

Virginia Commonwealth University and NBC-12 teamed up to create the series called "It's VCU" to showcase this urban university, located in the heart of Richmond. VCUs diverse students, faculty and programs, superior teaching, steady growth and groundbreaking research are shaping Richmond, the state and the region.

Strategy: The Secret History of Silicon Valley

2009-03-31T21:40:03.663Z

How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today

How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place
he works in? Silicon Valley.
Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you -
even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies
(including the CIA and the
National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.

Speaker: Steve Blank
Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high
tech companies in Silicon Valley,
most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been
involved in or co-founded eight
Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games,
and personal computers to
supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas
School of Business,
Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering.

NanoMedicine & MicroMedicine: BioSensors Monitoring Diabetes Without Pain and Blood

2008-12-10T20:31:39.659Z

Monitoring Diabetes Without Pain and Blood: Biosensors Offer New Alternatives

CNDLS documents research by Georgetown College prof in a short video.

Prof. Mak Paranjape says "much thinking takes place with my students."

A daily regimen of pricked fingers and blood tests is an essential part of life for someone living with diabetes.

Monitoring blood glucose levels can be tiresome, even with today's improved monitoring devices. Drs. Mak Paranjape and John Currie, researchers in the Georgetown Advanced Electronics Laboratory (GAEL), are working to take the process to a whole new level.

For the past few years, the team has been developing and testing a new biosensor device for blood glucose monitoring. The size of a small bandaid, it is designed to be worn anywhere on the body, where the biosensor samples tiny amounts of fluids that lie just beneath the skin. The device is small and convenient, and makes measuring glucose levels pain-free and noninvasive.

Imaging: Some Statistical Problems in Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging

2008-11-17T15:08:30.737Z

Every material has a distinctive spectrum. The spectrum of a material tells us about its chemistry. Hyperspectral images produce a spectrum (represented as several hundred numbers) at each pixel in an image. So hyperspectral images enable us to map variations in chemistry.

The first hyperspectral scanners, built in the 1980's and 1990's, were designed for airborne applications, primarily for mineral, environmental and military applications. However, in recent years, hyperspectral microscopes and cameras have been developed and are being used for terrestrial applications in areas such as medical diagnosis, burns analysis and skin cancer, biosecurity, pharmaceuticals, forensics and in agribusiness.

A significant focus over a number of years has been on developing fast and sophisticated algorithms and software for "unmixing" spectra into their pure ingredients, both when the pure ingredients are known and when they are unknown. This talk provides an overview of various algorithms, and demonstrates their application to some mineral, remotely sensing and biological data sets. Finally, it discusses some unsolved statistical and computational problems associated with these packages.

Speaker: Mark Berman
Mark Berman received the B.Sc.(Hons.) degree and University Medal in mathematical statistics from the University of New South Wales in 1974, and the Master of Statistics degree from the same institution in 1976. In 1978, he was awarded the Ph.D. and D.I.C. degrees in mathematical statistics by the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.

He was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley during 1978-1979. Most of his time since then has been with the CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences (CMIS), Sydney, where he is now a Chief Research Scientist. He led CMIS' Image Analysis Group from 1989 to 2000. He spent 1988 at the Melbourne Research Laboratories of Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd. where he established the Image Processing and Data Analysis Group. His research interests are in image analysis (especially hyperspectral), spectroscopy and spatial data analysis.

Since 2007, Dr. Berman has been working part time at CMIS. During this period, he has also given Ph.D courses in spectroscopy and hyperspectral image analysis at the Technical University of Denmark and Stanford University.