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Winona Richey is a first-year biomedical engineering graduate student whose area of research includes image guidance for breast cancer surgery.<\/p>\nWinona Richey is a first-year biomedical engineering graduate student whose area of research includes image guidance for breast cancer surgery.<\/p>\n
Richey, who is in the Biomedical Modeling Lab (BML), a 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Institute of Surgery and Engineering (VISE) lab, was among the VISE students who presented work at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting.<\/p>\n
As lead author, Richey, who works under the direction of Michael I. Miga, PhD, Harvie Branscomb Professor of Biomedical Engineering, presented the paper titled, \u201cA system for automatic monitoring of surgical instruments and dynamic, non-rigid surface deformations in breast cancer surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPresenting at SPIE allowed me to get to know students from other universities, and get to know my fellow 91³Ô¹ÏÍø graduate students even better,\u201d Richey said.<\/p>\n
The experience was stressful but rewarding, and the questions and comments were invaluable, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn preparing for my talk, I was able to improve my ability to articulate my research, and think more about the big picture,\u201d Richey said. \u201cHearing other perspectives and suggestions got me excited about all the new ways I can go about tackling my research problem.\u201d<\/p>\n