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EMBS Career Achievement Award

Presented to Jean-Louis Coatrieux "For outstanding research contributions to biomedical signal processing and modeling, medical imaging and computer graphics."

EMBS Service Award

Presented to Yuan-Ting Zhang "For exceptional and meritorious service to the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) with outstanding contributions to the development and promotion of EMBS™ conferences, educational activities, and international collaboration"

Early Career Achievement Award

Presented to Alejandro Frangi "For outstanding contributions to medical image computing, especially, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular image analysis using model- and registration-based methods"

IEEE EMBS Fellows

• Maximus Viergever, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands "for leadership and contributions to medical imaging"
• Jaakko Malmivuo, Tampere University of Technology, Finland "for contributions to theoretical and experimental aspects of bioelectromagnetic phenomena"
• Shangkai Gao, Tsinghua University, China "for contributions to the study of brain-computer interface"
• Amir Amini, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA "for contributions to cardiovascular imaging and medical image analysis"
• Yuang-Ting Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong "for contributions to the field of wearable devices and signal processing algorithms for mobile healthcare"
• Jerome Liang, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, USA "for contributions to medical image reconstruction and virtual colonoscopy"
• Alan Sahakian, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois "for contributions to electrophysiology of atrial cardiac arrhythmias"
• Xiaochuan Pan, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA "for contributions to nuclear and non-invasive imaging" # Ronald Aarts, Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, Netherlands "for research and application in signal processing for acoustics and sound reproduction"
• Zeungnam Bien, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea "for contributions to development of assistive robots and human-robot interaction systems"
• Dmitry Goldgof, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA "for contributions to computer vision and biomedical applications"

EMBS Student Paper Competition

Region Finalists

• North America: Song Wang, NJIT, USA Non-invasive Diagnosing Malignant Melanoma by Multi-spectral Optical Nevoscope
• Latin America: Miguel Altuve, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela LF/(LF+HF) index in Ventricular Repolarization Variability related and unrelated to Heart Rate Variability
• Asia Pacific: Spencer Chin-Yu Chen, University of New South Wales, Australia Psychophysics of Prosthetic Vision: I. Visual Scanning and Visual Acuity
• Europe: Valentina Magagnin, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Semi-Automated Analysis of Coronary Flow Doppler Images: Validation with Manual Tracings
• Middle East/Africa: Ershad SharifAhmadian, Shahed University, Iran Wavelet Compression of Multichannel ECG Data by Enhanced Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees Algorithm

Open Finalists

• Makarand Deo, University of Calgary, Canada Accelerating Large Cardiac Bidomain Simulations by Arnoldi Preconditioning
• Israel Byrd, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Delayed Termination Following Pacing Induced Shifts from Monomorphic to Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia: Implications for Antitachycardia Pacing
• Natalia Arzeno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Quantitative Analysis of QRS Detection Algorithms Based on the First Derivative of the ECG
• Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Case Western Reserve University, USA Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation: Accurate Axonal Threshold Prediction with Diffusion Tensor Based Electric Field Models
• Zhongming Liu, University of Minnesota, USA Three-Dimensional Ventricular Activation Imaging by Means of Equivalent Current Source Modeling and Estimation
• Martin Bishop, University of Oxford, UK Modulation of Shock-End Virtual Electrodoe Polarisation As a Direct Result of 3D Fluorescent Photon Scattering
• Eric Aboussouan, École Polytechniqne de Montreal, Canada High-Precision Absolute Positioning of Medical Instruments in MRI Systems
• David Fitch, University of Memphis, USA Esophageal Electric Fields Are Correlated to Atrial Defibrillation Thresholds: Towards Patient-Specific Optimization of External Atrial Defibrillation
• Dean Karantonis, University of New South Wales, Australia Automated Non-Invasive Detection of Pumping States in an Implantable Rotary Blood Pump
• Katrina Wendel, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Correlation between Live and Post Mortem Skull Conductivity Measurements

Paper Competition Award Recipients

First Place
Martin Bishop
University of Oxford, UK

Second Place
Dean Karantonis
University of New South Wales, Australia

Third Place
Ashutosh Chaturvedi
Case Western Reserve University, USA

EMBS Student Design Competition

Design Competition Award Finalists

• Norbert Dommel, Yan Tat Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia The Design and Testing of an Epi-Retinal Vision Prosthesis Neurostimulator Capable of Concurrent Parallel Stimulation
• Vikram Aggarwal, Aniruddha Chatterjee, Yoonju Cho, John Hopkins University, USA Ultrasound-Guided Noninvasive Measurement of a Patient’s Central Venous Pressure
• Armen Kherlopian, Joseph Gerrein, Minerva Yue, Kristina Kim, Ji Won Kim, Madhav Sukumaran, Columbia University, USA Electrooculogram based system for computer control using a multiple feature classification model

Design Competition Winners First Place Norbert Dommel, Yan Tat Wong University of New South Wales, Australia