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From: Ruth Anderson <rea@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Subject: CSE students needed for Ultrasound Research project
Cc: Crystal Eney <ceney@cs.washington.edu>
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A woman dies in childbirth every 70 seconds; the majority of these deaths take place in Africa and Asia. Ultrasound imaging is an effective tool for identifying maternal mortality risk factors. Unfortunately, ultrasound is nearly absent in many rural health care facilities in developing regions due to the high costs of both equipment and required training. The Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound project has built a low-cost portable ultrasound system designed specifically for use by midwives with limited medical training in developing regions.
The Mobile Midwives’ Ultrasound project is looking for a couple of CSE undergrads to join our group. We are an interdisciplinary group consisting of undergrads, grad students and faculty from CSE, HCDE, and Radiology. We have produced a working prototype of our system which a group including (a CSE undergrad) just got back from testing in Uganda over spring break.
CSE students working on the project can expect to be involved in all aspects of the research process: designing, developing, testing, and traveling to test deployments in the field as well as writing publications about the research. Students should be available to work on the project at least during the 2011-2012 academic year, and preferably during summer 2011 and 2012 and beyond.
If interested, please send email to Ruth Anderson (rea@cs.washington.edu)
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More information about the project including publications can be found here:
http://change.washington.edu/projects/mobile-midwives-ultrasound