The objective of this project is to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions aimed at denoising ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) planar images for the detection of pulmonary embolism (PE). The denoising algorithm has the potential to solve two major limitations of V/Q scans: long acquisition times and currently insufficient techniques for generating pseudo-planar images from SPECT acquisitions. Our […]

This research project responds to Hockey Canada’s acknowledgment of a gap in its ability to effectively understand and address maltreatment in amateur hockey. Given the pressing concerns related to maltreatment and their widespread impact on hockey communities, this internship presents a unique opportunity to leverage academic knowledge to provide timely and necessary technical and analytical […]

Unintentional home injuries are a significant public health problem in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. They can happen to people of all ages and are often influenced by various social and economic factors. This research project aims to address this issue by examining different aspects of unintentional home injuries and findings ways to prevent them. In […]

The proposed research project, undertaken by interns at Robosafety, an emerging startup, aims to enhance safety engineering in autonomous systems such as self-driving cars and AI-driven robots. By simplifying and improving the safety assurance process, this initiative seeks to significantly reduce the time and effort required for validating safety compliance. The end goal is to […]

Next to its essential role of supporting operational and decisional business activities, data also has economic significance. The desire to seek maximum value from their data assets prompts organizations to implement different infrastructures, architectures, governance, and security to facilitate creating and storing huge volume and variety of data. However, these implementations come with challenges as […]

This Mitacs Globalink Research Award will support a research collaboration involving Imen Hemmedi, a PhD student working in the group of Dr. Nabila Bitri at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Tunis and Prof. Jean-Michel Ménard at the University of Ottawa. The project focuses on leveraging the unique properties of quantum materials to explore innovative […]

In metastasis, cancer cells break away from where they were first formed (primary cancer) and travel to other parts of the body and form new (metastatic) tumours, which ultimately results in poor outcomes for cancer patients. Although surgical excision of metastatic tumour is often required, the act of surgery itself elicits profound suppression of immune […]

Robosafety is an emergent start-up committed to transforming safety engineering in autonomous systems like self-driving cars and AI-driven robots. The project’s core objective is to simplify and improve the safety assurance process, markedly reducing the time and effort involved in validating safety compliance. The overarching goal is to foster the deployment of safe, reliable autonomous […]

CogniVue is a leading innovator in embedded computer vision, providing both hardware and software solutions that enable its customers to develop high-performance, low-power embedded vision applications. From the success of recent 3D sensing technologies such as the Microsoft Kinect or the Intel Creative camera, the need for innovative low-cost depth sensors is rapidly growing. In […]

Total::Insight™ is a geospatial and time distribution Decision Support System (DSS) that includes a correlator capable of consuming many sporadic time domain signals and converting them into feature rich tracks. The problem here is how to create an AI/ML embedding that is domain relevant from the tracks.The project objective is to develop, refine and industrialize […]

The overall goal of this project is for the University science team at the University of Ottawa and University of New Brunswick to develop high quality Echinacea products for Canadian and world markets in collaboration with Amway Canada. One objective involves phytochemical and pharmacological selection and propagation of elite Echinacea from the historic Echinacea germplasm […]

Numalogics is a company that uses finite element models of the spine to offer consulting services for other companies, assist in the design of new spinal implants and surgical tools, and simulate surgical procedures. Currently, they apply pre-established loads to their models when running simulations of basic spinal movements. They require to assess whether these […]