MEMoRIAL Press Reports | Jul 2019
MEMoRIAL fellows ranked first in the CHAOS Challenge at the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) in Venice, Italy
Understanding prerequisites of complicated medical procedures plays an important role on the success of the operations. To enrich the level of understanding, physicians use advanced tools such as three dimensional visualisation and printing, which require extraction of the object(s) of interest from DICOM images. Accordingly, the precise segmentation of abdominal organs (i.e. liver, kidney(s) and spleen) has critical importance for several clinical procedures including but not limited to pre-evaluation of liver for living donor based transplantation surgery or detailed analysis of abdominal organs to determine the vessels arising from and entering them for correct positioning of a graft prior to abdominal aortic surgery. This motivates an ongoing research to achieve better segmentation results and overcoming countless challenges originating from both highly flexible anatomical properties of abdomen and limitations of modalities reflected to image characteristics.
Against this backdrop, this year’s edition of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (Apr-8/11, 2019) was host to the Combined (CT-MR) Healthy Abdominal Organ Segmentation (CHAOS) Challenge. MEMoRIAL Research Fellows Soumick Chatterjee (M1.4) and Philipp Ernst (M1.10) participated as a team and were ranked first in CHAOS Challenge Task 1 Liver Segmentation (CT-MRI).
Congratulations to Soumick und Philipp on their excellent work!
About ISBI:
The IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) is a scientific conference dedicated to mathematical, algorithmic, and computational aspects of biological and biomedical imaging, across all scales of observation. It fosters knowledge transfer among different imaging communities and contributes to an integrative approach to biomedical imaging.
(authored by H. Muth, Jul-04, 2019)
A window on the future of materials science
MEMoRIAL Research Fellow Christopher Müller (M2.1) only recently returned from Beyond Nickel-Based Superalloys III (Nara, Japan). It was Christopher’s second international trip to present his work in only a few months’ time.
Beyond Nickel-Based Superalloys III took place on 11-14 June 2019 at Nara Kasugano International Forum, Nara, Japan. It was the third conference of the series, following the first one in Bad Berneck, Germany and the second one in Cambridge, UK. The conference covered those metallic and intermetallic materials that have the potential to deliver superior properties to nickel-based superalloys, being extensively studied by many research groups worldwide. This conference brought together these research groups to present the latest developments in developing and testing such new alloys.
Before, Christopher was attending the MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit 2018 as held in Boston, MA/USA, Nov 25-30, 2018. The MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provides a window on the future of materials science, and offers an opportunity for researchers from students and postdoctoral fellows, to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates to exchange technical information and network with colleagues.
(authored by H. Muth, Jul-18, 2019)