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Photo: Scandic Holmenkollen Park

CIUS Spring Conference 2023

CIUS Spring Conference 2023

The CIUS Spring Conference 2023 will take place:

External speakers:

  • Ralph Sinkus, INSERM, France, King’s College London: Direct assessment of myocardial stiffness utilizing cardiac MR-elastography
  • Jørgen Jensen, DTU, Denmark: Advanced ultrasound imaging and future trends
  • Kjell Kristoffersen, GE Vingmed Ultrasound: Trends in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging
  • Bruni Wellge, Charité, Berlin: Point-of-care cardiac elastography with external vibration for stiffness-based diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction

Programme

Day 1: 3 May 2023

09:30-10:00 Registration

10:00-11:15 Welcome/maritime

  • Ann Blomberg, NGI, Smart AUVs - a project aimed at efficient monitoring of greenhouse gas seepage in the oceans
  • Helge Balk, UiO, Post-processing of fishery acoustic data
  • Morten Dæhlen, UiO, dScience - Centre for Computational and Data Science at UiO

11:15-11:45 Break

11:45-13:00 Maritime

  • Marianne Lanzky Kolstrup, FFI, Underwater sightseeing in Norwegian waters – descriptions of the seabed for acoustic modeling application 
  • Sverre Holm, UiO, Two models for sediment acoustics and the link to medical ultrasound
  • Hefeng Dong, NTNU, Sub-surface shear wave velocity imaging by ocean ambient noise

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:45 Maritime/cardiac

  • Ellen Sagaas Røed, Kongsberg Maritime, Impact of single crystal properties on underwater transducer designs
  • Marlene Iversen Halvorsrød, NTNU, Mechanical waves by 3D high frame rate echocardiography in myocardial infarction

14:45-15:15 Break

15:15-16:15 Cardiac mechanics

  • Ralph Sinkus, INSERM, France, King’s College London, Direct assessment of myocardial stiffness utilizing cardiac MR-elastography
  • Bruni Wellge, Charité, Berlin, Point-of-care cardiac elastography with external vibration for stiffness-based diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction,

16:15 End Day 1

19:00 Conference Dinner


Day 2: 4 May 2023

09:00-10:15 Medical ultrasound

  • Jørgen Jensen, DTU, Denmark, Advanced ultrasound imaging and future trends
  • Kjell Kristoffersen, GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Trends in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging
  • Discussion 

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-11:30 Speed updates

  • Jessica Lage Fernandez, NTNU, Real-time intravital multiphoton microscopy of tumours during Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT)
  • Gilles Van De Vyver, NTNU, Robust cardiac ultrasound image segmentation with graph neural network
  • Mohammad Reza, UiO, Transesophageal Echocardiography Robot – Design, Development, and Deep Learning Modeling
  • Anders Vrålstad, NTNU, Sound speed correction using image quality maximization
  • Magnus Kvalevåg, NTNU, Integrating beamforming into machine learning pipelines and vice versa
  • Shivanandan Indimath, NTNU, Challenges in using ultrasound backscatter for counting bubbles

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-13:15 Speed updates continued

13:15-13:45 Break

13:45-14:45 New companies

  • Ole Marius Hoel Rindal, Sonair, Sonair introducing ADAR: 3D Acoustic detection and ranging in air
  • Tristan Hollande, Respinor, Doppler ultrasound for diaphragm monitoring
  • Torbjørn Hergum, Cimon Medical & Hans Torp, Cimon Medical & NTNU, Circulation Monitoring in the Brain by Ultrasound Doppler Technology 

14:45-15:15 Summary and closing remarks

15:15 Conference ends


The conference venue

The conference venue

The conference will take place at Scandic Holmenkollen Park Hotel, Oslo.

Map to hotel