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.

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

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

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