Eric Tkaczyk

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt, NIH and the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale team up to tackle monkeypox 

    In this international research cooperation, Vanderbilt is leading the development of AI to automatically localize and count monkeypox lesions, the main measure of disease severity, and spearheading a guideline to classify monkeypox lesions. Read More

    Sep 15, 2022

  • Study finds 10-second videos predict blood cancer relapse

    Study finds 10-second videos predict blood cancer relapse

    Biomedical engineering prof says study raises the prospect of a new application of diagnostic optical biopsy by Paul Govern In a new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 10-second videos of white blood cell motion in the skin’s microvasculature greatly improved the prediction of which stem cell and bone marrow transplant patients would have a relapse... Read More

    Apr 4, 2022

  • Kirkland Hall (Vanderbilt University)

    Vanderbilt postdoctoral fellows recognized at 2021 Spring Postdoc Awards

    The Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association and Office of Postdoctoral Affairs announced its 2021 award winners May 24. Postdoctoral fellows, commonly known as postdocs, are professionals who have earned doctoral degrees and are, in most cases, temporarily pursuing additional scholarly training, experience and research progress necessary for a wide range of career paths. Read More

    May 25, 2021

  • Aerial photograph of people gathered in a square

    Skin diseases study uses crowdsourcing to gather data

    Identifying and quantifying skin lesions often requires hours of tedious visual inspection by experts, making it difficult to study a lot of them at once. Eric Tkaczyk and Daniel Fabbri have found that training multiple non-experts to do basic evaluations can achieve comparable results. Read More

    Feb 21, 2019