Literary Guild Meetings Archive

The Literary Guild is as a weekly meeting forum to facilitate discussions and brainstorming between students and faculty interested in the general areas of imaging, medical image analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning, and data fusion.

Date Title Name
2017-01-20 12:00 300th LG : Defining a Radiomic Response Phenotype: A Pilot Study using targeted therapy in NSCLC Yuanqi Xie
2017-01-13 12:00 299th LG : Dr. Mohammed Qutaish's presentation Dr. Mohammed Qutaish's presentation
2017-01-06 12:00 298th LG : Radiomics and its emerging role in lung cancer research, imaging biomarkers and clinical management: State of the art Niha Beig
2016-12-16 12:00 297th LG : Radiogenomics to characterize regional genetic heterogeneity in glioblastoma Prateek Prasanna
2016-12-09 11:30 296th LG: Effects of contrast-enhancement, reconstruction slice thickness and convolution kernel on the diagnostic performance of radiomics signature in solitary pulmonary nodule Mohammadhadi Khorrami
2016-12-02 12:00 295th LG: Radiomics for rectal cancer Prathyush Chirra
2016-11-11 12:00 294th LG: Prediction of Low versus High Recurrence Scores in Estrogen Receptor-Positive, Lymph Node-Negative Invasive Breast Cancer on the Basis of Radiologic-Pathologic Features: Comparison with Oncotype DX Test Recurrence Scores Nathaniel Braman
2016-10-28 12:00 292nd LG : Computer Aided Diagnosis for the Detection of Prostate Cancer on mpMRI: A Multi-Reader Study Dr. Matt Greer
2016-10-21 15:15 291st LG : Predicting chemoinsensitivity in breast cancer with ’omics/digital pathology data fusion German Corredor Prada
2016-10-07 10:00 289 LG: Dr. Javier Villafruela from University of Calgary will be presenting "Practical Biomedical Texture Classification with Deep Learning" Javier Villafruela
2016-09-23 12:00 287th LG: Efficient Multi-Scale 3D CNN with fully connected CRF for Accurate Brain Lesion Segmentation Jhimli Mitra
2016-09-16 12:00 286th LG : Scalable histopathological image analysis via supervised hashing with multiple features. Cheng Lu
2016-09-09 12:00 285th LG: Evaluation of Six Registration Methods for the Human Abdomen on Clinically Acquired CT Jacob Antunes
2016-09-02 12:00 284th LG: Machine Learning and Computational Pathology for Breast Cancer Diagnostics Dr. Humayun Irshad
2016-08-26 07:15 283 rd LG: Machine Learning methods for Quantitative Radiomic Biomarkers Mahdi Oroji
2016-08-05 14:30 281 st LG meeting : Deep Learning, selected presentations Andrew Janowczyk
2016-07-29 12:00 280th LG: Multi-Stain Analyser: An Automated Framework for Serial Section Registration and IHC Stain Analysis. Nick Trahearn, PhD
2016-07-15 12:00 279th LG : The Impact of Random Samples in Ensemble Classifiers Prathyush Chirra
2016-07-08 (All day) 278th LG: Pairwise Latent Semantic Association for Similarity Computation in Medical Imaging Ahmad Algohary and Yu Zhou
2016-07-01 10:45 277th LG: Third-harmonic generation imaging of breast tissue biopsies. German Corredor Prada
2016-06-24 12:00 276th LG : Adaptive mathematical model of tumor response to radiotherapy based on CBCT data. Rakesh Shiradkar
2016-06-17 12:00 275th LG : Population-based prediction of subject-specific prostate deformation for MR-to-ultrasound image registration Lin Li
2016-06-10 (All day) 274th LG : On complexity and homogeneity measures in predicting biological aggressiveness of prostate cancer; Implication of the cellular automata model of tumor growth. Patrick Leo
2016-06-03 12:00 273 LG : Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures Soumya Ghose
2016-05-27 12:00 272 LG : Multi-centre diagnostic classification of individual structural neuroimaging scans from patients with major depressive disorder Jhimli Mitra
2016-05-20 06:45 271 LG : Automated detection of DCIS in whole-slide H&E stained breast histopathology images Jon Whitney
2016-05-13 06:30 270th LG : Decoding Tumor Phenotypes for ALK, ROS1, and RET Fusions in Lung Adenocarcinoma Using a Radiomics Approach. Niha Beig
2016-05-06 12:00 LG 269: Translation of Genotype to Phenotype by a Hierarchy of Cell Subsystems Michael Volkovitsch
2016-04-22 12:00 268 LG : Microenvironmental Heterogeneity Parallels Breast Cancer Progression: A Histology–Genomic Integration Analysis Patrick Leo
2016-04-08 (All day) 267 LG meeting : Computer-aided breast MR image feature analysis for prediction of tumor response to chemotherapy Nathaniel Braman
2016-04-01 12:00 LG 266: Three-dimensional solid texture analysis in biomedical imaging: Review and opportunities Prateek Prasanna
2016-03-25 12:00 265th LG : Patch-based Convolutional Neural Network for Whole Slide Tissue Image Classification George Lee, PhD, and Cheng Lu, PhD
2016-03-18 12:00 LG264: In-parallel comparative evaluation between multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging, prostate cancer antigen 3 and the prostate health index in predicting pathologically confirmed significant prostate cancer in men eligible for active surveillanc Rakesh Shiradkar, PhD
2016-03-11 12:00 LG263: Spatial Pyramid Pooling in Deep Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition Xiangxue Wang
2016-03-04 12:00 LG262: Translate Big Biomedical Data to Improve Human Health Rong Xu, PhD
2016-02-26 12:00 LG260: Assessing the scale of tumor heterogeneity by complete hierarchical segmentation of MRI Greg Penzias
2016-02-19 12:00 LG259: Job parallelization using distributed network (MPI) programming on HPC. Jhimli Mitra, PhD
2016-02-12 13:30 LG258: New breast cancer prognostic factors identified by computer-aided image analysis of HE stained histopathology images Andrew Janowczyk, PhD
2016-02-05 12:00 LG257: Predicting outcomes in radiation oncology -- multifactorial decision support systems Soumya Ghose, PhD
2016-01-29 12:00 LG256: The evaluation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in breast cancer: recommendations by an International TILs Working Group 2014 German Corredor Prada
2016-01-22 12:15 LG255: Novel Affordable Automated Microscopy and 3D multi-domain mesh generation from Z-stack images and CT/MRI, with custom large-scale FEA on the desktop PC Todd Doehring, PhD
2016-01-08 13:30 LG254: Tumor microenvironment of metastasis and risk of distant metastasis of breast cancer. Jon Whitney, PhD
2015-12-18 12:00 LG253: Association of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging parameters with histological findings from MRI/ultrasound fusion prostate biopsy Greg Penzias
2015-12-11 12:00 LG252: 18 F-FDG PET Uptake Characterization Through Texture Analysis: Investigating the Complementary Nature of Heterogeneity and Functional Tumor Volume in a Multi – Cancer Site Patient Cohort Jacob Antunes
2015-12-04 12:00 LG251: Fractal analysis of nuclear histology integrates tumor and stromal features into a single prognostic factor of the oral cancer microenvironment. German Corredor Prada
2015-11-13 12:00 LG250: Developing the Mouse Model of Bladder regeneration Frank Marini, PhD
2015-11-06 12:00 LG249: Discovery Radiomics for Multi-Parametric MRI Prostate Cancer Detection Cheng Lu, PhD
2015-10-30 12:00 LG248: Feature normalization and likelihood-based similarity measures for image retrieval Ahmad Algohary and Rakesh Shiradkar, PhD
2015-10-23 12:00 LG247: Estimating and comparing time-dependent areas under receiver operating characteristic curves for censored event times with competing risks Jacob Antunes and Jay Patel
2015-10-16 12:00 LG246: Reproducibility and Prognosis of Quantitative Features Extracted from CT Images Mehdi Alilou, PhD
2015-10-09 12:00 LG245: Near-Infrared Fluorescent Digital Pathology for the Automation of Disease Diagnosis and Biomarker Assessment Xiangxue Wang
2015-10-02 12:00 LG244: Magnetic resonance image features identify glioblastoma phenotypic subtypes with distinct molecular pathway activities Niha Beig and Nathaniel Braman
2015-09-18 12:00 LG243: Image fusion of mass spectrometry and microscopy: a multimodality paradigm for molecular tissue mapping Prateek Prasanna
2015-09-11 12:00 LG242: Microvascular MRI and unsupervised clustering yields histology-resembling images in two rat models of glioma Pallavi Tiwari, PhD
2015-09-04 12:00 LG241: Decision curve analysis: a novel method for evaluating prediction models. George Lee, PhD and Sahir Ali
2015-08-28 12:00 LG240: Assessing the performance of prediction models: a framework for some traditional and novel measures Ahmad Algohary and Mahdi Orooji, PhD
2015-08-14 12:00 LG239: Image Scaling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Satish Viswanath, PhD & Andrew Janowczyk, PhD
2015-08-07 12:00 LG238: Comparison of variants of canonical correlation analysis and partial least squares for combined analysis of MRI and genetic data David Romo-Bucheli, MS
2015-07-31 13:00 LG237: Blood Loss Severity Prediction using Game Theoretic Based Feature Selection Jeffrey Nirschl
2015-07-24 12:00 LG236: GLISTR: glioma image segmentation and registration. Gavin Hanson
2015-07-17 12:00 LG235: Identification of mechanisms mediating response to therapy using integrative analysis of multi-omics tumor profiles Vinay Varadan, MD
2015-07-10 14:15 LG234: Digital imaging technologies, an update on imaging technologies that meet and exceed our light microscopes Michael Feldman, MD
2015-06-26 12:00 LG233: Magnetic resonance-invisible versus magnetic resonance-visible prostate cancer in active surveillance: a preliminary report on disease outcomes. Ahmad Algohary and Greg Penzias
2015-06-19 12:00 LG232: On the Relationship Between Tumor Structure and Complexity of the Spatial Distribution of Cancer Cell Nuclei: A Fractal Geometrical Model of Prostate Carcinoma Sahir Ali, MS
2015-06-12 12:00 LG231: High Risk of Under-Grading and -Staging in Prostate Cancer Patients Eligible for Active Surveillance Patrick Leo
2015-06-05 12:00 LG230: Three-dimensional reconstruction of ductal carcinoma in situ with virtual slides Lin Li
2015-05-29 12:00 LG229: Memory based active contour algorithm using pixel-level classified images for colon crypt segmentation Andrew Janowczyk, PhD
2015-05-15 12:00 LG228: Mapping spatial heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment: a new era for digital pathology Asha Singanamalli
2015-05-08 12:00 LG227: Corrigendum to “Computer-Assisted Detection of Infectious Lung Diseases: A Review” Mahdi Orooji, PhD
2015-05-01 12:00 LG226: Nucleolus and DNA Ania Gawlik
2015-04-24 12:00 LG225: Knowledge-fused differential dependency network models for detecting significant rewiring in biological networks Jon Whitney, PhD and David Romo-Bucheli, MS
2015-04-03 12:00 LG224: Computer-Aided Breast Cancer Diagnosis Based on the Analysis of Cytological Images of Fine Needle Biopsies Daniel Forsberg, PhD
2015-03-27 12:00 LG223: Exploring visual representations on histopathological images David Romo-Bucheli, MS
2015-03-13 12:00 LG222: Frequential versus spatial colour textons for breast TMA classification Jon Whitney, PhD
2015-03-06 12:00 LG221: Elastic registration of prostate MR images based on estimation of deformation states Rakesh Shiradkar, PhD
2015-02-27 12:00 LG220: Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions Angel Cruz-Roa, PhD & Andrew Jancowitz, PhD
2015-02-13 12:00 LG219: Modelling the spatial heterogeneity and molecular correlates of lymphocytic infiltration in triple-negative breast cancer Xiangxue Wang
2015-02-06 12:00 LG218: Correlation of Gleason Scores with Magnetic Resonance Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Peripheral Zone Prostate Cancer Shoshana Ginsburg
2015-01-30 12:00 LG217: Precise ex vivo histological validation of heightened cellularity and diffusion-restricted necrosis in regions of dark apparent diffusion coefficient in 7 cases of high-grade glioma Pallavi Tiwari, PhD
2015-01-16 12:00 LG216: Nonrigid registration of dynamic medical imaging data using nD + t B-splines and a groupwise optimization approach Mirabela Rusu, PhD
2015-01-09 12:00 LG 215: Noninvasive Image Texture Analysis Differentiates K-ras Mutation from Pan-Wildtype NSCLC and Is Prognostic Mahdi Orooji, PhD
2014-12-19 12:00 LG214: Extensions to Decision Curve Analysis, a Novel Method for Evaluating Diagnostic Tests, Prediction Models and Molecular Markers Satish Viswanath, PhD
2014-12-12 12:00 LG213: Is Prostate Cancer Grading Optimized for Modern Management Strategies? Jesse McKenney, MD
2014-12-05 14:00 LG212: Summarization of the Different Nuclear and Gland Segmentation Methods Jon Whitney, PhD
2014-11-21 12:00 LG211: "Brain Tumor Segmentation with Symmetric Texture and Symmetric Intensity-Based Decision Forests" "Visual and Contextual Modeling for the Detection of Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury" and "Dynamic Low-Level Context for the Detection of Mild Tra Anthony Bianchi, PhD
2014-11-14 12:00 LG210: "Prostate Segmentation Based on Variant Scale Patch and Local Independent Projection," "Hierarchical and Symmetric Infant Image Registration by Robust Longitudinal-Example-Guided Correspondence Detection," and "Semi-automatic Segmentation of Brain Yao Wu, PhD
2014-11-07 12:45 LG209 (Part 2): Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition in Prostate Cancer is Associated with Quantifiable Changes in Nuclear Structure Yu Zhou
2014-11-07 11:30 LG209 (Part 1): Estimation of Slipping Organ Motion by Registration with Direction-Dependent Regularization Mehdi Alilou, PhD
2014-10-24 12:00 LG208: Computer-aided diagnosis from weak supervision: A benchmarking study Nikita Agrawal
2014-10-17 12:00 LG207: Vessel calibre—a potential MRI biomarker of tumour response in clinical trials Eaton Guo
2014-10-10 12:00 LG206: Spatial Analysis of Combined Data Sets using Digital Histology Jon Whitney, PhD
2014-10-03 12:00 LG205: Integration and relative value of biomarkers for prediction of MCI to AD progression: Spatial patterns of brain atrophy, cognitive scores, APOE genotype and CSF biomarkers Asha Singanamalli
2014-09-26 12:00 LG204: Feature Learning - Theory, Practice and Applications Angel Cruz Roa, PhD & Haibo Wange, PhD
2014-09-19 12:00 LG203: Quantification of tumour budding, lymphatic vessel density and invasion through image analysis in colorectal cancer Xiangxue Wang
2014-08-29 13:00 LG202: A data-driven approach to prostate cancer detection from dynamic contrast enhanced MRI Shoshana Ginsburg
2014-08-22 12:00 LG201: Statistical normalization techniques for magnetic resonance imaging Benjamin Jiang,
2014-08-15 12:00 LG200: Registration of Whole-Mount Histology and Volumetric Imaging of the Prostate Using Particle Filtering Mahdi Orooji, PhD
2014-08-01 11:30 LG198: The Application of Imaging Analytics in Biomedical Research and Development Amit Vasanji, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer – ImageIQ, Inc
2014-07-25 12:00 LG197: A system for evaluating magnetic resonance imaging of prostate cancer using patient-specific 3D printed molds Mirabela Rusu, PhD
2014-07-18 12:00 LG196: Registration of structurally dissimilar images in MRI-based brachytherapy. Tao Wan, PhD
2014-07-11 10:45 LG195: Deformable segmentation of 3D MR prostate images via distributed discriminative dictionary and ensemble learning Ahmad Algohary
2014-06-20 12:00 LG193: Spectral Embedding of Feature Hypergraphs Jun Xu
2014-06-13 15:15 LG192: Simultaneous Multiresolution Strategies for Nonrigid Image Registration Jacob Antunes
2014-05-23 12:00 LG189: Classification of brain tumor type and grade using MRI texture and shape in a machine learning scheme Prateek Prasanna
2014-05-16 13:00 LG188: Non-Gaussian water diffusion kurtosis imaging of prostate cancer Shoshana Ginsburg
2014-05-09 15:30 LG187: Cancer classification using the Immunoscore: a worldwide task force Sahir Ali
2014-05-02 12:00 LG186: Model based inversion for deriving maps of histological parameters characteristic of cancer from ex-vivo multispectral images of the colon. Satish Viswanath, PhD
2014-04-11 12:00 LG184: Segmentation of brain MR images through a hidden Markov random field model and the expectation-maximization algorithm Mahdi Orooji
2014-03-28 12:00 LG182: Computer-Aided Breast Cancer Diagnosis Based on the Analysis of Cytological Images of Fine Needle Biopsies Angel Cruz
2014-03-21 12:00 LG181: Unsupervised Deep Feature Learning for Deformable Registration of MR Brain Images Mirabela Rusu, PhD
2014-03-07 12:00 LG179: Simultaneous Sparsity Model for Histopathological Image Representation and Classification Ajay Basavanhally, PhD, and George Lee, PhD
2014-02-07 12:00 LG178: Facial Soft-Tissue Segmentation Tahir Majeed, PhD
2014-01-31 12:00 LG177: Ultrasound Image Enhancement for Real-time Automatic Detection of the Lumber Anatomy in Sono-Guided Epidural Needle Insertions Sima Sobhie, MS
2014-01-17 12:30 LG176: Discovering and Characterizing Hidden Variables in Streaming Multivariate Time Series Soumi Ray, PhD
2013-12-20 12:00 LG Meetings 2012-2013
2012-06-22 12:00 LG Meetings 2008-2012