IGT SYMPOSIUM
2023
When: Monday, June 12th, 2023
8:00am – 4:00pm EDT
Where: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, McLaughlin Auditorium (EG-18), E-Wing, Ground Floor, Room 18a. 2075 Bayview Avenue Toronto, ON M4N 3M5
Join us for the 4th Annual IGT Symposium
The image-guided therapeutics symposium (IGT Symposium) is a scientific conference that brings together scholars from the clinical and research communities who are interested in emerging diagnostic and therapeutic health technologies. The conference is a great opportunity to learn about current research and latest advances within the field of biomedical and diagnostic imaging, artificial intelligence, and image-guided therapeutics.
With world-class speakers, the symposium provides an exceptional value for students, academics, and industry researchers interested in or working with emerging diagnostic and therapeutic health technologies. This conference will be our first-ever in-person meeting which will allow for plenty of opportunities to network and identify other like-minded individuals for collaborations and partnerships. The IGT symposium serves as a showcase for new innovations and breakthrough technologies for industry partners. Discover the latest advances in the field of image-guided therapy including computer-aided diagnostic interventions, treatment planning and clinical decision support systems, therapeutics, simulation and image-guided surgery, robotics, and surgical navigation.
Breakfast, light refreshments, and lunch will be provided for attendees of the symposium.
Symposium Objectives
- Create an interactive forum to hear talks about new innovations in image-guided diagnosis and therapy
- Talks will encompass all areas of healthcare where image guidance is in use from cancer treatment, interventional radiology, joint replacement, minimally invasive surgeries, and cardiovascular care.
- Academic speakers will be invited to discuss new discoveries in their area.
- Industry speakers will be invited to talk about technology commercialization, new developments, and products.
- Discussion about the need for collaboration, seeking expertise, and suggestions for future events will be encouraged
Keynote Speakers
Dr. April Khademi
Associate Professor, Biomedical, Electrical and Computer Engineering, TMU, Principal Investigator, Image Analysis in the Medicine Lab, Affiliated Scientist, St. Michael’s Hospital & iBEST
Dr. Yihong Yang
Senior Investigator of NIH, Chief of Neuroimaging Research Branch National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
Dr. Zhen Xu
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, VP of Ultrasonics, IEEE UFFC Fellow of AIMBE
Dr. Muyinatu Bell
John C. Malone Associate Professor & PULSE Lab Director, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science
Dr. Reza Khorasaninejad
CEO & Founder at LEADOPTIK
Dr. Graham Wright
Senior Scientist, Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada Research Chair, Imaging for Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Tier 1
Agenda
8:00 - 8:50 | Registration & morning refreshments
8:50 - 9:00 | Welcoming & opening remarks
IGT Symposium committee head, Dr. Meaghan O’Reilly, and co-executive director of INOVAIT, Raphael Ronen, will open the conference with some welcoming remarks.
9:00 - 10:30 | Session 1: Breakthroughs in image-guided therapy
Moderated by Dr. Meaghan O’Reilly, Session 1: Breakthroughs in image-guided therapy will feature presentations by Dr. Yihong Yang, Dr. Graham Wright, Sydney Wilson, Alykhan Sewani, and Dr. Brandon Helfield. See below for speaker and presentation details.
9:00 – 9:30 | Neuroimaging markers and neuromodulation strategies of drug addiction
Dr. Yihong Yang
Senior Investigator of NIH, USA, Chief of Neuroimaging Research Branch National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, USA
9:30 – 10:00 | IGT for cardiac arrhythmia management
Dr. Graham Wright
Senior Scientist, Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada Research Chair, Imaging for Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Tier 1
10:00 – 10:10 | Design of radio-ultrasound-guided system for breast cancer surgery
Sydney Wilson
PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, Western University
10:10 – 10:20 | A novel forward-looking ultrasound catheter for image-guided cardiovascular interventions
Alykhan Dewani
Graduate, Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University
10:20 – 10:30 | Ultrasound mediated nucleic acid delivery to the heart for the treatment of hypertrophy
Dr. Brandon Helfield
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Department of Physics, Concordia University
10:30 - 10:40 | Discussion
10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 2: Advances in applied clinical research
Moderated by Dr. Ali Tavallaei, Session 2: Advances in applied clinical research will feature presentations by Dr. Zhen Xu, Dr. Reza Khorasaninejad, Dr. Catriona Syme, Dr. Samuel Pichardo, and Dr. Ralph DaCosta. See below for speaker and presentation details.
11:00 – 11:30 | Histotripsy liver cancer treatment: the road from bench to bedside
Dr. Zhen Xu
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, VP of Ultrasonics, iEEE UFFC Fellow of AIMBE
11:30 – 12:00 | Sub-millimeter imaging platform empowered by flat optics for minimally invasive procedures
Dr. Reza Korasaninejad
CEO & Founder at LEADOPTIK
12:00 – 12:10 | Opportunistic screening of low bone mineral density from standard x-rays
Dr. Catriona Syme
Head of Research & Quality, 16Bit
12:10 – 12:20 | BabelBrain: An open-source tool for GPU-accelerated treatment planning of neuromodulation procedures with focused ultrasound
Dr. Samuel Pichardo
Associate Professor, Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
12:20 – 12:30 | First in-human phase II trial: Intra-cavity imaging of 5-aminolevulinic acid induced fluorescence to detect subclinical breast cancer intraoperatively
Dr. Ralph DaCasota
Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
12:30 - 12:40 | Discussion
12:40 - 13:00 | Lunch & networking
13:00 - 14:00 | Poster Exhibit
14:00 - 15:30 | Session 3: Big data and artificial intelligence
Moderated by Dr. Michael Hardisty, Session 2: Advances in applied clinical research will feature presentations by Dr. Muyinatu Bell, Dr. April Khademi, Chris Yeung, James Mainprize, Dr. Xiaoxiao Li and Beidi Chen . See below for speaker and presentation details.
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14:00 – 14:30 | Photoacoustic image formation and surgical guidance with machine learning
Dr. Muyinatu Bell
John C. Malone Associate Professor & PULSE Lab Director, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science
14:30 – 15:00 | Using AI to augment neuroradiology workflows
Dr. April Khademi
Associate Professor, Biomedical Electrical and Computer Engineering, TMU, Principal Investigator, Image Analysis in the Medicine Lab, Affiliated Scientist, St. Michael’s Hospital & iBEST
15:00 – 15:10 | Real-time tumor segmentation for margin visualization in breast-conserving surgical navigation
Chris Yeung
PhD Student, School of Computing, Queen’s University
15:10 – 15:20 | Image guidance for cranial implant design: A cascading U-Net based system with pre-processing and learned implant filtering
James Mainprize
Research Associate, Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Co-Founder, Calavera Surgical Design
15:20 – 15:30 | Clinical-inspired cytological whole slide image screening with just slide-level labels
Dr. Xiaoxiao Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC
Beidi Chen,
MSc Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC
15:30 - 15:40 | Discussion
15:30 - 16:00 | Awards & closing remarks
IGT Symposium committee head, Dr. Meaghan O’Reilly, will present the awards to selected presenters and will formally close the conference.
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Call for Abstracts
The IGT Committee is pleased to invite authors to submit their abstracts for invited oral and poster presentations. The organizers welcome the submissions of original contributions to the field of image-guided therapeutics and diagnostics. The Top 3 abstracts will be awarded prizes for their work in the advancement of image-guided therapeutics and diagnostics.
Key Dates & Deadlines
Abstract Submission Deadline: April 14, 2023
Results Announced: April 28, 2023
Abstract Prizes: Top Abstracts will be awarded Cash Prizes and In-kind services. Prizes are provided by INOVAIT, UBC and Hill & Schumacher.
Abstract Instructions
The abstract should provide a concise and compelling summary of your research. The four Cs of abstract writing include completeness, conciseness, clarity and cohesiveness.
- Introduction/Background (This should include the topic area, context, clinical need, disease target, description of research, novelty of research/innovation)
- Objectives/Methods (Discuss the problem statement, hypothesis, the gap as well as the major points of your work – the design and approach)
- Results (include significant findings of your project showing implications on how this research adds to the body of science)
- Conclusions (include implications of your findings with evidence and data to support your conclusions)
- Technology Transfer or Significance (Novelty, relevance, strategy, collaboration, market, IP, regulatory, etc.) * if relevant
- Keep all elements of your abstract (pictures, tables, graphics, drawings, photos) simple. Abstract should not require extensive explanations and should include references.
Mandatory Formatting Instructions
- PDF, one (1) letter-size page maximum, 5 MB maximum
- Times New Roman 11-point font
- All margins must be at least 2 cm
- All abstracts must be in English
- Names and affiliations of ALL authors
- All abstracts must be searchable
- Any figures and/or images must be embedded on the page
We are no longer accepting abstracts at this time for the IGT Symposium 2023.
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