Project Grant 2136325

Award Date 1/1/22
Completion Date 12/31/22
Dollars Obligated $256K
Federal Grant Program
47.041
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Similar Awards
This Project Grant award of $305,000.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an innovative breast cancer screening technology by Bired Imaging Inc. The project aims to create an efficient thermal-spatial point-cloud extraction and rapid assessment of physics-based AI algorithm from infrared images to improve early detection of breast cancer, especially in women with dense breast tissue....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Illinois for the development of a bioinspired multispectral imaging sensor to support real-time intraoperative detection of cancer. The award aims to create a novel sensor that integrates perovskite nanocrystals and optical metasurfaces to simultaneously detect endogenous cancer biomarkers in the UV spectrum and exogenous markers...
This $175,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of multi-modal soft tissue characterization technologies for non-invasive breast imaging at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from April 2022 through March 2024. Funded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the research aims to establish optimization algorithms and parameters for visualizing breast tissue cross-sections non-invasively using an integrated...
Radiosight LLC was awarded a $256,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I Project Grant by the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to develop a point-of-care skin cancer imaging device. The award is being carried out under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) and will support Radiosight's efforts to advance science and engineering research leading to breakthrough technologies. Specifically, the funding will allow Radiosight to work towards...
Cision Vision, Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a novel, label-free imaging device for real-time detection of lymph nodes during laparoscopic cancer surgeries. The one-year project period runs from December 1, 2021 to November 30, 2022 and is focused on delivering a new imaging technology to improve cancer surgery outcomes. The NSF Engineering...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Project Grant award (CFDA 47.070) of $195,000 will fund the development of a weakly-supervised breast cancer detection system using active and weakly-supervised learning techniques to improve breast cancer diagnosis from ultrasound images. The project aims to create a deep learning model that can detect breast cancer effectively with minimal annotations, addressing the challenges of noisy, low-contrast...
Lumo Imaging LLC received a $255,999 Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate to develop dermatologist-level detection of suspicious pigmented skin lesions from high-resolution full-body images. Under this one-year award beginning August 1, 2021, Lumo Imaging will utilize $255,999 to deliver products and services focused on using machine learning and computer vision techniques to analyze full-body skin images and detect...
The National Science Foundation awarded Pensievision, Inc. $255,947 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an endoscopic 3D imaging system for evaluating cancers and disorders of the esophagus and pharynx. The Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will combine liquid lens technology, artificial intelligence software, and astronomical imaging techniques to generate three-dimensional images of early-stage esophageal and throat tumors....
The National Science Foundation awarded Malcova Inc. $1,000,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a novel non-planar spectral breast computed tomography device. Malcova will use the one-year project grant term from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024 to further the device's design, build a working prototype, and conduct validation testing using anthropomorphic phantoms. The non-invasive breast CT device employs a new scanning method and...
This $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) program will support the development of an artificial intelligence-based system for analyzing multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to detect prostate lesions. The awardee, Taurus Diagnostics, Inc., will create a novel prostate cancer diagnostic platform leveraging artificial intelligence image analysis for high sensitivity and specificity. Key objectives include developing methods to...

Bired Imaging Inc. received a $256,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an innovative breast cancer detection algorithm using infrared images. The 12-month project period runs from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022.

The award is funded through the NSF's Directorate for Engineering, specifically its $47.041 million Engineering program. This program aims to improve quality of life and economic strength by fostering innovation and excellence in engineering research. Bired Imaging will leverage infrared imaging techniques to develop an algorithm intended to improve early detection of breast cancer, advancing the NSF's goals of supporting innovative engineering solutions with societal benefits.

Generated 1/6/24, 4:11 PM