Speaker: Michael Hansen, PhD, Microsoft Research
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Time: 1:00PM Central Time
Location: https://uwmadison.webex.com/uwmadison/j.php?MTID=m420e253d925c4502e574f2637311b4f5
Title: “The Connected Imaging Instrument”
Abstract: Medical imaging is constrained by instrument capabilities, what the patient can tolerate, but also by what we can compute at the point of care. There is a tradeoff between patient burden and computational time, e.g. we can sometimes avoid breath holding but at the expense of computational time that we cannot accommodate in a clinical setting. In this talk, we imagine what would be possible if imaging had unbounded computational capabilities. We will discuss the history of leveraging remote compute in MRI, specifically the ISMRM Raw Data and Gadgetron projects and what the next generation of such systems will look like. This talk is about the plumbing needed to leverage scalable compute at the point of care.
Bio: Michael Hansen is a Director and Principal Researcher in Health Futures, Microsoft Research. He focuses on processing of raw instrument signals using machine learning and scalable cloud computing. He is particularly interested in computational biomedical imaging modalities such as MRI or CT. Michael has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Aarhus University in Denmark and has held several academic roles from postdoctoral researcher (at University College London) to principal investigator (at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH). In 2017, Michael moved to Microsoft where he has been worked on product development and research projects.