News History
Tenure stream position for Lueder
2022-04-18: Lueder was offered a tenure stream assistant professor position and will start it on July 1. His appointment will stay with MCS at UTM. Lueder will also be core faculty of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at UofT.
Wenzhi got VinBrain Graduate Scholarship
2022-02-01: Great news! The Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and the Robotics Institute have selected Wenzhi as scholarship holder. Thanks a lot to VinBrain for the generous donation!
Wenzhi and Mustafa have passed their Qualifying Oral Exam
2021-12-15: Good news at the end of the year! Both, Wenzhangzhi Guo and Mustafa Haiderbhai can continue their PhD and have passed their Qualifying Oral Exam. Congratulations!.
Justin received Research Grant
2021-12-15: Justin Regef's application for the UTM Undergraduate Research Grant was successful. Congratulations, Justin!
XSeed Funding for Needle Guidance
2021-05-05: Together with Dr. Yu Sun and his Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory (AMNL) at University of Toronto we are an XSeed Winning Recipient of the 2021-23 Funding Competition. We are looking forward to this collaboration with Dr. Vitor Mendes Pereira on an exciting imaging and automation challenge.
2 Postdoctoral Fellow Openings
2021-05-01: Together with the Continuum Robotics Lab at University of Toronto as well as The Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Centre for Image Guided Innovation & Therapeutic Intervention (PCIGITI) at SickKids, we are looking for 2 new Postdocs. Focus on Machine Learning with MRI data as well as Vision-guided Continuum Robotics.
100% success with the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral Program
2021-04-28: The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded Wenzhi Guo and Mustafa Haiderbhai prestigious scholarships for 3 years each. Congratulations!
$2.8m CFI Funding at SickKids
2021-03-05: We are part of a big push and research effort towards better fetal interventions. Team leaders Dr. James Drake and Dr. Tim Van Mieghem have received funding from the Canada Foundation of Innovation (CFI) to build the research arm of the Ontario Fetal Centre (OFC). We are very happy to buy equipment to assist future fetal interventions through OCT-guidance.
Invited Talk at PedMedDev Symposium
2021-02-16: Lueder A. Kahrs is giving an invited talk on "Computer Vision and Graphics for Mixed Reality in the Operating Room" at the 3rd International Symposium on Pediatric Medical Devices.
Two abstracts accepted at ImNO 2021
2021-01-15: The two abstracts of Wenzhi Guo and Emily Huang with the titles "Augmented Reality Relaxed Skin Tension Lines for Face Surgery - Initial Results on a Mobile Device" as well as "2D and 3D Labeling Methods for Facial Skin Tension Lines" are accepted for the 19th Annual Imaging Network Ontario Symposium.
Paper accepted at IEEE ISBI 2021
2021-01-08: Haotian Yang's paper "Real-Time Coarse-To-Fine Depth Estimation On Stereo Endoscopic Images With Self-Supervised Learning" was accepted for the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2021.
Lueder is T-CAIREM member
2020-12-22: Lueder A. Kahrs has been accepted as Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) member.
Haotian received Research Grant
2020-11-13: Haotian Yang's application for the UTM Undergraduate Research Grant was successful. Congratulations!
Emily received Research Award
2020-06-17: Emily Huang's application for the DCS Undergraduate Research Award was successful. Congratulations!