2019 Award Recipients
Potchen Award
Winner: John Heerfordt, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; for A Similarity-Based Data Clustering Approach for Fast Reconstruction of Untriggered and Ungated Whole-Heart MRA
1st Runner Up: Michael Scott, Department of Radiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago IL, USA for Deep learning for fully automated preprocessing and 3D segmentation of aortic 4D flow MRI
2nd Runner Up: Liliana Ma, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA for 5D flow MRI for Cardiac and Respiratory Motion-resolved 3D hemodynamics using Gadoterate Meglumine and Ferumoxytol
Potchen Award
Winner: John Heerfordt, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; for A Similarity-Based Data Clustering Approach for Fast Reconstruction of Untriggered and Ungated Whole-Heart MRA
1st Runner Up: Michael Scott, Department of Radiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago IL, USA for Deep learning for fully automated preprocessing and 3D segmentation of aortic 4D flow MRI
2nd Runner Up: Liliana Ma, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA for 5D flow MRI for Cardiac and Respiratory Motion-resolved 3D hemodynamics using Gadoterate Meglumine and Ferumoxytol
Technical Challenge Winners
Rui Hang, Department of Medical Biophysics, & Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada for PAVES Challenge: Automatic Segmentation of femoral artery and vein using 2.5D Multi-task Learning
Alper Selver, Dokuz Eylul University Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Buca, Izmir, Turkey and Naciye Sinem Gezer, Dokuz Eylul University Radiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Balcova, Izmir, Turkey for Conditionally Weighted Ensemble Of Deep Models For Vessel Extraction From Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Images
NIH Travel Award Recipients
| Maria Aristova | Chicago | Northwestern University |
| Haben Berhane | Chicago | Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago |
| Carmen Blanken | Amsterdam | Amsterdam UMC, location AMC |
| John Heerfordt | Lausanne | CHUV |
| Carson Hoffman | Madison | University of Wisconsin Madison |
| Ran Huo | Beijing | Peking University Third Hospital |
| Kelly Jarvis | Chicago | Northwestern University |
| Ethan Johnson | Evanston | Northwestern University |
| Hao Li | Cambridge | Department of Radiology |
| Giorgia Milotta | London | King’s College London |
| Ashitha Pathrose | Chicago | Northwestern University |
| Haikun Qi | London | King’s College London |
| Leonardo Rivera Rivera | Madison | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Hreedi Dev | Sunnyside | Weill Cornell Medicine |
| Simon Schmidt | Heidelberg | German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) |
| Michael Scott | Chicago | Northwestern University |
| Daming Shen | Chicago | Northwestern University |
| Simeon Skopalik | Glasgow | University of Glasgow |
| Yajie Wang | Beijing | Tsinghua University |
| Chengcheng Zhu | San Francisco | University of California, San Francisco |
The Martin Prince Foundation Travel Award Recipients
| Suvai Gunasekaran | Chicago | Northwestern University |
| Xuewen Hou | Berlin | Charité University Medicine Berlin and German Heart Institute Berlin |
| Jooso Lee | Chicago | Northwestern Memorial Hospital |
| Liliana Ma | Chicago | Northwestern University |
| Sean Rothenberger | West Lafayette | Purdue University |
| Sokratis Stoumpos | Glasgow | Queen Elizabeth University Hospital |
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