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CDT Seminar: Seeing Ourselves - a story of imaging, engineering and intelligence

26 September 2019, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm

Dan Sodickson seminar

With Prof Dan Sodickson from NYU School of Medicine.

Event Information

Open to

UCL staff | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Organiser

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent, Integrated Imaging In Healthcare (i4health)

Location

G08
Roberts Building
Torrington Place
London
WC1E 7JE
United Kingdom

Just as astronomy constitutes the exploration of outer space, advances in medicine may be seen as an ever-deeper exploration of inner space. This talk will examine how that inwardly-focused exploration may be transformed in the age of machine learning. I will attempt to lay out some of the evolving story of biomedical imaging – how humans first came to see what was once invisible within our own bodies, and how we continue to emulate and improve upon our senses. I will then take up the story of MRI, and will share some perspectives gleaned from two decades of collaborative research, before concluding with an assessment of how AI may revolutionize the way we see patients, and the way we see ourselves.

About the Speaker

Prof Dan Sodickson

at NYU School of Medicine

Dr. Sodickson is Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Radiology at NYU Langone Health, Professor of Radiology and Physiology & Neuroscience at NYU School of Medicine, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He has led a transformation of imaging research at NYU Langone, bringing the Radiology Department’s national research ranking from #17 to #5, and earning the department’s Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R) a designation as a national Biomedical Technology Resource Center. Dr. Sodickson’s research aims at seeing what has previously been invisible, in order to improve human health. He is credited with founding the field of parallel imaging, in which distributed arrays of detectors are used to gather magnetic resonance images at previously inaccessible speeds. Parallel imaging hardware and software is now an integral part of MRI machines, and is used routinely in MRI scans worldwide. In 2006, Dr. Sodickson was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), and he recently completed a term as ISMRM president. He is in the process of launching a new institute – Tech4Health – designed to bring emerging technologies such as continuous sensing and artificial intelligence to biomedicine.