Call for Papers – MediSens 2019
If you wish to speak at our 2019 event, please get in touch as detailed below. Submissions should be along the following guidelines:
- Send a presentation title and abstract of no more than 500 words along with the speaker’s name, job title, organisation and short biography to our Head of Production, Hayley Marsden: [email protected]
- Deadline 25 August 2018
- Proposals are for a 25 minute presentation in any of the programme tracks
- All requests are sent to the advisory board and will be assessed for timeliness, quality and relevance to agenda objectives for MediSens 2019
- MediSens organisers reserve the right to make the final decision on inclusion of any paper
- We welcome submissions from all organisations regarding innovations in research, development, new technologies, techniques or explorations in the use of medical imaging.
For reference only —
Agenda for MediSens Conference from 2016
Day One – Tuesday 13 December 2016
Opening keynote: Delivering an approach driven by clinical need
Speaker: Dr Dimitra Darambara, Team Leader – Multimodality Molecular Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research
- Developments and challenges in cancer detection
- Understanding the technical and human challenges for medical imaging
- New techniques towards 3D quantitative imaging to ensure early and improved diagnosis and effective treatment
- Patient-specific diagnosis – Precision Medicine and personalised care
Digital X-ray image quality – What is important?
Speaker: Dr Inge Peters, Programme Manager Research, TeledyneDALSA
- Brief historical overview of medical X-ray Imaging
- Definition of X-ray image quality and how to translate this to application, system and detector requirements
- Discussion on the trade-offs in digital X-ray imaging related to the application requirements
An overview of research and development into molecular imaging
Speaker: Dr Antonis Kalemis, Vice President, Association of Imaging Producers & Equipment Suppliers (AIPES)
- Understanding the challenges in molecular imaging
- Multi modal imaging: what are the data implications?
- Assessing the advantages and opportunities of molecular imaging for patient groups v cost
- Advantages of optical PET, SPECT-MRI , PET-MRI: which mode has the best clinical potential?
Advances in (digital) single-photon detectors for PET
Speaker: Dr Claudio Bruschini, Project Manager & Senior Scientific Collaborator, EFPL
- Single-photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) fundamentals
- From single SPAD pixels to arrays and systems
- Examples of state-of-the-art SPAD-based PET systems and frontline R&D activity
Computing Tomography using a proton therapy beam: The Pravda collaboration
Dr Phil Evans, Professor of Medical Radiation Imaging, Centre of Vision Speech and Signal Processing
- The translation of technology from basic science to medical imaging
- Discussing the challenges of imaging proton beams
- Introducing the Pravda integrated imaging system for proton beam computed tomography
Roundtables
These sessions will focus specifically on different patient groups to unpick the challenges faced by clinicians and end users and explore how advances in technology can help improve outcomes
- Paediatrics
- Mammography
- Lung Cancer
Coaches Depart for Canapé Reception at the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum
Day Two – Wednesday 14 December 2016
What’s going on in the world of solid state medical imaging?
Speaker: Jérȏme Mouly, Technology & Market Analyst, Yole Developpement
- Exploring the new wave of innovation focused on CMOS image sensors in the solid state medical imaging market
- Assessing the status of CIS technology and related medical imaging applications
Advances in CMOS Wafer scale imagers for medical imaging
Speaker: Dr Biju Jacob, Senior Engineer, X-ray Detector Development, General Electric
- Clinical needs of x-ray imaging modalities, how they flow down to detector CTQs (critical to quality)
- CMOS detector benefits and challenges (IQ, artefacts, reliability, cost)
- Opportunities for CMOS in medical imaging
How CMOS can be further leveraged to advance medical imaging
Speaker: Dr Renato Turchetta, CEO, Wegapixel
- CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) technology: where it is today
- What can CIS bring to the medical imaging community
- Where is the technology going and how could this impact medical imaging
Use of hybrid-organic X ray detectors to improve the specifity and sensitivity of digital flat panel X ray detectors
Speaker: Dr Sandro Tedde, Senior Key Expert Research Scientist, Siemens Healthcare
- X-ray imaging with hybrid organic-inorganic conversion layers
- Scintillator particles embedded in an organic semiconducting matrix
- Digital flat panel X-ray detectors using a “quasi-direct” X-Ray conversion technology
- Hi resolution digital flat panel X-ray detectors
- DiCoMo: Combination of hybrid frontplane and active pixels backplane made of metal oxide TFTs
Advances in cardiac imaging: what it means for the future possibilities of X ray technology
- The clinical criteria for imaging technology for cancer therapy,
- The role of imaging before, during and after advanced radiotherapy treatment delivery
Speaker: Prof Gary Royle, Professor of Medical Radiation Physics, UCL
Disruptive technologies and the future of medical imaging
Medical endoscopic imaging and requirements for future image sensor design
Speaker: Dr Koichi Mizobuchi, Deputy General Manager, Medical Imaging Technology Department, Olympus Corporation
- Introduction of technical aspect of image enhanced endoscopy
- Effort for smaller diameter of the endoscopes and high resolution of tiny camera
- Requirements for image sensor design in terms of the high occupancy of the secured pixel area
- High resolution and high S/N ratio
Miniature camera modules for visualization in micro invasive surgery
- Use of wafer level packaging, circuit and MOEMs technologies to exploit mm precision manufacturing technologies
- Found form factor imaging sensors and modules to facilitate mechanical integration
Speaker: Martin Wäny, CEO, Awaiba SA, Member of AMS group
Disease diagnosis in the distal lung using time-resolved CMOS single photon detector arrays
Speaker: Prof Robert Henderson, Institute of Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, University of Edinburgh
- Fibre-based sensing and imaging system allowing minimally invasive diagnostics in the distal lung
- Sensing physiological parameters like pH through exogenous fluorophores or Surface Enhanced Raman Sensors (SERS)
- Application of SPAD sensors to aid in the disambiguation between bacterial fluorescent probes and tissue fluorescent signals
Closing keynote: How robotics is changing the face of surgery
Speaker: Professor Guang-Zhong Yang, Director & Co Founder, Hamlyn Centre of Robotic Surgery & Deputy Chairman, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
- Understanding the imaging requirements for surgical robots
- Current and future computer vision specifications
- How robotics could impact diagnosis and treatment