KEYNOTE SPEAKERS LIST
Mário Oliveira, Santa Marta Hospital, Portugal
Title: Managing Systems in Remote Monitoring: A Complex Challenge turned into an Important Clinical Tool
Patrick Flandrin, ENS Lyon, France
Title: Of bats and men
Paolo Dario, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Title: Available Soon
Arcadi Navarro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Title: Available Soon
Boudewijn Lelieveldt, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Title: Image Analysis Challenges in Translational Molecular Imaging Research
Keynote Lecture 1
Managing Systems in Remote Monitoring: A Complex Challenge turned into an Important Clinical Tool
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Mário Oliveira
Santa Marta Hospital
Portugal
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Brief Bio
Mário Oliveira, MD, PhD, FESC, FHRS, Cardiology/Electrophysiology, graduated from Lisbon University, Portugal (1988) and trained in Cardiology at St Marta’s Hospital in Lisbon. During his training he also worked in echocardiography at Gregorio Marãnon Hospital, Madrid (Dr M. Garcia Fernandez), risk stratification after myocardial infarction at St George Hospital, London (Dr John Camm) and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators at Ann Arbor Medical Center (Dr Fred Morady). In 1997, he became a staff cardiologist at Sta Marta’s Hospital. He also held appointment as Consultant Cardiologist at St Portuguese Red Cross Hospital, in Lisbon. Dr Mario Oliveira has a particular interest in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac rhythm disorders and its control by catheter ablation and implantable devices. His post-graduation mastership was in Sports Medicine and his major research activities involve autonomic nervous system and arrhythmogenesis, particularly related to paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, and prevention of sudden cardiac death. Author of more than 90 papers and member of several scientific societies is also currently Coordenator of the Cardiac Pacing Unit at Santa Marta Hospital, Assistant Professor of Physiology at Lisbon Faculty of Medicine and PI at Cardiovascular Autonomic Lab of the Faculty of Medicine & Instituto de Medicina Molecular.
Abstract
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Keynote Lecture 2
Of bats and men
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Patrick Flandrin
ENS Lyon
France
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Brief Bio
Patrick Flandrin graduated from ICPI Lyon (Engineer Degree in 1978) and INPG Grenoble (PhD in 1982). He is currently a CNRS "Research Director" at ENS de Lyon. His research interests are mostly in nonstationary signal processing (time-frequency/time-scale methods), self-similar stochastic processes and complex systems. He published over 200 journal or conference papers, contributed several chapters to collective books and authored one monograph. Former Director of CNRS-GdR ISIS (2002-2005), he is President of GRETSI, the French Association for Signal and Image Processing, since 2009. Dr Flandrin has been awarded the Philip Morris Scientific Prize in Mathematics (1991), the SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award (2001) and the Prix Michel Monpetit from the French Academy of Sciences (2001). Fellow of IEEE (2002) and EURASIP (2009), he has been elected member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2010.
More at http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/patrick.flandrin
Abstract
Bats are known to use a sophisticated sonar system whose study is interesting from at least two complementary perspectives. On the one hand, getting a better understanding of how bat sonar systems work is a clue for designing man-made systems operating along similar lines.
On the other hand, the specific structure of the signals emitted by bats calls for the development of new tools aimed at their analysis and processing. The present talk is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of bat sonar studies, but rather to highlight some features of the back and forth interaction between "bats as natural signal processors" and "bat-inspired artificial systems"
Keynote Lecture 3
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Paolo Dario
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Italy
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Brief Bio
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Keynote Lecture 4
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Arcadi Navarro
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Spain
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Brief Bio
Arcadi Navarro was an undergraduate, and later a graduate student, at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he started a PhD in Biology in 1992. After quitting the academic world for a few years, he finished my PhD and went back to basic research in 1999 as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. He entered the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2002 as a research fellow within the Ramón y Cajal program and was appointed ICREA Research Professor at the UPF in 2006 and Professor of Genetics in 2010.
Currently, Arcadi Navarro leads a research group in Evolutionary Genomics within the Department of Experimental and Heath Sciences of the UPF (DCEXS) and the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (IBE). He was the vice-Director of the IBE during the 2008-2013 period and, since 2013, he is the director of the DCEXS. Additionally, he is the director of the Population Genomics Node of the Spanish National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB). Finally, he has recently entered into a double appointment with the CRG (Center for Genomic Regulation) to carry out studies linking Genotypes and Phenotypes, in particular, co-managing the EGA (European Genome and Phenome Archive). He has authored more than 100 papers and books on the subjects of his research.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Life as we see it in our planet today has been shaped by many different biological processes during billions of years. These processes leave a signature in our genomes in the form of differences between species, or between individuals of the same species. Interrogating these patterns of genome diversity we can infer what are the forces that affect living organisms, how and when they act and how do they affect such various things as biodiversity, human emotions or the differential susceptibility of different persons to certain diseases. All this knowledge empowers us to control our future but, above all, it is fun to obtain.
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Keynote Lecture 5
Image Analysis Challenges in Translational Molecular Imaging Research
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Boudewijn Lelieveldt
Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands
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Brief Bio
Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt is a Professor of Biomedical Imaging at the Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands, where he is heading the Division of Image Processing (www.lkeb.nl). He is also appointed at the Department of Intelligent Systems, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands in the context of a faculty exchange in the Medical Delta consortium (www.medicaldelta.nl). His main research interest is the integration of a-priori knowledge into segmentation and registration algorithms, with main applications to cardiac imaging and multi-modal pre-clinical imaging and fluorescence-guided surgery. He also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Medical Image Analysis and the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, and is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. He is program and organization committee member for several international conferences, among others IPMI 2007 and ISBI 2016.
Abstract
The rapid developments in in-vivo molecular imaging modalities such as fluorescence and bioluminescence imaging enables the live imaging of gene expression, cell fate and protein interactions. Combined with detailed structural imaging modalities such as magnetic resonance imaging, the biochemical onset of disease and therapy can be monitored in combination with structural and functional consequences over time. This presentation discusses a number of image analysis challenges emerging from longitudinal pre-clinical molecular imaging studies. Three steps towards a quantitative 3D analysis of follow-up small animal imaging will be presented: whole-body registration, change visualization in follow-up data and fusion of optical and 3D structural imaging data. Several application examples will be presented in the context of translational molecular imaging research.
