Dear all

Our next seminar is on Tue 16 Feb. We will have 2 speakers (see CVs below):

Irène Buvat (Inserm/CEA/Université Paris Sud)
	Texture analysis in PET:  a complex matter riddled with pitfalls

Balaji Ganeshan (UCL INM)
	Quantifying tumour heterogeneity with texture analysis in CT

Location: INM seminar room, UCLH Tower 5th Floor, Euston Road, London.
We will start at 5pm. The seminars will be followed by refreshments as usual.

CVs:

Irène Buvat is a CNRS senior researcher in Orsay, France, especially involved in quantitative PET imaging. Her current research interests include enhanced quantification using advanced parameters such as textural features, associating uncertainties to PET-derived values, making the most of PET-MR and assisting PET-related research using Monte Carlo simulations. She is the spokesperson of the OpenGATE collaboration that has been developing the GATE Monte Carlo simulation software for 15 years. Irène is also the head of the "In Vivo Molecular Imaging" lab at the Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (SHFJ) in Orsay, a research lab dedicated to translational research in PET, from the design of new tracers up to first-in-man proofs of concept. She currently leads the "Physics and Engineering for Medicine" project of the new Paris Saclay University that gathers 9 research labs around the GE SIGNA PET/MR imaging system recently installed at SHFJ. 

Balaji Ganeshan, (PhD, BEng Biomedical-Engineering)  is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London, UK. His primary area of research includes development and application and qualification of texture analysis within the area of quantitative medical imaging and analysis as part of the "Radiomics" approach which is gaining a lot of interest. This is essentially aimed in cancer and non-cancer applications to provide an adjunct to clinical decision-making in the area of prognosis, treatment response/prediction and detection/disease-severity characterisation. He has established a number of internal and external collaborations with prestigious university hospitals around the world in the area of texture analysis. He has published in over 35+ peer-reviewed journal publications and 65+ conference presentations. He is also a Director, Shareholder and part-employed by TexRAD Ltd (www.texrad.com part of Feedback Plc - www.fbk.com), a medical imaging software company developing and commercialising the TexRAD texture-analysis software.

Our next seminar will be on Monday 21 Mar 5pm by prof. Chi Liu (Yale) on "Quantitative PET/CT and SPECT/CT in cardiac and oncological imaging"



Kris Thielemans
Senior Lecturer at University College London,
Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCL Hospital
235 Euston Road, London NW1 2BU, UK