IGCT Seminars & Workshops
The Image Guided Cancer Therapy Research Program has several types of events:
Workshop: Interactive sessions targeted to engage attendees in discussions and activities designed to advance the program's mission.
Seminar: Sessions designed to discuss scientific advancements in Image Guided Cancer Therapy.
* Zoom meeting links and details are available on the MD Anderson Institutional Calendar or by joining our email list. Please email igctr@mdanderson.org to join the IGCT email list.
Join Us For Our Next IGCT Seminar!
01 Jun 2022 12:00PM - 1:00PM CST IGCT Seminar
"Anatomical Modeling to Improve the Precision of Image Guided Liver Ablation: A COVER-ALL Clinical Trial Update"
Caleb O'Connor, MS - Medical Physics Assistant, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
Yuan-Mao (Gary) Lin, MD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson
Iwan Paolucci, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson
Bruno C. Odisio, MD - Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson
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2022 IGCT Seminars & Workshops
01 June 2022 12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST Zoom Seminar*
"Anatomical Modeling to Improve the Precision of Image Guided Liver Ablation: A COVER-ALL Clinical Trial Update"
Caleb O'Connor, MS -
Medical Physics Assistant, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD
Anderson
Yuan-Mao (Gary) Lin, MD -
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MD
Anderson
Iwan Paolucci, PhD -
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MD
Anderson
Bruno C. Odisio,
MD - Professor, Dept. of
Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson
18 & 19 May 2022 9:00AM - 1:00PM CST Zoom Workshop*
Deformable Image Registration Workshop
"Day 1: Fundamentals of Deformable Image Registration"
"Day 2: Successes & Future Work in Deformable Image Registration"
A recording of this workshop is available to MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click to view for Day 1 and Day 2 of the workshop.
19 May 2022 2:00PM - 3:00 PM CST Zoom Guest Seminar*
"Quantitative Analysis of Ki67, a Prognostic Biomarker in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors"
Toby
C. Cornish, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology,
School of Medicine, University of Colorado - Anschutz Medical
Campus
A recording of this seminar is available to MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
11 April 2022 1:00PM - 2:00 PM CST Zoom Seminar*
"Advances in Image Guided Biopsy"
Ignacio I.
Wistuba - Professor, Dept. of Translational
Molecular Pathology, MD Anderson
"MD Anderson Moon Shot
APOLLO Platform"
Alda L.
Tam - Professor, Dept. of Interventional
Radiology, MD Anderson
"Image-Guided Research Biopsies:
Best Practices"
A recording of this seminar is available to MD Anderson
employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
29 March 2022 12:00PM - 1:00 PM CST Zoom Guest Seminar*
"Seeing is Believing - But Where's the Evidence"
Søren 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
A recording of this seminar is available to MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
02 March 2022 10:00AM - 12:00PM CST Zoom Workshop*
"Navigating Team Science - Day 2: Resolving Conflict and Working Through Challenging Discussions"
Dustin E. Bennett, BA - LI Training Specialist, Leadership Institute, MD Anderson
"Ideal Team States: What if Reality Isn't Ideal?"
Scott B. Cantor, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Health Services Research; Ombudsman, MD Anderson
"Conflict Resolution in Team Science"
Anirban Maitra, MBBS - Professor, Depts. of Pathology and Translational Molecular Pathology; Scientific Director, Ahmed Pancreatic Cancer Center; Deputy Division Head for Academic Science, MD Anderson
"Challenges in Team Science and Steps to Resolution"
Varsha Gandhi, PhD - Professor and Chair Ad Interim, Dept. of Experimental Therapeutics, MD Anderson
"Authorship Conflicts"
Pannel Discussion: Resolving Conflicts and Working Through Challenging Discussions
MD Anderson Panelists:
- Dustin E. Bennett, BA - (LI Training Specialist, Leadership Institute)
- Scott B. Cantor, PhD - (Professor of Health Services Research & Ombudsman)
- Anirban Maitra, MBBS - (Professor of Pathology & Translational Molecular Pathology; Scientific Director, Ahmed Pancreatic Cancer Center;
Deputy Division Head for Academic Science) - Varsha Gandhi, PhD - (Professor and Chair Ad Interim of Experimental Therapeutics)
- Robert C. Bast, Jr, MD - (Vice President for Translational Research)
- Stephen Y. Lai, MD, PhD - (Professor of Head & Neck Surgery)
- Caroline Chung, MD - (Vice President and Chief Data Officer)
- James A. Bankson, PhD - (Professor of Imaging Physics)
- Rebecca M. Howell, PhD - (Professor of Radiation Physics)
- Ann H. Klopp, MD, PhD - (Professor of Gynecolologic Oncology)
A recording of this workshop is available to MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
01 March 2022 8:30AM - 11:00AM CST Zoom Workshop*
"Navigating Team Science - Day 1: Building the Right Teams"
Opening Remarks will be given by Peter WT Pisters, MD - President of MD Anderson
Darrell Simmons, BA, JD - Leadership Practitioner, Leadership Institute, MD Anderson
"Building Strong Team Foundations"
Andrew Futreal, PhD - Professor and Chair, Dept. of Genomic Medicine; Vice President for Strategic Translational Research Programs, MD Anderson
"Building Collaborative Research Teams"
Eugene J. Koay, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of GI Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson
"Successful Team Science Collaborations: U54 Grants"
C. Dave Fuller, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology; Research Director, Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson
"Successful Team Science Collaborations: P01 Grants"
Jennifer K. Litton, MD - Professor, Dept. of Breast Medical Oncology; Vice President of Clinical Research, MD Anderson
"Successful Team Science Collaborations: Multi-Institutional Clinical Trials"
Juan Fueyo, MD - Professor, Dept. of Neuro-Oncology, MD Anderson
"Successful Team Science Collaborations: SPORE Grants"
A recording of this workshop is available to MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
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
A recording of this seminar is available to MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
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
A recording of this seminar is available to MD Anderson
employees on MS Stream. Please click
here to view.
Past IGCT Workshops
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, MD Anderson
Raji Muthusivarajan, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Fuentes Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
Jia Wu, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
Callistus Nguyen, PhD - Computational Scientist, Court Lab, Dept. of Radiation Physics, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
A recording of this workshop is available to MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
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, MD Anderson
"An XNAT Overview"
John Wood, MS - Computational Scientist, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
"Using Docker for AI Research"
James Lomax, MS - Data Scientist, MD Anderson
"Enterprise Data Science Environments"
Bradley Broom, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, MD Anderson
"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"
A recording of this workshop is available for MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
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, MD Anderson
Mat Brevard - Co-Founder and CEO, Emit Imaging
Charles V. Kingsley - DI Operations Manager, MD Anderson
Natalie W. Fowlkes, DVM, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, MD Anderson
Mark D. Pagel, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson
Rony Avritscher, MD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson
A recording of this workshop is available for MD Anderson employees on MS Stream. Please click here to view.
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, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
Brian M. Anderson, BS - PhD Candidate, Morfeus Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
2021 IGCT Seminars
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, MD Anderson
"Updates on Y90-Radioembolization Dosimetry and Dose-Response"
Gregory C. Ravizzini, MD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, MD Anderson
"Current Status of Prostate Theranostics"
H. Charles Manning, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson
"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, MD Anderson
"Introduction to Pre- and Intra-Operative MRI"
Sujit S. Prabhu, MD - Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, MD Anderson
"Intra-Operative Direct Cortical Simulation for Functional Mapping"
Kyle R. Knoll, PhD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuro-Oncology, MD Anderson
"Assessment of Neurocognitive Function and Outcome"
Ho-Ling Anthony Liu, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
"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, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
"Pancreatic Cancer - Advances & Challenges"
Eugene J. Koay, MD, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson
"Radiomics Prediction in Pancreatic Treatment Response"
Manoop S. Bhutani, MD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, MD Anderson
"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, MD Anderson
Richard R. Bouchard, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
Kristy K. Brock, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
James A. Bankson, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
"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, MD Anderson
"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, MD Anderson
David Fuentes, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
2020 IGCT Seminars
10 December 2020 7:00AM - 8:00AM CST Zoom Seminar*
"Leveraging Our Legendary Clinical Volume: The MD Anderson Diagnostic Medicine Team Science Initiative"
Gregory N. Fuller, MD, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Pathology; Section Chief, Neuropathology Section, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
Richard R. Bouchard, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
Ravi Rajaram, MD - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
A. Kyle Jones, PhD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MD Anderson
Bruno Odisio, MD - Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
Aradhana M. Ventakesan, MD - Professor, Dept. of Abdominal Imaging, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson
Stephen Y. Lai, MD, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery, MD Anderson
Kate A. Hucheson, PhD - Professor, Dept. of Head and Neck Surgery, MD Anderson
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, MD Anderson