Programme

MICCAI 2021 Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI

The CDMRI workshop is on the 1st of October, 2021. Register now for the 1st of October MICCAI satellite event.

CDMRI includes the DiSCo Challenge

ALL TIMES ARE GIVEN IN UTC

Welcome (9:00 – 9:05)

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and Introduction

Keynote Lecture 1 (9:05 – 9:40)

9:05 – 9:40

Dr. Dan Wu

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Peeking into the Fetal Brain — Anatomical and Diffusion MRI Approaches

Oral Session 1 (9:40 – 10:10)

9:40 – 9:55 On the b-value derivation for diffusion-weighted Double-Echo Steady-State (dwDESS) Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Speaker: Ulrich Katscher
9:55 – 10:10 Quantitative evaluation of enhanced multi-plane clinical fetal diffusion MRI with a crossing-fiber phantom
Speaker: Hamza Kebiri

Keynote Lecture 2 (10:10 – 10:45)

10:10 – 10:45

Prof. Jurgen Schneider

University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Topic: Diffusion MRI in the Heart – Lessons from the Brain

Oral Session 2 (10:45 – 11:15)

10:45 – 11:00 A Novel Algorithm for Region-to-Region Tractography in Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Speaker: Lars Smolders
11:00 – 11:15 Alignment of Tractography Streamlines using Deformation Transfer via Parallel Transport
Speaker: Andrew Lizarraga

Short Break (11:15 – 11:25)

Keynote Lecture 3 (11:25 – 12:00)

11:25 – 12:00

Dr. Maryam Afzali

Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff, UK

Topic: Quantification of the tissue microstructure using diffusion MRI

Power-pitch Session (12:00 – 12:25)

Fast tractography streamline search
Speaker: Etienne St-Onge
Synthesizing VERDICT maps from standard DWI data using GANs
Speaker: Eleni Chiou
Diffusion MRI Automated Region of Interest Analysis in Standard Atlas Space versus the Individual’s Native Space
Speaker: Lanya T. Cai
Bundle Geodesic Convolutional Neural Network for DWI Segmentation from Single Scan Learning
Speaker: Renfei Liu
Accelerating Geometry-Based Spherical Harmonics Glyphs Rendering for dMRI Using Modern OpenGL
Speaker: Charles Poirier

Keynote Lecture 4 (12:25 – 13:00)

12:25 – 13:00

Prof. Santiago Aja-Fernández

Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

Topic: Advanced Diffusion Measures from Reduced MRI Acquisitions

Long Break (13:00 – 14:00)

DiSCo Challenge and NVIDIA Sponsorship Talk (14:00 – 15:40)

14:00 – 15:20 DiSCo Challenge
15:20 – 15:40 NVIDIA Sponsorship Talk

Keynote Lecture 5 (15:40 – 16:15)

15:40 – 16:15

Dr. Filip Szczepankiewicz

Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Topic: The Diffusion Encoding Family and Its Uninvited Cousins

Short Break (16:15 – 16:25)

Oral Session 3 (16:25 – 17:25)

16:25 – 16:40 A microstructure model from conventional diffusion MRI of meningiomas: impact of noise and error minimization
Speaker: Letizia Morelli
16:40 – 16:55 Generalised Hierarchical Bayesian Microstructure Modelling for Diffusion MRI
Speaker: Elizabeth Powell
16:55 – 17:10 Brain Tissue Microstructure Characterization Using dMRI Based Autoencoder Neural-Networks
Speaker: Mauro Zucchelli
17:10 – 17:25 Lesion Normalization and Supervised Learning in Post-Traumatic Seizure Classification with Diffusion MRI
Speaker: Md Navid Akbar

Keynote Lecture 6 (17:25 – 18:00)

17:25 – 18:00

Dr. Lauren O'Donnell

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Topic: Mapping the Human Brain’s Deep and Superficial White Matter: Big Data and “Small” Data

Concluding Remarks (18:00 – 18:05)