MMIV Newsletter September 2019

Welcome to the newsletter of the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization (MMIV) centre. In this newsletter, we update you on recent MMIV news and upcoming events.

News

MMIV at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting 2019

In June, Heidi Espedal and Kristine Fasmer (both from the MMIV cancer imaging group) attended the annual SNMMI meeting, which this year was located in Anaheim, California. Theranostics, Immune Checkpoint Imaging and Artificial Intelligence were amongst the “hot topics” and several research groups presented exciting and novel strategies regarding dynamic and parametric imaging. Kristine held a presentation entitled “Preoperative 18F-FDG PET-CT tumor markers outperform MRI based markers for the prediction of lymph node metastases and aggressive disease in endometrial cancer” and Heidi secured 1st place in the conference 5k hot trot :).

MRS Visualization Research Wins Best Poster Prize at EuroVis 2019

“A Visual Encoding System for Comparative Exploration of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data” by Laura Garrison, Jakub Vašíček, Renate Grüner, Noeska Smit, and Stefan Bruckner was awarded the Best Poster at EuroVis 2019 Conference in Porto, Portugal, in June this year.

MMIV Presentations at VCBM 2019 in Brno, Czech Republic

Laura Garrison, Hauke Bartsch, and Eric Mörth presented three talks at this year’s EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine in Brno from September 6th to September 9th:

SpectraMosaic: An Exploratory Tool for the Interactive Visual Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data - Laura Garrison, Jakub Vašíček, Renate Grüner, Noeska N. Smit, Stefan Bruckner
MedUse: A Visual Analysis Tool for Medication Use Data in the ABCD Study (short paper) - Hauke Bartsch, Laura Garrison, Stefan Bruckner, Ariel Wang, Susan F. Tapert, Renate Grüner
The Vitruvian Baby: Interactive Reformation of Fetal Ultrasound Data to a T-Position - Eric Mörth, Renata Georgia Raidou, Ivan Viola, Noeska Smit

In addition, Noeska Smit organized and moderated a panel entitled ‘Back to the Future of Medical Visualization’ with panelists Ingrid Hotz (Linköping University, Sweden), Anna Vilanova (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands), Katja Bühler (VRVis, Austria), and Helwig Hauser (University of Bergen, Norway)

Italian scholar visits MMIV to study electroconvulsive therapy

Dr Giulio Emilio Brancati graduated from medical school at the University of Pisa (Italy) in July 2018 and is going to achieve a supplementary master’s degree in Medical Sciences at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in December. Thanks to a scholarship offered by the Erasmus+ Traineeship Programme and Sant’Anna School, Giulio is currently carrying out a 2-months research internship at the MMIV. The study is part of the advanced neuroimaging project for brain changes induced by electroconvulsive therapy (mmiv.no/ect). Giulio investigates how a single ECT-session affects brain microstructure, as measured by restriction spectrum imaging-derived metrics. He will start his psychiatry residency in Pisa in November, under the supervision of Prof Giulio Perugi, who also was the one who advised for the visit to Bergen. We hope to see Giulio back in Bergen to present results for the MMIV conference in December.

MMIV on GitHub

Do you want to have access to our latest research tools? For example, code to remove bone structures from plane film X-ray images to make the soft tissue structure easier to appreciate? We provide the source code for all our cutting-edge technology on our public MMIV repository spaces. You can get an overview of our software and watch our development cycle from bug reports, feature requests to implementation. Feel free to test and perhaps even work together with us on our new code releases. An overview of our repositories can be found here: http://github.com/MMIV-CENTER/ and here: https://github.com/MMIV-ML/

Upcoming Events

MMIV Conference 2019

Welcome to the 2nd MMIV Conference at Bikuben Conference Center (Haukeland University Hospital) on December 9th and 10th 2019. The theme of the conference is Convergence of Medical Data Science for Improved Patient Care.

International world-leading experts will give their perspectives on the topic. Furthermore, researchers from the MMIV center will present ongoing projects that capitalize on machine learning and advanced imaging- and visualization techniques to improve patient care. The conference will be followed by a Hackathon on December 11th.

The conference and workshop is open to everyone, and there is no admission fee. Free lunch will be provided. All participants are encouraged to submit abstracts for poster presentation.

Please see https://mmiv.no/conference/ for more information and registration!

Learn more

MMIV Seminars 2019

The MMIV is organizing three seminars this autumn semester, which will feature exciting talks by MMIV researchers. The first seminar in this series will take place Friday September 20th, 1200-1300, at the Haraldsplass SMU Auditorium (305), and is entitled ‘MMIV Seminar: From mouse to man: Spatial and temporal medical imaging in different species and development phases’. Four speakers will highlight various aspects within this theme:

Heidi Espedal – ‘Imaging of preclinical gynecologic cancer models’
Eric Mörth – ‘The Vitruvian Baby: Interactive reformation of 3D ultrasound data to a T-pose’
Hauke Bartsch – ‘The Brain Imaging Data of the ABCD Study – an Introduction protocols and tasks’
Sathiesh Kaliyugarasan – “Artificial intelligence in image diagnostics: transfer learning and active learning for efficient use of data and radiologist’s expertise”

See our webpage for more details: https://mmiv.no/upcoming/mmiv-seminar-from-mouse-to-man/

The next seminars will be held Friday October 4th, 1200-1300 and Friday November 1st, 1200-1300.

The ABCD of ABCD’s data - Workshop Society for Neuroscience

At the SfN 2019 meeting (19-23Oct, Chicago, IL) Hauke Bartsch hosts a workshop on the Data Exploration and Analysis Portal (DEAP). An analysis system developed by the Data Analysis and Informatics Center (DAIC) of the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study providing access to publicly shared data of 11,876 Children ages 9-12. The data includes 60TB of raw and minimally processed MRI data (structural, diffusion, resting-state and functional) and 60,000 descriptive values for each of the ABCD study participants from family history, substance use, cognitive measures and derived imaging measures. The workshop will present an introduction into the data and tool developed to perform state-of-the-art hypothesis testing with study appropriate covariates.

Upcoming MMIV Presentations at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting

The Cancer Imaging group at MMIV is presenting three talks at the RSNA 105th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, December 1 – December 6, 2019.

Njål Lura will present his study entitled: ”MRI-Assessed Tumor Size Parameters Predict Survival in Uterine Cervical Cancer”.

Julie Andrea Dybvik will present her study entitled: “MRI-assessed Tumor-free Distance to Serosa Predicts Deep Myometrial Invasion and Poor Prognosis in Endometrial Cancer“.

Ingfrid S. Haldorsen will present the project entitled “Preoperative 3D tumor texture features from MRI predict aggressive disease in endometrial cancer”.

Upcoming MMIV keynote at TMF workshop, Charite, Berlin

Hauke Bartsch will be presenting a keynote entitled ‘ABCD - How to structure a big whale research study in REDCap’

Upcoming MMIV Presentation at the European Society of Neuroradiology 42nd annual Meeting, 18-22 September 2019 - Oslo

The Advanced Neuroimaging ECT project group at MMIV is presenting the latest findings from GEMRIC. Leif Oltedal will present a talk entitled “Brain changes induced by electroconvulsive therapy”.