International Summer School on Imaging with Medical Applications.

Innovation in technology has the power to change healthcare. Our organization believes in the role of technology shaping our society and in the importance of bringing together young creative minds with leading experts.
SSIMA is the highest-level annual academic event in Central and Eastern Europe that unites internationally renowed experts in the fields of Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning with Medical Applications and much more.

Speakers & Program

George T. Haber

George T. Haber

Romanian entrepreneur in Sillicon Valley

Veronica Dobozi

Veronica Dobozi

Partner at Stoica & Associates Law Firm

Cristian Presură

Cristian Presură

Philips Senior Scientist

Peter Vorländer

Peter Vorländer

Health Accelerator Innovation Lead, Philips HealthWorks

Kim Mouridsen

Kim Mouridsen

Aarhus University, Denmark

Prof. Bart Romeny

Prof. Bart Romeny

Eindhoven Technological University, Netherlands

Doron Shaked

Doron Shaked

GE Global Research

Ovidiu Andronesi

Ovidiu Andronesi

Harvard Medical School, USA

Marius Leordeanu

Marius Leordeanu

Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania

Nahum Kiryati

Nahum Kiryati

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Michael Lindenbaum

Michael Lindenbaum

Technion IIT

Benjamin Irving

Benjamin Irving

Perspectum Diagnostics

Michael Lustig

Michael Lustig

Berkeley University

02
July, 2018

11:30- 12:00
Registration/Coffee Break
12:00-12:30
Opening
12:30-14:00
Introduction to Deep Networks with Medical Applications
Speaker: Doron Shaked
14:00-14:30
Coffee Break
14:30-16:00
Introduction to Deep Networks with Medical Applications
Speaker: Doron Shaked
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00
Decision with image specific background models
Speaker: Michael Lindenbaum

03
July, 2018

9:30-11:00
Why is it so difficult to obtain medical images for R&D?
Speaker: Nahum Kiryati 
11:00-11:30
Legal limits of artificial intelligence applications in the medical field
Speaker: Veronica Dobozi
11:30-12:00
Life Saving Innovation in Romania
Speaker: Rodica Paslaru (SofMedica)
12:00-12:30
Machine Learning vs. Human Learning
Speaker: George T. Haber (Romanian entrepreneur in Sillicon Valley)
12:30-13:00
Coffee Break
13:00-14:00
Bringing machine learning methods into the medical imaging industry for automation and detection
Speaker: Benjamin Irving
14:00-14:45
Lunch
14:45-16:45
Deep U-nets for organ segmentation in medical images
Speaker: Benjamin Irving
Location: ULBS Medicine Library 2nd Floor
16:45 -18:30
Poster Session
Location: ULBS Medicine Hallway

04
July, 2018

9:00-9:10
Welcome Coffee
9:10-9:30
Introduction
Philips Representative
9:30-10:00
AI For Healthcare – The Lung Cancer Screening use-case
Dr. Dimitrios Mavroeidis, Senior Scientist, Data Science Department, Phillips Research
10:00-10:50
How do we do R&D? Innovations in the area of personal health sensors
Cristian Presură, Senior Scientist, Philips
11:00-11:50
How YOU can reinvent Healthcare – An introduction into Open Innovation @Philips
Peter Vorlander, Health Accelerator Innovation Lead, Philips HealthWorks
12:00-12:15
Coffee Break
12:15-13:00
Pre-learning workshop for Philips Masterclasses
Location: ULBS Medicine Library 5th Floor
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-17:00
Philips Masterclasses
Ultrasound-World’s first truly integrated tele-ultrasound solution
Healthcare Informatics – Advanced Visualization and Post-Processing in Cardiovascular & Oncology Studies
Location: ULBS Medicine Library 5th Floor
17:00-17:30
Conclusions & Wrap-up

05
July, 2018

9:30-11:00
MRI acquisition and reconstruction — from basic techniques to compressive sensing and machine learning (part 1)
Speaker: Michael Lustig 
11:00- 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 -12:50
MRI acquisition and reconstruction — from basic techniques to compressive sensing and machine learning (part 2)
Speaker: Michael Lustig
12:50-14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 16:00
Early detection, faster treatment and prevention of disease with machine learning
Speaker: Kim Mouridsen
16:00-16:20
Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:50
Deep Neural Networks for Medical Image Recognition in Tensorflow (Part 1)
Workshop

06
July, 2018

9:00-9:45
Brain-inspired models for AI, AI-inspired models for the brain 
Speaker: Bart Romeny
9:45-10:00
Coffee Break
10:00-10:45
Brain-inspired models for AI, AI-inspired models for the brain 
Speaker: Bart Romeny
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30
Precision oncology and radiogenomics with MR spectroscopic imaging
Speaker: Ovidiu Andronesi
12:30- 14:00
Lunch
14:00 -15:00
The Story Behind the Image: When Vision Meets Language
Speaker: Marius Leordeanu
15:00-15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45
Deep Neural Networks for Medical Image Recognition in Tensorflow (Part 2)
Workshop

SatelliteEvent for Healthcare Professionals

How is Artificial Intelligence Reinventing Healthcare – A medical Perspective

Speakers

Michael Lustig from Berkeley University

Ovidiu Andronesi from Harvard Medical School – “Imaging based precision medicine”

Bart ter Haar Romeny from Eindhoven University of Technology  – „A Deeper Understanding of Deep Learning”

Program

02
July, 2018
Conference Day

 

 

 

12:00 – 15:00

Check-in

15:00

Imaging based precision medicine

Ovidiu Andronesi from Harvard Medical School 

16:00

Michael Lustig from Berkeley University

17:00

A Deeper Understanding of Deep Learning

Bart Romeny from Eindhoven University of Technology  

03
July, 2018
MedTech Innovation in Practice – by FreshBlood and EITHealth

 

 

Medical Innovation (10.00-11.00)

10:00 

Introduction – Elena Ovreiu – SSIMA

10.05 

Mircea Vadan – Cluj Startups and FreshBlood – Startups as innovation vectors

10.25 

Veronica Dobozi – Partner at Stoica & Associates Law Firm – Legal limits of artificial intelligence applications in the medical field

10.55 

Ion-Gheorghe Petrovai – FreshBlood and EITHealth – Innovation in medicine – Stanford BioDesign and EITHealth opportunities

11.25 

Coffee Break

03
July, 2018
MedTech Innovation in Practice – by FreshBlood and EITHealth

 

 

Innovation in Medicine – Co-Creation session

 11.25 

Challenge Presentations/Selections

 11.45 -13.00 

Teamwork on Business Model Canvas

13.00 – 14.00 

Working Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 

Teamwork Continues

15.00 – 16.00 

Results Presentations – 5 minutes/team/10 teams+transitions

16.00 – 16.10

Wrap-up and conclusions

16.00 – 16.30 

Start-up Demo Booths (in the lobby)

16.30  

Start-up Pitching and feedback session in plenary session

17.45 – 18.00 

Conclusions of the day

17.45-18.30 

Start-up Demo Booths Continued

04
July, 2018
Philips Innovation Day powered by Philips

 

 

09:00 – 09:10

Welcome, Introduction, Presentations of participants

09:10 – 09:20

Philips Vision for Healthcare

09:20 – 10:00

Philips in Artificial Intelligence

10:00– 11:00

How do we do R&D? And how can we use AI?

11:00– 11:15

Coffee break

11:15– 12:15

Pre-learning workshop for Philips masterclasses

12:30– 14:00

Lunch

14:00– 17:00

Philips Master Classes

17:00 – 17:30

Conclusions & Wrap-up

REGISTRATION FORM

This year we introduce „How is Artificial Intelligence Reinventing Healthcare – A medical Perspective”, a special event dedicated to young doctors and medical students in partnership with The Romanian Federation of Medical Students Associations – FASMR.

This summer school aims to give a better understanding of the expanding relation between the field of radiology and medical imaging, medical informatics and artificial intelligence. This event is adressed to medical imaging professionals and medical students who want to pursue a career in the field of medical imaging. The registration form for „How is Artificial Intelligence Reinventing Healthcare – A medical Perspective” can be filled until 21st of June, 2018.

SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED BY PHILIPS

Philips is funding 20 free registrations along with accommodation.

The deadline for the candidates applying for this scholarship is 17th of June and the results will be announced on 18th  of June.

The criteria of selection is a motivation letter, including a personal opinion on how Artificial Intelligence is going to shape the future of medicine.

Our partners

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Fresh Blood

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