18 Feb Melissa Brindise

Melissa Brindise was a post-doctoral research associate in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, working with Professor Pavlos Vlachos. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (2013) and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2019), both from Purdue University. Her research has focused on experimental and clinically-imaged neurovascular and cardiovascular flow analysis and on methods development. Her research interests include fluid dynamics associated with cerebral aneurysms, traumatic brain injury, and heart disease, as well as transition to turbulence in unsteady flows. She has also worked on developing image and signal processing tools for data denoising, time-frequency analysis, unsupervised segmentation, and autonomous detection of arrythmias. She received the American Heart Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in 2017 for her work on cerebral aneurysms. In addition, she earned the Lambert Teaching Fellowship (2017) and Magoon Award for Excellence in Teaching (2018).

Publications

1. 4D Flow MRI pressure estimation using velocity measurement-error based weighted least-squares
   Jiacheng Zhang, Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, Susanne Schnell, Michael Markl, David Saloner, Vitaliy Rayz, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   IEEE, Transactions of Medical Imaging, 2019, Published


2. Multi-modality cerebral aneurysm haemodynamic analysis: in vivo 4D flow MRI, in vitro volumetric particle velocimetry and in silico computational fluid dynamics
   Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, Benjamin Dickerhoff, Susanne Schnell, Michael Markl, David Saloner, Vitaliy Rayz, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2019, Published


3. Density and viscosity matched Newtonian and non-Newtonian blood-analog solutions with PDMS refractive index
   Melissa Brindise, Margaret M. Busse, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   Experiments in Fluids, 2018, Published


4. Pulsatile pipe flow transition: flow waveform effects
   Melissa Brindise and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   Physics of Fluids, 2018, Published


5. Proper orthogonal decomposition truncation method for data denoising and order reduction
   Melissa Brindise and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   Experiments in Fluids, 2017, Published


6. Hemodynamics of stent implantation procedures in coronary bifurcations: An in vitro study
   Melissa Brindise, Claudio Chiastra, Francesco Burzotta, Francesco Migliavacca, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2016, Published


7. Universality of vortex ring decay in the left ventricle
   Melissa Brindise, Brett Albert Meyers, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   Journal of Biomechanics, 2020, Published


8. Unsupervised Segmentation of B-Mode Echocardiograms
   Melissa Brindise, Brett Albert Meyers, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   arXiv, 2020, In Preparation


9. Direct estimation of global longitudinal strain from echocardiograms using a logarithm-scaled Fourier magnitude correlation
   Brett Albert Meyers, Melissa Brindise, Shelby Kutty, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
   arXiv, 2020, In Preparation


10. An Integrated and Automated Tool for Quantification of Biomechanics in Fetal and Neonatal Echocardiography
    Brett Albert Meyers, Melissa Brindise, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
    medRxiv, 2020, In Preparation


11. Divergence-Free Constrained Phase Unwrapping and Denoising for 4D Flow MRI Using Weighted Least-Squares
    Jiacheng Zhang, Sean Rothenberger, Melissa Brindise, Michael B. Scott, Haben Berhane, Justin J. Baraboo, Michael Markl, Vitaliy Rayz, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2021, Published


12. A multi-modality approach for enhancing 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging via sparse representation
    Jiacheng Zhang, Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, Michael Markl, Vitaliy Rayz, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
    Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2022, Published


13. Wall Shear Stress Estimation for 4D Flow MRI Using Navier–Stokes Equation Correction
    Jiacheng Zhang, Sean Rothenberger, Melissa Brindise, Michael Markl, Vitaliy Rayz, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
    Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2022, Published


14. Automated Layer Identification Method for Skin Tissue Histology Images
    Melissa Brindise, Buno K., Luis Solorio, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
    Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2022, Published


15. Modeling Bias Error in 4D flow MRI Velocity Measurements
    Sean Rothenberger, Jiacheng Zhang, Melissa Brindise, Michael Markl, Pavlos P. Vlachos, and Vitaliy Rayz
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2022, Published


16. Automated peak prominence-based iterative Dijkstras algorithm for segmentation of B-mode echocardiograms
    Melissa Brindise, Brett Albert Meyers, Shelby Kutty, and Pavlos P. Vlachos
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022, Published