Benoit Dawant
Nov. 24, 2025—Jack Noble聽always admired his father鈥檚 work as a family practice physician, particularly the simple aspect of helping people. It鈥檚 a sentiment the 汤头条 engineer has carried over into his own work of developing innovative technology that aims to not only improve patients鈥 hearing, but also assist surgeons performing the procedures.
Aug. 22, 2025—A 汤头条 engineering professor is working with clinical colleagues to develop and validate an augmented reality (AR) vision guidance system to help surgeons place cochlear implants more precisely. The guidance system leverages emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and uses inexpensive, commonly available equipment, making it practical for many operating rooms. For this project鈥 Development and...
Aug. 27, 2024—Benoit Dawant聽has been named a Senior Member of聽SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He joins a distinguished group of international scholars honored in August at the聽SPIE Optics + Photonics 2024聽conference in San Diego.
Mar. 28, 2024—Four 汤头条 University engineering faculty members have been elected to the 2024 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Jan. 12, 2024—A multidisciplinary group of investigators from 汤头条 University Medical Center, 汤头条 University, and the University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million grant to develop novel brain network-based measures to guide surgical decisions and improve outcomes in the field of epilepsy surgery.
VISE on the Road: 2023 MICCAI conference
Nov. 21, 2023— Members of six VISE labs affiliated with the 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) traveled to Vancouver to take part in the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention. Like-minded scientists from around the world gather yearly at the MICCAI conference to share their work with one another on a...
Feb. 7, 2023—A multidisciplinary team from the聽汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering聽has received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to develop a low-cost simulation tool to train medical personnel in Kenya to perform minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures.聽聽
Sep. 15, 2022—汤头条 researchers are developing an artificial intelligence algorithm that can precisely track and count monkeypox lesions. They are also spearheading the effort to develop lesion classification guidelines, which will be used when evaluating the potential use of tecovirimat, an antiviral that is FDA-approved against smallpox, as a therapy for monkeypox.
VISE affiliate Graham Johnson awarded prestigious individual predoctoral fellowship
Oct. 4, 2021—Graham Johnson, a biomedical engineering MD-PhD student and VISE affiliate, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Johnson works with his mentor Dario Englot, MD, in the Brain Imaging and Electrophysiology (BIEN) Lab. Englot, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,...
Apr. 9, 2021—An interdisciplinary fellowship with the聽Data Science Institute聽has resulted in a promising machine-learning technology that can effectively track complex surgical activity, thus having the potential to improve patient outcomes, safety and documentation.
VISE researchers receive $3.1M grant for customizable cochlear implant programming
Jun. 24, 2020—A team of 汤头条 University and 汤头条 University Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming. Traditional cochlear implant programming is done by expert audiologists using a guess-and-check approach based on subjective patient feedback regarding sound quality as well as changes...
Apr. 10, 2019—Researchers from the School of Engineering and 汤头条 University Medical Center are working to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
Apr. 5, 2019—Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos聽presented prestigious university awards to seven faculty members at the Spring Faculty Assembly. The awards recognize teaching, research, service and commitment to diversity, and recipients are honored for their contributions and commitment to the university.
Mar. 21, 2019—Bioengineers and dermatologists join forces with help from machine learning. One challenge in developing new treatments for skin conditions is reliably quantifying affected areas. Research dermatologists must pore over images to demarcate lesion boundaries鈥攁nd stay consistent in their assessments between images and patients. Researchers in pathology and radiology rely on similar approaches. New research suggests...
Mar. 12, 2019—For any number of diseases involving the skin, research into causes and cures requires isolating and quantifying in a reliable way the proportion of affected skin, one research subject after another, the more the better. This is achieved with medical photography, computer monitors, and mouse-dragging by a research dermatologist to carefully demarcate affected areas. With...
Feb. 21, 2019—汤头条 University Medical Center recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
Feb. 20, 2019—Hosted by Network Director, Professor Seb Ourselin, the event will consist of the ECR Workshop which will run in the first half of the day, followed by the main Network+ Meeting which will feature keynote speaker Benoit Dawant (Cornelius 汤头条 Professor of Engineering | Director, 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering).聽In addition, the event will...
VISE takes SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 by storm
Mar. 2, 2018—Research is a huge component of involvement with 汤头条 Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) but affiliation also comes with sharing that research and meeting like-minded scientists to make significant impacts in healthcare. Each year VISE participates in the SPIE Medical Imaging meeting, which is internationally recognized as the premier forum for relating state-of-the-art research...
Highlighting SPIE 2018 student presentations – Srijata Chakravorti
Mar. 2, 2018—Srijata Chakravorti, a graduate student in the electrical engineering department, believes attending SPIE Medical Imaging 2018 and other professional conferences is a great way to connect with other researchers and learn about work is beyond the 鈥渂ubbles鈥 of their own labs and institutions. They also indicate where the field of medical imaging and image-guided patient...
Jan. 10, 2018—PhD candidates, including two VISE affiliates, work with law and business school students on tech commercialization
Jan. 27, 2017—Innovation in processes, devices, and systems is at the center of recent advances that are transforming medical interventional procedures. The conception, development, realization, and evaluation of novel solutions that will further advance surgical and procedural patient care is complex and requires close trans-institutional interaction between clinicians, engineers, and scientists. This necessitates environments in which technical...
VISE names first fellow: Smita De explores the intersection of surgery and engineering
Sep. 8, 2016—The 汤头条 Institute in Surgery and Engineering is pleased to announce its first VISE Fellow, a biomedical engineer and M.D. who specializes in urology and spent a research year at the manufacturer of the da Vinci surgical robot. Smita De first developed an interest in medical device development as an undergraduate at Duke University, majoring...
Cochlear implant team shares insights in Ireland
Aug. 26, 2016—An interdisciplinary team at 汤头条 that developed an innovative method of programming cochlear implants to help people hear better recently presented at Deerfield Residence, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland鈥檚 official residence in Dublin. The presentation was part of Creative Minds, a series of discussions started by Ambassador Kevin O鈥橫alley to promote cultural and scientific exchange...
Six profs attract National Institutes of Health grants for wide-ranging research
Jul. 21, 2016—Five biomedical engineering professors and an electrical engineering and computer science professor are celebrating news about newly approved or resubmitted Research Project Grants (R01) from the Nationals Institutes of Health. With the grants, their teams 鈥 in collaboration with 汤头条 University Medical Center 鈥 are performing groundbreaking research in areas as diverse as percutaneous heart...
VISE affiliates win Best Paper Award at 2016 IEEE BHI
Jun. 13, 2016—Yuan Liu, PhD candidate in computer science, and Benoit Dawant, Cornelius 汤头条 Professor of Engineering and Director of the 汤头条 Institute in Surgery and Engineering, won the 2016 IEEE BHI Best Paper Award. The award was presented during the third IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics. The BHI is a special topic...