Collaboration to improve visualization technologies for vital applications
Research Thrusts
CITRIS Research Wins Award
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy’s research in “Tele-Immersion for Physicians” was recently awarded the CENIC 2011 Innovations in Networking Award for High Performance Research Applications.
Big Ideas a topic at Convergence Science forum
The Big Ideas contest was one of several topics at a recent forum
Robotics project featured in U.S. News
CITRIS Researchers are working on a project to “teach” robots to function in the operating room as human surgical assistants. This work is currently highlighted in U.S. News and World Report.
CITRIS Distinguished Speaker: Bioengineering Advances for Economically Disadvantaged Societies
This talk will present scientific breakthroughs such as the use of cellular phone for medical imaging in small clinics and rural areas, detecting internal bleeding remotely in rural areas through multi-frequency spectroscopy, a simple electrolytic means for low power electricity, using classifiers to augment lack of expert medical care in rural areas, treatment of cancer in rural clinics and others.
Research Exchange: Automatic Speech Recognition at 60: Old and Immature
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a venerable discipline, with significant research papers going back to the early 1950’s. Given this long history, ASR is often viewed as a mature field. However, like human beings, a research topic can be old without being mature.
Research Exchange: Innovation in the Health Care Enterprise
The evaluation and management of new information technologies is an increasing challenge for health care organizations that want to establish innovation as a core strategic capability.
healthcare.gov – Harnessing IT Innovation to Improve the Nation’s Health
The Obama Administration is aggressively innovating in order to use information technology to improve health. Unprecedented amounts of health data will be made available, and the Administration is encouraging the development of Web 2.0 and other technologies to transform that data into useful tools for understanding public policy, selecting insurance coverage and evaluating the quality of providers.
Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME III)
This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME III)
This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
CITRIS Chief Scientist Thomas Nesbitt Receives Leadership Award
Thomas Nesbitt, CITRIS Chief Scientist and associate vice chancellor for strategic technologies and alliances for UC Davis Health System, has received the 2010 Leadership Award for the Advancement of Telemedicine from the American Telemedicine Association.
Research Exchange: Advancing Health Through Technology: The Vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
A nurse leader, educator and scientist and a nationally-recognized expert in gerontological nursing and rural health care, Heather M. Young was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for Nursing at UC Davis Health System in 2008. She also serves as the founding Dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.
Research Exchange: Molecule Counting Technology for Personalized Healthcare
Knowledge is power. Knowing of the quantities of specific molecules present in a biological system is fundamental to understanding systems level operation. This understanding is critical for translating basic knowledge of specific molecules into applied medical, agriculture, forensic, and drug development assays, and has created a need for methods that more accurately quantify an ever-increasing number of newly identified analytes with greater precision.
CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar Opening
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley has an immediate opening for CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of telemedicine and healthcare technologies.
Groundbreaking for California Telehealth Resource Center
UC Davis physicians, nurses and administrative leaders gathered Friday, Jan. 15, to mark the official groundbreaking for the new California Telehealth Resource Center on the grounds of the university’s Sacramento campus. The four-story, $36 million building is designed to enhance and complement UC Davis’ expertise in the field of telehealth, which is the use of high-speed telecommunications for medical services. Read the full article.
Getting Your Robot On: Wearable Machines’ Intimate Interface
Jacob Rosen has developed a robotic arm controlled by the
electrical signals sent by the brain through the nerves to contract the
muscles – signals known as electromyograph (EMG).
Medical Matchmakers: Startup ComplexDX Helps Specialists Find Hard-to-Diagnose Patients
A new company, which won second-place in this year's Big Ideas contest, works to connect patients with difficult-to-diagnose symptoms with the right specialists.
Javeed Siddiqui Appointed as CITRIS Medical Director
Javeed Siddiqui, M.D was recently appointed as Medical Director of CITRIS. Dr. Siddiqui’s work to advance healthcare access and quality through the use of technology has made significant contributions to the field. His project management and strategic planning experience in technology advancement will be valuable throughout the CITRIS community.
Ravi Nemana awarded $5,000 by IBM
Ravi Nemana, CITRIS Executive Director for Services and Health Care, received an Honorable Mention Award of $5,000 for his contributions to IBM’s Smarter Planet University Jam. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to involve more than 300,000 people around the world in far-reaching exploration and problem-solving. IBM's Jams provide for collaborative innovation and bring different minds and different perspectives together to discover new solutions to long-standing problems.
Data You Can Admire: Kwan-Liu Ma Converts Huge Data Sets into Illuminating Visualizations
Professor Kwan-Liu Ma at
UC Davis takes data sets that can be on the peta or tera scale
and turns them into explorable, workable, and visualizable units
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy Awarded 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal
Professor and CITRIS Director Emeritus Ruzena Bajcsy was recently awarded the Franklin Institute's 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Prof. Bajcsy received the award for contributions to robotics and computer vision, specifically the development of active perception and the creation of methods to improve our understanding of medical images.
Serious Play: Using Games to Screen for Fragile X
Researchers at CITRIS have teamed up to develop a video game that can screen young children for fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental impairment.
Cell Phone as a Platform for Healthcare Awards from MSR
CITRIS projects at Berkeley and Santa Cruz using cell phones as a
healthcare platform are among the projects supported by a recent Microsoft Research initiative.
The Eyes Have It…Finally
Reliable and inexpensive broadband connects rural patients to eye doctors.