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Improving clinical outcomes through technology
Welcome!
Our mission is to work towards improving clinical outcomes through appropriate use of technology. We are interested in biomechanics (both engineering biomechanics and sport biomechanics), biomedical engineering, computer integrated surgery, medical robotics and related fields. We run exciting research projects in these areas, generously funded by The Australian Research Council and other agencies. We collaborate with many leading institutions, including Harvard Medical School, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and AIST Japan. Within these projects opportunities exist to conduct research towards PhD and MSc by research degrees. Our research streams are:
- Biomechanics of the Brain headed by Adam Wittek
- Vascular Engineering headed by Research Assistant Professor Barry Doyle.
- Computational Methods for Medicine headed by Associate Professor Grand Joldes.
We are located at arguably one of the nicest university campuses in the world.
I hope you will find our work interesting!
School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009, AUSTRALIA
Phone:+(61)864883608
Fax: + (61)864881024
Email: [email protected]
https://www.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kmiller/
The University of Western Australia
News
Director Receives Research Awards
Winthrop Professor Karol Miller has been elected laureate of Humboldt Research Award for his pioneering work in the field of biomechanics of soft tissues for surgical simulation, details here. He has also received vice chancellor's research award.
MICCAI CBM X Workshop 2015
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine X. A MICCAI 2015 Workshop, Munich, Germany, 5 October 2015
Mathematical modeling and computer simulation have proved tremendously successful in engineering. One of the greatest challenges for mechanists is to extend the success of computational mechanics to fields outside traditional engineering, in particular to biology, biomedical sciences, and medicine. The workshop will provide an opportunity for computational biomechanics specialists to present and exchange opinions on the opportunities of applying their techniques to computer-integrated medicine. For example, continuum mechanics models provide a rational basis for analyzing biomedical images by constraining the solution to biologically reasonable motions and processes.
Biomechanical modeling can also provide clinically important information about the physical status of the underlying biology, integrating information across molecular, tissue, organ, and organism scales. The main goal of this workshop is to showcase the clinical and scientific utility of computational biomechanics in computer-integrated medicine.
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Robohub Podcast: Prof. Karol Miller
Follow this link to hear W/Prof. Karol Miller talk about medical robotics, mathematical models of soft tissue (brain, liver, etc.) that can be used for robot-assisted surgery by providing fast and accurate feedback and challenges in making surgery fully autonomous.
ISML Scholarship in Computational Biomechanics for Medicine
ISML Scholarship in Computational Biomechanics for Medicine will be offered to outstanding PhD candidates undertaking research in Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory. It is open to both domestic and international applicants. The value of the Scholarship is A$10000 per annum. For further information contact ISML academics or visit UWA scholarship page.
Director Awarded for Excellent Research Supervision
W/Prof. Karol Miller has been awarded Teaching Excellence and Research Supervision by faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, The University of Western Australia.
A New Article about Us
There is a new article in Engineers Australia Magazine about our research!
Another Award Wining Paper
Assoc. Prof. Adam Wittek and W/Prof. Karol Miller have been awarded Sir George Julius medal for their paper:
“Patient –Specific Model of Brain Deformation: Application to Medical Image Registration” J. Biomechanics vol. 40, pp. 919-929.
This trend-setting paper demonstrates and confirms the utility of engineering computations in image-guided surgery. The paper is ranked 10 among ~10000 biomechanics articles published since 2007.
Institution of Engineers Australia has judged this paper to be one of the most influential in the last five years.
