MIC Festival 2023 – Future Potentials of Medical Imaging

The 5th MIC Festival on 15. June 2023 will focus on recent advances and future potentials as well as innovative and novel applications of medical imaging on the pulse of the time. The event will have an exciting keynote lecture, wonderful scientific presentations and poster sessions, showcasing the latest advances and achievements in medical imaging research.

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Program:

• 9:00 amWelcome

  Marcus Hacker, Speaker of the Medical Imaging Cluster, Medical University of Vienna
  Cécile Philippe, Coordinator of the Scientific Organization Team

• 9:15 – 10:10 amEmerging Technologies in Medical Imaging

  Chairs: Ivo Rausch, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering* & Georg Langs, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*

  Photon-counting CT: technical principles and clinical applications in thoracic imaging
  Ruxandra-Iulia Milos, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*, IGTT-Node

  Total-body PET imaging (working title)
  Marcus Hacker, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*, QCI-Node

  Towards optical coherence tomography on a chip
  Anja Agneter, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering*, MAOI-Node

  AI-based biomarker quantification in retinal imaging: a paradigm shift
  Julia Mai, Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry*, TM-Node

• 10:10 – 10:40 amRapid fire session (Selected Abstracts)Chairs: Claudia Kuntner-Hannes & Wolfgang Bogner, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*

  Multicentric PET image harmonization for robust quantitative clinical imaging
  David Haberl, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*

  Development and multicenter validation of an artificial intelligence system for expert-level detection of cardiac amyloidosis in ^99mTc-scintigraphy
  Clemens P. Spielvogel, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*

  High-field Magnetic Resonance-based visualization of new polymer and resin materials for tissue mimicking phantoms
  Paul Pery, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering*

  Mental stress impairs T-cell immunity to elicit adverse outcome in lung cancer patients
  Barbara Geist, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*

• 10:40 – 11:00 amCoffee Break (exhibition)
• 11:00 am – 12:00 pmMulti-Cluster-RoundtableModeration: Marcus Hacker, Speaker of the Medical Imaging Cluster, Medical University of ViennaThomas Berger, Speaker of the Medical Neuroscience ClusterShahrokh F. Shariat, Speaker of the Cancer Research and Oncology Research ClusterChristoph Binder/Irene Lang, Speaker of the Cardiovascular ClusterRudolf Valenta, Speaker of the Immunology Research Cluster
• 12:00 – 1:00 pmLunch and Postersession
• 12:00 – 12:30 pmPosterwalk 1
  Preclinical Imaging & Image-guided Therapy Chairs: Oliver Langer, Department of Clinical Pharmacology* & Christopher Kaltenecker, Department of Pathology*Posterwalk 2

  Image Computing, Analysis and Visualization
  Chairs: Andreas Renner, Department of Radiation Oncology* & Kareem Elsayad, Centre for Anatomy and Cell Biology*

• 12:30 – 1:00 pmPosterwalk 3

  Development of Imaging Probes, Telemedicine, Microscopy and Advanced Optical Imaging
  Chairs: Lena Hirtler, Center for Anatomy and Cell Biology* & Peter Kuess, Department of Radiation Oncology*

  Posterwalk 4
  Quantitative Clinical Imaging
  Chairs: Wolfgang Weninger, Center for Anatomy and Cell Biology* & Markus Mitterhauser, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Applied Diagnostics

• 1:00 – 2:00 pmKeynote Lecture

  Chair: Cécile Philippe, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*

  Paleoradiology; a window into time
  Mislav Cavka, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Centre Zagreb

• 2:00 – 2:20 pmCoffee Break (exhibition)
• 2:20 – 3:00 pmOutside the Box Imaging (emerging applications)

  Chair: Roxane Licandro, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy* & Rupert Lanzenberger, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy*

  Explain, Predict or Generate – What is next for AI
  Georg Langs Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy* & Wolfgang Birkfellner, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering*, ICAV-Node

  How the hen´s egg can contribute to preclinical imaging
  Theresa Balber, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Applied Diagnostics, PI-Node

  Contrast agents for medical imaging by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  Irena Pashkunova-Martic, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy*, DIP-Node

• 3:00 pmFarewell and AwardsMarcus Hacker, Speaker of the Medical Imaging Cluster, Medical University of Vienna

*Medical University of Vienna

Seven MIC-Nodes:
Development of Imaging Probes (DIP)
Image Computing, Analysis and Visualisation (ICAV)
Image Guided Therapies and Theranostics (IGTT)
Microscopy, and Advanced Optical Imaging (MAOI)
Preclinical Imaging (PI)
Quantitative Clinical Imaging (QCI)
Telemedicine (TM)