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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