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Augmented Reality Headset Development for Intra-Operative Guidance of Surgery with Near Infrared Autofluorescence

Application Cycle
February 2025

The proposed system is an augmented reality headset for surgical guidance using optical imaging. Creating a unifying modular platform will increase the usability of previous patents developed here at Vanderbilt. 

Awardee

Professor Mahadevan-Jansen's research focuses on the application of optical techniques for the diagnosis of pathology and neuromodulation. The primary research areas include:

  1. Optical Diagnostics
  2. Neurophotonics
  3. Image-guided Surgical Techniques

I am interested in biomedical Image and signal processing, combined with different machine learning techniques to aid in clinical diagnosis and treatment procedures of various diseases.

At VUIIS, I am trying to analyze the intrinsic functional connectivity of the spinal cord of non-human primates, using the Local field Potential signal . In particular, I am trying to do data-driven analysis for analyzing the intrinsic functional connectivity of the spinal cord. Also, in another project I am involved in applying machine learning methods to differentiate between different stages of Alzeihmer's using White matter resting state connectivity obtained using fMRI.

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