Computer-assisted Stimulators for Treatment of Parkinson's

Benoit M. Dawant is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Vanderbilt University. His main research interests include medical image processing and analysis. He directs a team of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are developing imageguided systems to assist in the placement of deep brain stimulators used for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. Dawant has authored or co-authored more than 50 scientific papers in the area of medical image analysis, and he is the recipient of the "most often cited paper" award in the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, one of the leading scientific journals in this area. His talk was part of Vanderbilt Commencement: Study Breaks.

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