Agenda

Bethesda Marriott – 5151 Pooks Hill Road – Bethesda, MD

Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, March 1st 2012

8:00 – 8:20	Opening Remarks Andrew F. Laine – Program Chair William Heetderks, NIH/NIBIB	Grand Ballroom
08:20 – 10:10	Topic 1 – Neuro-Imaging Bin He – Moderator Advances in Functional Neuroimaging — Bruce R. Rosen Electrophysiological Mapping of Function and Connectivity: Opportunities and Challenges — Richard M. Leahy The Search for Multimodal Neuroimaging Biomarkers — Vince C. Calhoun Functional Neuroimaging from EEG and fMRI — Bin He
10:10 – 10:30	Coffee Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:30 – 12:20	Topic 2 – Medical Image Analysis Milan Sonka – Moderator Model-based Strategies for Biomedical Image Analysis: A Platform for Information Integration — James S. Duncan Learning and Discovery of Clinically Useful Information from Medical Images — Daniel Rueckert Shaping the Future through Innovations: Towards Personalized Medicine — Dorin Comaniciu Medical image analysis for early detection and disease outcome prediction — Milan Sonka
12:20 – 14:00	Lunch and Breakout Session We arranged an Express Lunch Station exclusively for you at the Agio Restaurant to avoid long delay from ordering regular menu.
14:00 – 15:50	Topic 3 – Biological Imaging Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin – Moderator Navigating the cellular landscape with new optical probes, imaging strategies and technical innovations — Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Novel mathematical tools for improved 3-D reconstruction and biological image analysis — Michael Unser Imaging the cellular and molecular dynamics of embryonic development — Scott E. Fraser The future of bioimaging: less photons, more numbers — Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin
15:50 – 16:10	Coffee Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
16:10 – 18:00	Topic 4 – Cardiac and Vascular Imaging Andrew F. Laine – Moderator Transforming Health Care: The Role of Technology and Biomedical Imaging — Misha Pavel Progress and Challenges in Patient Specific Cardiac Wall and Blood Flow Modeling and Characterization from CT, MRI and US — Dimitris N. Metaxas Diffusion MRI Processing: Where are we where do we go from here? — Baba C. Vemuri TBD – Andrew F. Laine
19:00 – 21:00	Welcome Reception	Congressional Ballroom 1, 2, and 3

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

08:00 – 09:50	Topic 5 – Molecular and Optical Imaging Xiaochuan Pan, Lihong Wang – Moderators Building molecules to image disease pathways and guide therapy — Roger Y. Tsien Molecular Imaging Without Radiopharmaceuticals? — John C. Gore Photoacoustic Tomography: Ultrasonically Breaking through the Optical Diffusion Limit — Lihong Wang
9:50 – 10:10	Coffee Break
10:10 – 12:00	Topic 6 – Informatics data mining and PACS Shahram Ebadollahi – Moderator Bringing Imaging into the Era of Personalized Medicine — Eliot L. Siegel EHR 2.0 – A Grand Challenge in Image Assembly & Analysis — William W. Stead Secondary Use of Electronic Health record data — George Hripcsak Longitudional ERH Data, Predictive Modeling and Implications for Clinical Care — Walter “Buzz” Stewart
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch and Breakout Session We arranged an Express Lunch Station exclusively for you at the Agio Restaurant to avoid long delay from ordering regular menu.
13:00 – 15:20	Special Sessions on Education: Training the next generation of imaging scientists Education, Ethics, and Exploring the Future — Thomas F. Budinger Research Training in Biomedical Imaging: Where Are We and Where Should We Be Going? — Richard A. Baird Training Future Interdisciplinary Biomedical Engineers — Semahat S. Demir Grand Challenges in Integrating Education in Medicine and Engineering – Srini Tridandapani
14:20- 15:20	Breakout Sessions (each room listed below) The purpose of the breakout session is to identify the most compelling problems / bottlenecks in each of the respective areas of biomedical imaging that will have a significant impact in improving the quality and cost of heathcare and to produce a pathways to reasoned solutions over the next decade. At the end of the breakout session, the moderators and attendees, will jointly develop PPT slides summarizing their thoughts which will be presented to the entire audience during the last 45 minutes of the meeting. Neuro-Imaging — Rockville/Chevy Chase Medical Image Analysis — Annapolis/Chesapeake Biological Imaging — Calhoun/Hart Cardiac and Functional Imaging — Bethesda/Potomic Molecular and Optical Imaging — Montgomery/Democracy Informatics Data Mining and PACS — Pooks Hill/Kensington Training the next generation of imaging scientists – Dirksen/Russell
15:20 – 16:05	Summary of Breakout Sessions	Grand Ballroom
16:05 – 16:15	Closing Remarks – Andrew F. Laine