Invited Speaker
Title. Can I see it through your eyes? — towards multi-organ image analysis and predictive modelling
Abstract. In this talk, I will discuss the work in progress undertaken in CISTIB (www.cistib.org) at the University of Leeds, in collaboration with partners across China, UK, and the USA, to develop methods for population imaging multi-organ phenotyping. We are interested in understanding disease manifestations across organ systems, developing population image analytics pipelines to extract information reliable and accurately at scale, integrating multi-cue information, and developing low-cost disease diagnostic and screening systems. Our primary interest is cardiovascular disease, including diabetes, myocardial infarction, and cerebrovascular disease. Understanding eye-related phenotypes from retinal imaging could complement existing cardiovascular imaging and offer a simple mechanism for a second referral to a cardiology clinic. We will overview the rationale behind our research, current progress in analysing the UK Biobank population imaging study, and highlight research avenues for image analysis that emerge from this exciting grand challenge. We hope this talk will stimulate cross-fertilisation between cardiovascular and ophthalmology imaging researchers.
Short bio. Professor Frangi is Diamond Jubilee Chair in Computational Medicine and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, with joint appointments at the School of Computing and the School of Medicine. He directs the CISTIB Center for Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine. Professor Frangi has edited several books, published 7 editorial articles and over 215 journal papers in key international journals of his research field and more than over 200 book chapters and international conference papers with an h-index 56 and over 21,100 citations according to Google Scholar. He has been three times Guest Editor of special issues of IEEE Trans Med Imaging, one on IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, and one of Medical Image Analysis journal. He was chair of the 3rd International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modelling of the Heart (FIMH05) held in Barcelona in June 2005, Publications Chair of the IEEE International Symposium in Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2006), Programme Committee Member of various editions of the Intl Conf on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) (Brisbane, AU, 2007; Beijing CN, 2010; Toronto CA 2011; Nice FR 2012; Nagoya JP 2013), International Liaison of ISBI 2009, Tutorials Co-Chair of MICCAI 2010, and Program Co-chair of MICCAI 2015. He was also General Chair for ISBI 2012 held in Barcelona. He is the General Chair of MICCAI 2018 to be held in Granada, Spain.