IGCT Seminars & Workshops

29 March 2022     12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar*     

"TBD"

Soren M. Bentzen, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health; Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology; Division Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Maryland School of Medicine

14 February 2022     12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar*     

"Artificial Intelligence and Computational Imaging: Opportunities for Precision Medicine"

Pallavi Tiwari, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

19 January 2022     11:00AM - 12:00 PM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar*     

"Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated"

Cynthia Rudin, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science; Director, Prediction Analysis Lab, Duke University

12 November 2021    11:00AM - 1:00PM CST     Zoom Workshop* 

"Getting Started With AI: Day 2 - Leveraging Resources and Tools for Research in AI"

Bastien Rigaud, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Morfeus Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC 
Raji Muthusivarajan, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Fuentes Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
Jia Wu, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
Callistus Nguyen, PhD - Computational Scientist, Court Lab, Dept. of Radiation Physics, MDACC
Ankit B. Patel, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine; Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University 
John Wood, MS - Computational Scientist, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC 

11 November 2021    10:30AM - 12:30PM CST     Zoom Workshop* 

"Getting Started With AI: Day 1 - AI Resources and Tools"

Caroline Chung, MD - Vice President and Chief Data Officer, MDACC
"An XNAT Overview"
John Wood, MS - Computational Scientist, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
"Using Docker for AI Research"
James Lomax, MS - Data Scientist, MDACC
"Enterprise Data Science Environments"
Bradley Broom, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, MDACC
"HPC at MD Anderson"
William (Joe) Allen, PhD - Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin
"Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)"
Brian M. Anderson, PhD - Medical Physics Resident, University of California - San Diego
"AI Tools, Tips, and Tricks"

28 May 2021    12:00AM - 2:00PM CST     Zoom Workshop* 

"Bridging In Vivo Imaging and Histopathology with the Emit Xerra System: Applications in Biomedical Sciences"

Kristy K. Brock, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics; Executive Director, Image Guided Cancer Therapy Research Program, MDACC
Mat Brevard - Co-Founder and CEO, Emit Imaging
Charles V. Kingsley - DI Operations Manager, MDACC
Natalie W. Fowlkes, DVM, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, MDACC
Mark D. Pagel, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MDACC
Rony Avritscher, MD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC

06 January 2021    11:00AM - 1:30PM CST     Zoom Workshop* 

"An Overview and Workshop on Docker"

William (Joe) Allen, PhD - Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin
Pingjun Chen, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Wu Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC

29 January 2020    1:00PM - 3:00PM CST     Workshop in FCT3.5012 (B)

"How to Get Started in AI"

Carlos Cardenas, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiation Physics, MDACC
Brian M. Anderson, BS - PhD Candidate, Morfeus Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC

06 December 2021     12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Seminar*     

"Theranostics: Current Status and Emerging Opportunities at MD Anderson"

S. Cheenu Kappadath, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
"Updates on Y90-Radioembolization Dosimetry and Dose-Response"
Gregory C. Ravizzini, MD  - Associate Professor, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, MDACC
"Current Status of Prostate Theranostics"
H. Charles Manning, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MDACC
"Emerging Opportunities in Theranostics Research"

04 November 2021     12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Seminar*     

"Functional Mapping for Brain Tumor Surgery"

Vinodh A. Kumar, MD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroradiology, MDACC
"Introduction to Pre- and Intra-Operative MRI"
Sujit S. Prabhu, MD - Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, MDACC
"Intra-Operative Direct Cortical Simulation for Functional Mapping"
Kyle R. Knoll, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuro-Oncology, MDACC
"Assessment of Neurocognitive Function and Outcome"
Ho-Ling Anthony Liu, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
"Technical Challenges in Fuctional MRI"

18 October 2021     11:00AM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Lecture*     

"Stereotactic Image-Guided Ablation of Malignant Liver Tumors - From Bench to Bedside"

Iwan Paolucci, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC
Part 2 of 2 in this lecture series.

04 October 2021     11:00AM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Lecture*

"Stereotactic Image-Guided Surgery - An Introduction for Non-Engineers"

Iwan Paolucci, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC
Part 1 of 2 in this lecture series.

20 September 2021     1:00PM - 2:00 PM CST     Zoom Seminar*     

"Pancreatic Cancer Therapy: Advances & Challenges, Radiomics Prediction in Treatment Response, and Endoscopic Guided Therapies"

Anirban Maitra, MBBS - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
"Pancreatic Cancer - Advances & Challenges"
Eugene J. Koay, MD, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MDACC
"Radiomics Prediction in Pancreatic Treatment Response"
Manoop S. Bhutani, MD  - Associate Professor, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, MDACC
"EUS in PDAC: The Application of Endoscopic Guided Therapies"

05 August 2021     11:00AM - 12:00 PM CST     Zoom Research Showcase* 

"IGCT Summer Undergraduate Student Showcase"

2021 Awardees:

Best Design & Graphics Award - Maggie Lee
Best Scientific Progress Award - Richard Lee
Best Speaking Skills - Brandon Curl
People's Choice Award - Aparajith Kannapiran

30 June 2021     4:00PM - 5:00 PM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar*

"Can Focused Ultrasound Change the Pain Game?"

Julie Pilitsis, MD, PhD - Professor and Chair, Dept. of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Albany Medical College

12 May 2021     9:00AM - 10:00 AM CST     Zoom Seminar*

"Advanced 3D Imaging and Correlative Pathology with Xerra CFT"

Amer N. Najjar, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, MDACC
Richard R. Bouchard, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
Kristy K. Brock, PhD  - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC

26 April 2021     12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Seminar*

"First-in-Human Hyperpolarized MRI for Thyroid Cancer"

Stephen Y. Lai, MD, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Head & Neck Surgeyr, MDACC
James A. Bankson, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC

24 March 2021     12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar*

"Expanding the Imaging Toolbox with Radiometal PET Imaging Agents"

Suzanne E. Lapi, PhD - Professor, Depts. of Radiology and Chemistry; Vice Chair of Translational Research, Dept. of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

12 March 2021     8:00AM - 9:00AM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar* 

"Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications in Biomedical Sciences"

Colin McCarthy, MD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC
"Virtual and Augmented Reality for Image-Guided Procedures - Beyond the Hype"
Erez Lieberman Aiden, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
"Human Vision Modification Using Augmented Reality"

23 February 2021     10:00AM - 11:00AM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar* 

"Advances in Theranostics - Nanoparticle Applications in Cancer Therapy"

Rachael Siriani, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, UTHealth McGovern School of Medicine
"Nanoparticle Drug Delivery in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology"
Chun Li, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MDACC
"Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Image-Guided Photothermotherapy"

11 February 2021     10:00AM - 11:00AM CST     Zoom Seminar* 

"The Stereotactic RadPath Trial: Clinical Aspects and Analysis"

Dawid Schellingerhout, MD - Professor, Dept. of Neuroradiology, MDACC
David Fuentes, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC

10 December 2020     7:00AM - 8:00AM CST     Zoom Seminar* 

"Leveraging Our Legendary Clinical Volume: The MDACC Diagnostic Medicine Team Science Initiative"

Gregory N. Fuller, MD, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Pathology; Section Chief, Neuropathology Section, MDACC

18 November 2020     5:00PM - 6:00PM CST     Zoom Guest Seminar* 

"Optimum Clinical In Vivo Imaging with InVivage by OptiScan"

Darren Lurie - CEO, Optiscan
Lindsay Bussau, PhD - Application Specialist, OptiScan
Camile Farah, MDSc, PhD - Professor, Australian Centre for Oral Oncology Research and Education

12 November 2020     3:00PM - 4:00PM CST     WebEx Guest Seminar* 

"Integrating Radiotherapy with Targeted Agents - Mechanistic Models to Learn from Patient Data"

Clemens Grassberger, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology; Head, Radiation-Drug Treatment Design Lab Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

15 October 2020     2:00PM - 3:00PM CST     WebEx Guest Seminar* 

"Semi-Supervised StyleGan for Disentanglement Learning"

Weili Nie, BS - PhD Candidate, Dept. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine; PhD Candidate, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University

30 September 2020     11:00AM - 12:00PM CST     WebEx Seminar* 

"Point of Care Molecular Cancer Imaging"

Konstantin V. Sokolov, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
Richard R. Bouchard, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC

26 August 2020     3:00PM - 4:00PM CST     WebEx Seminar* 

"Expanding the Role of Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery"

Guillaume Cazoulat, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
Ravi Rajaram, MD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, MDACC

31 July 2020     2:00PM - 3:00PM CST     WebEx Guest Seminar* 

"Calculation to Clinic: Applications of Deep Learning Within Clinical Oncology"

Sanjay Aneja, MD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine

03 June 2020     3:00PM - 4:00PM CST     WebEx Guest Seminar* 

"Optimization of the Treatment Quality in Head and Neck Radiation Oncology"

Nicholas J. Lowther, PhD - University of Canterbury; Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Wellington Blood & Cancer Centre

19 May 2020     11:00AM - 12:00PM CST     WebEx Seminar* 

"Advances in Image Guided Liver Cancer"

Eugene Koay, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC
A. Kyle Jones, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC
Bruno Odisio, MD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC

10 April 2020     2:00PM - 3:00PM CST     WebEx Seminar* 

"Advances in Image Guided Cervical Cancer Treatment"

Ann H. Klopp, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC
Aradhana M. Ventakesan, MD - Professor, Dept. of Abdominal Imaging, MDACC

02 March 2020     2:00PM - 3:00PM CST     Seminar in FCT3.5001

"Imaging Innovation for Head and Neck Cancer Evaluation and Elimination of Toxicity"

C. David Fuller, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC
Stephen Y. Lai, MD, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery, MDACC
Kate A. Hucheson, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery, MDACC

19 February 2020     4:00PM - 5:30PM CST     Guest Seminar in FCT2.4142 (B)

"Deep Learning for Segmentation, Registration, and Image Reconstruction"

Jonas Tuewen, PhD - Assistant Professor, Netherlands Cancer Center

17 February 2020     3:30PM - 4:30PM CST    Guest Seminar in FCT3 Rooms 2 & 7

"AI for Breast Imaging: Better, Faster, Less!"

Ioannis Sechopoulos, PhD - Professor, Radboud University Medical Center

27 January 2020     1:00PM - 2:30PM CST    Seminar in FCT3.5012 (Lab B)

"Radiofrequency and Microwave Ablation"

Erik N.K. Cressman, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC