Wednesday Plenary
Plenary Session
ORGANIZERS: Seena
Dehkharghani, Ramesh Venkatesan
Wednesday, 08 May 2024
Plenary Hall (Hall 603-604)
10:30 - 12:00
Moderators: Seena
Dehkharghani & Ramesh Venkatesan
Session Number: P-03
CME Credit
Session Number:
P-03
Overview
Consider our largest challenges as a biomedical imaging community; are
the objects and processes of interest to you too small? Too indistinct?
Are they simply moving too fast or too unpredictably? Perhaps you're not
even certain of what it is that you're seeking to find, and yet you know
there’s something there, lurking in a darkness that you hope to
illuminate. Well, you may not be alone in this endeavor, and while you
may aim to advance our understanding of biology or a disease process,
similar challenges plague the imaging of our vast cosmos.
This plenary initiates a dialogue to highlight the striking
similarities, lessons, and unique challenges and solutions bridging
medical and astronomical imaging. Despite divergence between these
seemingly distant fields, potential synergies and opportunities to
foster their mutual growth through exchange and shared discovery
represent a compelling new direction.
This session promises to be a cornerstone for fostering
interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, bridging the gap between
the cosmic scale of astronomy and the biological scale of medical
diagnostics.
Target Audience
• Imaging scientists and trainees spanning the theory, instrumentation,
acquisition methodologies, numerical methods, and algorithms fundamental
to biomedical imaging; and
• Basic, translational, and clinical imaging specialists interested in
historical, contemporary, and forward-looking perspectives on medical
and astronomical imaging, with particular attention to the parallels,
distinctions, challenges, opportunities, and synergies linking the two.
The session is tailored to foster an understanding of the similarities
and distinctions between astronomical and medical imaging technologies,
promoting cross-disciplinary insights motivated by a possibility of
collaborative advancement that benefits both fields.
Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Summarize fundamental parallels, similarities, and critical
distinctions between MRI and Radioastronomy through a rigorous
historical and theoretical treatment of the two imaging fields;
- Explore potential synergies supported through exchange of solved and
open problems facing each field;
- Analyze the shared challenges such as minimizing acquisition times,
improving image quality, and the impact of instrumental corrections,
discussing how these are addressed differently in each field;
- Present the contrasting approaches of a radio astronomer and an MR
physicist to longstanding challenges in the field of imaging, enriching
understanding of each field’s perspective on common issues; and
- Promote future collaboration between the fields of astronomical and
medical imaging, inspired by insights from the session’s explorations of
their known and projected intersections.
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10:30 |
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Ernst Lecture
Sean Deoni
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11:00 |
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From Innerspace to Outer Space: Why? A Preamble
Leon Axel
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11:30 |
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From Innerspace to Outer Space: How? A Point-Counterpoint
Exchange & Discussion
Urvashi Rau
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12:00 |
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Open forum panel discussion and audience questions
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