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Nature has served as an inspiration for novel, efficient and economic designs in architecture, engineering and science in general. In this talk, I will describe a bio-inspired sensory designs and its use in image guided surgery. The sensory system is based on the Mantis shrimp visual system to realize a compact fluorescence imaging device. This imaging system employs tapetum spectral filters, i.e. stacks of nano-metric layers, with low noise vertically stacked photodetectors to sense color and multiple near infrared fluorphores simultaneously. The bio-inspired sensor is integrated with wearable goggles and used for tracking sentinel lymph node in patients with breast cancer. Pre-clinical and clinical data will be presented in this talk.

Biography: Viktor Gruev is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Carle Illinois Medical School at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Prior to joining UIUC, he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Gruev received his M.S. and PhD. in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2000 and 2004 respectively. From 2004 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received numerous awards for his research on imaging sensors and their application in the medical field, including the 2016 Donald H Fink award for best paper published in any IEEE transaction and the 2015 best paper award at the IEEE Circuits and Systems Symposium. His current research focuses on developing bio-inspired sensory technology to address medical needs in resources limited hospitals.

*These seminars are supported by the Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy Laboratory, the Center for Magnetic Resonance and Optical  Imaging, the Department of Radiology and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania.

*Organizers: Wesley Baker, Tiffany Ko, and Arjun Yodh,

*Contact: Wesley Baker - bakerw@email.chop.edu