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QUIBIM HOSTING EUSOMII ANNUAL MEETING 2019

Next 18th and 19th October 2019, Valencia will host the Annual Meeting of the EUSOMII society (AMI2019). The society has planned a two days congress combining educational and scientific sessions in the field of medical imaging informatics.

In this edition, QUIBIM will participate with 2 lectures, 3 oral communications, 7 posters and a QUIBIM Precision exhibit space for all those interested in our artificial intelligence algorithms and imaging biomarkers solutions. If you want to book a demo, do not hesitate and book a timeslot!

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“As a board member of EUSOMII, it is an honor to bring to Valencia, our city, such an interesting program. Holding this meeting in an innovative environment like the Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe de Valencia is a sign of the change that healthcare is experiencing nowadays” explained Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, CEO & Founder of QUIBIM and Chair Industry and Startup Committee of EUSOMII.

Check out our participations at AMI 2019:

FRIDAY, October 18th 2019

  • Keynote Lecture I – Imaging biomarkers and radiomics: source of big data for AI – Dr. Luis Martí-Bonmatí

SATURDAY, October 19th, 2019

  • Didactic Lecture II-III – Imaging Biomarkers – Dr. Angel Alberich-Bayarri
  • Oral Communication – Image analysis using an intercontinental infrastructure for the deployment of
    trustworthy cloud services: the ATMOSPHERE project. Authors: Ignacio Blanquer, Eduardo Camacho-Ramos, Andrey Brito, Ana Jimenez-Pastor, Christof Fetzer, Altigran da Silva, Amanda Calatrava, Fabio García-Castro, Ángel Alberich- Bayarri, Franciso Brasileiro.
  • Oral Communication – Quantification and evaluation of pre-post exercise femoral cartilage thickness and T2
    changes in ultramarathon athletes. Authors: Fabio García-Castro, Jordi Catalá March, Daniel Brotons Cuixat, Miquel Llobet Llambrich, Eduard Sánchez Osorio, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri.
  • Oral Communication – Automated Lung Segmentation in Chest Radiographs using Deeply Supervised Convolutional Neural Networks Trained by means of a Database Augmented with a Generative Adversarial
    Authors: Rafael López.

POSTERS:

  1. Automatic cartilage segmentation in 3D T2w high resolution MR using a Deeply
    Supervised Multi-Planar Convolutional Neural Network. Authors: Ana Jimenez-Pastor, Fabio García-Castro, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Luis Marti- Bonmati.
  2. Automatic quantification of white hyperintensities in a healthy aging cohort using
    Convolutional Neural Networks. Authors: Ana Jimenez-Pastor, Eduardo Camacho-Ramos, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Carles Biarnes, Josep Garre, Joan Carles Vilanova, Rafel Ramos, Reinald Pamplona, Salvador Pedraza, Josep Puig.
  3. Adaptation of TLAP-certified radiological structured reports to be used in a cloud
    platform environment. Authors: Fernando Bacha-Villamide, Eduardo Camacho-Ramos, Alejandro Mañas-Garcia, Luis Martí-Bonmatí, Angel Alberich-Bayarri.
  4. Development and validation of an inter and intra-sequence registration algorithm in
    multiparametric prostate resonance imaging. Authors: Matías Fernández, Mar Roca-Sogorb, Fabio García-Castro, Raúl Yébana, María Asunción Torregrosa, Leonardo Bittencourt, Margarita García Fontes, Paula Pelechano, Luis Martí- Bonmatí, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri.
  5. Computer aided diagnosis for Rheumatic Heart Disease by AI applied to features
    extraction from echocardiography. Authors: Eduardo Camacho-Ramos, Ana Jimenez-Pastor, Ignacio Blanquer, Fabio García- Castro, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri.
  6. Outcome prediction after acute stroke through functional magnetic resonance imaging. Authors: Eduardo Camacho-Ramos, Ana Jimenez-Pastor, Carles Biarnes, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Salvador Pedraza, Josep Puig.
  7. Implementation of an interactive radiological structured report management system
    with AI annotation capabilities. Authors: Alejandro Mañas-Garcia, Eduardo Camacho-Ramos, Ismael Gonzalez, Fernando Bacha, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Luis Marti-Bonmati.

Our Quibimers are already heating engines for AMI2019. We look forward to meeting you!

QUIBIM TEAM ECR 2019

ECR 2019 sets the trend in Artificial Intelligence

The city of Vienna was at the real core of Medical Imaging and AI at the 25th European Congress of Radiology (ECR). At QUIBIM we always enjoy being at this annual meeting because it is the perfect combination of a science and industry exhibition. In this edition, the congress reached the milestone of 30,000 attendees, and the numbers are expected to go up with each year.

QUIBIM was glad to be participating in both, the scientific and industry sessions. Our oral presentations were mainly addressing current challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) in clinical needs like metabolic disorder, prostate cancer and osteoarthritis. Ana Jiménez-Pastor, Rafael López-González and Fabio García-Castro, R&D Engineers at QUIBIM presented our new research in image processing pipelines aiming to perform a virtual dissection of the organs through an automated segmentation combined with features extraction.

Personally,  I was happy to give 3 lectures focused on the future of radiology: 3D Post-processing in 2019, Deep Learning in Medical Imaging and Start-up in Radiology. In the 3D Post-processing lecture I introduced, what I think is the main revolution of AI in our field the concept of Virtual In-Vivo Dissection (VIVID), a name coined by my team and I at QUIBIM, which is a strategy of isolating human body organs in medical images for  characterization through features such as imaging biomarkers. This has several applications, challenges and is difficult to solve by traditional computer vision algorithms like liver or cartilage segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging but it has become a reality thanks to the use of CNN architectures such as U-Net combined with deep supervision. In the Deep Learning in Medical Imaging session, I  focused on using other presentation formats and I was glad to give a TED talk and share the podium with Dr. Wiro Niessen, who spoke about Machine Learning in a Pecha Kucha format. This session was organized by the European School of Radiology (ESOR) and was chaired by Prof. Dr. Valérie Vilgrain, and I must say the atmosphere was excellent and the room was really packed! Finally, in a session chaired by Prof. Dr. Elmar Kotter,  we shared our insights on how to create a start-up company in Radiology from scratch, how to get funding from investors and the main considerations when scaling-up.

QUIBIM was also invited by the ECR to give a presentation within the Artificial Intelligence Exhibition (AIX) sessions, a new space for innovative AI companies. During this session, moderated by Dr Hugh Harvey and Dr Wim Van Hecke, we presented the newest version of the QUIBIM Precision V3.0 platform launched at the last RSNA 2018.

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QUIBIM at RSNA 2018!

We are happy to announce that QUIBIM will be attending this year’s annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America – RSNA 2018. From November 25 to 29, many of our Quibimers will be in Chicago demoing, sharing and showing our Radiomic solution for Hospitals and Radiology departments.

This year, QUIBIM developments are focused on the Symbiosis of Radiology and Artificial Intelligence to seamlessly integrate imaging biomarkers into radiology workflows.

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Attendees can find us at the Machine Learning Showcase – Booth #7367G  (North Building Level 3), where anyone is welcome to come over and explore the latest version of our QUIBIM Precision® Platform for medical images processing and imaging biomarkers analysis.

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QUIBIM will be also taking part in the Machine Learning Showcase through a communication from our CEO and Founder, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, on November 25 at 12:30 pm. The communication is entitled “QUIBIM Precision 3.0: AI as a Means, Not an End, for Imaging Biomarkers Integration in Clinical Practice” and shares QUIBIM insights about the role of AI on imaging biomarkers integration.

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Furthermore, as members of the NVIDIA Inception Program, QUIBIM will be demoing at the NVIDIA booth #6568 on November 26 at 10:00 am. Don’t miss it!

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It is a great opportunity for QUIBIM to be engaged in such a recognised event and get in touch with professionals in the fields of radiology and medical imaging.

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Visit of the group of Dr. Regina Beets-Tan and Dr. Erik Ranschaert to QUIBIM headquarters

The satisfaction of bringing together the best experts in the world at home

Dr. Luis Martí-Bonmatí (QUIBIM co-founder and director of advisory board) and myself had been locally organising the joint congress of the European Society of Oncological Imaging (ESOI) and the European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics (EuSoMII) for approximately 1 year, and the event finally took place past October from 6th to 8th at our home. The Venue was our hospital: La Fe Polytechnics and University Hospital, where we develop our professional activity and where QUIBIM headquarters are placed, since QUIBIM is a spin-off Company of La Fe Health Research Institute, the institutional arm of the hospital to perform research.

The topic of the congress was “Imaging Informatics in Oncology” and it was the result of joining both Societies fields like Oncology and Medical Imaging Informatics from ESOI and EUSOMII, respectively. The congress program combined workshops with plenary sessions. The workshops covered different concrete areas like Response to treatment, Tumor Boards, 3D printing, and Imaging Informatics for clinicians and computer scientists. The complete program can be found here.

I had the opportunity to present on our stepwise development of Imaging Biomarkers process and the associated bottlenecks for validation. Here you can find the slides of the presentation.

Our group had a really active participation, either from the Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI230) from our Hospital and from QUIBIM.

The main scientific presentations were:

  1. ProstateChecker, a tool for the multi-variate analysis of Prostate Cancer from T2, diffusion and perfusion MR sequences, by David García-Juan, post-processing biomedical engineer at QUIBIM
  2. Cloud architecture for Imaging Biomarkers analysis, by Rafael Hernández, CTO at QUIBIM
  3. Spatial registration on PET-CT scans and quantitative structured report for treatment response evaluation on lymphoma patients, by Fabio García-Castro, post-processing biomedical engineer at QUIBIM
  4. Web application for PI-RADS 2.0 Structured Reporting, by Enrique Ruiz-Martínez, CTO at GIBI230 group
  5. Business analytic, metric, key performance indicator. Automating the monitorization of performance indicators in Radiology departments, by Enrique Ruiz-Martinez, CTO at GIBI230 group
  6. Platform for the integration of Imaging Biomarkers in Radiology Departments, by Enrique Ruiz-Martinez, CTO at GIBI230 group
  7. Integration of Redmine as a tool to manage Clinical Trials in Radiology, by Amadeo Ten-Esteve, Clinical Trial Manager at GIBI230 group.
  8. Artificial intelligence techniques applied to medical imaging. Deep learning applied to automated chest X-ray screening, by Belén Fos-Guarinos, internship biomedical engineering student at GIBI230 group.
  9. Automatic vertebrae localization in pathological spine CT using Decision Forests, by Ana Jiménez Pastor, internship telecommunications engineering student at QUIBIM.
  10. Automated segmentation of muscle using Neural Networks, by Sara Rocher, internship biomedical engineering student at GIBI230 group.
  11. Automatic classification of intensity-vs-time curves in breast DCE-MRI by K-means clustering and Dynamic Time Warping curve matching, by Fabio García-Castro, post-processing biomedical engineer at QUIBIM

In the meantime, the QUIBIM stand was boiling! With several experts interested…

QUIBIM CEO, Angel Alberich-Bayarri explaining QUIBIM advantages to interested attendees to EUSOMII - ESOI congress

QUIBIM CEO, Angel Alberich-Bayarri explaining QUIBIM advantages to interested attendees to EUSOMII – ESOI congress

Besides the opportunity to present the work of our group, we had some remarkable visits to our headquarters, like the visit of Dr. Regina Beets-Tan group together with Dr. Erik Ranschaert (see photo).

Visit of the group of Dr. Regina Beets-Tan and Dr. Erik Ranschaert to QUIBIM headquarters

Visit of the group of Dr. Regina Beets-Tan and Dr. Erik Ranschaert to QUIBIM headquarters

Industry also visited us, in this case it was Agfa Healthcare. The Global Senior Solution Manager, Mr. Chris Townend and the National Sales Manager, José Vicente Puig visited our headquarters and attended the demo of our solution.

Visit of José Vicente Puig (National Sales Manager at Agfa Healthcare) and Chris Townend (Global Senior Solution Manager at Agfa Healthcare)

Visit of José Vicente Puig (National Sales Manager at Agfa Healthcare) and Chris Townend (Global Senior Solution Manager at Agfa Healthcare)

 

The last day we were lucky to have Regina Beets-Tan and Sergey Mozorov, new presidents of ESOI and EUSOMII, respectively, at our headquarters.

 

Visit of Sergey Morozov and Regina Beets-Tan. Photo with QUIBIM founders

Visit of Sergey Morozov and Regina Beets-Tan. Photo with QUIBIM founders

 

The experience speaks by itself.