2020 actively funded grants, journals, conferences and patents

GRANTS

  • Radiomics Prediction of Clinical Outcomes in SBRT of Subjects with Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, Ph.D., Varian Medical Systems, 1/1/2020-6/30/2022 – $250K
  • 4D MR Imaging of Flow and Hemodynamics in Aortic Stenosis, Principal Investigator: Amir A. Amini, NIH/NHLBI HL132263; -~$450k. (7/1/2017-6/30/2021)
  • O. Nasraoui, T. Eells, W. Byrd, V. Jones, R. W. Cohn, “ADVANCE:  Adaptation:  ATHENA: Advancement through Healthy Empowerment, Networking and Awareness at University of Louisville,” National Science Foundation, HRD1936125 $1,000,000 (1 October 2019 to 30 September 2022)   https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1936125
  • “NNCI:The Kentucky Multi-scale Manufacturing and Nano Integration Node (MMNIN)”, Kevin Walsh walsh@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Thomas Starr (Co-Principal Investigator), Bruce Alphenaar (Co-Principal Investigator), Shamus McNamara (Co-Principal Investigator), J. Todd Hastings (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF Award ECCS #1542164, $3,672,164, August 31, 2015 to August 31, 2020.
  • “NNCI: KY Multiscale”, Kevin Walsh walsh@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Dan Popa (Co-Principal Investigator), Shamus McNamara (Co-Principal Investigator), J. Todd Hastings (Co-Principal Investigator), Keng Hsu (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF Award ECCS  #2025075, $3,500,000, September 1 2020 to August 31 2025.
  • REU SITE: Interdisciplinary Micro/nano-manufacturing Program Addressing Challenges Today (IMPACT)”, Kevin Walsh walsh@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Jacqueline McNeil (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF AWARD EEC #1560235, $374,398, May 1 2016 to April 30, 2020.
  • “REU SITE: Interdisciplinary Micro/nano/additive-manufacturing Program Addressing Challenges Today – Next Generation (IMPACT-NG)”, Kevin Walsh walsh@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Brian Robinson (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF Award EEC # 1950137, $397,608, May 1 2020 to April 30, 2023.
  • “MRI: Development of a Multiscale Additive Manufacturing Instrument with Integrated 3D Printing and Robotic Assembly”, Dan Popa dan.popa@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Kevin Walsh (Co-Principal Investigator), Thad Druffel (Co-Principal Investigator), C. Harnett (Co-Principal Investigator), Keng Hsu (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF Award ECCS #1828355, $1,546,219, September 15, 2018 to August 31 2021.
  • “Exploration of Damage Mechanisms in MEMs-Based Memory and Logic Devices”, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Bruce Alphenaar (PI), Kevin Walsh (co-PI), and Shamus McNamara (co-PI), $1,400,000, February 12, 2015 to June 30, 2020.
  • NSF Project EPSCOR RII Track-1: Kentucky Advanced Manufacturing Partnership for Enhanced Robotics and Structures, PI: Rodney Andrews (UK), Budget of subcontract to UofL $5,304,000, plus $862k cost-share, UofL PI Dan Popa, 2019-2024. NSF award #1849213 OGMB200157
  • NSF/NIH Project SCH: INT: Adaptive Partnership for the Robotic Treatment of Autism, Budget, $1,214,471, 2019-2023. Dan Popa, NSF award #1838808 OGMB181153
  • NSF Project CMMI: Light-Powered Microrobots for Future Microfactories, 2017-2021, Budget $781k, 2017-2021. Dan Popa, NSF award #1734383 OGMB170954
  • NSF Project MRI: Development of a Multiscale Additive Manufacturing Instrument with Integrated 3D Printing and Robotic Assembly, Budget $2,196,000 (extramural $1,538,000), 2018-2021. Dan Popa, NSF award #1828355, OGMB180796
  • NSF Project “PFI: BIC: Adaptive Nursing Assistants for Physical Tasks in Hospital Environments,” 2016-2019, Budget $880K, Dan Popa, NSF award #1643889, OMGB160972
  • NSF Project NNCI: The Kentucky Multi-scale Manufacturing and Nano Integration Node (MMNIN), Kevin Walsh walsh@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Thomas Starr (Co-Principal Investigator), Bruce Alphenaar (Co-Principal Investigator), Shamus McNamara (Co-Principal Investigator), J. Todd Hastings (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF Award ECCS #1542164, $3,672,164, August 31, 2015 to August 31, 2020. OGMB151257
  • NSF Project REU SITE: Interdisciplinary Micro/nano-manufacturing Program Addressing Challenges Today (IMPACT), Kevin Walsh walsh@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Jacqueline McNeil (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF AWARD EEC #1560235, $374,398, May 1 2016 to April 30, 2020. OGMB200169
  • NSF Project REU SITE: Interdisciplinary Micro/nano/additive-manufacturing Program Addressing Challenges Today – Next Generation (IMPACT-NG)”, Kevin Walsh walsh@louisville.edu (Principal Investigator), Brian Robinson (Co-Principal Investigator), NSF Award EEC # 1950137, $397,608, May 1 2020 to April 30, 2023. OGMB200169
  • Subcontract OIEN180832 Smart Brief Modules for Biolink; 2/2018 – 12/2020; John Naber, $184,065
  • Subcontract OIEN190029 Tocodynamometer Project; 6/2018 – 5/2020; John Naber, $39,891
  • Subcontract OIEB200267 Advanced Opthalmics; 9/19 – 6/2020; John Naber, $7,847
  • “Linear Motor Control Development for Vapor Compressor Application: Phase 11,” GE Appliances, M. L. McIntyre, $65,966, (7/1/19 – 6/30/20). OICB140197

JOURNAL PAPERS

  1. “Recurrent Attention Network for False Positive Reduction in the Detection of Pulmonary Nodules in Thoracic CT Scans” M. Mehdi Farhangi, Nicholas Petrick, Berkman Sahiner, Hichem Frigui, Amir Amini, Aria Pezeshk, Medical Physics, in press, DOI:
    10.1002/mp.14076 February 2020.
  2. “ECG Gating Is More Precise Than Peripheral Pulse Gating When Quantifying Spinal CSF Pulsations Using Phase Contrast Cine MRI,” R. Bert, N. Settipalle, D. Muddasani, E. Tiwana, B. Wellman, MJ Negahdar, F. Mihlon, A. Amini, M. Boakye, Academic Radiology, Vol. 27, issue 4, pages 552-562, April 2020
  3. “AI in Medical Imaging Informatics: Current Challenges and Future Directions,” A. S. Panayides, A. Amini, Ben Veasey, et al., IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics, (24)7:1837-1857, July 2020
  4. “Dual-Venc Acquisition for 4D Flow MR Imaging of Aortic Stenosis with Spiral Read-Outs”, Sean Callahan, Narayana Singam, Michael Kendrick , MJ Negahdar, Hui Wang, Marcus Stoddard, Amir Amini, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol. 52, No. 1, pages
    117-128, July 2020
  5. “Lung Nodule Malignancy Prediction from Longitudinal CT Scans with Siamese Convolutional Attention Networks,” Benjamin P. Veasey, Justin Broadhead, Michael Dahle, Albert Seow, and Amir Amini, IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology,
    vol. 1, pp. 257-264, 2020, doi: 10.1109/OJEMB.2020.3023614
  6. “AI-driven Informatics, Sensing, Imaging, and Big Data Analytics for Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Amir Amini, Wei Chen, Giancarlo Fortino, Ye Li, Yi Pau, and May Dongmei Wang, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Volume 24, No.
    10, October 2020.
  7. Arutt, C. N., Shuvra, P. D., Lin, J.T., Alles, M. L., Alphenaar, B. W., Davidson, J. L., Walsh, K. M., McNamara, S., Fleetwood, D. M., Shrimpf, R. D., “Dopant-Type and Concentration Dependence of Total-Ionizing Dose Response in Piezoresistive Micromachined Cantilevers”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 66, Issue 1, Pages 397-404, 2019. (IF = 1.740)
  8. P. D. Shuvra, C. N. Arutt, J. T.  Lin, J. Davidson, M. Alles, K. Walsh, B.  Alphenaar, S. McNamara, “Dimensional dependence of the radiation damage in microelectromechanical system resonators”, Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics, Volume: 52, Issue: 37, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab2964, Sept 11, 2019 (IF = 3.169)
  9. D. Ratnayake, M. Derakhshani, T. Berfield, K. Walsh, “Bistability study of buckled MEMS diaphragms” Journal of Physics Communications, Volume 4, Issue 10, DOI: 10.1088/2399-6528/abbe5e, Oct 2020.
  10. J. T. Lin,  P.D. Shuvra, J. A. Yang, S. McNamara, K. Walsh, B. Alphenaar, “Buckled beam mechanical memory using an asymmetric piezoresistor for readout”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Volume 30, Issue 7, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6439/ab870c, July 2020. (IF = 1.882)
  11. C. Qu, B. Alphenaar, S. McNamara, and K. Walsh, “Design of line seeds for glancing angle deposition,” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (in preparation).

PATENTS:

  1. Naber, John (Goshen, KY), Jackson, Doug (New Albany, IN), Eiferman, Rick (Louisville, KY), “Ocular System and Method”, US Patent No. 10,863,903, granted December 15, 2020.
  2. Heyl, Ken (Birmingham, AL), Jackson, Doug (New Albany, IN), Naber, John (Goshen, KY), King; Roger (Hamilton, OH), “Garment Manufacturing System and Method”, US Patent No. 10,821,034, granted November 3, 2020.
  3. Burdick, Joel W. (Pasadena, CA), Tai, Yu-Chong (Pasadena, CA), Naber, John F. (Goshen, KY), Keynton; Robert S. (Louisville, KY), Edgerton, Victor Reggie (Los Angeles, CA), Roy, Roland R. (Playa Vista, CA), Gerasimenko, Yury (Los Angeles, CA), Harkema, Susan J. (Louisville, KY), Hodes, Jonathan (Louisville, KY), Angeli, Claudia A (Louisville, KY), Nandra, Mandheerej S. (Pasadena, CA), Desautels; Thomas Anthony (Pasadena, CA), Upchurch, Steven L. (Louisville, KY), Jackson, Douglas J. (New Albany, IN), Terrafranca, Nicholas A. (Laguna Niguel, CA), Chen, Yangsheng (Louisville, KY), “Neurostimulator”, US Patent No. 10,737,095, granted August 11, 2020.
  4. Heyl, Ken (Birmingham, AL), Jackson, Doug (New Albany, IN), Naber, John (Goshen, KY), King, Roger (Hamilton, OH), “Garment Manufacturing System and Method”, US Patent No. 10,561,541, granted February 19, 2020.
  5. Hahn, S. Kusumba, M. L. McIntyre, J. W. Latham, “METHOD FOR OPERATING A LINEAR COMPRESSOR,” NOVEMBER 2020, United State Patent #10,830,230.
  6. Kusumba, G. Hahn, M. L. McIntyre, J. W. Latham, “METHOD FOR DETECTING HEAD CRASHING IN A LINEAR COMPRESSOR,” JUNE 2020, United State Patent #10,670,008.
  7. Kusumba, G. Hahn, J. W. Latham, M. L. McIntyre, “METHOD FOR OPERATING A LINEAR COMPRESSOR,” 2020, United State Patent # 10,641,263.
  8. Kusumba, G. Hahn, J. W. Latham, M. L. McIntyre, “LINEAR COMPRESSOR AND METHODS OF POLARITY DETECTION,” 2020, United State Patent #10,587,211.
  9. Goodjohn, J. W. Latham, M. L. McIntyre, “METHOD FOR OPERATING A ROLLING PISTON COMPRESSOR,” NOVEMBER 2020, US Patent 10,823,172.
  10. S. Patent No. 10,776,998: “Method and System for Analysis of 3D Deformations and Regional Function of a Heart with 3D SinMod,” H. Wang and A. Amini, issued 2020. Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation
  11. S. Patent No. 10,733,737: “System and Method of Automated Segmentation of Anatomical Objects Through Learned Examples,” M. Mehdi Farhangi, Amir Amini, Hichem Frigui, issued 2020. Assignee: University of Louisville Research Foundation

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • “3D U-Net for Segmentation of Pulmonary Nodules in Volumetric CT Scans from MultiAnnotator Truth Estimation” William Funke, Benjamin Veasey, Jacek Zurada, Hichem Frigui, Amir Amini, SPIE Medical Imaging February 2020
  • “Lung Nodule Malignancy Classification Based on NLSTx Data”, B. Veasey, M. Farhangi, H. Frigui, J. Broadhead, M. Dahle. A. Pezeshk, A. Seow, A. Amini, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Iowa City, IA, April 2020
  • “Accelerated Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging via Deep Learning,” R. Nath, S. Callahan, N. Singam, M. Stoddard, A. Amini, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Iowa City, IA, April 2020
  • “Accelerated Phase Contrast MRI Reconstruction with Deep U-NET Convolutional Neural Networks”, Ruponti Nath, Sean Callahan, Narayana Singam, Marcus Stoddard, Amir Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Paris, France, August
    2020
  • “Effective Orifice Area (EOA) for Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis from 4D flow MRI,” Samuel Bibelhauser, Sean Callahan, Narayana Singam, Marcus Stoddard, Amir Amini, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Paris, France, August 2020