ESL/ECE Students Win 2nd Place in the OSU Business Plan Competition

Every year, the Fisher College of Business conducts an Ohio State Business Plan Competition to stimulate and nourish the entrepreneurial spirit in full-time and part-time Ohio State University students. Applying teams go through several phases of the competition elimination and the finalists present their business plans to a panel of expert judges (entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, private investors, faculty, and leading consultants) during the final event. The team Buckeye SmarterImage (now called NeuroCognetix), which includes graduate students from ECE (Safa Salman, Markus Novak, A.T.M. Sarwar), BME (Michael Bush) and MBA (John Lockwood), received the second place in the open-track category with their patent-pending MRI Motion Correction System (MCS). 

This system helps improve MRI brain and head scan quality by eliminating the effects of patient movement during the scan. By using a camera and proprietary software algorithm, the MCS tracks and compensates for patient motion in real time. As a result, an unusable scan caused by patient movement could be rendered usable.

"We are initiating collaboration with the department of radiology, Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging, Wexner Medical Center and MRI manufacturers," Salman said, regarding the team's current plans.

NeuroCognetix soon competes in the National Institute of Health’s Neuro Start-Up Challenge to obtain the license to commercialize its technology.