2020 Award Winners
Oral Awards Winners
1st Place
Alice ML Santilli, Queen’s University
Symmetric Autoencoder for Tissue Classification of Mass Spectrometry IKnife Data
2nd Place
Jessica R Rodgers, Robarts Research Institute, Western University
Localizing high-dose-rate interstitial gynecologic brachytherapy needles intraoperatively using automatic segmentation approaches
3rd Place
James J Zhou, Sunnybrook Research Institute
A Novel Approach for Guiding Catheter-Based Interventions
Honorable Mentions
TianDuo Wang, Robarts Research Institute
Evaluating survivin-driven tumour-activatable minicircles for prostate cancer theranostics
Alicia Cronin, Western University
Can Brain Activity Predict Manual Dexterity Improvement after Surgery in Cervical Myelopathy?
Kevin B Borsos, Robarts Research Institute
Simulation of Spectral Modification for Suppressing CSF in Oscillating Gradient Diffusion MRI
Poster Award Winners
1st Place
Daniel Lorusso, Western University
Real-time microscopic imaging of endothelial cell responses to laminar and disturbed fluid flow
1st Place
Allison J Clement, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Micro-Finite Element Modeling of Osteoblastic Vertebral Metastasis Fractures
3rd Place
Derek J Gillies, Robarts Research Institute
Image-guidance Accuracy of a 3D Ultrasound System for Interventional Liver Cancer Therapies
Honorable Mentions
Matteo Bomben, University of Toronto
Synthesis of novel MRI phantoms for the enhanced imaging of intraplaque hemorrhage
Peter Lin, University of Toronto
Co-registered cardiac ex vivo DT images and histological images for fibrosis quantification
Xin Yue Wang, Western University
Implementation of density-adapted 3D projection-reconstruction MRI sequence for sodium imaging of small animals at 3 Tesla
Loxlan W. Kasa, Western University
Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging Goodness of Fit and Estimated Parameter Precision at Varying Gradient Strength in High Spatial Resolution 3T MRI