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Upcoming Forums
January 17, 2025. Equitable AI for Children’s Health and Rare Diseases
Dr. Marius George Linguraru will demonstrate how artificial intelligence may be the greatest tool we have for improving the quality of and access to medical care for children, especially those most vulnerable to health inequities.
Past Forums
Usage of the XCAT Phantom to Investigate Respiratory Motion and Estimation of Attenuation Maps in Pediatric SPECT DMSA Studies
(June 17, 2022) Justin Pijanowski and Clifford Lindsay from the UMass Chan Medical School discuss their efforts in addressing image degradation in pediatric DMSA SPECT images in two areas, specifically patient motion and attenuation estimation with the use of CT.Beyond Anatomic Imaging: Seeing More with X-rays
(May 20, 2022) Ioannis Sechopoulos from Radboud University presents on methods used to transform CT into a functional imaging modality for which accurate human and image modeling are key.Reverse Engineering the Human (and Machine) Observer: Motivations and Tools
(April 22, 2022) Craig Abbey from the University of California, Santa Barbara describes a psychophysical methodology that has proven useful for understanding how human observers extract basic features related to task performance in noisy images.Virtual Imaging Perspectives from the FDA
(March 18, 2022) Andreu Badal of the US FDA gives an introduction to FDA evaluation of x-ray imaging systems and image processing software. He also discusses the FDA Medical Device Development Tool program and other mechanisms that the FDA is considering for use of virtual imaging in regulatory submissions.In Silico Trials of Medical Devices – Concepts, Methods, and Experiences from Leeds
(Feb 18, 2022) Alex Frangi from the University of Leeds overviews their work to realize the vision of in silico trials in medical devices in the cardiovascular domain.
