Ferenc Jolesz First Monday Research Seminars
The Department of Radiology holds a monthly Ferenc Jolesz Seminar series presented by Harvard Medical School investigators, as well as speakers from other institutions, on a wide range of topics related to image-guided therapy. These seminars honor the late FERENC JOLESZ, MD who founded the multidisciplinary image-guided therapy program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is widely known as a founding father of the field of image-guided therapy.
Paul B. Shyn, MD: PET/CT-Guided Tumor Ablation: Myths and Promises
Paul B. Shyn, MD Associate Professor of Radiology Department of Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Abstract Clinical PET/CT was a disruptive technology that blended molecular imaging with anatomic imaging and led to astounding results. The adoption of…
Assaf Tal, PhD: From Function to Cognition: New Spectroscopic Tools for Studying Brain Neurochemistry In-Vivo
Assaf Tal, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Abstract In this seminar, I will present new methods in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) we've been working on in the lab. The talk will…
Robert C. Gentleman, PhD: The Importance of Software and Data (A View of the Future)
Robert C. Gentleman, PhD Executive Director, Center for Computational Biomedicine Harvard Medical School Abstract I will discuss why I believe we are coming to an important inflection where it is important to carefully curate and integrate data resources and to…
Gonzalo Vegas Sanchez-Ferrero, PhD: Harmonization of CT Scans: Reducing Confounding Factors in Multicenter Clinical Studies
Gonzalo Vegas Sanchez-Ferrero, PhD Instructor in Radiology Department of Radiology Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Abstract Quantitative analysis of CT images in multicenter studies involves dealing with intrinsic disparities in the density measures due to differences in the…
Sughra Raza, MD & Lisa Becker, PhD: From Mammography to Tumor Metabolism
Sughra Raza, MD Associate Professor of Radiology Harvard medical School Lisa Becker, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium Short Bio: Sughra is currently Associate Professor of Radiology at HMS and has worked as a breast imaging radiologist at Brigham &…
Marco Palombo, PhD: Relaxed-VERDICT: Decoupling Relaxation and Diffusion for Comprehensive Microstructure Characterisation of Prostate Cancer
Marco Palombo, PhD UKRI Future Leaders Fellow Centre for Medical Image Computing Department of Computer Science University College London Abstract Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis requires transrectal biopsy, which is invasive and prone to error. VERDICT [1,2] is a non-invasive imaging…
Leah H. Portnow, MD: Breast Density: A Continuing Conundrum
Leah H. Portnow, MD Instructor in Radiology Breast Imaging Division Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Abstract In a retrospective review of 200 screening full field digital mammograms, the effect of BI-RADS® 5th edition (5th-ed) guidelines on inter- and…
Lauren O’Donnell, PhD: Novel Analyses of Diffusion MRI Fiber Tractography to Study the Brain’s Connections in Health and Disease
Lauren Jean O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor in Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Abstract Our recent research demonstrates that white matter fiber tracts can be automatically identified from diffusion MRI tractography across the lifespan. This enables novel analyses…
Katherine Breedlove, PhD: The Injury-System Paradigm and the Essential Role of Neuroimaging in Concussion
Katherine Breedlove, PhD Research Associate in Radiology Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Abstract Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has proven to be a challenging injury to study. It presents with a complex set of symptoms, highly individualized and dependent…
Ron Kikinis, MD: AI in Medicine: A Technology with Staying Power
Ron Kikinis, MD B. Leonard Holman Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School Founding Director, Surgical Planning Laboratory Vice-Chair for Biomedical Informatics Research Department of Radiology Brigham and Women’s Hospital Abstract Artificial Intelligence is a technology inspired by biology which is…
Raúl San José Estépar, PhD: Enabling Clinical and Genetic Investigations via Quantitative Imaging in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Raúl San José Estépar, PhD Lead Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School Abstract Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic, inflammatory lung disease that arises from exposure to cigarette smoke and other inhaled…
Sarah Frisken, PhD: Modeling the Feeding and Draining Vessels of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
Sarah Frisken, PhD Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Abstract In this talk, I will present preliminary results for our new efforts to generate patient-specific models of cerebral blood vessels for planning surgical treatment…