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News 11 November, 2021

José Timaná receives 1st Place Scientific Poster Presentation Award at RCBU Biomedical Ultrasound Symposium

Biomedical Ultrasound Symposium Day 2021, organized by Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound, included topical lectures, student presentations, poster sessions, lunch, and networking opportunities for students interested or working in…

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News 11 November, 2021

Sebastian Merino among EMBC Student Paper Competition Finalists

Sebastian Merino was selected as a geographic finalist for Latinoamerica in the Student Paper Competition of the 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. His paper, titled “Shear Wave…

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News 12 October, 2021

José Timaná receives Honorable Mention on LAUS 2021 Student Pitch Competition

This event took place on October 5 at LAUS 2021 – IEEE Latin America Ultrasonics Symposium. Students attending LAUS 2021 were invited to participate in the Student Pitch Competition, in which they deliver a live 60-second pitch on their research,…

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News 2 September, 2021

Aldo Tecse´s paper is accepted by LAUS 2021

Several studies of Reverberant shear wave elastography (R-SWE) have shown its potential for clinical applications. Previous studies of R-SWE present a shear wave speed (SWS) estimation based on a curve-fitting of the regression of Bessel functions…

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News 2 September, 2021

Presentation at IUS 2021

Hector Chahuara will present the work “Simultaneous estimation of ultrasonic attenuation and backscatter coefficients using robust estimation methods” in the IUS 2021 conference. This work presents a novel optimization-based algorithm…

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News 2 September, 2021

Katherin Zumaeta has been accepted to partipate in the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference Management System

Repetitive finger tapping (FT) movements are sensitive to detect bradykinesia in Parkinson Disease. In this sense, this pilot study presents a comparative analysis between inertial sensors (accelerometer and gyroscope) and optical flow to assess…

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News 2 September, 2021

Katherin Zumaeta has been accepted for publication and presentation in the Movement Disorder Society Virtual Congress 2021

The aim of our pilot study is to optimize optical flow (OF) measurement of the frequency of finger tapping with the use of accelerometry in healthy volunteers. For data acquisition, an accelerometer was placed in the index finger of eight healthy…

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News 2 September, 2021

Sebastian Merino presents paper at IUS 2021

Elastography is an imaging modality that provides quantitative stiffness information based on ultrasound. In Crawling Wave Sonoelastography, two external vibration sources generate moving interference patterns on a tissue and a Shear Wave Speed…

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