ISMRM Workshop on

40 Years of Diffusion:

Past, Present & Future Perspectives

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16-20 February 2025

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Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine
Kyoto, Japan

Organizers

Co-Chairs:
Susie Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Mami Iima, M.D., Ph.D.

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Overview & Program

Workshop Overview

The field of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has come a long way in the past 40 years, and this workshop celebrates the progress that has been made. From the early days of basic diffusion measurement techniques to the current state-of-the-art microstructure imaging and tractography methods, diffusion MRI has become an indispensable tool for both preclinical and clinical research.

The workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of the history of diffusion MRI, including the development of new pulse sequences, modeling, advancements in data analysis and image processing including AI, and applications in various areas of biomedical research: from neurology to psychiatry to oncology.

The workshop will bring together pioneers and experts in the field to discuss the history and the latest advances in diffusion MRI, both in terms of methodological developments and applications. Through keynote lectures, panel discussions, and poster sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to get an overall picture on the current state of the art in diffusion MRI and to learn about what is cooking for the future through the latest research and cutting-edge technologies in the field.

The workshop aims to bridge the gap between methodological development and clinical practice and provide a path for its integration in the near future.

Whether you are a seasoned researcher or a newcomer to the field, this workshop is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the past 40 years in diffusion MRI and to look forward to the exciting developments yet to come.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Target Audience

This workshop is designed for researchers (including Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and professors); clinicians (e.g. radiologists, oncologists, neurologists, surgeons); neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, computer scientists, MR physicists, and engineers; MR technologists; machine learning engineers and government regulatory experts; and other nonprofits and members of the ISMRM Diffusion, ISMRM Cancer, and ISMRM Quantitative MR Study Groups.

WiFi Access at the Workshop

Eduroam wireless network is available throughout Shiran Kaikan, making it the most convenient option for internet access. We strongly encourage all attendees from eduroam-participating institutions to set up their eduroam access in advance. Eduroam access is independently managed by each university and can take time to set-up. Please check with your institution to set-up access.

There will be individual WiFi IDs and passwords for non-eduroam participants.

Floor Plans & Directions

Floor plans & directions are available to registered attendees only.

Shiran Kaikan Venue Access on 16 February

Program Overview with locations

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Poster Placement

Program

Day 0 - Saturday, 15 February 2025

13:00-17:00

Registration & Speaker Upload Available (Located at Shiran Kaikan Annex)

Day 1 - Sunday, 16 February 2025 - Optional Educational Boot Camp (5.0 CME Available)
Intended Audience: Trainees and those new to the field *

08:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available (Located at Shiran Kaikan Annex)

09:15

Introduction

Santiago Coelho, Ph.D. &
Amy Howard, D.Phil.

Parallel Boot Camp Sessions 1: Foundations I

Moderator: Bradley Karat, B.Sc.

09:30

Teddy Cai, D.Phil. &
Nathan Hu Williamson, Ph.D.

Moderator: Antoiné Théberge, M.Sc.

09:30

Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D. &
Sajjad Feizollah, Ph.D.

11:00

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Parallel Boot Camp Sessions 2: Foundations II

Moderator: Jessie Mosso, Ph.D.

11:30

Qiuyun Fan, Ph.D. &
Ziyu Li, B.Eng.

Moderators: Sjoerd Vos, Ph.D.

11:30

Daan Christiaens, Ph.D. &
Ahmed Radwan, Ph.D.

13:00

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

Parallel Boot Camp Sessions 3: Analysis & Applications I

Moderators: Alex Valcourt Caron, M.Sc. & Anders D. Sandgaard, Ph.D.

14:30

Sune Nørhøj Jespersen, Ph.D. &
Chantal Tax, Ph.D.

Moderator: Elizabeth Powell, Ph.D.

14:30

Anna Schroder, Ph.D. &
Elinor Thompson, Ph.D.

16:00

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Parallel Boot Camp Sessions 4: Analysis & Applications II (No CME Available)

Moderators: Hong-Hsi Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

16:30

Ricardo Coronado-Leija, Ph.D. &
Dmitry Novikov, Ph.D.

Moderators: Kurt Schilling, Ph.D. & Maryam Tayebi, Ph.D.

16:30

Tractography

Simona Schiavi, Ph.D.,
Joseph Yan-Mou Yang, Ph.D. &
Chun-Hung Yeh, Ph.D.

17:50

Closing Remarks

Santiago Coelho, Ph.D. &
Amy Howard, D.Phil.

18:00

Peter Basser, Ph.D.,
Derek Jones, Ph.D.,
Denis Le Bihan, M.D., Ph.D., &
Michael Moseley, Ph.D.

18:30

Adjourn

19:00

Trainee Networking Event (until 21:00)

Day 2 - Monday, 17 February 2025 (4.25 CME Available)

08:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available (Located at Shiran Kaikan Annex)

Session 1: Introduction

Moderators: T.B.A.

09:00

Welcome

Susie Huang, M.D., Ph.D. &
Mami Iima, M.D., Ph.D.

Session 2: Hardware, Acquisition & Processing

Moderators: Gabriel Ramos-Llordén, Ph.D. & Jelle Veraart, Ph.D.

10:00

An Joseph Vu, Ph.D.
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

10:30

Gigi Galiana, Ph.D
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

11:00

Filip Szczepankiewicz, Ph.D.
Lund University
Lund, Sweden

11:30

Break & Speaker Upload Available

12:00

Erpeng Dai, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

Proffered Papers - Oral Session (No CME Available)

12:30

Gerrit Arends, M.Sc.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands

12:38

Hua Guo, Ph.D.
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China

12:45

Runpu Hao, M.Sc.
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Zurich, Switzerland

13:02

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

Moderator: Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D.

14:30

Thomas Foo, Ph.D.,
Bruce Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. &
Kawin Setsompop, Ph.D.

Session 3: Tractography & Connectivity

Moderators: Alexander Leemans, Ph.D. & Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ph.D.

15:00

Anna Villanova, Ph.D.
Eindhoven University of Techonology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

15:30

Dmitri Šastin, FRCS (SN), Ph.D.
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, UK

16:00

The Future of Tractography

Maxime Descoteaux, Ph.D.
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

16:30

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Proffered Papers - Oral Session (No CME Available)

16:53

Ruben Vink, M.Sc.
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

17:09

Silei Zhu, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK

17:17

Senior Expert-Led Panel Discussion

Maxime Descoteaux, Ph.D.,
Dmitri Šastin, Ph.D. &
Anna Villanova, Ph.D.

Session 4: Power Pitches, Poster & Consensus Session

Moderators: Maxime Chamberland, Ph.D. & Masaaki Hori, M.D.

19:00

Adjourn & Dinner on Own

Day 3 - Tuesday, 18 February 2025 (7.25 CME Available)

08:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

08:45

Keynote: Microstructure

Peter Basser, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Session 5: Microstructure of the Brain & Validation

Moderators: Kouhei Kamiya, M.D. & Chantal Tax, Ph.D.

09:15

Corey Baron, Ph.D.
Western University
London, ON, Canada

09:45

Tim Dyrby, Ph.D.
Cophenhagan University Hospital
Copenhagan, Denmark

10:15

Microstructure of the Brain: Clinical Applications

Jennifer McNab, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

10:45

Break & Speaker Upload Available

11:15

Noam Shemesh, Ph.D.
Champalimaud Foundation
Lisbon, Portugal

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

11:45

Kwok-Shing Chan, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA

11:52

Maëliss Jallais, Ph.D.
Cardiff University Brain Research Centre
Cardiff, Wales, UK

11:59

Anna Voronova, M.Sc.
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology
Barcelona, Spain

12:06

Mi Zhou, B.Sc.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada

12:17

Expert-Led Panel Discussion

Corey Baron, Ph.D.,
Tim Dyrby, Ph.D.,
Jennifer McNab, Ph.D. &
Noam Shemesh, Ph.D.

12:45

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

14:15

Els Fieremans, Ph.D.,
Jennifer McNab, Ph.D. &
Susumu Mori, Ph.D.

Session 6: Diffusion in the Body & Oncology

Moderators: Daniel Ennis, Ph.D. & Gigin Lin, M.D., Ph.D.

14:45

Francesco Grussu, Ph.D.
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology
Barcelona, Spain

15:15

Jessica Winfield, Ph.D.
Royal Marsden Hospital
London, England, UK

15:45

Shintaro Ichikawa, M.D., Ph.D.
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
Hamamatsu, Japan

16:15

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

16:38

Gregory Simchick, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA

16:54

Horace Zhang, M.Sc.
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

17:02

Expert-Led Panel Discussion

Francesco Grussu, Ph.D. &
Shintaro Ichikawa, M.D., Ph.D.

Session 7: Power Pitches, Poster & Consensus Sessions (No CME Available)

Moderators: Andrada Ianus, Ph.D. & Gregory Simchick, Ph.D.

19:00

Adjourn & Dinner on Own

Day 4 - Wednesday, 19 February 2025 (7.0 CME Available)

08:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

08:45

Jens Jensen, Ph.D.
Medical University of South Carolina
Charlestown, SC, USA

Session 8: From Research to the Clinic

Moderators: Yvonne Lui, Ph.D. & Ai Peng Tan, M.D.

09:30

Christina Andica, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate School of Medicine Juntendo University
Tokyo, Japan

10:00

Cardiac Diffusion MRI

Daniel Ennis, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

10:30

Break & Speaker Upload Available

11:00

Sila Genc, Ph.D.
Royal Children's Hospital
Parkville, VIC, Australia

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

11:30

Sittaya Buathong, M.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA

11:38

Lucy Hui, B.Sc.
Rotman Research Institute
Toronto, ON, Canada

11:53

Tommaso Pavan, M.Sc.
Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)
Lausanne, Switzerland

12:02

Expert-Led Panel Discussion

Christina Andica, M.D., Ph.D. &
Sila Genc, Ph.D.

12:30

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

14:00

Masako Kataoka, M.D., PhD.,
Gigin Lin, M.D., Ph.D. &
Ona Wu, Ph.D.

Session 9: AI & Big Data

Moderators: Kawin Setsompop, Ph.D. & Chuyang Ye, Ph.D.

14:30

Sina Mansour L., Ph.D.
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

15:30

Jon Haitz Legaretta Gorroño, Ph.D.
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

16:00

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

16:15

Siebe Leysen, M.Sc.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

16:31

Jize Zhang, B.Sc.
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, OHBA, University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK

16:39

Tianjia Zhu, M.Sc.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

16:47

Expert-Led Panel Discussion

Davood Karimi Ph.D., &
Sina Mansour L., Ph.D.

Session 10: Power Pitches, Poster & Consensus Sessions (No CME Available)

Moderators: Jon Haitz Legarreta Gorroño, Ph.D. & Li-Wei Kuo, Ph.D.

19:00

Adjourn

19:30

Networking Dinner

Day 5 - Thursday, 20 February 2025 (2.0 CME Available)

08:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

Session 11: On the Horizon: Cutting Edge Topics & Future Directions in Diffusion MRI Research

Moderators: Martijn Froeling, Ph.D. & Chien-Yu Wu, Ph.D.

09:00

Hao Huang, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

09:30

Toshiaki Taoka, M.D., Ph.D.
Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan

10:00

Christian Federau, M.D.
University of Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland

10:30

DWI-PET

Sho Koyasu, M.D., Ph.D.
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

11:30

Trainee Awards & Closing Remarks

12:00

Farewell & Box Lunches Served