SBIA - Announcements

Yasser Ghanbari, Ragini's old postdoc, died unexpectedly a few days ago during a bone marrow transplant. Yasser's wife, Marzi, is expecting there child, a boy, this summer. The child is a big reason Yasser was trying to get fully healthy, and agreed to the surgery. Marzi is an incredibly strong person, a PhD, working two jobs and now preparing to send the body of her husband home to Iran, while she cannot travel with him due to the pregnancy. It's a heart breaking situation.

She has requested support ... please consider it.

Click here to support Let's shower Marziyeh with love! Dear Friends: As you all know by now, Yasser left us unexpectedly before he got to hold his first and only child in his arm. Yasser and his loving wife, Marziyeh, have touched all of our lives with their generosity, love, and positive energy. In honor of Yasser's life, Marziyeh's friends are...

Join us for a live demo of our software package “Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit (CaPTk) [www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/captk/]” at this year’s SPIE Medical Imaging Conference in Houston TX (Feb 13).

CaPTk | CBICA | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania The Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA) was established in 2013, and focuses on the development and application of advanced computational and analytical techniques that quantify morphology and function from biomedical images, as well as on relating imaging phenotypes to genet...

SBIA is looking for a Data and Image Analyst. For details please see the link:

DATA ANALYST This analyst will work under the guidance of investigators in the Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (http://www.cbica.upenn.edu/, CBICA), Director, Christos Davatzikos, PhD. The work involves applying, testing, validating and extending advanced image processing algorithms and proto...

Meet our team at the Quantitative Imaging Reading Room Booth 18 at the Learning Center of 2017 from Tue-Thu 12:15-13:15

Team: Sarthak Pati, Spyridon Bakas, Saima Rathore, Aimilia Gastounioti

The Cancer Imaging Archive
Scientific Data

Good luck to the presenting team (Sarthak Pati, Spyridon Bakas, Aimilia Gastounioti, Saima Rathore) for preparing our Meet-The-Experts session, showcasing the Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit (CaPTk - www.med.upenn.edu/sbia/captk.html), in the Quantitative Imaging Reading Room at the Scientific Assembly & Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA - 28-30 Nov) in Chicago.

Thanks to The Cancer Imaging Archive for the listing:
https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/TCIA+Sessions+at+RSNA+2017

TCIA Sessions at RSNA 2017 - The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) Public Access - Cancer Imaging Archive Wiki Cancer Imaging Phenomics Toolkit (CaPTk): A Radio(geno)mics Software Platform Leveraging Quantitative Imaging Analytics for Computational Oncology (Meet-the-Experts Schedule: Tues/Weds/Thurs 12:15pm - 1:15pm)

Congratulations to Spyridon Bakas and Christos Davatzikos for successfully leading and co-organizing the "International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge" and the "Brain-Lesion (BrainLes) Workshop", respectively, in this year's Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) conference.

Both events have been included in the BEST OF MICCAI section in "Computer Vision News (October 2017)"!

BraTS 2017:
http://www.rsipvision.com/ComputerVisionNews-2017October/ #7

BrainLes 2017:
http://www.rsipvision.com/ComputerVisionNews-2017October/ #30

Computer Vision News - October 2017 Animated publication

Exciting news about 2 newly funded International Neuroimaging Consortia, led by Christos Davatzikos, bringing together MRI data from 23 international studies of approximately 18,000 individuals, with participating groups from the US, Europe, Australia, China, and Latin America.

Penn faculty on the international aging and Alzheimer’s Disease consortium include Wolk (Neurology), Habes, Bryan, and Nasrallah (Radiology), and Shou (Biostatistics). Penn faculty on the psychosis consortium include Satterthwaite, Wolf, Gur (Psychiatry), and Shinohara (Biostatistics).

Penn Radiology Faculty Receive $8.5 Million in NIH Grants For Two International Neuroimaging Consortia – PR News The funding will support two large multi-site international neuroimaging consortia, one on brain aging and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), and one on psychosis, as well as a broader computing infrastructure for imaging analytics and machine learning at Penn Medicine.

Congrats to Spyridon Bakas and the brain tumor team on their Nature Scientific Data paper "Advancing The Cancer Genome Atlas glioma MRI collections with expert segmentation labels and radiomic features" (https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017117) and being featured in the online front page of the journal: https://www.nature.com/sdata/

Advancing The Cancer Genome Atlas glioma MRI collections with expert segmentation labels and radiomic features Data Descriptor

Congrats to the brain tumor team (Hamed Akbari, Spyridon Bakas, Xiao Da, Donald M. O'Rourke, Christos Davatzikos), whose work titled "Non-invasive Molecular and Prognostic Stratification of de novo Glioblastoma Patients through Multivariate Radiomic Analysis of Baseline Preoperative Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging" was top-ranked by the World Molecular Imaging Society and selected for presentation at the Highlight Plenary Lecture of WMIC 2017 (http://www.wmis.org/2017-world-molecular-imaging-congress/wmic-2017-program/).

WMIC 2017 Program The WMIC brings together thousands of people from across the entire molecular imaging field. Filled with dozens of powerful sessions and hundreds of abstracts, this event is full of new ideas, inno…

Congrats to Aoyan D**g and group for their paper being one of a dozen featured and discussed at Saturday morning's AAIC plenary. The plenary was reviewing the most important papers from literature of about 3,000 papers of neuroimaging of AD!!

Congrats to Mohamad Habes for his promotion to Instructor in the department.

Just 2 years after graduation Mohamad has quickly built a record of influential and focused work in the field of neuroimaging of aging, and he will play a pivotal role in the iSTAGING and related consortia.

Congrats to Nicolas D. Honnorat for his upcoming talk at IPMI 2017:

"Riccati-regularized Precision Matrices for Neuroimaging"
Information Processing in Medical Imaging 2017
Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA
June 25 - June 30, 2017