{"id":7321,"date":"2024-07-26T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2024-08-01T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:33:31","slug":"congratulations-yueh-lee-md-phd-who-was-awarded-a-creativity-hubs-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/2024\/07\/congratulations-yueh-lee-md-phd-who-was-awarded-a-creativity-hubs-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Yueh Lee, MD, PhD, Awarded a Creativity Hubs Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations Yueh Lee, MD, PhD, Professor of Radiology in the Neuroradiology Division. He was awarded a Creativity Hubs Award from the UNC Office of Vice Chancellor for Research for his project titled Advanced Medical Screening in Underserved Populations using a Transportable Nanotube Enabled Imaging System \u2013 the Carolina CONNECT (CarbON Nanotube Enabled sCreening Tomosynthesis). <\/em>Dr. Lee will\u00a0receive $325,000 to pursue this research.<\/p>\n

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Yueh Lee, School of Medicine, co-PI; Otto Zhou, College of Arts and Sciences, co-PI; Jianping Lu, College of Arts and Sciences, co-PI; Marc Niethammer, College of Arts and Sciences, co-PI; Youzuo Lin, School of Data Science and Society, co-PI; Yifei Lou, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Data Science and Society, co-PI; Huaxiu Yao, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Data Science and Society; James Sivak, School of Medicine; James Gruden, School of Medicine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Research Challenge<\/h3>\n

Health outcomes for U.S. populations living in rural areas \u2014 about 20% of all Americans \u2014 have markedly trailed behind urban populations, particularly in surviving cardiac and pulmonary diseases. Early screening for such diseases is critical to saving lives. However, a contributing factor, as identified by public reporting, is the lack of medical diagnostic imaging services in rural and underserved areas, and the life-saving interventions they enable.<\/p>\n

Proposed Solution<\/h3>\n

The team\u2019s goal is to develop an easily transportable system called Carolina CarbON Nanotube Enabled sCreening Tomosynthesis (CONNECT) that will enable low-cost screening at community gathering places, business, or even a patient\u2019s home. The CONNECT system will be based on the carbon nanotube x-ray sources invented at UNC-Chapel Hill, combined with advanced reconstruction and automated evaluation algorithms. This combination will reduce costs and provide automated large language model report generation for immediate patient feedback after imaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations Yueh Lee, MD, PhD, Professor of Radiology in the Neuroradiology Division. He was awarded a Creativity Hubs Award from the UNC Office of Vice Chancellor for Research for his project titled Advanced Medical Screening in Underserved Populations using a Transportable Nanotube Enabled Imaging System \u2013 the Carolina CONNECT (CarbON Nanotube Enabled sCreening Tomosynthesis). Dr. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83776,"featured_media":5281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-news","category-homepage-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/NEURO_LeeYueh_Web_0321-e1722004744795.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/NEURO_LeeYueh_Web_0321-e1722004744795-300x205.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/NEURO_LeeYueh_Web_0321-e1722004744795-768x526.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/NEURO_LeeYueh_Web_0321-e1722004744795-1024x701.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1384\/2024\/02\/NEURO_LeeYueh_Web_0321-e1722004744795-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Yueh Lee, MD, PhD, headshot. An Asian male with short black hair and brown eyes, wearing glasses, is looking at the camera. He is wearing a white shirt, a pink tie, and a grey suit jacket.","category_details":[{"name":"Department News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/category\/department-news\/"},{"name":"Homepage News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/category\/homepage-news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/radiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}