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The 2020 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at University of St Andrews on Thursday-Friday, 18-19 June 2020. We are delighted to announce the following confirmed keynote speakers:
The call for abstracts will open later this month - we look forward to proffered papers and posters representing the full breadth of SINAPSE imaging research.
As this is the first time the SINAPSE ASM is being held as as two-day event, a social event is planned for the evening of 18 June and overnight accommodation will be available on site, with special room rates offered for SINAPSE members. The cost of ASM registration will be waived for delegates who book overnight accommodation. More details...
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Successful Scottish imaging conference bids
Exciting news has just been released that Glasgow will host the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), the primary international society dedicated to neuroimaging research. Congratulations go to Prof Lars Muckli, University of Glasgow, who led the bid.
The year ahead is quite busy with several major imaging-related conferences which SINAPSE members have been instrumental in bringing to Scotland!
Total-body PET 2020
20-22 June 2020
McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh
- Deadline to submit abstracts: 1 March 2020
FENS Forum of Neuroscience
11-15 July 2020
Scottish Events Campus, Glasgow
2020 European Conference on Computer Vision
23-28 August 2020
Scottish Events Campus, Glasgow
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Funding calls
Currently open funding calls which may be of interest to SINAPSE researchers:
Within-SINAPSE Exchange Funding
Early career researchers may apply for up to £1,000 to visit another SINAPSE-affiliated site in order to obtain imaging-related training and skills development not available locally. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
European Society of Radiology Research Seed Grants
Up to €8k to stimulate innovative projects and pilot studies in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cardiac Imaging, for researchers of all ages working in a radiology department. Closing date: 15 January 2020
NEW L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science Rising Talent Programme
£15k in flexible funding to enable and/or facilitate promising scientific research by outstanding women scientists in the early stages of their career in a STEM field. Closing date: 27 January 2020
NEW Carnegie Trust Vacation Scholarships
Funding to support research projects that will be undertaken during Summer 2020 by undergraduate students at Scottish universities. Closing date: 31 January 2020
Joint NES/CSO Postdoctoral Clinical Lecturer Scheme
Applications are invited for Postdoctoral Clinical Lectureship positions which provide 50% protected research time for speciality registrars in training who have completed a PhD. Closing date: 31 January 2020
NEW Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships
Funding for experienced academic researchers in natural sciences to focus on full-time research for up to one year. Closing date: 5 February 2020
NEW Radiological Research Trust Research Grant
Up to £5k targeted at early career researchers and/or novel projects in need of pump priming funds. Closing date: 31 May 2020
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Summer internship opportunities at Canon Medical
Canon Medical Research Europe, based in Edinburgh, is offering paid internships this summer for students or recent graduates in areas related to medical image analysis. Application deadline this Sunday: 12 January 2020. More details...
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Image of the Month: CTPA coronary artery calcification
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Our January Image of the Month, courtesy of Dr Michelle Williams, shows coronary artery calcification in the left anterior descending coronary artery, with examples of mild (a), moderate (b), and severe (c) calcification, on computed tomography pulmonary angiogram (CTPA) images. Coronary artery calcification is usually identified on dedicated cardiac computed tomography (CT) performed with electrocardiogram gating. However, it can also be identified and quantified on routine non-gated CT images, including CTPA, for non-cardiac indications. In a retrospective cohort study of 400 patients who underwent CTPA for the assessment of pulmonary embolism, patients with coronary artery calcification were three times more likely to die than patients without coronary artery calcification, and coronary artery calcification was a more important predictor of long-term morality than the severity of the initial pulmonary embolism.
More submissions needed! Please help us continue to publicise Scottish imaging research by e-mailing your interesting and impressive images to Kristin Flegal, including an image credit and short descriptive caption for each one.
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SINAPSE Member Profile: Prof Sotirios Tsaftaris
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Sotirios (Sotos) Tsaftaris is currently Chair (Full Professor) in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at the University of Edinburgh. He holds the Canon Medical/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Healthcare AI. He is also a Turing Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute.
Sotos moved to Scotland in 2015 after being with IMT Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy, as Director of the Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Unit. Prior to that, he was at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA, on a joint appointment between the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Radiology Feinberg School of Medicine. He has published extensively, particularly in interdisciplinary fields, with more than 140 journal and conference papers in his active record, with a variety of co-authors and collaborators. Currently Sotos is particularly interested in applications of AI in healthcare particularly in combining information sources (imaging, and clinical information) to solve the task at hand. His particular expertise lies in solutions that need few data to train the machine learning models.
Sotos is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging and IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. He is tutorial chair for the 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020), to be held in Glasgow this August, and he has served most recently as Doctoral Symposium Chair for IEEE ICIP 2018 (Athens) and as area chair for IEEE MICCAI 2018 (Granada) and ICME 2018 (San Diego). He is a member of the IEEE, ISMRM, and SCMR and is a Murphy Fellow and a Fellow of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
Website: http://tsaftaris.com/, Twitter: @STsaftaris
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Upcoming Events
PET/MR User's Meeting: Technical challenges
5 February 2020
Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London
Scottish Ophthalmic Imaging Society meeting
14 February 2020
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh
2nd Scottish Ultrasound Annual Scientific Meeting
28 February 2020
Collins Building, University of Strathclyde
Please contact Dr Helen Mulvana if you are interested in presenting at, or providing sponsorship for, this meeting
8th Annual Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum
12 March 2020
Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling
Technology Innovations for Healthcare
How sensing, imaging and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can be used in health & social care in Scotland
12 March 2020
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
Medical Imaging Convention 2020
17-18 March 2020
National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England
9th SINAPSE Neuro-oncology Imaging Meeting
19 March 2020
West Park Conferencing & Events, 319 Perth Road, Dundee
15th European Molecular Imaging Meeting
24-27 March 2020
Thessaloniki, Greece
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