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Dr. Costa presented on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Medicine as a part of the Summer Workshop in Clinical Research series this summer, in conjunction with this year’s Mount Sinai Health Hackathon. He covered areas where AI is making waves like the automotive industry and how machine learning is applicable to solving a variety of problems. 

The series of workshops covers 3D printing, application design, robotics and virtual reality all taught by experts at Mount Sinai. If you want to learn more about the Hackathon and get involved visit http://icahn.mssm.edu/about/sinainnovations/health-hackathon

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Virtual reality, 3D simulation and modeling is a great way for physicians and residents to discuss procedures, approaches, and relevant anatomy in Neurosurgery. 

Pictured here is Dr. Joshua Bederson using VR goggles to discuss a particularly challenging posterior fossa tumor case involving cranial nerves with a resident. 

In the second picture, Dr. Raj Shrivastava discusses and identifies important vasculature pre-operatively with a resident in the operating room.

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Meet Leslie Schlachter, PA-C. Leslie is an integral part of Dr. Bederson’s clinic. She uses 3D prints and virtual simulation to help educate patients about their disease and understand the plan for surgery. Shown here are custom patient-specific 3D prints derived from MRI and CT scans. These prints are also used clinically in order to increase a surgeon’s awareness of the relationship between critical structures before and during surgery.

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We’re Hiring a Patent Agent!

Job Summary: 

We are looking for an in-house patent agent to join the Department of Neurosurgery’s Biomedical Modeling Design Center. The role involves working with a team building innovative pipeline that aims to generate commercially viable and protectable concepts, from patient bedside to market. The pipeline will focus on developing medical device technology. The role will involve discussing original concepts with inventor physicians, drafting claims, as well as contributing to active prototyping technology development that guides development in a commercially appropriate direction. 

If this is you, please contact Anthony Costa (anthony.costa@mssm.edu) for more information.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Engaging directly with inventors to establish a deep understanding of technology proposals 

2. Perform comprehensive patent analysis, landscape reviews, background searches

3. Participate in review of proposals and projects, informing overall risk, benefits, markets and commercialization strategies through comprehensive IP review 

4. Present all of the above through written documentation and oral presentations to leadership 

5. Work with the advisory board and IP teams directly during execution of IP on each project

Minimum Education

Bachelors or masters degree in biomedical or bioengineering sciences or related scientific discipline

Minimum Related Experience

2+ years experience in patent firm or related experience, including but not limited to:

- Experience in background patent searches, freedom to operate reviews

- Experience in drafting patents, patent summaries, and claims sets

- Experience in medical technologies a strong plus

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A successful venture at the North American Scull Base Meeting in New Orleans this weekend showing our 3D Simulations and 3D prints.

“A comparative study of industry and open source efforts for 3D visualization, pre- and intra-operative planning, and 3D printing of scull base tumors: a case report.” 

Additionally, in collaboration with our colleagues in ENT, “The Novel Use of 3D Reconstruction and Immersive Neuronavigation for Research of Scull Base Lesions in Endoscopic Endonasal Scull Base Surgery.”

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Come to our AANS ‘17  Course on Advanced Use of Computer-based Simulation Technologies for Intracranial Surgery!

Sunday, April 23rd    7:30 am.- 4:30 pm. Clinic Fee:  $900 Candidate and Medical Student Fee: $65 Directors: Joshua Bederson, MD, FAANS and Anthony B. Costa, PhD Faculty: Costas G. Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD, FAANS; Justin R. Mascitelli, MD; J Mocco, MD, FAANS; Fedor Panov, MD; Leslie Schlachter

In this clinical course, attendees will learn the theory and fundamentals of these tools and examples of successful clinical practices in which they have been implemented. The morning session will be comprised of a series of lectures on the current state of the art of modeling in the brain, from radiological scan acquisition best practices to automated and semi-supervised segmentation and registration tools, followed by hands-on demonstrations and interactive sessions with software that implement these tools from an academia and industry. The afternoon will finish with hands-on practical sessions from cross-disciplinary neurosurgeons and related specialists, detailing how they are pushing the envelope of patient care by leveraging state-of-the-art digital tools.

Learning Objectives: After completing this educational activity, participants should be able to:

Recognize the disparate tools and technologies necessary for successful use of computer-based simulation strategies for intracranial surgery throughout the entire patient pipeline.

Define best practices in each category of the pipeline of tools used for computer based modeling and simulation in neurologic surgery, including strategies for optimization of radiological scan sequences, techniques for automated and semi-automated segmentation and registration of brain structures and available visualization techniques including virtual and augmented reality tools

Identify how simulation and modeling are pushing the envelope of patient care by leveraging state-of-the-art digital tools

www.aans.org/AANS2017

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Exciting to see our work on 3dprint.com as we formally launch the Medical Modeling Core!

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We’re Hiring an Associate Bioinformatician!

The Neurosurgery Simulation Core at Mount Sinai is seeking to hire a person with strong numerical/computational statistics background and experience with health care and related data sets. The Associate Bioinformatician will be able to mange and organize our large database while conducting statistical analysis. This project involves using software to gather, store, manipulate and analyze research data. The right candidate will work with a group of researchers on innovative clinical and research data sets originating in the NSC, focusing on large time-series and other challenging data sets to describe statistically. 

By joining the team, you will:

Design and implement bioinformatics tools and processes

Develop projects and work independently on a variety of bioinformatics analysis projects

Work in an exceptionally unique collaborative environment involving world-class clinical departments, surgeons, and other technology specialists.

Directly contribute to academic publications, grants and eventual patient care.

The successful candidate will have:

Working experience with statistics analysis software, especially R  and Python/Pandas.

Experience with collaborative development best practices.

B.S. in Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics, Computer Sciences, Statistics or related discipline. M.S. or appropriate post-grad training preferred.

Good organizational and communication skills with demonstrated ability to work as a member of a team.

Is this you? Contact Anthony Costa to find out more.

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Scientific Visualization ‘16

We are happy to announce that on Nov. 18th Dr.Bederson and Dr.Costa will be Keynote speakers at the Sci Viz Conference ‘16 hosted by Mount Sinai. The duo will be speaking about advancements of pre-operative and intraoperative visualization tools. They will touch on the significant impact of patient-specific modeling and visualization, improving surgical guidance and safety, and in some cases making possible a procedure thought to be out of reach. As technical capabilities grow through experience in research and new software innovation, so to do questions about the best use of these tools. The discussion will highlight the limitations of today’s technology to motivate the need for future efforts in research and development. To learn more about the speakers and other interesting  topics to be discussed go to www.sciviz.nyc/

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Timelapse of multicolor 3D print using 3D Systems Projet 660 Printer. This multi-structured print features individually segmented patient specific pathology (green), carotid arteries (red), cranial nerve (blue) and scull (white).

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We’re Hiring a Software Engineer!

The Neurosurgery Simulation Core at Mount Sinai is seeking to hire a highly skilled and independently motivated software engineer to lead the development of our platform for segmentation, visualization and pre-operative patient planning. This project is a significant effort involving the integration of a wide variety of open source visualization and medical image software packages together with our in-house developed technology. By joining our team, the successful candidate will participate in the most cutting edge medical simulation technology research tightly integrated with a world-class medical institution.

By joining the team, you will:

Design and develop end-user environments integrating hugely disparate technology stacks (visualization, haptics, HPC, GPU/accelerator) and challenging UX/UI flow problems.

Work in an exceptionally unique collaborative environment involving world-class clinical departments, surgeons, and other technology specialists.

Contribute directly to the improvement of surgical outcomes for patients by integrating your technology into the clinical workflow.

The successful candidate will have:

Exceptional C++ and Python programming skills.

Strong UX/UI and end-user development experience.

Experience with large open source OO frameworks.

Experience with collaborative development best practices, source control (git), and cross-platform build systems (cmake) required.

Experience using Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field with emphasis on software development practice and at least 2 years of professional experience.

Interest in interactive visualization technologies.

Experience with virtual reality frameworks a plus.

Commitment to open source, with public code samples.

Is this you? Contact Anthony Costa to find out more.

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We’re Hiring a Program Manager!

We’re hiring for the position of Program Manager in the Neurosurgery Simulation Core. This position demands a highly self-motivated individual with an interest in technology, medicine, and possessing outstanding writing and communications skills. The successful candidate will:

Manage all clinical deployment of technology within the scope of the Neurosurgery Simulation Core, including expert use of core software and hardware systems and management of relationships with outside technology vendors or consultants and their activities

Assist the Principle Investigator/Research Director on the development, submission, and execution of grant applications, IRB documents, peer-reviewed manuscripts, conference presentations, and clinical research requirements.

Manage all administrative duties for the Neurosurgery Simulation Core, working closely with the Neurosurgery Department-wide administration.

Work closely with the Neurosurgery Department Marketing teams to ensure effective communication with outside entities including the public, press, key stakeholders, and other interested parties.

Participate in conferences, meetings, and seminars

Analyze moderately complex clinical research data, and assists in interpreting clinical re-search data.

Provide work direction, guidance, coaching, and training for staff.

Supervise subordinate personnel and offers guidance on clinical and research methods or techniques.

Establish, reviews, and revises work processes to ensure efficient and effective operational activities.

Perform other related duties.

Is this you? Contact Anthony Costa to find out more.

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The Neurosurgery Simulation Core and the entire Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai had a tremendously successful 2016 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting. Our director gave a brief twitter chat on some of the work we are doing in 3D printing at Sinai’s first-of-its-kind academic medical center booth.