[BIC-announce] BIC's Silvain Bériault: BME 2014 Geddes awardee

[Sylvain Baillet, Dr]

On behalf of the BIC community, my very sincere congrats to Silvain Bériault for receiving the Geddes award for an outstanding PhD thesis, from the BME Dept. Please see below.

Silvain is a grad student at the BIC in the MRI group; his work has been supervised by Bruce Pike.

Well-done Silvain! (whatever happened to the 'y' ;) )

Sylvain.
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Sylvain Baillet, PhD

Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery & Biomedical Engineering
Acting Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
Montreal Neurological Institute
MNI Killam and FRQS Senior Scholar
McGill University
http://mcgill.ca/bic

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From: "Maryam Tabrizian, Prof." <maryam.tabrizian at MCGILL.CA<mailto:maryam.tabrizian at MCGILL.CA>>
Subject: BME 2014 Geddes awardee
Date: February 17, 2015 8:21:20 AM EST
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Dear BME department members and students:

On behalf of Dr. Kearney and the departmental scholarship and awards committee, I am pleased to share with you the name of our 2014 Geddes awardee. The Geddes award is given for an outstanding PhD thesis and is valued at $1000.

2014 Leslie A. Geddes Award: BÉRIAULT/ Silvain

Dr. Silvain Bériault received the award for his PhD thesis in Biomedical Engineering entitled "Computer-assisted Neuronavigation for Deep Brain Stimulation using Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging". This thesis describes a novel computer-assisted method for planning deep brain stimulation surgery. This study demonstrates the high aggregative power of the automatic algorithm for simultaneously optimizing multiple surgical constraints and evaluates feasibility of the computed trajectories based on neurosurgeons’ feedback. The finding of this thesis will have great impact in treating patients with neurological problems.

Maryam Tabrizian
Chair of BME Scholarship and Award Committee

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