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The 2016 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be hosted by the University of Stirling.

Join us to keep abreast of developments in clinical and experimental imaging, and learn about research based around MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, ultrasound, and human optical imaging.

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5 RCR CPD credits are awarded.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Jon Simons from the University of Cambridge as our keynote speaker, in addition to stimulating presentations from SINAPSE members in short talks and poster sessions.

Programme

Registration is open through 10 June: http://shop.stir.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=17&catid=19&prodid=39

Please book your place early. The cost is £50 for SINAPSE members and free for students.

If you are not already a SINAPSE member (i.e., you don't have a member profile listed here), please join before registering for the meeting: www.sinapse.ac.uk/@@join

The meeting will be held at the Pathfoot Building at the University of Stirling:

Free car parking will be available on campus. There are bus and taxi links from the Stirling rail station, or a journey by train can be completed with a pleasant walk (approximately 40 minutes from Stirling rail station or 25 minutes from Bridge of Allan rail station). Maps, directions, and travel advice can be found here.

Accommodation is available on campus at the Stirling Court Hotel. A special rate of £59.00pp B&B is offered for SINAPSE members, by phoning Stirling Venues at 01786 466000 and quoting reference 146985 . Please book early as availability is limited. More information about local attractions and services can be found here.

Sponsorship generously provided by:

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Partners:

Exhibitors:

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Bartec		Bayer Healthcare
Bracco		GE Healthcare
Imaging Equipment Ltd.		NHS Research Scotland
Scottish Mental Health Research Network

The Scottish capital will host the 1-day event allowing the UK PET Chemists to meet and discuss recent results and developments in the PET radiochemistry field.

To register please obtain tickets from https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uk-pet-chemistry-2016-tickets-20499830545. The registration deadline is the 22nd April 2016.

Please email UKPETChem2016@ed.ac.uk with any queries or information requests.

A poster for the meeting can be downloaded here. Please use this to advertise this event locally.

Programme: We are delighted to have 2 keynote presenters, Prof David Newby and Prof Paul Matthews.  Prof Newby is director of the Clinical Research Imaging Centre at the University of Edinburgh and will present imaging research into cardiovascular disease.  Prof Matthews is Head of the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London and will present on the Dementia Platform UK and PET-MRI imaging.

The final programme can be downloaded here.

Abstracts: Young researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts for short talks and posters. Abstracts are requested under the topics of Fluorine-18, Carbon-11, Other Positron Emitters and New Technology.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS PASSED: Researchers will be notified of abstract acceptance for oral or poster presentations by 11th April 2016

For any queries regarding abstract submission please email UKPETChem2016-Abstracts@ed.ac.uk

Short talks will be 10 minutes long with 2 minutes for questions (12 minutes total)

Posters should be size A0 in a portrait orientation.  Please adhere to these dimensions otherwise your poster may extend beyond the edge of the poster board.

Poster presenters will be given a 2 minute poster pitch during the meeting.  Speakers should present a maximum of 3 slides including the title slide.  The presentation should tell the audience who you are, the aim of your work and your main result.  You will be given a Poster Number.  Please remember to put your poster number on each of your slides.

Prizes will be offered to the best poster and best short talk presented by a Student/Early Career Researcher

Meeting Venue and Travel Advice: The meeting will be held at the National Museum of Scotland in the city centre of Edinburgh.  This venue is conveniently located at a walking distance (0.4 miles) from Waverley train station where taxis are also readily available.

Road: Street parking is very limited on site and at cost.

Trains: Edinburgh’s main train station (Waverley) is located at about 9min walk from the conference centre.

Plane: The Edinburgh Airport is located 14 miles away from the conference centre. Frequent flights to the main UK airports are available. EasyJet and BA operate frequent ‘cheap’ flights between London airports and Edinburgh. The airport is connected to Waverley by the AirLink bus 100 (frequent connection and journey is about 55min).  


Accommodation: A number of reasonably priced hotels are located in the vicinity of the conference centre.


Local Organising Committee:

Dr Christophe Lucatelli and Anne Grant, Clinical Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh

Prof David Wyper, Dr Kristin Flegal and Dr Sally Pimlott, SINAPSE

Sponsors:

The UK’s largest dementia research conference will take place 14-15 March 2017 at the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre. With no parallel sessions, this is the perfect conference to gain insight from basic researchers through to clinical colleagues.

The conference will cover a wide range of topics including:

• Birth cohorts & big data
• Targeting tau
• New technologies
• Metabolic factors of dementia
• Drug discovery

PhD students enrolled at Scottish Universities are able to register for free due to a generous donation by The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust.

Research, development and innovation are core activities for our health and social care services in Scotland and now in its sixth year, the NHS Research Scotland conference brings together delegates across NHS, academia, industry and third sector to showcase activity across Scotland, support shared learning and capitalise on our strong ethos of collaboration.

The conference is open to anyone involved in planning, managing and delivering clinical research in Scotland, particularly clinical researchers, funders of clinical research, clinical research support staff and NHS research and development staff.

With the theme of 'Realistic Medicine: The Value and Impact of Research and Innovation' we are delighted to welcome a range of expert speakers to the conference including:

• Ricky Verrall, Head of Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Government
• Dr Catherine Calderwood, Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Government
• Professor Robert Steele, Head of Cancer Research Division & Professor of Surgery,University of Dundee
  
• Professor Peter Connelly, Clinical Research Champion, NRS Dementia and Neuroprogressive Network
• And many more expert clinicians, research fellows and representatives from NHS, industry, patients, charity groups and regulators

It will be a full programme demonstrating the strength of our research offering in Scotland and provide maximum opportunity for learning, discussion and networking through a range of plenary, parallel and discussion sessions coupled with poster and exhibitor showcases.

The 2017 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow, site of the newly-opened Imaging Centre of Excellence (housing the first 7T clinical MRI scanner in Scotland).

Join us to keep abreast of developments in clinical and experimental imaging, and learn about research based around MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, ultrasound, and human optical imaging.

Event flier

5 RCR CPD credits are awarded.

Programme

We are delighted to welcome Prof Arno Villringer from the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, as our keynote speaker.

The meeting programme [click heading above to view] also features stimulating presentations from SINAPSE members in plenary talks, poster sessions, and parallel sessions on the following themes:

Registration is open through 9 June: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2017-sinapse-annual-scientific-meeting-tickets-32845084532

Please book your place early. The cost is £30 for SINAPSE members and free for students.

If you are not already a SINAPSE member (i.e., you don't have a member profile listed here), please join before registering for the meeting: www.sinapse.ac.uk/@@join

The meeting will be held at the Teaching and Learning Centre at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow:

Travel advice for the QEUH campus can be found here. Please note that only limited car parking is available and alternative transport options are encouraged.

Numerous and frequent bus services run to QEUH from all areas of Glasgow, with most dropping off at the Arrival Square at the main hospital entrance (shown above). Upon alighting from a bus at the Arrival Square, walk to the left and then follow the footpath to the right around the side of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

A helpful map showing bus routes and interchange points can be found here.

From Glasgow Queen Street rail station, the bus stop on Cathedral Street is served by Stagecoach X19 and First Glasgow 77:

From Glasgow Central rail station, the bus stops on Union Street and Jamaica Street are served by McGill's 23 and 23A, and Stagecoach X19:

The nearest subway station to the QEUH campus is Govan. The Teaching and Learning Centre is about a 30 minute walk away (head west on Govan Road for 1 mile then turn left at the first hospital site entrance as shown with the purple dotted line on the large map above), or the street level bus stop outside of the station is served by McGill's 21, 23 and 23A, and Stagecoach X19 [all dropping off at the Arrival Square], and by First Glasgow 90 [which travels through the hospital grounds and is the only bus route to drop off at the Teaching and Learning Centre].

Park and Ride is available at the Shields Road subway station, just off the M8. A return journey subway ticket, included in the Park and Ride price for all-day parking, can be used for transport to the Govan subway station, or the bus stop across Shields Road is served by First Glasgow 90 which drops off at the Teaching and Learning Centre.

Bike journeys to the QEUH campus can be planned with CycleStreets; there are bike racks at the Teaching and Learning Centre. Nextbike rental is available from locations including Glasgow Queen Street rail station (at George Square), Glasgow Central rail station (at Hope Street and Gordon Street) and Govan subway station (at Govan Cross on Water Row). Upon arrival at the QEUH campus, nextbike rentals can be returned at the Arrival Square.

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Catering for this event has been part-funded by Bayer

The UK City of Culture 2017, Hull, will host the 1-day event allowing the UK PET Chemists to meet and discuss recent results and developments in the PET radiochemistry field.

The focus will be mainly on talks from PhD students and postdocs. Poster pitch session will be used to give students a chance to attract people to their poster for further discussion.

To register please obtain tickets from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-pet-chemistry-meeting-2017-tickets-35589198250. The registration deadline is the 7th August 2017.

Please email UKPET2017@hull.ac.uk with any queries or information requests.

Final program is available to view here.

Abstracts: Young researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts for short talks and posters. Abstracts are requested under the topics of Fluorine-18, Carbon-11, Other Positron Emitters and New Technology.

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: All abstracts must be submitted by the 24th July 2017. Researchers will be notified of abstract acceptance for oral or poster presentations by 4th August 2017.

For any queries regarding abstract submission please email UKPET2017@hull.ac.uk

Short talks will be 10 minutes long with 2 minutes for questions (12 minutes total).

Posters should be size A0 in a portrait orientation. Please adhere to these dimensions otherwise your poster may extend beyond the edge of the poster board.

Poster presenters will be given a 2 minute poster pitch during the meeting. Speakers should present a maximum of 3 slides including the title slide. The presentation should tell the audience who you are, the aim of your work and your main result. You will be given a Poster Number. Please remember to put your poster number on each of your slides.

Prizes will be offered to the best poster and best short talk presented by a Student/Early Career Researcher.

As we celebrate 70 years of the NHS our ability to translate research and innovation into excellent individual healthcare is more important than ever.

Through a series of plenary and parallel sessions, panel discussions, speed presentations, posters and exhibitor opportunities the NHS Research Scotland Conference celebrates the strength of Scotland’s research environment.

Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director of Healthcare Quality and Improvement at Scottish Government will take to the stage with Allison Worth, Patient and Public Involvement Advisor at Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility and patients for a powerful opening plenary celebrating 70 years of medical advances that have helped transform health and patient care.

Our popular panel discussion returns with a fantastic range of representatives considering how we shape the NHS of tomorrow through research; and a range of insightful parallel sessions will explore the cutting-edge research driving improvement and innovation within our health service today including:

• Patients at the heart of research
• Precision Medicine: development, delivery and collaboration
• Data driving improved healthcare
• Convergence – the future of health [including talks on retinal imaging in the VAMPIRE project and on microendoscopy imaging in the Proteus project]
  
• Harnessing our research workforce
• Facilitated poster session

Celebrating 10 years of SINAPSE, our 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh on Monday, 25 June 2018.

Join us to keep abreast of developments in clinical and experimental imaging, and learn about research based around MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, ultrasound, and human optical imaging.

Event flier

5 RCR CPD credits are awarded.

Programme

We are delighted to welcome two keynote speakers this year:

• Prof Marion Smits from Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
• Prof David Kiely from the Sheffield Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit

The meeting programme [click heading above to view] also features stimulating presentations from SINAPSE members in plenary talks, poster sessions, and parallel sessions.

Registration is open through 15 June: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2018-sinapse-annual-scientific-meeting-tickets-44327642171

Please book your place early. The cost is £40 for SINAPSE members and free for students.

If you are not already a SINAPSE member (i.e., you don't have a member profile listed here), please join before registering for the meeting: www.sinapse.ac.uk/@@join

The meeting will be held at the Quincentenary Building at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh:

Please note that no private car parking is available at the venue. Metered street parking can be found in the area, and additionally there are pay-to-park spaces in Nicholson Square (beside the Clydesdale Bank). However, alternative transport options are encouraged.

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is located about a 10 minute walk south from Edinburgh Waverley rail station (exit via Market Street). A taxi rank is located just outside of the Market Street exit from the station, as well. Alternatively, exiting the station via Princes Street gives access to numerous and frequent bus services (including Lothian Buses 3, 29, 30, 31 and 33) which pick up from the north side of Princes Street and travel past RCSEd.

Sponsorship generously provided by:

Partner:

Exhibitors:

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Bartec		Canon Medical
Charcot		Imaging Equipment Ltd.
NRS Mental Health Network		Sectra Ltd.

The 2019 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at the Apex City Quay Hotel Dundee on Friday, 21 June 2019.

Join us to keep abreast of developments in clinical and experimental imaging, and learn about research based around MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, ultrasound, and human optical imaging.

Event flier

5 RCR CPD credits are awarded.

Programme

We are delighted to welcome three keynote speakers this year in a plenary session on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging:

• Prof Giovanni Montana from the Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence at University of Warwick
• Prof Fiona Gilbert from University of Cambridge
• Dr Keith Goatman from Canon Medical Research Europe

The meeting programme [click heading above to view] also features stimulating presentations from SINAPSE members in plenary talks, poster sessions, and parallel sessions on the following imaging research themes:

The meeting will be held at the Apex City Quay Hotel:

Free car parking will be available for those who choose to drive, however the location can be reached by walking from the Dundee rail station in under 15 minutes, along the redeveloped waterfront, or from the Dundee bus station within 5 minutes. Directions and travel advice can be found here.

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The University of Manchester is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2019 UK PET Chemistry meeting.

The one day event will be held on Monday 9^th September 2019 at the Michael Smith Building. The venue is located on the University of Manchester main campus and is easily accessible by road, rail and air with a range of accommodation located nearby.

The meeting will focus on presentations by students and postdoctoral staff but will also include a poster session, flash presentations and discussion topics. The registration fee is £25 for students and £55 for other delegates

Abstract submission deadline: 28^th June 2019

Registration deadline: 15^th August 2019

UPDATE: Due to spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, the 2020 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be held as a virtual meeting.

Join us online on 19 June 2020 to keep abreast of developments in clinical and experimental imaging, and learn about research based around MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, ultrasound, and human optical imaging.

The first virtual instalment of the SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be hosted using Hopin, an online event platform chosen by the SINAPSE Executive Committee on the basis of its functionality in replicating as much of the interactivity (between and among delegates, exhibitors, and presenters) of an in-person event as possible.

With Hopin, our ASM will have:

• a main stage for plenary sessions
• breakout rooms for parallel sessions and virtual poster presentations
• an expo area for virtual exhibitor booths

We have also allocated time between sessions in the meeting programme for speed networking, which will pair event participants for one-to-one video chats, similar to the experience of striking up conversations with fellow meeting attendees during coffee breaks at in-person meetings.

Programme

We are delighted to welcome Prof Uta Noppeney from Radboud University as our keynote speaker. Additional invited talks include updates on the pan-Scotland iCAIRD and PICTURES projects and a timely presentation on chest imaging in COVID-19.

The meeting programme [click heading above to view] also features stimulating presentations from SINAPSE members in plenary talks, interactive poster sessions, and parallel sessions on Image Analysis and Methods Development topics.

5 RCR CPD credits are awarded.

• The meeting starts at 9:00AM, but the Hopin event page will open at 8:45AM to allow plenty of time for delegates to sign in and take an initial look around the online platform.

Registration

ASM registration this year is free to all. Click heading above for instructions on how to register and information on what to expect from a virtual meeting.

Earlier plans for our first two-day SINAPSE ASM to take place this year in St Andrews are being postponed to June 2021. For those who already booked overnight accommodation at Agnes Blackadder Hall for this June, full refunds are being processed by the Accommodation, Conferences and Events team at University of St Andrews.

Sponsorship generously provided by:

Partners:

Exhibitors:

The 2021 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be held for the first time as as two-day event! This year the event will once again be an online only meeting. Register here. For useful information about using Hopin download this guide.

Join us to keep abreast of the latest imaging developments, and learn about research based around MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, ultrasound, and human optical imaging.

We are delighted to announce the following keynote speakers:

• Prof Michael Ewers from the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, University of Munich
• Dr Anna Barnes from King's College London
• Prof Jonathon Leipsic from the University of British Columbia, Canada
• Dr Bruno Scaglioni from the University of Leeds
• Our first ECR Rising Star talk from Dr Lucy Hiscox from the University of Bath

The full meeting programme also features 28 presentations from SINAPSE members in plenary talks and parallel sessions, and 35 poster exhibits.

Two workshops can be booked for Friday afternoon after the main programme: Attendees can participate in the SCCT online course in AI and Machine Learning in Cardiovascular CT, with funding assistance from SINAPSE, or join our colleagues from NVIDIA who are running an introduction to MONAI, the open-source medical imaging toolkit for AI. Click here to book a workshop place.

Abstract submission deadline 17th December

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is excited to share that we will once again be meeting in person for the 2022 OHBM Annual Meeting and Educational Courses!  The 28th OHBM Annual Meeting will be held Sunday, June 19th – Thursday, June 23rd at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland. We are also excited to move forward with a virtual component for those who are unable to join us in Glasgow. You won’t want to miss what is sure to be a memorable meeting, where we can once again listen to, learn about and share exciting developments and applications of neuroimaging while enjoying each other's company.

Prior to the 2 day conference there will be an opportunity to attend a special education workshop – Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI.
Conference places are limited and you are advised to register early to avoid disappointment, early bird registration from £230.00.
Registration includes:
-          Attendance at 2 day meeting
-          Refreshments and lunch during 2 day meeting
-          Conference Dinner – Thursday 4th September
-          Welcome Drinks Reception –Wednesday 3rd September

This new annual conference attracts world leading researchers and engineers from academia, industry and biomedical sciences working at the intersection of medical image analysis and machine learning. The conference series includes three days of oral presentations and poster sessions, and features keynotes from high-profile invited speakers.

The conference has a broad scope including all areas of medical image analysis and computer-assisted intervention where deep learning is a key element.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Semantic segmentation of medical images
• Learning based image registration
• Computer-aided detection and diagnosis
• Image acquisition, reconstruction and synthesis
• Transfer learning and domain adaptation
• Learning with noisy labels and limited data
• Unsupervised deep learning and representation learning
• Uncertainty estimation for medical diagnosis
• Interpretability and explainable deep learning
• Integration of imaging and clinical data
• Validation studies and deep learning applications in radiology, pathology, endoscopy, dermatology, ophthalmology, and beyond

At the 2nd PiW International Meeting, Prof Terry Jones will be talking about his newest cutting-edge research project: the EXPLORER scanner. Prof Jones is a Clinical Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at the University of California Davis, USA. He has over 50 years of experience in PET imaging and, among many life-time achievements, he was responsible for installing one of Britain’s first PET scanners at the Hammersmith Hospital in 1979. He also developed a technique of breathing oxygen-15 (radioactive oxygen) to image the brain’s metabolism – a technique which he tried on himself to create the first image. Prof Jones is the ultimate PET enthusiast and will be sharing with us his latest research on the EXPLORER, the first clinical whole-body PET scanner in the world.

At the meeting, Dr Mark MacAskill, University of Edinburgh, will also be speaking on the development of a new and promising PET radiotracer for imaging inflammation non-invasively and Mr Tim Morgan, University of Glasgow, will talk on synthesis of novel compounds as potential PET radiotracers for imaging myelination and demyelination in vivo.

This is truly a translational meeting covering exciting research on PET imaging from the chemistry bench to man! And connecting researchers in Scotland and the other side of the Atlantic!

If you wish to attend this meeting, please RSVP by email: Anne.Grant@ed.ac.uk

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You are warmly invited to join the 2nd Scottish Ultrasound Annual Scientific Meeting, hosted by the SINAPSE Ultrasound topic group, at the University of Strathclyde on Friday 28th February.

The meeting will open with a Plenary talk provided by Alexander Weir of Canon Medical Research Europe on 'The Future of AI in Healthcare', followed by themed research sessions (talks / posters) covering three broad themes of ultrasound research:

• Medical Ultrasound
• Automation & Ultrasound
• New Technologies for Ultrasound.

Other confirmed speakers are Dr Vassilis Sboros (Heriot Watt University), who will present his recent and on-going translational work using super-resolution ultrasound imaging in prostate cancer detection, and Dr Aoife Ivory (NPL), who will update us on her work on photoacoustics.

Agenda

Registration (£30 staff / £15 students) is now open at the link below.

This meeting will be held as a satellite event taking place the day before the 2019 SINAPSE ASM in Dundee. It is a full-day workshop providing opportunities to network with fellow image analysis researchers from around Scotland, and to present and discuss research in an informal setting. The event will close with a drinks reception in the Medical Marvels exhibit at the Dundee Science Centre.

PhD blitz presentations competition: Six slots are available for 3 Minute Thesis style presentations. Top Prize £150 travel bursary! E-mail abstracts to Emma Pead by 5pm 28th May for consideration.

Lunch will be provided and we are delighted to welcome Jonny Hancox from NVIDIA, who will give an introductory lecture on the fundamentals of deep learning for computer vision, then lead hands-on training on deep learning for medical image analysis, and lastly present on applications of generative adversarial networks for medical imaging data augmentation and segmentation.

This workshop is made possible through generous sponsorship support from NVIDIA. Prior to the meeting day, all participants must read the Set Up Requirements to prepare for hands-on training.

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Registration is free, and now open at the link below.  Please book your place early as spaces are limited.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sinapse-annual-scientific-meeting-image-analysis-workshop-asmia-registration-61233357621

Location: The meeting will be held in the Dalhousie Building on the University of Dundee campus. When the meeting draws to a close, all participants are invited to adjourn for an evening drinks reception within the Dundee Science Centre, a walk of approximately 10 minutes from the Dalhousie Building (towards the Dundee rail station).

This meeting brings together researchers from around Scotland who use imaging methods (including MRI, fMRI, EEG, and MEG) in Psychology research. It provides an opportunity for students and early career researchers to present their work, and a forum for discussing and receiving input on research ideas or projects in progress.

The programme will revolve around discussion in an open environment with the aim of stimulating further collaborations between SINAPSE groups.

Lunch will be provided and we are delighted to welcome an invited external speaker from Cardiff University, Dr. Matthias Gruber, who will present his research using MRI and EEG to investigate how motivational states contribute to memory enhancement ('States of curiosity and reward prioritize learning and memory consolidation'). We also have an invited internal (member) speaker in Dr. Simon Cox, who will discuss structural and diffusion MRI research in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 and UK Biobank.

Please contact Donald Lyall to register interest in attending.

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Programme

UPDATE: this event is being moved to a virtual format due to spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

The MIDL conference aims to be a forum for deep learning researchers, clinicians and health-care companies to take a leap in the application of deep learning based automatic image analysis in disease screening, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection and treatment monitoring.

The conference has a broad scope including topics such as computer-aided screening and diagnosis, detection, segmentation, (multi-modal) registration, image reconstruction and synthesis. Furthermore, we discuss issues such as the need for large curated and annotated datasets, noisy reference standards, and the high-dimensionality of medical data. Software demonstrations, presentation of medical data sets and innovative clinical applications are also covered as focus points for integration of deep learning algorithms in clinical practice.

MIDL currently offers a three-day program with keynote presentations from invited speakers, oral presentations, posters, and live demonstrations of deep learning algorithms from academia and industry.

Conference submissions follow two tracks: full conference papers and short papers. All accepted full papers will be published as a volume in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research.

Full papers contain methodological developments or well-validated applications of deep learning algorithms in medical imaging. The papers will go through a full, double-blind reviewing process via OpenReview, with a two-week period for author rebuttal and discussion. A selection of full papers will be invited for oral presentation, whereas the rest will be assigned a poster presentation.

Short papers are up to 3 pages and can, for example, focus on novel methodological ideas without extensive validation. We also specifically accept short papers discussing recently published or submitted journal contributions to give authors the opportunity to present their work and obtain feedback from conference attendees. Selection of short papers is based on a light double-blind review process via OpenReview, without a discussion period. All accepted short papers will be presented as posters at the conference.

Full and short papers have the same deadlines:

At the 3rd PiW International Meeting, Prof Henri Tochon-Danguy will be talking about his extraordinary contributions to the field of radiochemistry over the past 50 years, including his latest innovative radiosynthesiser for automated production of PET radiotracers. Prof Tochon-Danguy is an Honorary Consultant at Austin Health in Melbourne, Australia and works part-time in his company “iPHASE Technologies”, founded in 2004 to design and manufacture radiosynthesisers for production of PET radiotracers. He is a chemist by training and holds a PhD in physical sciences. His international track-record is recognised widely, having worked at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), CERN (Switzerland), MRC Hammersmith Hospital (UK) and Austin Health (Australia). Prof Tochon-Danguy has over 100 publications, books and proceedings.

At the meeting, Dr Tashfeen Walton, University of Edinburgh, will also be speaking on various methods for radiolabelling of PET radiotracers and Prof David O’Hagan, University of St. Andrews, will talk on his unique research on enzymatic chemistry applied to PET radiolabelling.

This is truly a translational meeting covering exciting research on PET from the chemistry bench to man! And connecting researchers in Scotland and the other side of the world!

If you wish to attend this meeting, please RSVP by email: Anne.Grant@ed.ac.uk

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You are warmly invited to join the 3rd Scottish Ultrasound Annual Scientific Meeting, hosted by the SINAPSE Ultrasound topic group and sponsored by COMULIS, on Friday 27th August.

This year, not only will the event will be taking place virtually, but we will also welcome colleagues from the COMULIS network, an organisation specifically set up to promote the development of new imaging collaborations!

Plenary speakers have been confirmed as:

• Dr Perrine Paul-Guilloteaux, University of Nantes, France
• Dr James Choi, Imperial College London
• Dr Andrew Feeney, University of Glasgow

As usual we are inviting abstracts to be considered for oral or poster presentations on the following themes:

• Medical Ultrasound
• Automation & Ultrasound
• New Technologies for Ultrasound

Abstract submission is now open for oral or poster submissions across all areas of ultrasound research – please prepare a one page summary of your work (including: title, presenting author, background, methods, results, conclusion), indicating whether you prefer an oral or poster presentation, and submit via email (helen.mulvana@strath.ac.uk) by the deadline of 16th August.

***Please include 'Scottish Ultrasound' in the subject line of your email.***

As in the past we welcome those with abstracts accepted at the IEEE IUS conference to take this as an opportunity to practice their presentations!

The Scottish Ultrasound committee will also be awarding prizes for the best oral and/or poster presentations with two categories open for submission: PhD student & Early Career Researcher.

Registration is now open at the link below.

The PNI symposium caters to the UK nuclear imaging community with attendees from both academia and industry, and provides an excellent platform for scientific communication and networking. Themed "Discover – Develop – Translate" this year’s meeting will feature three scientific sessions to showcase recent advances in nuclear imaging across a diversity of applications. A poster pitch session will give young researchers the opportunity to present their work.

We are delighted to welcome Prof Bertrand Tavitian (Université Paris Descartes) as plenary speaker. Bertrand is a world-leading expert in the field of nuclear imaging, with experience in molecular imaging in neurology, inflammation and cancer, PET radiotracer development and validation of innovative instruments and methods for quantitative imaging in animals and humans.

Abstract submission is open until the deadline of 14th September.

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The workshop will aim to:

• Bring together experts from industry, NHS and academia who have an interest in flow-related imaging research
• Give an opportunity to visit the world-leading MRI research department and its state-of-the-art facilities
• Introduce and discuss current 4D flow projects and the potential applications of this emerging imaging technology
• Provide a platform for interaction on future 4D flow projects and potential collaboration.

The Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum shall be running its annual meeting on the 22nd of October 2015, at the Stirling Management Centre, University of Stirling.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers, clinicians, academics and students working in all aspects of radiotherapy to provide a platform for knowledge transfer and networking.

The meeting will include presentations by some of the leading names in radiotherapy.

Agenda

Registration can be found at the event website:

The MIDL conference aims to be a forum for deep learning researchers, clinicians and health-care companies to take a leap in the application of deep learning based automatic image analysis in disease screening, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection and treatment monitoring.

The conference has a broad scope including topics such as computer-aided screening and diagnosis, detection, segmentation, (multi-modal) registration, image reconstruction and synthesis. Furthermore, we discuss issues such as the need for large curated and annotated datasets, noisy reference standards, and the high-dimensionality of medical data. Software demonstrations, presentation of medical data sets and innovative clinical applications are also covered as focus points for integration of deep learning algorithms in clinical practice.

MIDL currently offers a three-day program with keynote presentations from invited speakers, oral presentations, posters, and live demonstrations of deep learning algorithms from academia and industry.

Additionally, this year MIDL proudly presents its first satellite event, specifically designed for young researchers: the MIDL Doctoral Symposium 2021. Develop and train your scientific skill set, get to know fellow PhD students from all over the world and enjoy participating in the MIDL conference while already knowing some colleagues.

• The Doctoral Symposium will take place on 2 July 2021 as a virtual event. The number of participants is restricted to 50. The selection process will focus on the candidate's motivation, the integration of candidates in the early stage of their PhD thesis without broad conference experience or network opportunities as well as diversity.
• The application deadline is 4 June 2021: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHRXWWj0YFKKAbHG-7QGmWleb5-JJzmgIdl7dQd6bkm6fCEg/viewform

Image Processing Techniques and Applications (IPTA) is a Liverpool-based workshop for the communication of research related to image processing techniques and its applications to real life imaging problems, held every 4 years. It provides an opportunity to present and discuss research in recent advances in mathematical modelling and analysis. A special issue of the Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology is planned after the event.

The 4th International Workshop on Image Processing Techniques and Applications is being held at the University of Liverpool on 22-23 July 2019, immediately before the 23rd Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA 2019, during 24-26 July 2019). Although the fee for this IPTA workshop is £50 only but registration is necessary; if booked with MIUA, there is an overall discount of £25.

This fourth workshop aims
- to review the state-of-the-art in image processing models, methods, techniques and commercial software packages;
- to review learning methods in Imaging,
- to highlight new techniques and applications in Biomedical Imaging,
- to tackle existing and emerging image challenges,
- to promote mutual understanding of researchers in different disciplines, and networking;
- to facilitate future research development and collaborations

Invited Speakers include
• Prof Frederic Precioso (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France)
• Prof Fiorella Sgallari (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Prof Raymond Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
• Prof Audrey Repetti (University of Edinburgh, UK)

The 5th annual scientific meeting of the Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum will be held on 10th November 2016 at the Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers, clinicians, academics and students working in all aspects of radiotherapy to provide a platform for knowledge transfer and networking.

We have put together an outstanding programme of international and national speakers on a variety of topics, and for the first time there will be four oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts.

Agenda

Registration and abstract submission details can be found at the event website:

This year's SANON-SINAPSE meeting will again be held in Dundee. At this meeting we aim to continue to promote collaborative, clinically relevant imaging research in neuro-oncology and we will be sharing progress that has been made in a number of exciting areas.

We are delighted to have an international speaker joining our UK-based team of speakers, Professor Christopher Hess from the University of California, San Francisco. He will be updating us on 7 Tesla MRI in neuroscience research.

If you are able to join us can you please register by emailing Irene Clark

Agenda

The 7th annual scientific meeting of the Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum will be held on 1st November 2018 at the Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers, clinicians, academics and students working in all aspects of radiotherapy to provide a platform for knowledge transfer and networking.

Agenda

Registration, abstract submission details, and travel directions can be found at the event website:

This year's SANON-SINAPSE meeting will be held in Edinburgh. Following a very successful meeting in Dundee last year, with an excellent turnout from across all main Centres in Scotland, we are aiming to continue to develop opportunities for collaboration, sharing our knowledge and resources to maximum effect.

The 2017 meeting will aim to build on the progress made in previous sessions and develop a Scottish ‘Network of Excellence’ for imaging research in neuro-oncology. The meeting will be of most value to researchers involved in imaging in neuro-oncology.

We are delighted that neuro-oncology imaging specialist, Dr Elizabeth Maher, director of UT Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, will be providing the keynote talk entitled 'Imaging 2HG: A window into the biology of IDH-mutant gliomas.’

The scientific sessions will focus on imaging the genetics and metabolomics of gliomas and we are offering delegates the opportunity to pitch a research concept.

This meeting provides 4 CPD credits in accordance with the CPD Scheme of the Royal College of Radiologists.

If you are able to join us can you please register by emailing Irene Clark.

Agenda

The 8th annual SANON-SINAPSE meeting, now called SINAPSE Neuro-oncology, will be held in Glasgow. Following a very successful meeting in Edinburgh last year, with an excellent turnout from across all main centres in Scotland, we are aiming to continue to develop opportunities for collaboration, sharing our knowledge and resources to maximum effect.

The 2018 meeting will continue to develop a Scottish ‘Network of Excellence’ for imaging research in neuro-oncology. The meeting will be of most value to researchers involved in imaging in neuro-oncology.

Scientific sessions will focus on imaging the genetics and metabolomics of gliomas. We will have a number of excellent speakers joining us including:

Prof Eric Aboagye of Imperial College, London, talking about probing glioma metabolism in vivo

Prof Susan Short from University of Leeds, giving an overview on key research topics and clinical trials

Dr Igor Vivanco from the Institute of Cancer Research, London, speaking on pre-clinical glioma metabolism

Agenda

Registration is now open at the link below.

UPDATE: this event has been postponed from March 2020 to March 2021 due to spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

The 9th SINAPSE Neuro-oncology Imaging Meeting (called the SANON-SINAPSE meeting prior to 2018) will be held in Dundee. The meeting will continue to develop a Scottish ‘Network of Excellence’ for imaging research in neuro-oncology, and will be of most value to researchers involved in imaging in neuro-oncology.

Scientific sessions will focus on the glioma immune microenvironment and immunotherapy, and on imaging neuroinflammation.

Invited speakers:

• Prof Gabriele Bergers (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology)
• Dr Catherine McBain (The Christie NHS Foundation Trust)
• Prof Jonathan Cavanagh (Institute of Infection Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow)
• Dr David Coope (Division of Neuroscience & Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester)

This one-day symposium celebrates the achievements of the “IDentIFY” EU Horizon-2020 project on Fast Field-Cycling (FFC-MRI), as well as marking ten years of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre (ABIC). The event will comprise a number of lectures delivered by experts from a variety of disciplines in the field of medical imaging. There will be the opportunity to visit research laboratories, where new developments in MRI are taking place.

Flyer

Free registration is through the website linked below.

Programme & Talks

Summary of event

On the 16th June 2010 SINAPSE held its second Annual Scientific Meeting at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The event was a great success attended by 160 people and was oversubscribed. There was a keynote presentation by Professor Jeff Bulte, Baltimore, on Stem Cell Imaging. Speakers from across the SINAPSE imaging network in Scotland covered the wide range of imaging topics; including Dr Lars Muckli from University of Glasgow, Professor Christian Schwarzbauer SINAPSE Chair at University of Aberdeen, Professor Vin Cunningham from University of Aberdeen, and Professor Edwin van Beek SINAPSE Chair of Radiology at University of Edinburgh. Fifty posters were presented by staff and students from around the SINAPSE network and also from across the UK. Prizes were presented for the best poster, best proffered oral presentation, and one for clearest communication. Topics covered MR (structural, diffusion, perfusion, functional, permeability, vascular); PET and SPECT; CT, EEG; MEG; image analysis, e-science; multi-centre studies; stroke; dementia; ageing; psychosis; mental health; diabetes; oncology; vascular imaging and imaging in psychology.

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Oral Presentations

Time	Topic	Speaker	Download
09:40-10:10	Cognitive Neuroimaging Predictive Coding and Unifying Theories of the Brain	Dr Lars Muckli University of Glasgow
10:10-10:25	Anxiety Highlights the Negative: Electrophysiological Evidence that Personality Modulates Affective Processing	Johanna Simpson University of Stirling
10:25-10:40	From Prediction Errors to Anhedonia Symptoms in Depression and Psychotic Symptoms in Schizophrenia	Victoria Gradin University of Aberdeen
11:30-12:00	PET Tracer Kinetic Modelling	Professor Vin Cunningham University of Aberdeen
12:15-13:00	Stem Cell Tracking in Neurologic Applications	Professor Jeff WM Bulte Johns Hopkins University
14:15-14:30	Changes in Grey Matter Hyperintensities Influence Pain Perception in Elderly People	Dr Satheesh Ramalingam University of Aberdeen
14:30-14:45	Identifying Ischaemic Penumbra with BOLD-MRI Oxygen Challenge: Validation Based on Consequences of Reperfusion	Craig Robertson University of Glasgow
16:00-16:15	The Synchronous Neural Interactions Test as a Functional Neuromarker for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Robust Classification Method Based on the Bootstrap	Dr Heng-Ru May Tan University of Glasgow
16:15-16:45	Quantitative Imaging as a Biomarker	Professor Edwin van Beek University of Edinburgh

Poster Presentation - Downloads

No.	Name	Title	Download
1	S. Champion	Production of [123I]-mZIENT for biodistribution and dosimetry studies
2	C. Lucatelli	Integrated GMP PET Radiotracer Production and Dispensing Facility
3	Lynne Gilfillan	New SPECT And PET Imaging Agents For Metabotropic Glutamate 2/3 Receptors In Schizophrenia
4	Thomas J. Reilly	Statistical Parametric Mapping of Hallucinations in Alzheimer's Disease using Perfusion SPECT
5	Jessica Strozyk	Effects of Conflict Strength in the Flanker Task: An ERP Study
6	Jen Lewis	Cuteness predicts motivation to view infant faces
7	Joanne L. Park	Electrophysiological evidence that the fine-grained temporal structure of subjective experience impacts the formation and retrieval of Episodic memories
8	Harriet Johnston	Long-term blood glucose control and its relationship with cognitive function in type 1 diabetes.
9	Catherine A. MacLeod	Investigating Individual Differences in Episodic Memory: What do the Neural Correlates of Recognition Reveal?
10	Lea Pilgrim	Item Recognition And Familiarity: An Electrophysiological Investigation Into The Costs Of Unitization.
11	Daniele Ortu	Reliability Indices For Neurophysiological Event Related Potential Effects.
12	Moses O. Sokunbi	Inter-individual differences in fMRI entropy measurements in old age
13	Mahsa Shokouhi	Surface-based smoothing in fMRI
14	Carlos Mugruza Vassallo	Developing paradigms for a combined EEG fMRI study: An exploration of factors influencing P3a amplitude in an auditory attention orienting task.
15	Samantha Conlin	A decade of DTI: what the advanced MRI technique of diffusion tensor imaging has taught us about the effects of cerebral gliomas on white matter tracts
16	Ilona Suvorova	The role of MRI-study in diagnostics of Cognitive Impairment progression
17	William K. C. Lloyd	Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Neural Correlates
18	Goultchira Chakirova	Orbitofrontal sulcogyral pattern may help to differentiate schizophrenia and autism-spectrum disorder.
19	Susana Muñoz Maniega	Characterisation of brain white matter lesion severity with multiparametric MR imaging in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
20	Maria C. Valdés Hernández	Pilot study to classify white matter lesions by their location in the brain on MRI
21	MR López-González	Correlation of in-vivo 3T MRI and histology of atherosclerotic plaque
22	A Fawkes	The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) and Edinburgh's clinical research infrastructure: searching for genetic and imaging biomarkers
23	T.A. Baskerville	Acute ischaemic lesion evolution: potential sex differences in a rodent model of stroke.
24	JG Houston	Non-Contrast enhanced QISS MR Peripheral Angiography: Image Quality and Diagnostic Performance compared to Contrast-enhanced FLASH MR Angiography
25	JG Houston	Peripheral Arterial Disease: Whole body MRI assessment of atheroma burden for case selection and identification of index lesions for longitudinal intervention studies
26	Calum Gray	Non-invasive localisation of inflammation in abdominal aortic aneurysms using MR and superparamagnetic particles
27	Emma Reid	Assessing Brain Injury In Stroke-Prone Rats: MRI Thresholds of Tissue Abnormality
28	AD Murray	White matter hyperintensity burden is associated with reduced parietal lobe white matter integrity
29	AD Murray	What are the major determinants of late-life fluid intelligence?
30	Dr Chris McNeil	Direct and indirect influences of childhood IQ on late life cognitive ability.
31	N. Mustafa	Automatic measurement of periventricular halo in an elderly cohort
32	Krishna Dani	Oxygen Challenge MRI: Signal Dependence on Tissue Type and Oxygen Concentration
33	Natalie Royle	Automated segmentation of the hippocampus in the LBC 1036 cohort: Preliminary findings
34	Shona Matthew	Analysis of Cardiac Left Ventricular Parameters Obtained by Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3Tesla: A Pre and Post Contrast Quantitative Comparison
35	Stephen Gandy	Measurement of Cardiac Left Atrial Volumes in Healthy Volunteers and Patients with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Angina using MRI
36	Mary Finnegan	Can Altered Brain Iron in Alzheimer's Disease be Identified via MRI?
37	L. Thomas	Computational Modelling of Arterial MRE through Atherosclerotic Plaque: A Feasibility Study
38	G. D. Waiter	Repeatability and reproducibility of cortical thickness using DiReCT and CaliBrain sMRI data.
39	Jehill Parikh	Brain temperature mapping using MRSI
40	Abdul Nashirudeen Mumuni	Absolute Quantitative 1h-Mrs In Depression
41	Michael Jackson	Digital Brain Atlases: A Valuable research tool or Emperor's new clothes?
42	TJ MacGillivray	Vascular Assessment and Measurement Platform for Images of the REtina (VAMPIRE)
43	David Rodriguez Gonzalez	PrivacyGuard: A DICOM de-identification Toolkit
44	TJ MacGillivray	Investigating retinal microvascular abnormalities and stroke with computerised image analysis
45	Fan Zhu	Gaussian Process Deconvolution for Perfusion Imaging:Evaluation of the usage of distributed and parallel computing
46	Andrew Evans	Quantitative ultrasound shearwave elastography of solid breast lesions
47	Sarah Mohammed	The neural correlates of incrementally raised expectations in RSVP streams studied with MEG
48	Christine Demore	Progress in high resolution ultrasound towards in vivo pathology
49	Ferghal McVerry	Predicting Infarct Core with Perfusion CT- Does Red Mean Dead?
50	Andrew Patterson	An introduction to the role of Imaging Techniques in Industry in the Development of Novel Pharmaceuticals at a Contract Research Organisation using Oncology as an Example
51	Doug Potter	Initial Experience of Combined EEG-fMRI Development Work at 3T

The UK & Ireland Early Career Blood-Brain Barrier Symposium provides an opportunity for early career researchers to present their research on the barriers of the CNS in the form of a platform talk or posters and to encourage networking between BBB researchers.

Keynote speaker:

• Prof Britta Engelhardt (University of Bern)

Programme

Deadline for abstract submission: 9 October 2020

The three day scientific programme for Ultrasound 2019 offers great variety and interest for all delegates and has major streams running on a daily basis to suit practitioners from all fields.

2019 Keynote Lecture: We are pleased to announce that The Donald, MacVicar Brown Lecture for 2019 will be delivered by Dr Trish Chudleigh (Cambridge) on Tuesday, 10th December at 4pm

For this year's meeting we are delighted to have several special education streams running alongside the main programme, delegates attending Ultrasound 2019 on the respective dates are able to attend these sessions free of charge.

• Day 1  - Student Focussed Education Day
• Day 2 - ThUNDDAR
• Day 3 - Veterinary Day

The human brain is like a very complex computer, possibly the most sophisticated biological structure in the known universe. It needs a lot of energy and oxygen to work. How does it get this? Can it store energy? Where does the waste go and how does it get out? Can there really be 650 km of blood vessels inside every brain?

In this Christmas lecture, Prof Joanna Wardlaw will speak about some of the clever ways that the blood vessel and brain cells work together to deliver the right amounts of energy and remove waste products. Do the brain blood vessels do more than that to help the brain? And why it is that when diseases of the brain blood vessels are amongst the commonest and most devastating in the whole world, do we still know so little about what goes wrong with them and how to make it better? Prof Wardlaw will explain some of the ways in which researchers are trying to make brain blood vessel diseases less troublesome.

Prof Joanna Wardlaw, CBE, FMedSci, FRSE, is Professor of Applied Neuroimaging and Consultant Neuroradiologist at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian. She is a Principal Researcher in the new UK Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked for many years to understand the brain and its blood supply, and on treatments to improve blood flow to the brain, such as the clotbusting drugs now used routinely to treat acute stroke.

Free registration is via Eventbrite through the website linked below.

Summary of event

Neuroimaging has advanced such that functional magnetic resonance imaging can reveal explicitly an individual's thought patterns. This raises ethical and practical questions that society needs to address e.g. Who should see our brain images? Should neuroimaging be used as evidence in court, in commerce, or by governments? The key objectives of this programme will be to explore the ethical impact of neuroimaging on society. By stimulating debate and gathering opinion between the general public, societal groups (patients, prisoners), scientists, clinicians, ethicists, legal experts and politicians, we will raise awareness of privacy and ethical issues, determine a cross-section of opinion, and through engagement of users and policy makers, publish reports to guide policy outcomes.

Final Report

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Event in the News

• BBC online
• The Guardian
• The Herald
• The Scotsman
• The Telegraph
• Radio Scotland

The 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting of BACN will be a two-day event hosted by the University of Glasgow.

Abstracts for open talk and poster presentations should be submitted by the deadline of 15 July. Student bursaries will be available to BACN members (or member applicants) through the abstract submission form.

• Keynote speaker: Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford)
• BACN Mid-Career Award prize winner talk: Chris Miall (University of Birmingham)
• BACN Early-Career Award prize winner talk: Joseph Galea (University of Birmingham)

• Symposium: Decoding and driving of brain activity, Chaired by Gregor Thut and Marios Philiastides
• Symposium: Neuroscientific investigations of natural language processing, Chaired by Olaf Hauk
• Symposium: Human neuroimaging of predictive processing, Chaired by Stephanie Rossit

This meeting is aimed at bringing together cardiovascular imagers from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds for a celebration of multimodality imaging within the United Kingdom and beyond.

In addition to tracks aimed at consultant cardiologists and consultant radiologists there will be dedicated sessions for trainees and radiographers. This will include Level 1 case based learning for cardiac CT, MRI and nuclear imaging

Deadline for abstract submission is 9th February 2018.

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This course is aimed at BSIR members who are senior IR trainees, IR Fellows, new consultants.

1. Clinical Sessions:

These will be dedicated to the use of different techniques and hands on stations by experience senior UK-wide faculty. Case based discussion will be used appropriately.

2. Simulation with Thiel Cadavers:

This simulation will include endovascular techniques. The Cuschieri Skills Centre has pioneered the use of Thiel embalmed cadavers in Interventional Radiology and this is a unique facility in the UK. Using a cardiac pump, flow is achieved in the arteries of the cadaver and endovascular procedures can be simulated in a lifelike fashion.

3. Simulators:

A variety of computerised simulators will be available for the delegates to learn different IR techniques. Simulators for EVAR deployment, angioplasty and stenting along with embolization techniques will be available.

4. Clinical Scenarios Training:

A series of clinical skills scenarios will be integrated into the course. This will include clinical simulators for emergency training as well as outpatient based consulting rooms with actors.

UPDATE: this event is being moved to a virtual format due to spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

The first Summer School on Organic and Halogen Radiochemistry (CAFACHEM 2020), organised by the Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences ThinkTank (SRS-TT), is dedicated to State-of-Art Organic/Halogen Radiochemistry and its application in PET tracer development.

CAFACHEM 2020 Summer School has been developed primarily for early career scientists, technicians, PhD students and Post-Docs who want to learn about the latest radiochemistry with organic and halogen radionuclides, e.g. 11C, 13N, 18F, 76Br, 124I and others. Application of radiotracers in preclinical and clinical imaging for neurological and oncological disease as well as drug discovery will be covered. Besides lectures from senior experts, you will have the opportunity to present your own research via an oral or poster presentation and meet with fellow researchers.

Keynote Speakers:

• Halogen Radiochemistry, Matthew Tredwell, PhD, Cardiff Univ. School of Medicine, UK
• Carbon-11 & Nitrogen-13 Chemistry, Peter J.H. Scott, PhD, University of Michigan, USA
• Therapeutic Halogen Radionuclides, François Guérard, PhD, University of Nantes, France
• Radiotracer Design, Antony Gee, PhD, Kings College London, UK
• Nuclide Production & Radionuclide Target Chemistry, Speaker to be announced

Workshops:

Radiosynthesis Automation: This workshop will focus on how we can automate a radiosynthetic procedure for tracer production. We will start with a small lecture on automation in general. Then you continue in smaller groups where you will learn to program an automated synthesis sequence on one of the available synthesis modules. At the end of the workshop the programs will be tested on the synthesis modules to see if they are successful.

In Vitro and In Vivo PET Tracer Evaluation: This workshop is on the evaluation of a known PET tracer. You will work in small groups and be asked to analyze the raw data (in vitro / in vivo) of a given dataset. You will present your results and interpretation of the data at the end of the workshop to conclude if the tracer should be used for further investigations.

PET Tracer Development from Scratch: In this workshop you will work in small groups on the design of a novel PET tracer. You have to design a radiosynthesis for a given molecule including a way to synthesize the required precursor. At the end of the workshop you will present, with your group, the proposed radiolabeling and how you would synthesize the precursor.

View the meeting programme at the following link: https://www.srsweb.org/cafachem2020-program

Registration is open at the following link until 24 August 2020: https://www.srsweb.org/cafachem2020-reg

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Programme

Two separate one hour workshops will be conducted during the afternoon session. Participants can choose to go to either of these sessions. Both the workshops are aimed towards staff who are already involved in Cardiac imaging and also towards complete beginners.

Workshop 1 - CMR Physics. This will be conducted by experienced CMR Physicists.

Workshop 2 - Basic CMR image acquisition. This will be conducted by experienced CMR Radiographers and Physicists.

CENSIS is the industry-led centre of excellence for sensor and imaging systems and is a key part of the developing innovation landscape in Scotland.

For our third annual summit, CENSIS looks at how sensor and imaging systems are being used in our increasingly connected ‘Internet of Things’ world to help deliver specific, real time information to help us better understand ourselves, our communities and our environment.

Delegates who attend this free event will:

• Hear from challenge providers in these spaces
• Get a picture of state-of-the-art academic research in the area and the ‘art of the possible’
• Understand how businesses are already delivering sensor and imaging solutions in this space.

CENSIS is the industry-led centre of excellence for sensor and imaging systems and is a key part of the developing innovation landscape in Scotland.

For our fourth annual summit, CENSIS explores innovation, transformation and value creation in sensor and imaging systems, and in particular new business models that are driving economic, social and environmental changes. Join us for a day of exhibition, discussion, networking and presentations to:

• Hear from challenge providers.
• Listen to use cases and business case for new sensor-based models for economic growth.
• Get a picture of state-of-the-art research in the area and the ‘art of the possible’.
• Understand how businesses are delivering sensor and imaging solutions in this space.

We’re delighted to confirm that our Chair for the day will be BBC Scotland’s Science Correspondent, Ken Macdonald.

The workshop Cognitive neuroscience of memory: Recollection, familiarity and novelty detection proposes a state-of-the-art overview by renowned experts in the study of memory.

The talks will present recent advances brought by the main methodological approaches: cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging (functional MRI, ERPs, intracranial recording).

Moreover, the speakers have all contributed to theoretical frameworks on mechanisms involved in recollection, familiarity and novelty detection.

Young PhD students and post-doctoral researchers will be given the opportunity to present their work and to discuss with the experts theoretical and methodological aspects of the cognitive neuroscience of memory.

Keynote speakers:

• Prof Stefan Köhler, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
• Dr Regine Bader, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
• Prof Patric Meyer, Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany
• Dr Emmanuel Barbeau, Université de Toulouse, France
• Dr Akira O’Connor, University of St Andrews, UK
• Prof Nikolai Axmacher, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
• Prof Daniela Montaldi, University of Manchester, UK

Connectomics is the study of whole brain association maps, i.e., the connectome, with a focus on understanding, quantifying, and visualizing brain network organization. Connectomics research is of interest to the neuroscientific community largely because of its potential to understand human cognition, its variation over development and aging, and its alteration in disease or injury. As such, big data in connectomics are rapidly growing with emerging international research initiatives collecting large, high quality brain images with structural, diffusion and functional imaging modalities. CNI aims to propel research which leverages this increasing wealth of connectomic data. CNI will bring together computational researchers (computer scientists, data scientists, computational neuroscientists) to discuss advancements in connectome construction, analysis, visualization and their use in clinical diagnosis and group comparison studies.

CNI aims to unify computational researchers with neuroscientists and cultivate interactions toward translational applications for the clinic. For the 3rd year, CNI will feature a single-track workshop with keynote speakers, technical paper presentations and poster sessions.

Call for papers (submission deadline: 28 July 2019)

In conjunction, CNI will host the first MICCAI challenge on functional connectomics, with collaborators at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD, USA.

The popularity of electroencephalography (EEG) research has been growing over the past years, especially as it relates to the understanding of human cognitive function. This growth has been in part due to recent methodological advances in the acquisition and analysis of time-resolved signals.

cuttingEEG was established to deal with the ever increasing demand for these methodological developments, that often require an advanced understanding of signal processing, machine learning and statistical pattern recognition.

cuttingEEG 2017 is the third Symposium of its kind and it brings together an impressive group of international experts to discuss and showcase the most up to date developments in the field. This four-day symposium will provide attendees with:

• 9 different 3-hour tutorials that will introduce a wide range of cutting-edge techniques in time-resolved signal analysis
• 12 talks by leading researchers in the field (spread over four thematic areas) who will introduce some of the most advanced methods for exploiting time-resolved signals
• 4 short debates on the utility of these methods and the need for future developments (following the talks in each of the four thematic areas)
• Attendees will also be offered the opportunity to present posters of their latest research during the duration of the event

Registration closes on 28 February 2017

The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland and Urban Big Data Centre will host a 1-day event on Tuesday 29th November 2016 to showcase Scotland's research strengths, support services and opportunities in cross-sectoral data linkage.

Who should attend?

• Researchers and analysts in universities, not-for-profit and community organisations, and the private sector.
• Public policy makers.
• Technical experts working on preparing, linking and analysing large complex datasets.
• Leaders of organisations interested in social and economic policy, health and human development.
• Leaders in industry that develop products and knowledge in these areas: Health Informatics, Environmental Data & Urban big data.

For further information please visit www.datalinkagescotland.com

Click the link below to register your interest

Fellow research pool SICSA, the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance, is holding its annual conference online this year under the theme SICSA and the Sustainable Society. Participation in the event is invited from other research pools across Scotland, to bring together a large community of people to discuss the Computing and interdisciplinary challenges ahead.

The SICSA Conference schedule includes a track of jointly developed sessions with a focus on research themes and challenges that have the genuine potential to span disciplines and initiate the discussions that will lead to a research roadmap that engages multiple disciplines in addressing them.

SINAPSE is delighted to be co-organising a session in this track on Data Sciences and Brain Health across the Life Course along with the Life Sciences research pool SULSA, the Scottish Dementia Research Consortium (SDRC) and SICSA.

This session will address multidisciplinary challenges in the early detection of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, and new opportunities to build capacity in Scotland by integrating data science with brain health research areas of neurobiology and neuroimaging. Brief presentations will be given by a panel of researchers who are working to develop new collaborations across disciplinary boundaries of clinical brain research, preclinical brain research, and computing science, followed by open discussion with session participants.

• Gerry Thompson, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Radiology at University of Edinburgh and Honorary Consultant Neuroradiologist for NHS Lothian, will represent SINAPSE with a presentation on brain imaging data for dementia biomarker discovery.
• Bettina Platt, Chair in Translational Neuroscience at University of Aberdeen, will represent SULSA with a presentation on translational, multidisciplinary approaches in dementia research, from experimental to (pre-)clinical domains.
• Mike Chantler, Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, will represent SICSA with a presentation on topic modelling and data visualisation to identify content and trends within large free-text datasets. Examples will include models of 60,000 Covid publications and UKRI grants databases.
• Graciela Muniz Terrera, Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at University of Edinburgh, will represent SDRC with a presentation on challenges that remain for delivering clinical impact from predictive models of brain health and dementia risk.

SINAPSE, SULSA, SICSA and SDRC are jointly initiating an interdisciplinary brain health research network to enable advancements in innovative computational and mathematical methods for dementia prediction, analysis, and modelling which will be applicable in a routine healthcare setting. After the panellists' presentations on their respective research areas, aims for new collaborations bringing together these separate research communities will be outlined and the remainder of the session will be open for collective ideation and conversation. Hot topics within the neurodegeneration research pathway from lab bench to patient will be identified through discussion, and associated with skills needs from computing science. The session organisers plan to fund a series of sandpits in these areas as an outcome.

SFC SINAPSE SPIRIT Programme of Knowledge Exchange in Imaging

Aims and Objectives

To convene a group of world experts in all aspects of creating, curating, and using brain image banks, particularly of normal individuals, to discuss:

• Philosophical and biological issues such as ‘What is normal”, how to facilitate potential clinical and research uses of brain image banks and atlases. Technical issues such as between scanner variation, user access and portals, database infrastructures, statistical issues in image processing and atlas creation, ways to facilitate harmonisation of images and metadata between existing and future planned brain image banks, data sharing, maximization of potential extractable information and impact.

• Legal and ethical issues such as privacy, anonymisation, ‘research tourism’, secondary uses.

• Encourage brain image banks to be compatible world-wide.

• Facilitate ways to contribute imaging collected in publicly funded research or in clinical practice, where appropriate, to brain image banks and made easily accessible.

• Facilitate discussion between image banks in different countries, including to support existing harmonisation initiatives

It is expected, by the end of the meeting, to produce a consensus statement on the future of brain image banks for clinical and research use world-wide (including managing incidental findings, harmonising metadata, practical, ethical and governance issues), to be submitted for publication.

A particular focus will be the immediate need for strategy for the UK to benefit from its recent and planned substantial investments in neuroimaging of large population cohorts of different ages. This workshop provides a prime environment in which to design such a resource.

Participants will be pseudo-randomly assigned to groups for discussion sessions, ensuring an equal balance of expertise; each work group will have a chair, scribe and spokesperson; the feedback sessions will have a moderator; a full provisional list of participants will be available.

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Many thanks to our funders whose contributions have made this meeting possible:

The Digital Health Product Forge will be Europe's biggest health hackathon where hundreds of health professionals, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, designers and technologists will be spending 75 hours realising the future of health.

Participants form into teams to rapidly prototype a new digital health concept over the four days of the event. You don't need to bring your own idea, and you don't need to be technical. All you need is the drive and enthusiasm to solve an unsolved problem!

Open to everyone from unlikely innovators to seasoned founders; whether you want to launch a startup, develop a product within an existing organisation, or solve a problem that you have studied at university, this event will leave you equipped will the mindset, teammates and tools for disruption.

Most of our participants won't have met prior to arriving so don't worry if you're coming by yourself! You'll be supported by some of the best minds in health tech, from data scientists, seasoned entrepreneurs and front line NHS staff. This year we're pleased to welcome the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, Catherine Calderwood and the realistic medicine team as mentors to the event.

Participant tickets include all meals and 24hr access to the event venue. Concession tickets available for Students.

UPDATE: this event is being moved to a virtual format due to spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

Disentangled representation learning has been proposed as an approach to learning general representations. This can be done in the absence of annotations, or with limited annotation. A good general representation can be readily fine-tuned for new target tasks using modest amounts of data. This alleviation of the data and annotation requirements offers tantalising prospects for tractable and affordable healthcare. Finally, disentangled representations can offer model explainability, increasing their suitability for real-world deployment.

In this half-day tutorial, a satellite event in conjunction with MICCAI 2020, we will offer an overview of representation learning and disentangled representation learning and criteria, and discuss applications in medical imaging. We will conclude with open ended challenges.

VipIMAGE 2017 will bring together researchers and users from around the world representing several fields of study related to Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, including: Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Vision, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Medicine, Medical Imaging, Visualization and Simulation.

Invited Lecturers

• Mário Figueiredo, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
• Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Old Dominion University, USA
• Leo Joskowicz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK
• Dinggang Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• Zeyun Yu, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA

This event will bring together academic and clinical researchers from cardiovascular sciences and neuroscience to highlight work on vascular, inflammatory and metabolic mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction, the links between metabolic disease and brain disorders, and other aspects of brain metabolism

Last year, the Edinburgh Imaging Alliance (EIA) was created with three companies; Canon Medical Research Europe, Optos and Blackford Analysis Ltd joining the existing Edinburgh Imaging network of Heriot-Watt University, NHS Lothian and The University of Edinburgh.

A further two members have since joined; Holoxica and LightSpace Technologies, and together the Edinburgh Imaging Alliance promotes Edinburgh's world leading medical imaging facilities and expertise in imaging sciences, digital health, engineering, physics, biochemistry, statistics and informatics, as well as the career opportunities available in and around Edinburgh.

OUR INFORMAL NETWORKING EVENING will allow for staff and PhD students to hear more about each company and what career opportunities there are from short presentations commencing at 6pm. We then would encourage all researchers and EIA industry representatives to enjoy some festive food and refreshments, while networking.

Please click the link below to reserve your free ticket today.

By registering online potential students will learn what courses are involved in this Imaging programme, how they can chose to study one course via PPD or the whole programme (3-6yrs) and decide whether they wish to study pre-clinical imaging, medical imaging, optical imaging, imaging sciences or neuroimaging for research.

Due to the generous funding given by many institutes, charities and organisations, resulting in a £14 million makeover to the Edinburgh Imaging facilities, based on the BioQuarter Campus.

The Directors of Edinburgh Imaging would like to celebrate their fantastic imaging facilities with all funders, staff and associated clinicians & researchers, by hosting the Edinburgh Imaging Opening Symposium. Speakers will cover a wide research range, including molecular imaging, cardiovascular imaging, neuroimaging and retinal imaging.

Both superb invited speakers and fantastic local speakers have been invited, including:

• Dr Chris Boesch (Zurich)
• Dr Zahi Fayad (New York)
• Dr Steve Williams (London)

The final programme can be downloaded here.

Closing date for registration is 7th June 2017.

Edinburgh Imaging aims to break down barriers within science, engineering and clinical environments - to allow researchers to work collaboratively with the joint purpose to advance health through excellence in imaging science.

Why not come along to our PhD Expo event and hear from those studying either in science, medicine, research, engineering, or IT and hear about the cutting-edge collaborative research they are involved in, either at Heriot Watt or University of Edinburgh.

There will also be the opportunity to present a poster or give a brief talk on your research - with fantastic prizes of up to £150!

Registration is now open at the link below.

Edinburgh Imaging aims to break down barriers within science, engineering and clinical environments - to allow researchers to work collaboratively with the joint purpose to advance health through excellence in imaging science.

Why not come along to our PhD Expo event and maybe give a presentation, design a poster or be part of the audience to hear from those studying either in science, medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering, or IT . It's a great way to practice your presenting skills in a friendly environment, or to at least hear about the cutting-edge collaborative research others are involved in, either at Heriot Watt or University of Edinburgh.

There are fantastic prizes on offer, including £200 for best clinical talk, £200 for best preclinical talk and £50 voucher prize for best poster, as well as a £20 voucher for best question from the audience.

Registration is now open at the link below.

We are pleased to announce the 2016 Edinburgh Preclinical Imaging Symposium and launch of our new website. For a sneak preview, click http://edin.ac/24xHZJA

The format will be a series of short presentations, highlighting preclinical imaging results covering a wide range of studies (cardiac, brain, liver, cancer, pregnancy) all using our 4 in vivo imaging modalities (MRI, US, PET/CT, Optical Imaging), and will be of wide interest to the research community.

Confirmed speakers:

• Anna Hoy
• Raphael Castellan
• Sara Rinaldi
• Mark MacAskill
• Nick Spath
• Adriana Tavares
• Meghan Maslen
• Jess Duncombe
• Philip Starkey Lewis
• Sarah Walmsley

We hope to see you there. There will be a coffee/tea break halfway through the programme.

The aim of the meeting is to showcase our existing research and to inform all the attendees of the broad range of activity being undertaken. We hope to demonstrate how the integration of translational research and service development go hand in hand, broadening our research across all tumour groups and multi-disciplinary teams.

The format of the meeting will be a series of short presentations by researchers that we currently collaborate with followed by presentations on the clinical impact of research and opportunities across tumour groups.

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Small Vessel Disease (SVD) causes a quarter of strokes and up to 45% of dementias. It is also a major risk factor for future stroke, dementia and depression.

This event will launch a network for researchers in Edinburgh with an interest in SVD and related disorders. We aim to build on communication, establish new collaborations, foster career development and cement Edinburgh’s position at the forefront of this field.

University of Edinburgh staff are invited to join us for our network launch day. A morning of talks will highlight the range of research on SVD by University groups. This will be followed by an afternoon of short talks and networking aimed at all postdocs, PhD students and junior PIs working on SVD and related disorders to launch our SVD Research Academy – a network intended to support the new generation of researchers in this field. The event will end with a drinks reception.

Registration is open at the link below.

Click here for more information and registration details.

This course runs every 2 years and offers a comprehensive theoretical and practical coverage of all functional MRI-related aspects of SPM.

•A one day course for absolute beginners (learn fundamentals and also Matlab® basics)

•Theoretical lectures and practicals with user-driven sessions at the computer for the beginners (one computer per person is available - with a total of 6 to 7 hours practical). Advanced users work in small groups to interact with a tutor for a demonstration (take your laptop).

•Practicalities for neuroimaging reproducibility - Brain Imaging Data Structure, NeuroImaging Data Model, NeuroVault

The course is split in 3 and each part can/should be booked separately.

- Absolute beginners (Monday 1st)

- Beginners (Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd)

- Advanced users (Thursday 4th and Friday 5th)

Faculty includes:

John Ashburner (London, UK)

Ian Charest (Birmingham, UK)

Roselyn Chauvin (Nijmegen, NL)

Daniele Marinazzo & Sophie Van Den Bossche  (Gent, Belgium)

Martyn Mcfarquhar (Manchester, UK)

Alexa Morcom (Sussex, UK)

Cyril Pernet (Edinburgh, UK)

Christophe Phillips (Liege, Belgium)

The Stroke Winter School is aimed at doctors in clinical training who would like to spend a period in research. To apply (places are limited), email your CV and a 100 word paragraph why the course would help your career to Judi

The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is a £250 million initiative dedicated to addressing the challenge of defeating dementia. The institute consists of 6 centres across the UK; its presence in Scotland is the UK DRI at The University of Edinburgh.

This event will officially launch the UK DRI at Edinburgh in a two-day meeting. There will be a mix of speakers including international plenaries, young researchers, Edinburgh dementia researchers as well as researchers from other Scottish universities.

Engineering Scotland is the organisation for Engineering Societies and individual engineers in Scotland. Their first webinar online, The Innovation Lecture 2020, will be delivered by Professor David Porter: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Brain at 7 Tesla: an Opportunity and a Challenge

David Porter is Professor of MRI Physics at the Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE), Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow. He holds a B.Sc. degree in physics from Sheffield University and a Ph.D. from King's College London for work on magnetic resonance spectroscopy of human tumours in vivo. He worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, developing MRI methods for the study of epilepsy and acute stroke in children. Subsequently, David had a long career in industry working for Siemens Healthcare in the UK and Germany. He has also worked at the Fraunhofer MEVIS Institute for Medical Image Computing in Bremen, where he led an MRI project that focused on motion correction, fast imaging and programming tools for the design of MRI sequences. In David's current role at ICE, his interests involve the optimisation of MRI methods that aim to exploit the potential of 7 Tesla MRI to provide enhanced image quality in clinical and neuroscience applications.

This event is free but registration is required via Eventbrite through the website linked below.

The aim of the course is to provide delegates with a sound understanding of the basic physics of MRI via a series of lectures and supervised tutorial sessions covering everything from basic NMR, T1 and T2, through to neuro, body, and cardiovascular applications.  No previous knowledge of MR physics is assumed.  The general tone of the course is kept relaxed in order to ensure that attendees have a comfortable environment in which to ask questions about any of the concepts – either privately during Q/A tutorial sessions or within the lectures themselves.

The course is limited to 25 attendees - enabling optimised learning and tutorial sessions, together with excellent networking opportunities (including a welcome reception and course dinner).

The University of Dundee will award a certificate to successful candidates, and 25 CME credits will be applied for.

The course traditionally attracts a mix of Clinical Radiology (Radiologists, Radiographers) and Medical Physics (Clinical Scientists, Academic Scientists) delegates from across the UK and Europe.  Lectures will be delivered by the Dundee MRI Physics team, alongside colleagues from Cambridge and Brussels.

'Early Bird' reduced course fee applies to registration prior to the end of April 2017.

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The aims of this symposium were to bring together the stakeholders in research imaging management including range of professionals from research imaging centres, professional organisations whose members use imaging in research, ethicists, research funders and regulatory bodies. The meeting discussed and highlighted the magnitude and potential implications of incidental findings. It provided information concerning good practice in managing incidental findings in research imaging of both "normal" volunteers and patients and consequently highlighted issues related to ethics. The meeting enabled current opinions to be summarised on concerns about practical aspects of managing incidental findings. It also helped facilitate the production of a position statement and guideline to encourage best imaging research practice in the UK, within practical limitations, to facilitate future imaging research. A report summarizing the evidence presented and the conclusions drawn at the meeting is available below.

The European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI) provides an interdisciplinary platform for knowledge exchange covering basic sciences, translational aspects as well as clinical applications.

The 14th annual meeting of ESMI will be held in Glasgow, with a scientific programme covering the following main categories:

• Imaging Technologies

• Data Analysis & Methodology

• Neuroimaging

• Oncology Imaging

• Cardiovascular Imaging

• Intra-Operative Imaging

• Imaging Metabolism

• Imaging Probes, Chemistry & Reporter Genes

• Immunology, Inflammation & Infectious Diseases

The meeting will feature a series of plenary lectures, from leading practitioners in their respective fields, who will take us on the path from the cell to the human body.

Call for late-breaking abstract submissions: 31 January - 5 February 2019

Topics include:

• Imaging biomarkers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease in the clinic
• Environmental factors and prevention of dementia
• Cognitive assessments - what should we be using in the pre-clinical phase?
• Diagnostic tests, risk stratification and proof of concept
• Progression of cognitive and functional changes in MCI/AD

To register costs £50. Please go to http://edin.ac/1l6Cv6j

This one-day symposium is being held to mark the mid-point of the “IDentIFY” EU Horizon-2020 project on Fast Field-Cycling (FFC-MRI). Its objective is to inform stakeholders and potential beneficiaries about the current status of FFC-MRI and to indicate its future direction and potential capabilities for enhancing the diagnosis and staging of disease, as well as the monitoring of treatment. In addition, lectures will be given by the leaders of three other Horizon-2020 projects related to magnetic resonance.

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The programme includes overview research presentations from members of staff and we are also delighted to have confirmed three excellent external speakers who are leaders in their fields. A wide range of imaging technologies will be discussed in presentations, including basic, preclinical and clinical research   use of imaging techniques   across a wide range of applications,   in a way that will be accessible to the expert and non-expert alike. Presentations will focus on cutting edge imaging technologies and on molecular imaging. This is a great opportunity to hear from   key research leaders, how state of the art imaging can be applied to your research together with ample opportunity to network with fellow faculty members and external speakers to promote existing and future collaborative research.

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Organised by the EPSRC-funded Sonopill programme, this event will bring together Clinicians and Engineers to discuss technical developments and plan implementation of new capsule and minimally invasive endoscopic techniques.

A number of industry speakers will be talking about the commercial side of minimally invasive endoscopy, as well, highlighted by keynote speaker Dr Tanja Nowak.

Supported by a small project grant from The University of Edinburgh Development Trust awarded to Edinburgh Neuroscience.

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Posters

• Emotion & Memory
• Emotions and Your Brain
• fMRI
• Let's look at the waves in our brains!;
• PET Imaging - Seeing How the Human Brain Works
• Using brain imaging to study depression
• Botanical Benefits to the Brain: Plants and Emotion
• Reading Emotions
• Charles Darwin's "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals"

The 'getEmotional' event was covered in the Sprint 2009 issue of Nexxus News. Read the 'getEmotional' article.

'Meet the Scientist', (the second event rolling out the "getEmotional" programme) was held in Sensation Science Centre in Dundee as part of Brain Awareness Week in collaboration with the University of Dundee and SINAPSE. Both staff and students from the University of Dundee picked up the baton and incorporated the emotion-themed activities into the broader scope of Brain Awareness Week which included activities and experiments covering a wide variety of topics such as attention and motor control. This event was aimed at families and anyone with an interest in science. More than 200 people attended, with both young and old having the opportunity to get involved with exciting current research in Scotland.

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During the week 20-24 April, ICMS will host a workshop on ‘Gradient flows: from theory to application’.  As part of the workshop there will be a public lecture on Wed 22^nd April at 6pm, details below and in the associated links.

Strange gradient flows: The structure of images and novel opportunities in biomedical imaging

On Wednesday 22^nd April, 6pm there will be a public lecture by Martin Burger, University of Münster. Tickets are required.  Tickets are free and available from Eventbrite.

As part of a grant received from The Royal Society to study the feasibility of using neural networks to improve resolution of MRS data using high resolution MRI, this workshop has been organised to disseminate and discuss new ideas and related research on the theme of reconstruction schemes for MR data.

We are in an era of digital revolution that is driving the development of new kinds of sensing, communication and information representation systems with demands of ever-increasing fidelity and resolution. This is commonly achieved by means of compressing or reducing in some way the information acquired. The high fidelity reconstruction of compressed and low-resolution signals has been one of the forefront areas of research nowadays. This half-day workshop will explore avenues to increase, by means of computational algorithms, the resolution of MR data.

Programme

10:00am - 10:20am – Prof. Ian Marshall (University of Edinburgh)

Introduction to MR acquisition and reconstruction and compressed sensing

10:20am - 10:40am – Dr. Rafael Ortiz Ramón (Valencia Polytechnic Institute)

Magnetic resonance microimaging of a swine infarcted heart: Performing cardiac virtual histology – Remote presentation from Valencia.

10:40am - 11:00am – Dr. Valia Guerra Ones (Queen Mary University of London)

Multi-frame super resolution based on Sparse Coding – Remote presentation from The Hague.

11:00am - 11:20am – Dr. Arnold Benjamin (University of Edinburgh)

Optimizing calibration kernels and sampling pattern for ESPIRiT based compressed sensing implementation in 3D MRI

11:20am - 11:40am – Prof. Esin Ozturk Isik (Invited Professor from Bogazici University)

Compressed Sensing for Fast ³¹P-MRSI of Brain Tumors and ¹H-MRSI of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease

11:40am - 12:00pm – Dr. Patryk Filipiak (University of Cologne)

Proactive Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Optimisation Problems

12:00pm - 13:00pm – Morning Discussion Session

13:00pm -14:00pm – Lunch

Tea and coffee will be available during the session and sandwich lunch will be provided. To organise the catering, please, the organisers will be grateful if you can confirm your attendance by e-mailing M.Valdes-Hernan@ed.ac.uk by 8th August 2016.

The aim of the HIT Research Festival is to bring together a multidisciplinary audience including scientists, clinicians, industrialists, charities and patient group representatives, to discuss and identify approaches to addressing key global health issues. This festival is an opportunity to develop applied research activities with real impact and to identify key partners to generate strategic funding

Day 1 of the meeting (1 April) includes a series of talks, debates, curated in two keynotes and four thematic sessions, plus exhibitions and opportunities for networking.

Keynote speakers:

• Prof Amy Herr (University of California Berkeley, USA) - Bioinstrumentation for Quantitative Biology and Medicine
• Prof Constantin Coussios (University of Oxford) - Turning ideas into technology from organ preservation to drug delivery

Thematic sessions:

• Future Cancer Healthcare
• Healthy Ageing
• Replacing Animal Models
• Robotics for a Safer World

Poster abstracts may be submitted by the deadline of 28 February.

As places are limited, register early to ensure your ticket: https://bit.ly/2Bu0KpO

Day 2 of the meeting (2 April) will take the format of two parallel activities: an International Workshop on Neurorobotics and Neural Disorders, and an Optical Imaging Crucible workshop for early-mid career researchers (on invitation) co-organised by the SUPA, SULSA, and SINAPSE research pools.

Join iCAIRD and partners at NHS GG&C and NVIDIA for this virtual event exploring how GPU-accelerated AI is driving innovation in Healthcare.

Speakers from the iCAIRD team will be providing an overview on AI use in Scotland whilst Craig Rhodes & Jonny Hancox of NVIDIA will discuss AI applications in healthcare. Ignat Drozdov MD of Bering Ltd, one of iCAIRDs' SME partners, will also be sharing his insights & experience of the AI development process from inception to clinical product.

The IEEE IUS 2019 is an essential meeting for the global ultrasonics technical community, universally recognized for the contributions to ultrasonics technology presented there, providing key material to keep up to date with an industry that is growing at more than 10% per annum.

Through the work of Professor Ian Donald and his colleagues at the University of Glasgow, this historic city has a rightful claim to be a birth place of medical ultrasound imaging, with the first paper on its use in obstetrics published in the Lancet in 1958. Glasgow is a highly appropriate host for IEEE IUS 2019 and abstracts are now sought, describing original research in the field of ultrasonics and closely related topics, for presentation in oral or poster format.

Key dates:

• Abstract Submission Open: Friday, 8 February 2019
• Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, 8 April 2019
• Notification to Authors: Friday, 14 June 2019

Keynote speakers:

Prof Jon Cooper - Microstructures to shape Acoustic Fields and Produce Complex Fluidic Flows. Interactions between Fluids, Ultrasound & Phononic Structures

Prof Lihong Wang - World’s Deepest-Penetration and Fastest Optical Cameras: Photoacoustic Tomography and Compressed Ultrafast Photography

The next Tri-Annual EPSRC Image Guided Therapies Network+ meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT), University of Dundee.

The main IGT meeting will be held on the 1st of November at Ninewells Hospital, which is internationally renowned for introducing laparoscopic surgery to the UK. Talks will include clinical experts from Ninewells, Scotland-based MedTech companies and the latest research from our Network members.

Ahead of the IGT meeting, on the 31st of October, from 12pm Network members will have the opportunity to tour some of our research facilities including:

• The Clinical Research Centre (3T MRI, PET/CT scanner, a state-of-the-art surgical suite, patient consulting and overnight stay rooms)
• IMSaT Facilities at Wilson House (imaging suite with a 1.5T MRI equipped with MR Safe Robotics and Focused Ultrasound systems, a surgical suite with C-Arm X-ray and diagnostic ultrasound)

In addition, members are also invited to attend a special lecture in honour of Professor Ian Donald, a Scottish physician who pioneered the use of diagnostic ultrasound in medicine. This year the lecture will be given by Professor Seb Ourselin, King’s College London.

The Imaging Cerebral Physiology meeting will take place at CUBRIC (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre) on 8-9 June 2017. This 2-day conference will centre on brain oxygen metabolism and cerebrovascular function. It will bring together researchers and clinicians to discuss advanced MRI methods, the modelling of MR signals and tissue physiology, and the clinical, research and industrial applications of these methods.

The meeting will consist of invited talks from leading international researchers and presentations of the latest work in the field through proffered papers. Ample time will be allowed for discussion and debate of hot topics.

Attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts of their work including work in progress and work that may have been seen at other recent meetings - the aim is promote discussion above all. Some abstracts will be selected for oral presentations during the scientific sessions while others will be presented as traditional posters. Abstract submission instructions are on the website linked below. The deadline for submission is 12 May.

Places are limited so please, if you want to attend, do register as soon as possible. Registration is via Eventbrite through the website linked below. The deadline for registration is 22 May.

The University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences (MVLS) is hosting its 2017 Industry Day on the theme of "Imaging, Innovation and Impact".

Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief Executive Designate of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Chief Scientific Adviser for UK Government, will officially open the Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE) building and address delegates. ICE hosts a 7T MRI scanner, the first of its kind fully integrated within a clinical site in the UK, underpinned by clinical expertise in stroke, cardiovascular disease and brain imaging.

Industry Day will present partnering opportunities, poster displays and networking over lunch. In the afternoon, two parallel workshops will deliver presentations and discussions on whole body imaging, and cells and tissue imaging.

Presentation by Prof Ed Bullmore, Professor of Psychiatry from University of Cambridge

The Medical School at the University of Dundee will host the 2017 IMSaT Ian Donald lecture, given by Professor Andreas Adam: Interventional Oncology: the fourth pillar of cancer care

Andreas Adam is Professor of Interventional Radiology at the University of London. He trained in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, after which he spent four years in internal medicine, cardiology and oncology. He then trained in radiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, obtaining Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists.  He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1992 he was appointed to the first professorial chair of interventional radiology in Europe, at King’s College London. In 2012 -2015 he served as Dean of the first state medical school in Cyprus.

His research work has shaped clinical practice internationally and has been recognised by the award of Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He has made extensive original contributions to the medical and scientific literature, has published eleven books, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology. Professor Adam was one of the architects of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), which he helped to create by merging the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) with the European Association of Radiology (EAR). He has held the presidencies of eight national and international societies, including the Royal College of Radiologists and the European Society of Radiology. He has received numerous honours and awards, including fifteen eponymous lectures, Honorary Fellowship of sixteen national radiological societies, five gold medals and two Honorary Doctorates. In 2012 he was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contributions to interventional radiology.

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The UK is at the forefront of the fight against brain tumours. This is your chance to meet the doctors, scientists, patients, caregivers and charities who are leading the way in brain tumour research, support and campaigning.

This event will help you to understand the progress that is being made across many fronts in the work against brain tumours. You will discover more about:

• Research

• Radiotherapy and drug combinations

• Imaging

• Proton Beam Therapy

• Immunotherapy

• Behaviour and personality change

• Rehabilitation

• Brain tumour data

This is an educational and informative event, organised collaboratively by charities, brainstrust, Brain Tumour Research and the Beatson Cancer Charity. Please note places are limited to 100 and will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

InnovationNation is the EICC's series of free public lectures which has been designed to celebrate innovation in Edinburgh and Scotland.

The theme of the next lecture, on Tuesday 12 April, is InnovationBiotechnology with Dr Tom MacGillivray from the University of Edinburgh as one of the keynote speakers.

Dr MacGillvray will explore advances in technology in the past decade which have opened up the unexplored landscape of the retinal nervous system and brain. Their goal is to unlock the potential of the retina to reveal signs of disease. Imaging through the eye could improve detection of conditions such as heart disease and dementia, help to monitor at risk people, and assess the effectiveness of new treatments.