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