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Conference on Mathematics
of Medical Imaging,
June 20-24, 2011
hosted by the Fields Institute, held at the University of Toronto

Organizing Committee:
Adrian Nachman , University of Toronto
Dhavide Aruliah, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Hongmei Zhu, York University

 

Special Sessions

S1 New Hybrid Modalities in Medical Imaging
Organizers: Guillaume Bal, Columbia University
John Schotland, University of Michigan.
S2 Computational Hemodynamic Imaging
Organizers: David Steinman, University of Toronto
Alessandro Veneziani, Emory University.
S3. Advances on Numerical Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography
Organizer: Samuli Siltanen, University of Helsinki.
S4 Dynamic Image Analysis
Organizers:Anne Martel, Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Stephen Strother, Rotman Research Institute and University of Toronto.
S5 Medical Imaging: Mathematical Methods and Industrial Applications
Organizers: Siv Sivaloganathan, Centre for Mathematical Medicine and University of Waterloo
Edward Vrscay, University of Waterloo
Arsen Hajian, Tornado Medical Systems and Arjae Enterprises
S.6 Numerical Methods in Imaging
Organizer: Eldad Haber, University of British Columbia
S.7 Recent Progress on Tomography
Organizer: David Finch, Oregon State University
S.8 Cardiac image segmentation and registration
Organizers: Perry Radau, Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Graham Wright, Sunnybrook Health Sciences and U. of Toronto.
S.9 Imaging Electric Properties of Tissues
Organizers: Alexandru Tamasan, University of Central Florida
Michael Joy, University of Toronto.
S.10 Compressed Sensing in Medical Imaging
Organizers:
Hongmei Zhu, York University
Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto.
S.11 Mathematical Methods in Biophotonics: Charting a Course for New Opportunities
Organizers:
Alex Vitkin, University of Toronto
Brian Wilson, Ontario Cancer Institute and University of Toronto.
S.12 Statistical Methods in Medical Imaging
Organizer: Hanna Jankowski, York University.
S.13 Graph-Based Methods in Medical Imaging
Organizer: Paul Dufort, University Health Network.
S.14 Brain Imaging
Organizers: Adrian Crawley, Toronto Western Hospital
S.15 Magnetoencephalography
Organizer: Douglas Cheyne, SickKids and University of Toronto
S.C. Contributed Talks
Organizer: Dhavide Aruliah, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
S1 New Hybrid Modalities in Medical Imaging
Monday, June 20 (MS 3163)
2:10-2:35 Simon Arridge, University College London
Quantitative PhotoAcoustic Tomography using Diffusion and Transport Models
2:40-3:05 Claude Boccara, Institut Langevin ESPCI-ParisTech
Wavefront Control and Optical Tomography of Scattering Media
3:40-4:05 Kui Ren, University of Texas at Austin
Numerical Solution of Inverse Helmholtz Problems with Interior Data
4:10-4:35 Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto
The Biomedical Photoacoustic Radar Imager: Principles, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Contrast and Resolution
4:40-5:05 Amir Moradifam, University of Toronto
Conductivity Imaging from One Interior Measurement in the Presence of Perfectly Conducting and Insulating Inclusions
5:10-5:35 Sarah Patch, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Thermoacoustic Imaging over Large Fields of View
   
Tuesday, June 21 (MS 3163)
2:10-2:35 Joyce McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Viscoelastic models for tissue: Theoretical results for the forward problem
2:40-3:05 Sergey Telenkov, University of Toronto
Frequency-Domain Photoacoustics: Specifics of Signal Processing and Image Reconstruction
   
S2 Computational Hemodynamic Imaging
Monday, June 20 (MS 4279)
2:10-2:35 Jean-Frederic Gerbeau, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt
MagnetoHemoDynamics in MRI devices
2:40-3:05 Umberto Morbiducci, Politecnico di Torino
Visualization and Quantification of Blood Flow in the Human Aorta. From in vivo 4D
3:40-4:05 Jordi Alastruey-Arimon, Imperial College London
Reducing the Data: Analysis of the Role of Vascular Geometry on the Features of Blood Flow in Curve Vessels
4:10-4:35 Shawn Shadden, Illinois Institute of Technology
Transport Studies of Patient Specific Hemodynamics: Methods of Modeling and Characterization
4:40-5:05 Elena S Di Martino, University of Calgary
Wall Stress and Flow Dynamics in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
5:10-5:35 Irene Vignol-Clementel, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
From Imaging and Hemodynamic Data to Patient-Specific Simulations of Glenn to Fontan Conversion
Tuesday, June 21 (MS 4171)
2:10-2:35 Leopold Grinberg, Brown University
Multi-Scale Patient-Specific Modeling of Brain Blood Flow
2:40-3:05 Alessandro Veneziani, Emory University
An Integrated Morphology+CFD Statistical Investigation of Parent Vessel in Cerebral Aneurysms
   
S3 Advances on Numerical Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography
Monday, June 20 (MS 2173)
2:10-2:35 Jennifer Mueller, Colorado State University
Direct Electrical Impedance Tomography Reconstructions of Nonsmooth Conductivities
2:40-3:05 Fabrice Delbarry, Technical University of Denmark
Electrical Impedance Tomography: 3D Reconstructions Using Scattering transforms
3:40-4:05 Ville Kolehmainen, University of Eastern Finland
Compensation of Modelling Errors Due to Unknown Domain Boundary in Electrical Impedance Tomography
4:10-4:35 Alexander Mamonov, University of Texas at Austin (talk presented by
Fernando Guevara Vasquez)
Resistor Networks and Optimal Grids for Electrical Impedance Tomography with Partial Boundary Measurements
4:40-5:05 Fernando Guevara Vasquez, University of Utah
Uncertainty Quantification in Resistor Network Inversion
Friday, June 24 (MS 2173)
2:10-2:35 Nuutti Hyvonen, Aalto University, Finland
Electrical Impedance Tomography with Two Electrodes
2:40-3:05 Armin Lechleiter, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Newton Methods for the Complete Electrode Model of Electrical Impedance Tomography
3:40-4:05 Mikyoung Lim, KAIST, South Korea
Optimization Algorithm for the Reconstruction of a Conductivity Inclusion
4:10-4:35 Janne Tamminen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Boundary Correction for d-bar EIT Reconstructions
   
S4 Dynamic Image Analysis
Monday, June 20 (HS 108)
2:10-2:35 Bojana Stefanovic, Sunnbrook Research Institute
In Vivo Imaging of Cerebral Hemodynamics with Two Photon Fluorescence Microscopy
2:40-3:05 Nathan Churchill, University of Toronto and Rotman Research Institute
Data-Driven Measurement and Removal of Physiological Noise in BOLD fMRI
3:40-4:05 John Sled, Hospital for Sick Children
Growth Dynamics in the Mouse
4:10-4:35 Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng, Hospital for Sick Children
Quantitative Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) of Tumor Angiogenesis
4:40-5:05 Hatef Mehrabian, University of Toronto
Application of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to Identify and Separate Tumor Arterial Input Function (AIF) in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI
5:10-5:35 John M.Hudson, University of Toronto
Functional Imaging of Cancer Using Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound
   
S5 Medical Imaging: Mathematical Methods and Industrial Applications
Tuesday, June 21 (Fields Institute Stewart Library)
2:10-2:35 Michael Sharpe, Princess Margaret Hospital & U. of Toronto
Advancements in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning and Optimization
2:40-3:05 Mehran Ebrahimi, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Mathematical Methods for Breast Image Registration
3:40-4:05 Oleg Michailovich, University of Waterloo
Fast and Accurate HARDI and its Application to Neurological Diagnosis
4:10-4:35 Kristy Brock, University of Toronto
The Role of Deformable Registration Algorithms in Adaptive Radiotherapy
4:40-5:05 Nataliya Portman, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal
The Modelling of Biological Growth: a Pattern Theoretic Approach
5:10-5:35 David Koff, McMaster University
Rewards and Challenges in Adoption of Diagnostically Acceptable Irreversible Compression
Friday, June 24 (MS 3171)
2:10-2:35 Stergios Stergiopoulos, Defence R&D Canada Toronto
Advanced Signal Processing for Non-Invasive Medical Diagnostic System Applications
2:40-3:05 Arsen Hajian, Tornado Medical Systems & University of Waterloo
An Algorithm's Journey Through Government, Academia, and Industry
S6 Numerical Methods in Imaging
Thursday, June 23 (MS 2158)
2:10-2:35

Lior Horesh, IBM Watson Research Center
Optimal Design in Medical Inversion

2:40-3:05 Prashant Athavale, University of California
Novel Techniques for Multiscale Representations
3:40-4:05 Christoph Schwarzbach, University of British Columbia
Computational Tools for Microwave Imaging - some Finite Element Aspects
4:10-4:35 Eldad Haber, University of British Columbia
Inverse Problems for Multi-source Experiments
4:40-5:05 Alessandro Veneziani, Emory University
4D Image-Based CFD Simulation of a Compliant Blood Vessel
5:10-5:35 Michal Holtzman Gazit, University of British Columbia
A Scale Consistent Approach to Image Completion
S7 Recent Progress on Tomography
Tuesday, June 21 (MS 3171)
2:10-2:35 Eric Ritman, Mayo Clinic
Spectral X-ray Imaging - Implications for Attenuation and Scatter-based Tomography
2:40-3:05 Nicholas Hoell, University of Toronto
Inversion of the Attenuated Ray Transform
3:40-4:05 Adel Faridani, Oregon State University
Numerical Aspects of Pi-line Reconstruction Algorithms in Tomography
4:10-4:35 Mark Anastasio, Washington University
Advances in photoacoustic tomography image reconstruction
 
S8 Cardiac image segmentation and registration
Tuesday, June 21 (MS 2173)
2:10-2:35 Marshall Sussman, Toronto General Hospital and U. of Toronto
A Novel Method for Motion Correction in Cardiac MRI
2:40-3:05 Xiahai Zhuang, University College London
A Registration-Based Atlas Propagation Framework for Automatic Whole Heart Segmentation
3:40-4:05 Shuo Li, GE Healthcare
Mathematics of Cardiac Image Segmentation and Registration
4:10-4:35 Yingli Lu, Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Automated Analysis of Infarct Heterogeneity on Delayed Enhancement Magnetic Resonance Images
S9 Imaging Electric Properties of Tissues
Thursday, June 23 (MS 3163)
2:10-2:35 Greig Scott, Stanford University
The Physical Basis of RF Electrical Properties Contrast Imaging by MRI
2:40-3:05 Jin Keun Seo, Yonsei University, Korea
Inverse Problems in Medical Imaging: Electrical Property Imaging using MRI
3:40-4:05 Eric Bonnetier, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
Some Stability Results for Electric Impedance Tomography under Elastic Deformation
4:10-4:35 Rosalind Sadleir, University of Florida
Imaging conductivity changes deep in the brain
4:40-5:05 Dinghui Wang, Keller Center for Imaging Innovation, Phoenix, AZ (talk presented by Michael Joy)
Radio Frequency Current Density Imaging with a 180-Degree Sample Rotation
5:10-5:35 Weijing Ma, University of Toronto
Active B1 Imaging Using Polar Decomposition Method
Friday, June 24 (MS 3163)
2:10-2:35 Frédéric de Gournay, Université de Versailles
TBA
2:40-3:05 Yuan Xu, Ryerson University
Ultrasound methods to image the electrical/electrokinetic properties of biomaterials
S10 Compressed Sensing in Medical Imaging
Tuesday, June 21 (MS 3163)
3:40-4:05 Richard Frayne, University of Calgary
Potential for Compressed Sensing in Clinical MR Imaging
4:10-4:35 Jong Chul Ye, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Compressive MUSIC for diffuse optical tomography using joint sparsity

4:40-5:05 Gabriel Rilling, University of Edinburgh
Optimized Model-based Undersampling and Reconstruction for Dynamic MRI Based on Support Splitting. Application to Phase Contrast MRI Carotid Blood Flow Imaging
5:10-5:35 Mehmet Akcakaya, Harvard University
Compressed Sensing in Cardiac MRI
Friday, June 24 (MS 3163)
3:40-4:05 Christopher Kumar Anand, McMaster University
INADEQUATE Sparse Data and Carbon Skeletons
4:10-4:35 Julia Velikina, University of Wisconsin
Application of Temporally Constrained Compressed Sensing for High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging
4:40-5:05 Alexey Samsonov, University of Wisconsin
A Novel Iterative Thresholding Algorithm for Compressed Sensing Reconstruction of Quantitative MRI Parameters from Insufficient Data
5:10-5:35 Xiteng Liu, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
System compression: theory and application
S11 Mathematical Methods in Biophotonics: Charting a Course for New Opportunities
Thursday, June 23 (MS 3171)
2:10-5:35 Invited Participants
Michael Wood, University of Toronto
Polarized Light for Tissue Characterization
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S12 Statistical Methods in Medical Imaging
Thursday, June 23 (MS 2173)
2:10-2:35 Hanna Jankowski,York University
Confidence Regions and Means of Random Sets using Oriented Distance Functions
2:40-3:05 Timothy Johnson, University of Michigan
Predicting Treatment Efficacy by Quantitative MRI via a Bayesian Joint Model
3:40-4:05 Alejandro Murua, Université de Montréal
Functional Connectivity Exploration with the Potts and Random Cluster Models
4:10-4:35 Z. Jane Wang, University of British Columbia
fMRI Signal Processing Methods for Brain Connectivity Modeling
 
S13 Graph-Based Methods in Medical Imaging
Friday, June 24 (MS 4279)
2:10-2:35 Dana Cobzas, University of Alberta
Random Walks for Deformable Image Registration
2:40-3:05 Paul Dufort, University of Toronto
Joint Segmentation and Deformable Registration of Fractured Vertebra Using a Synthesis of the Expectation Maximization and Belief Propagation Algorithms
3:40-4:05 Leo Grady, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton
Universal Models for Targeted Image Segmentation
4:10-4:35 Réne Donner, Medical University Vienna
3D Anatomical Structure Localization
4:40-5:05 Mona K. Garvin, University of Iowa
Use of 3D Graph-Theoretic Approaches in the Segmentation of Ophthalmic Structures
   
S14 Brain Imaging
Monday, June 20 (HS 106)
3:40-4:05 Jason Lerch, Hospital for Sick Children
Detecting small changes in the brain with structural MRI
4:10-4:35 Ragini Verma, University of Pennsylvania
Analyzing Diffusion MRI Based "Connectivity" for Diagnosis
4:40-5:05 Cheryl Grady, Rotman Research Institute
The Use of Multivariate Methods for the Analysis of fMRI Studies of Cognition
5:10-5:35 Rhodri Cusack, The Centre for Brain & Mind, U of Western Ontario
Characterizing Neural Representation with Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI Data
S15 Magnetoencephalography
Tuesday, June 21 (HS 106)
2:10-2:35 John Mosher, Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Imaging and Localizing Neural Sources from MEG Data
2:40-3:05 Douglas Cheyne, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Use of Adaptive Beamformers in MEG Source Modeling
3:40-4:05 Bernhard Ross, Rotman Research Institute and University of Toronto
Identifying Brain Networks of Coherent Oscillations with MEG
4:10-4:35 J.L. Perez Velazquez, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
The Clinical and Basic Significance of Studying Fluctuations of Brain Coordinated Activity
SC Contributed Talks
Monday, June 20 (HS 100)
2:10-2:35 Michael Smith, University of Calgary
Moving the Best Ideas from 1985's Constrained Reconstruction Techniques into 2011's Compressed Sensing Reconstruction
2:40-3:05 Lakshminarayan V. Chinta, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Quantitative Perfusion Estimation from Two Photon Fluorescence Microscopy Microvasculature Maps
3:40-4:05 Qiong Wu, McMaster University
A Semi-Definite, Nonlinear Model for Optimizing k-Space Sample Separation in Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging
4:10-4:35 Yogesh Chinta Venkateswarao, McMaster University
Sparse Sampling of Velocity MRI
4:40-5:05 Jessica L. M. Pavlin, McMaster University
Determining a Flow Profile from Multi-Scale Phase Contrast Angiographic MRI Data

 

 

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