NVPHBV Fall Meeting 2022

Simulation and Synthesis

The NVPHBV Fall Meeting will focus on simulation and synthesis in pattern recognition and image processing R&D.

Simulation and synthesis can be beneficial to understand, develop, optimize, evaluate, and validate image acquisition, reconstruction, processing, and analysis/recognition methods. It is, for example, increasingly used in the field medical imaging, especially to generate ample data for training machine/deep learning based solutions. But it is also used in many other imaging-related fields.

Our meeting will consist of two parts:

In the morning (10:30 - lunch), we will host the final symposium of the EU Marie Curie openGTN project (www.opengtn.eu) that focused on the generation of ample magnetic resonance image (MRI) data for deep learning training. Exciting new methods of MRI simulation and synthesis and their application to image segmentation will be presented by the involved PhD researchers. Keynote presentation will be given by prof. dr. Sebastian Kozerke from ETH Zurich.

For the afternoon (after lunch - 17:30), we will have multiple keynote speakers , abstract presentations as well as a networking event. The winner of the best-abstract award will be announced at the end of the meeting.

Preliminary program:

10:00 -10:30 Welcome

10:30 -10:35 Brief introduction UMCU / ISI (Hugo Kuijf)

10:35 -10:45 Brief introduction openGTN project (Marcel Breeuwer)

10:45 -11:30 Keynote presentation by prof. dr. Sebastian Kozerke from ETH Zurich

11:30-12:30 Presentation of openGTN final results (by 3 involved PhD students)

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch, posters

13:30 - 17: 30 Afternoon Session

17:30 - 18:30 Drinks and networking

One slice of a brain model (left, with tumor in red/orange), followed by 4 types of synthesized brain MRI (details: www.opengtn.eu)

Synthesis of CT scans (from Generative models for reproducible coronary calcium scoring)