2/17-21/19 Four oral presentations have been successfully made at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference by Tom, Khadija, Sang Ho, and Sharmin. Well done!
2018
10/15/18 Four SPIE papers submitted by Tom, Khadija, Sang Ho, and Sharmin have been accepted for oral presentations. Well done and congratulations!
8/17/18 Alex's last day at Hopkins. Thanks for your hard work!
7/29-8/2/18 MICA at AAPM 2018 Annual Meeting. Sang Ho, Sharmin, Khadija, and Tom have presented our exciting work.
7/17/18 Dr. Lee's paper entitled "Phase II study of intraoperative dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy using Registered Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy (iRUF)" has been accepted for publication in Brachytherapy.
6/25/18 Khadija’s application entitled “Predicting radiation induced toxicities using radiation and imaging biomarkers of head and neck cancer” receives ASTRO-AAPM Physics Seed grant. Congratulations Khadija!
6/18/2018 MICA has shined at Radiation Oncology retreat 2018. Sang Ho, Sharmin, Khadija, Tom, Peijin, Pranav, Luke, and Sarah have presented our exciting work to the department.
5/29/18 Alexander Hasnain has joined the MICA lab as a summer research intern. He will work on 4D-MRI reconstruction and machine learning during this summer. Welcome Alex!
3/1/18 Tom Hrinivich has joined the MICA lab. He will work on image-guided brachytherapy, radiomics, machine learning. Welcome Tom!
2/15/2018 Dr. Lee's poster on "CT-ultrasound deformable registration for PET-determined prostate brachytherapy" received Cum Laude Poster Presentation Award in Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Conference at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference.
1/31/2018 Sunhee's farewell lunch. Thank you for your hardwork, and wish you the best for your PhD study!
2017
12/14/17 Seyoun's paper on "Simultaneous tumor and surrogate motion tracking with dynamic MRI for radiation therapy planning" has been accepted to Physics in Medicine and Biology. Congratulations!
12/5/2017 MICA end of year lunch @Amiccis.
10/1/2017 Sang Ho has joined the MICA lab. He will be working on big data and imaging biomarker for lung cancer radiotherapy outcome prediction. Welcome!
8/29/2017 MICA lunch @Atwater's Hopkins. Happy summer and happy research!
8/15/2017 Sharmin has joined the MICA lab. She will be working on image-guided prostate brachytherapy and machine learning for image analysis. Welcome!
7/30/2017 KAMPiNA-KSMP joint symposium and 2017 KAMPiNA annual meeting were successfully held during AAPM 2017 annual meeting.
7/30/2017 Dr. Lee has presented Seyoun's work on "Evaluation of tumor motion management with dynamic MRI in lung cancer patients" at AAPM 2017.
7/20/2017 Khadija has joined the MICA lab. She is our medical physics resident in Radiation Oncology department, and has expertise in MR imaging and MR image processing. She will be working on imaging biomarker and MRI image analysis with radiomics and machine learning to predict radiation treatment outcome and toxicities. Welcome!
6/13/2017 Drs. Song, Burdette, and Lee's R01 grant on "PET-determined prostate brachytherapy dosing using intraoperative image-guidance" has been awarded. This grant will support our continuing effort to develop a multi-modal image guidance system for prostate cancer treatment by brachytherapy for next 5 years. Congratulations!
5/28/2017 Dr. Lee's paper entitled "Intraoperative Registered Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy (iRUF) for dose calculation during prostate brachytherapy: improved accuracy compared to standard ultrasound-based dosimetry" has been accepted for publication in Radiotherapy and Oncology (The green journal). Congratulations!
5/13/2017 MICA lab has presented one oral and one poster at Radiation Oncology Scientific Retreat held at Mt. Washington Convention Center. Adam's presentation on "Automatic segmentation of head and neck anatomical structures using deep learning" was awarded 3rd place best presentation. Congratulations Adam!
5/4/2017 Seyoun's farewell and Sunhee and Sarah's welcome lunch at AMICCIS. Thanks for your hardwork Seyoun and wish you the best for your career! Welcome Sunhee and Sarah!
3/15/2017 Sunhee has joined the MICA lab as a visiting student. She will be with us for one year and work on x-ray scatter correction and cone-beam CT reconstruction projects. Welcome!
2/14-2/15/2017 Dr. Lee has presented his talk on multi-atlas-based MR to CT synthesis for MRI-based radiotherapy planning, and a poster on evaluation of tumor motion management with dynamic MRI at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2017.
2/3/2017 Drs. Peng Huang, Tony Lin, and Junghoon Lee's application entitled "Develop and validate nodule probability of malignancy score Pm for lung cancer early diagnosis" awarded Allegheny Health Network-Johns Hopkins Cancer Research Fund.
2016
11/17/2016 Seyoun's paper entitled "Deformable registration of CT and cone-beam CT with local intensity matching" has been accepted for publication in Physics in Medicine and Biology. Congratulations!
10/1/2016 MICA lab and Rayence Inc. have started a collaborative project on "Development of a software-based x-ray scatter correction algorithm for digital radiography".
In this project, we will develop image processing algorithms that estimate and correct x-ray scatter from 2D radiography without using anti-scatter grid.
8/19/2016 Seyoun's paper entitled "Technical Note: SCUDA: A software platform for cumulative dose assessment" has been accepted for publication in Medical Physics. Congratulations!
7/31-8/4/2016 Seyoun successfully presented a poster and two talks on head and neck normal tissue toxicity prediction, post-implant dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy by x-ray and MRI fusion, and evaluation of tumor motion management strageties in radiotherapy by dynamic MRI at the 2016 AAPM annual meeting.
7/31/2016 KAMPiNA-KSMP joint symposium and 2016 KAMPiNA annual meeting were successfully held during AAPM 2016 annual meeting.
7/31/2016 Seyoun received the MC2 best abstract award for her head and neck xerostomia prediction in KAMPiNA 2016 annual meeting. Congratulations!
7/20/2016 Our collaborative paper with IGI Technologies entitled "The utility of cloud computing in analyzing GPU-accelerated deformable image registration of CT and CBCT images in head and neck cancer radiation therapy" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. Congratulations!
4/24/2016 Nakats and Xuan's abstracts have been accepted to ASTRO 2016. Congratulations!
4/19/2016 Seyoun's two abstracts (one oral and one poster) and Rana's abstract (oral) have been accepted to AAPM 2016. Congratulations!
3/1/2016 Our work on "Dynamic Intraoperative Dosimetry Using Registered Fluoroscopy and Ultrasound: Initial Results of a Phase II Trial" has been accepted for an oral presentation at the World Congress of Brachytherapy. Congratulations!
2/29/2016 Korean night at SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2016.
2/29/2016 Seyoun has presented her work on 1) X-ray and MRI registration for post-implant dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy and 2) accurate tumor tracking based on CT-CBCT registration at SPIE Medical Imaging 2016.
2/27/2016 Dr. Danny Song, Seyoun, and Rana have presented our intraoperative dynamic dosimetry using RUF, adaptive radiotherapy platform, and 4D-MRI based tumor motion management assessment at Radiation Oncology Scientific retreat.
2/23/2016 Rana's farewell lunch at Balducci's. Thanks for your hardwork Rana and wish you the best for your career!
1/5/2016 Happy New Year! MICA lunch at AMICCIS.
2015
12/2015 Our intraoperative registration of ultrasound and fluorocopy (iRUF) system has been featured on the
Patrick C. Walsh Prostate Cancer Research Fund (The Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine) Discovery special centennial edition (vol. 11, Winter 2015).
12/04/2015 Rana has presented two posters on 4D-MRI reconstruction and lung tumor and surrogate tracking methods at Bayview Research Symposium.
10/30/2015 Seyoun's papers on head and neck tumor volume change estimation with intensity-corrected CT-CBCT registration and deformable registration of X-ray and MRI for post-implant dosimetry in prostate brachytherapy have been accepted for oral presentations at SPIE Medical Imaging 2016. Congratulations!
7/2015 Four talks from MICA have been successfully presented in AAPM this year.
Seyoun: ART platform, HN anatomical change monitoring
Rana: 4D-MRI reconstruction
Lianna: Rotational setup error in pancreatic cancer treatment.
7/1/2015 Dr. Lee and his collaborators (Drs. Huang, Brock, Fishman, Chu, Bhujwalla, Wang) were awarded Johns Hopkins Discovery Award 2015. This grant will support our efforts on lung cancer early diagnosis using biomarkers from multiple platforms. Congratulations everyone!
6/8/2015 Seyoun and Adam's poster on adaptive radiotherapy platform has been successfully presented in the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering conference.
4/20/2015 Seyoun's abstracts on adaptive radiotherapy platform and deformable image registration based head and neck anatomical volume change estimation have been accepted for AAPM as oral presentations. Rana's abstract for 4D-MRI reconstruction has been accepted for AAPM as a snap oral presentation. Lianna's abstract on rotational setup error in pancreatic cancer treatment has been accepted for AAPM as a poster presentation. Congratulations!
2/25/2015 Seyoun has successfully presented her poster on CT-CBCT registration in SPIE Medical imaging conference.
2014
11/8/2014 Seyoun and Rana successfully presented our adaptive radiotherapy platform and 4D-MRI reconstruction algorithm in Radiation Oncology Scientific Retreat. Seyoun's presentation was selected as the 3rd place for best presentation. Congratulations!
10/22/2014 Seyoun's paper on CT-CBCT registration with CBCT intensity correction has been accepted for SPIE Medical Imaging 2015. Congratulations!
10/2/2014 Our first two RUF cases with RadVision were successfully completed. Three RUF sessions for each case were performed and dynamic dosimetry and adaptive planning were made.
9/11/2014 Elekta project on advanced CBCT reconstruction has started.
9/10/2014 Seyoun has presented the hardware-accelerated adaptive radiotherapy platform and demonstrated MICA-ART platform to the department.
9/9/2014 MICA lab website has moved to google sites.
8/28/2014 Nathanael's paper on "An image-guidance system for dynamic dose calculation in prostate brachytherapy using ultrasound and fluoroscopy" has been published in Medical Physics. Congratulations!
8/25/2014 Dr. Lee's paper on "Semi-automatic segmentation for 3D motion analysis of the tonguewith dynamic MRI" has been published in Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (online first). Congratulations!
8/15/2014 Four summer students have finished their head and neck contouring. Thanks for your hard work.
7/7/2014 Dr. Jonghye Woo's paper on "A high-resolution atlas and statistical model of the vocal tract from structural MRI" has been published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization (online first). Congratulations!
6/9/2014 Four summer students (Joanne, Nick, Nathan, and Kevin) have joined the MICA lab.
5/1/2014 Rana and Adam have joined the MICA lab.
4/3/2014 Seyoun has joined the MICA lab.
2/18/2014 Dr. Snehashis Roy has successfully presented his work on "MR to CT registration of brains using image synthesis" at SPIE Medical Imaging 2014.
2/1/2014 Toshiba-Hopkins collaboration on big data analysis in radiotherapy has started.
2013
7/5/2013 Dr. Lee receives an R21 grant from NIH/NCI. A new project on 4D-MRI based evaluation of tumor motion management strategies in radiotherapy has started.
4/11/2013 Dr. Lee has presented his work on "Semi-automatic segmentation of the tongue for 3D motion analysis with dynamic MRI" at IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2013.
2/12/2013 Nathanael has presented his work on "An intraoperative dynamic dosimetry guidance system for prostate brachytherapy" at SPIE Medical Imaging 2013.
2012
10/1/2012 New collaboration with IGI Technologies on adaptive radiotherapy with hardware-accelerated deformable image registration and dose computation has started.
4/1/2012 MICA lab has been launched.
