CVIT and CIPG showcasing Research at AAPM 2025

CVIT and CIPG are proud to showcase their latest research at the 2025 AAPM Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Our team will present a broad range of talks and posters highlighting advancements in virtual imaging, CT, digital pathology, and radiation risk assessment.

We are especially proud to announce that Dr. Ehsan Abadi has been awarded the John S. Laughlin Early-Career Scientist Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions to the field. Join us in celebrating this achievement at the Awards Ceremony on Monday evening!

Below is an overview of the presentations featuring our team:

Saturday, July 26

  • Ehsan Abadi – Harnessing Virtual Imaging Trials to Advance AI Development and Evaluation [Breakout session, Room 202AB, 3:55 PM]

Sunday, July 27

  • Nicole Lafata – Multi-Institutional Evaluation of Radiographic Automatic Exposure Control Performance Testing: Methodology, Outcomes, and Failure Rates [Oral presentation, Room 209,11:20 AM]
  • Ehsan Samei – Update on Current Imaging Technologies and a Look Ahead [Invited talk, Room 156, 11:45 AM]

Poster Presentations (Exhibit Hall, 3:30 PM):

  • Em Harkness – Quantifying Uncertainties in Radiation Risk and Performance-Based Clinical Risk Assessment in Clinical CT
  • Lauren M. Nelder -Evaluation of Color Display Performance of Pathology Relevant Colors Using the Macbeth Colorchecker
  • Megan K. Russ – Ensuring Consistency in Digital Pathology: Medical Physics Approaches to Comparison of Scanner Sharpness and Artifact Severity
  • Francesco Ria – Does the Method Matter? Comparing In Hominum, In Vivo, In Silico, and In Phantasma Approaches for Evaluating Photon Counting CT
  • Njood Alsaihati – Predictive Quality of Differing Body Size Measurands for Radiation Risk Estimation in CT Imaging: A Virtual Trial Study
  • Njood Alsaihati – Generalized Ontological Framework for CT Data Profiling and Characterization
  • Katie Marie Olivas – Assessment of the Impact of CT Respiratory Motion on PET SUV Quantification through Virtual Imaging
  • Yakun Zhang – Analysis of Inter-Organ Noise Variability for Clinical CT Images across 3133 Image Series
  • Raj Kumar Panta – Quantitative Assessment of Iodine Detectability as a Function of Tissue Density, Thickness, and Dose in Contrast-Enhanced Mammography

Monday, July 28

  • Megan K. Russ – Ensuring Consistency in Digital Pathology: Medical Physics Approaches to Comparison of Scanner Contrast and Chromaticity [Oral presentation, Room 209, 2:12 PM]

Wednesday, July 30

  • Jayasai Ram Rajagopal – Supercomputing-Enabled CT Virtual Imaging Trials: A Population-Scale Pilot Study [Oral presentation, Room 209, 8:12 AM]
  • Ehsan Samei – What is “Excessive” and “Inadequate” in the New CMS Rule? [Educational, Room 207A, 2:05 PM
  • Jered Wells – The New CMS Measure of Excessive Radiation Dose or Inadequate Image Quality in CT: Considerations for Clinical Implementation [Invited talk, Room 207A, 2:21 PM]