Seminars & Events
The Image Guided Cancer Therapy Research Program has several types of events:
Educational: Sessions designed for scientists and students to discuss fundamentals.
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.
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Image Guided Cancer Therapy Research Program Calendar of Events
All events will be held on MDA Campus, unless otherwise indicated
Date & Location | Event Title | Speaker(s) | Link to Material |
27 JAN 2020 FCT3.5012 (Lab B) 1:00-2:30pm |
Seminar: Radiofrequency & Microwave Ablation | Erik Cressman, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Interventional Radiology, MDACC |
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29 JAN 2020 FCT3.5012 (Lab B) 1:00-3:00pm |
Workshop: How to Get Started in AI | Carlos Cardenas, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiation Physics - Research, MDACC Brian Anderson, BS Graduate Research Assistant, Brock Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC |
PowerPoint |
17 FEB 2020 FCT3 Rooms 2 & 7 3:30-4:30pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: AI for Breast Imaging: Better, Faster, Less! | Ioannis Sechopoulos, PhD Professor, Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands) |
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19 FEB 2020 FCT2.4142 (B) 4:00-5:30pm |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Deep Learning for Segmentation, Registration & Image Reconstruction |
Jonas Teuwen, PhD Assistant Professor, Netherlands Cancer Institute (Netherlands) |
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02 MAR 2020 FCT3.5001 2:00-3:00pm |
Seminar: Imaging Innovation for Head & Neck Cancer Evaluation & Elimination of Toxicity | C. David Fuller, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC Stephen Lai, MD, PhD Professor, Dept. of Head & Neck Surgery, MDACC Kate Hutcheson, PhD Professor, Dept. of Head & Neck Surgery, MDACC |
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10 APR 2020 Webex* 2:00-3:00pm** |
Seminar: Advances in Image Guided Cervical Treatment | Ann Klopp, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MDACC Aradhana Venkatesan, MD Professor, Dept. of Abdominal Imaging, MDACC |
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19 MAY 2020 Webex* 11:00-12:00pm** |
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 |
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03 JUN 2020 Webex* 3:00-4:00pm** |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Optimization of the Treatment Quality in Head & Neck Radiation Oncology | Nicholas J. Lowther, PhD University of Canterbury and Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Wellington Blood & Cancer Centre (New Zealand) |
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31 JUL 2020 Webex* 2:00-3:00pm** |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Calculation to Clinic: Applications of Deep Learning Within Clinical Oncology | Sanjay Aneja, MD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine |
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26 Aug 2020 Zoom* 3:00-4:00pm** |
Seminar: Expanding the Role of Minimally Invasive Lung Surgery | Guillaume Cazoulat, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDCC Ravi Rajaram, MD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, MDACC |
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30 SEP 2020 Webex* 11:00-12:00pm** |
Seminar: Point of Care Molecular Cancer Imaging | Kontantin Sokolov, PhD Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC Richard Bouchard, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDCC |
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15 OCT 2020 Webex* 2:00-3:00pm** |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Semi-Supervised StyleGAN for Disentanglement Learning | Weili Nie, BS PhD Candidate, Dept. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine & Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University |
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12 NOV 2020 Webex* 3:00-4:00pm** |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Integrating Radiotherapy with Targeted Agents - Mechanistic Models to learn from Patient Data | Clemens Grassberger, PhD Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Radiation-Drug Treatment Design Lab |
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18 NOV 2020 Zoom* 5:00-6:00pm** |
Guest Speaker Seminar: Optimum Clinical In Vivo Imaging with InVivage by OptiScan | Darren Lurie CEO, OptiScan (Australia) Lindsay Bussau, PhD Application Specialist, OptiScan (Australia) Camile Farah, MDSc, PhD Professor, Australian Centre for Oral Oncology Research and Education (Australia) |
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10 DEC 2020 Zoom* 7:00-8:00am** |
Seminar: Leveraging our Legendary Clinical Volume: The MDACC Diagnostic Medicine Team Science Initiative | Greg Fuller, MD, PhD Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Chief, Section of Neuropathology, MDACC |
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06 JAN 2021 Zoom* 11:00am-1:30pm** |
Workshop: An Overview and Workshop on Docker | William (Joe) Allen, PhD Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), UT Austin Pingjun Chen, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Wu Lab, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC |
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11 FEB 2021 Zoom* 10:00am-11:00am** |
Seminar: The Stereotactic RadPath Trial: Clinical Aspects and Analytics | Dawid Schellingerhout, MD Professor, Dept. of Neuroradiology, MDACC David Fuentes, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Imaging Physics, MDACC |
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23 FEB 2021 Zoom* 10:00am-11:00am** |
Guest Seminar: Advances in Theranostics - Nanoparticle Applications in Cancer Therapy "Nanoparticle Drug Delivery in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology" and "Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Image-Guided Photothermotherapy" |
Rachael Siriani, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, UTHealth McGovern School of Medicine Chun Li, PhD Professor, Dept. of Cancer Systems Imaging, MDACC |
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24 MAR 2021 Zoom* 12:00-1:00pm** |
Guest Seminar: "Expanding the Imaging Toolbox with Radiometal PET Imaging Agents" | Suzanne Lapi, PhD Professor, Depts. of Radiology and Chemistry and Vice Chair of Translational Research, Dept. of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
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*Please email igctr@mdanderson.org for meeting link or to be added to our seminar distribution list. **Central Time |