Calendar

Jul
16
Thu
2020
Thursday MIPS Roundtable @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
Jul 16 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Thursday MIPS Roundtable @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link

Thursday MIPS Roundtable: Meet our MIPS Instructors 

 

MIPS Roundtables are Thursdays from 1:30-2:30pm showcasing various topics and are open to all interested. Note this will be our last summer Roundtable and we will take a break through late July and August. 

 

1:30-2:00 PM | Dr. Josquin Foiret, Ph.D.
High throughput ultrasound imaging for improved diagnosis
Instructor, Radiology
Stanford University

 

2:00-2:30 PM | Dr. Jinghang Xie, Ph.D.
TESLA probes for imaging T cell-mediated cytotoxic response to immunotherapy
Instructor, Radiology
Stanford University

 

Please note Zoom information does change week to week.

7/16 Webinar URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/94952044130
Dial: +1 650 724 9799 or +1 833 302 1536
Webinar ID: 949 5204 4130
Password: 963699

Jul
21
Tue
2020
PHIND Seminar – Vishnu Shankar @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
Jul 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
PHIND Seminar - Vishnu Shankar @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link

PHIND Seminar Series: What is in your sweat and what can it mean for health and disease?
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Seminar & Discussion
RSVP: https://www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/VShankar

 

Presenter:
Vishnu Shankar, M.S.
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University

 

Principal Investigators:
Michael Snyder, Ph.D.
Stanford W. Ascherman, MD, FACS Professor in Genetics
Stanford University

Robert Tibshirani, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Statistics
Stanford University

Richard Zare, Ph.D.
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and Professor, by courtesy, of Physics
Stanford University

Location
Webinar URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/s/99817512229?pwd=QitCTjRXMEdBTWZyd29MTHYyNU5Xdz09
Dial: +1 650 724 9799  or +1 833 302 1536
Webinar ID: 998 1751 2229
Password: 489011

 

ABSTRACT

Sweat is a complex fluid known to be rich in electrolytes, small molecules, and fatty acids. Although adults can sweat up to 10 liters per day, little is still known about the chemical composition of sweat, how this changes, and what are its implications for health and disease. We demonstrate a powerful approach to help elucidate this link, where collecting samples simply requires swabbing a glass slide across one’s forehead in less than 30 seconds. Using the combination of desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and statistical machine learning, our approach can successfully detect over 10,000 metabolites in sweat and identify metabolic changes in the sweat profile related to gender, age, and disease. As an example, we demonstrate in a cohort of 65 subjects the possibility of using just a few metabolites detected in sweat to successfully identify patients with renal disease. More generally, our approach suggests the possibility of using the sweat profile to non-invasively assess individual risk for metabolic diseases in the theme of “Precision Medicine.”

 

ABOUT VISHNU SHANKAR

Vishnu Shankar recently graduated with his master’s degree in computer science, with a specialization in artificial intelligence from Stanford University. He completed his bachelor’s degree with honors in mathematical and computational sciences in 2018, also at Stanford, with his senior thesis on Bayesian networks for incorporating effect modifiers in meta-analysis.  In addition, his background spans biology, mathematics, chemistry, statistics, operations research, physics, and computing. Vishnu has published 6 papers and 3 articles in fields including protein structural prediction, comparison of clinical guidelines cost-effectiveness in type 2 diabetes, development of programs to combat mental illness, cancer diagnosis with analytical chemistry and machine learning, and related areas.   He is also the founder of the CARES organization to support peer student wellness at college campuses, for which he won the Asoka Youth Changemaker award sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim.  Vishnu has enthusiastically pursued science since his middle school days and has worked on demonstrating the possibilities of DNA computing, simulating protein folding, studying the genetic modifications in fruits and vegetables, and more. He has been recognized for his scientific research as an Intel Science Talent finalist, Google Science Fair Regional finalist, recipient of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Excellence award for his work on epidemiology modeling.  Vishnu has interned at Caltech and Genentech, where he applied experimental techniques to purify and study protein behavior including dialysis, titration, chromatography for early stage drug development.  He was also selected as one of the two high school students to represent the western US Confucius Institute in Student Leaders Exchange Program in China as a non-native Mandarin speaker.

 

Hosted by: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D.
Sponsored by the PHIND Center and the Department of Radiology

Jul
22
Wed
2020
SCIT Quarterly Seminar @ via ZOOM: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99587932751?pwd=L0VOWWJJKytzSkVTT2w1N2FzUzdjUT09
Jul 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

“Kernel Locally Sensitive Hashing for the Content Based Image Retrieval”
Masoud Badiei Khuzani, PhD

ABSTRACT: Due to the development of the Internet at large scale and the availability of various image capturing devices such as digital cameras, smart mobile phones, image scanners, digital image databases are expanding very rapidly. With the popularity of the computer based smart system, content based image retrieval (CBIR) has grown in different areas to research. Efficient image browsing, image retrieval and searching tools are needed to users in various domains including histopathology image datasets. To achieve image retrieval, many retrieval systems have been developed. Two main frameworks are the content based retrieval and text based retrieval. Text based frameworks were introduced in 1970s. In this approach, text descriptors are used to annotate the image. However, annotating a large data-base is laborious. In CBIR, contents of image are used to annotate to perform retrieval in an unsupervised manner. In this talk, we propose a novel framework for the CBIR using kernel locally sensitive hash functions. In particular, we propose a novel framework for constructing a set of new hash functions based on radial kernels to speed up the image retrieval process.  As a preliminary result, we validate our proposed retrieval system on the MNIST data-set.

“Prediction of Clinical Outcomes in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) Utilizing Radiomic Features Derived from Pretreatment Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan”

Eduardo Somoza, MD

ABSTRACT: Diffuse Large B-Cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of lymphoma, accounting for a third of cases worldwide. Despite established prognostic scores and advancements in treatment, the five-year percent survival rate for this patient population nears sixty percent, possibly related to the known heterogeneity of DLBCL. PET imaging features may characterize this diverseness and help predict clinical outcomes even before treatment initiation.  The approach we have been employing to address this need is the creation of a prognostic model from pretreatment clinical and imaging data of DLBCL patients seen at Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC). In this presentation, we will provide an update on the radiomics component of our model. Preliminary results, efforts towards standardization, and future directions will be covered. Ultimately, we hope our efforts will lead to the development of a prognostic model that can be utilized to guide treatment selection in high risk DLBCL patients in an attempt to circumvent relapse or refractory disease.

Aug
4
Tue
2020
SMIS Quarterly Seminar @ Zoom:
Aug 4 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
SMIS Quarterly Seminar @ Zoom:

Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) Program Quarterly Seminar

Zoom meeting: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/99117388314?pwd=R29OSjlTdUt0a3pLaG5Zc1BFNTJIUT09
Password: 922183

Guolan Lu, PhD
Mentor: Eben Rosenthal, MD; Garry Nolan, PhD
“Co-administered Antibody Improves the Penetration of Antibody-Dye Conjugates into Human Cancers: Implications for AntibodyDrug Conjugates”

Dianna Jeong, PhD
Mentors: Craig Levin, PhD; Shan Wang, PhD
“Novel Detection Approaches for Achieving Ultra-fast time resolution for PET”

 

Aug
5
Wed
2020
AIMI Symposium @ Livestream: details to come
Aug 5 @ 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
AIMI Symposium @ Livestream: details to come

Location & Timing

August 5, 2020
8:30am-4:30pm
Livestream: details to come

This event is free and open to all!
Registration and Event details

Overview
Advancements of machine learning and artificial intelligence into all areas of medicine are now a reality and they hold the potential to transform healthcare and open up a world of incredible promise for everyone. Sponsored by the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, the 2020 AIMI Symposium is a virtual conference convening experts from Stanford and beyond to advance the field of AI in medicine and imaging. This conference will cover everything from a survey of the latest machine learning approaches, many use cases in depth, unique metrics to healthcare, important challenges and pitfalls, and best practices for designing building and evaluating machine learning in healthcare applications.

Our goal is to make the best science accessible to a broad audience of academic, clinical, and industry attendees. Through the AIMI Symposium we hope to address gaps and barriers in the field and catalyze more evidence-based solutions to improve health for all.

Aug
18
Tue
2020
PHIND Seminar – Sylvia Plevritis, Ph.D. @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
Aug 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
PHIND Seminar - Sylvia Plevritis, Ph.D. @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link

PHIND Seminar Series: Identifying Fibroblasts Subtypes Contributing to the Progression of Preinvasive to Invasive Lung Adenocarcinoma

 

Sylvia Plevritis, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology
Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford
Stanford University

 

Location
Webinar URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/s/93945120934?pwd=a29GNjFCUzBtWjRsbFdnUnVUOTMzUT09
Dial: +1 650 724 9799  or +1 833 302 1536
Webinar ID: 939 4512 0934
Password: 767148

11:00am – 12:00pm Seminar & Discussion
RSVP: https://www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/SPlevritis

 

ABOUT

Dr. Sylvia K. Plevritis is Professor and Chair of Biomedical Data Science, Professor of Radiology at Stanford University and Program Director of the Stanford Biomedical Informatics Graduate Training Program. Dr. Plevritis leads a computational biology cancer research program that bridges genomics, imaging and population sciences to decipher properties of cancer progression and treatment response. Dr. Plevritis received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Health Services Research, both from Stanford University, with a focus on cancer imaging physics and modeling cancer outcomes, respectively. She has had a primary authorship role on over 100 scientific cancer-related articles. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and Distinguished Investigator in the Academy of Radiology Research. She serves on the NCI Board of Scientific Advisors,  the Program Leadership Committee of the Stanford Cancer Institute and the Leadership Council of the Stanford Bio-X Program. Dr. Plevritis has served on numerous NIH study sections,  chaired scientific programs for the several professional societies including the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and presented keynote lectures across multiple scales of computational cancer biology.   Currently, she is the Program Director of the Stanford Center in Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) and has been a Principal Investigator with the NCI Cancer Intervention Surveillance Network (CISNET) for over fifteen years.  She has served as Program Director of the Stanford Cancer Systems Biology Scholars Program (CSBS), and co-Division Chief of Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford (IBIIS).

 

Sponsored by the PHIND Center and the Department of Radiology

Sep
9
Wed
2020
Diversity in Radiology & Molecular Imaging: What We Need to Know @ Virtual Event
Sep 9 – Sep 11 all-day
Diversity in Radiology & Molecular Imaging: What We Need to Know @ Virtual Event

Dear WMIS trainees, colleagues and friends,

We welcome you to join our upcoming virtual WMIS – Stanford Diversity conference on September 9-11, 2020. We are coming together to reinforce our commitment to diversity and to provide a forum for our team members to engage in meaningful discussions. The conference will provide keynote lectures, scientific presentations and educational lectures from leaders and pioneers in the field, who will discuss important topics related to racial justice, women in STEM and Global Health. We are also offering breakout sessions whereby carefully selected individuals will facilitate a discussion about how to implement more supportive and inclusive practices into our daily professional and personal life. The breakout sessions are designed to enable active involvement of smaller groups where people feel safe to discuss current challenges in the STEM field and actionable solutions.

This conference is free of charge and will provide 9.5 CME credits. Abstracts of all conference presentations and a summary of discussion points and insights provided by all conference participants will be published in Molecular Imaging & Biology. The organizing committee will provide 10 trainee prizes in the form of free WMIS memberships to conference attendants for the 2021 WMIC in Miami.

Website: https://www.wmislive.org

Sep
15
Tue
2020
PHIND Seminar – Soody Tronson, M.S., J.D. @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
Sep 15 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
PHIND Seminar - Soody Tronson, M.S., J.D. @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link

PHIND Seminar Series: Maintaining Competitive Advantage through Intellectual Capital

Soody Tronson, M.S., J.D.
Founder
Presque

 

Location & Timing
11:00am – 12:00pm Seminar & Discussion
Webinar URL: https://stanford.zoom.us/s/98817009379?pwd=U21pYnpCTUlxY3U2TEh4RmhvMXpvQT09
Dial: +1 650 724 9799  or +1 833 302 1536
Webinar ID: 988 1700 9379
Password: 767148

RSVP: https://www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/STronson

 

ABSTRACT
Digital health has provided a range of solutions, including health and wellness-related management, machine learning algorithms for pattern recognition, AI for genetic analysis, AI-enhanced clinical decision making, and virtual doctors that use AI for patient intake triage. Intellectual property can play an important role in providing a competitive advantage in the digital health industry. We will explore opportunities and challenges for protecting digital health technologies during the program, including patent eligibility challenges and the use of trade secrets.

 

ABOUT SOODY TRONSON
Soody Tronson is Founding Managing Counsel at STLG Law Firm, counseling domestic and international clients in IP and technology transactions in a wide range of technologies. In 2016 she formed, Presque, a company developing a line of medical devices for mothers and infants.

Soody has over 25 years of operational experience in technology, business, management, and law in start-up and fortune 100 companies, including Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals, Hewlett-Packard Co., Avantec Vascular, and the law firms of HellerEhrman and Townsend and Townsend.

Soody serves in board and leadership capacities with several organizations including the Association of Women in Science STEM to Market national accelerator; Licensing Executives Society USA/Canada, California Lawyers Association, and the Palo Alto Area Bar Association. Soody is a Commissioner with the city of Menlo Park; and an active hands-on volunteer with several civic organizations including Defy Ventures, an entrepreneurship training program for currently and formerly incarcerated. Soody has instructed courses in IP, licensing, and entrepreneurship at the University of California, Stanford University and European institutions. She is the co-author of the book “Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for IoT: Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, Security for the Internet of Things.”

 

Hosted by: Garry Gold, MD
Sponsored by the PHIND Center and the Department of Radiology

Sep
16
Wed
2020
IBIIS & AIMI Seminar – Judy Gichoya, MD @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link
Sep 16 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
IBIIS & AIMI Seminar - Judy Gichoya, MD @ Zoom - See Description for Zoom Link

Judy Gichoya, MD
Assistant Professor
Emory University School of Medicine

Measuring Learning Gains in Man-Machine Assemblage When Augmenting Radiology Work with Artificial Intelligence

Abstract
The work setting of the future presents an opportunity for human-technology partnerships, where a harmonious connection between human-technology produces unprecedented productivity gains. A conundrum at this human-technology frontier remains – will humans be augmented by technology or will technology be augmented by humans? We present our work on overcoming the conundrum of human and machine as separate entities and instead, treats them as an assemblage. As groundwork for the harmonious human-technology connection, this assemblage needs to learn to fit synergistically. This learning is called assemblage learning and it will be important for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in health care, where diagnostic and treatment decisions augmented by AI will have a direct and significant impact on patient care and outcomes. We describe how learning can be shared between assemblages, such that collective swarms of connected assemblages can be created. Our work is to demonstrate a symbiotic learning assemblage, such that envisioned productivity gains from AI can be achieved without loss of human jobs.

Specifically, we are evaluating the following research questions: Q1: How to develop assemblages, such that human-technology partnerships produce a “good fit” for visually based cognition-oriented tasks in radiology? Q2: What level of training should pre-exist in the individual human (radiologist) and independent machine learning model for human-technology partnerships to thrive? Q3: Which aspects and to what extent does an assemblage learning approach lead to reduced errors, improved accuracy, faster turn-around times, reduced fatigue, improved self-efficacy, and resilience?

Zoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/93580829522?pwd=ZVAxTCtEdkEzMWxjSEQwdlp0eThlUT09

Oct
6
Tue
2020
Early Detection of Cancer Conference @ Virtual Event
Oct 6 – Oct 8 all-day
Early Detection of Cancer Conference @ Virtual Event

Cancer Research UK, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and the Canary Center at Stanford, present the Early Detection of Cancer Conference series. The annual Conference brings together experts in early detection from multiple disciplines to share ground breaking research and progress in the field.

The Conference is part of a long-term commitment to invest in early detection research, to understand the biology behind early stage cancers, find new detection and screening methods, and enhance uptake and accuracy of screening.

The 2020 conference will take place October 6-8 virtually.

 

Cancer Research UK, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute and the Canary Center at Stanford, have been closely monitoring developments relating to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and reviewing guidance from government bodies. After careful consideration, we have made the decision to convert the Early Detection of Cancer Conference 2020 to a virtual conference, instead of the scheduled in-person conference on October 6-8 in London, UK. 

 

For more information visit the website: http://earlydetectionresearch.com/