VPH at MICCAI2009
As part of the important conference MICCAI2009, held in London on September 2009, Gábor Székely (ETH Zurich) organised a one-day tutorial on physiological modelling. The event, which saw the participation as invited speakers of various members of the VPH NoE, was well attended and well received by the participants.
MICCAI 2009, the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, was held from 20th to 24th September 2009 in London, UK, organised jointly by research teams at Imperial College, University College London (UCL), University of Oxford and the University of Manchester. MICCAI annually attracts world leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery.
This year Gábor Székely (ETH Zurich) organised a one-day tutorial dedicated to physiological modelling. The tutorial was opened by Marco Viceconti (Rizzoli Institute) who gave a general overview of the Virtual Physiological Human initiative and its parent project, the Physiome Project. This was followed by lectures from Peter Hunter (The Physiome Project and Medical Imaging), Marco Viceconti (Integrative Modeling of the Musculoskeletal System), Dimitri Metaxas (Meshless Methods for Heart Simulation), Marc Thiriet (Mechanotransduction at the Endothelial Interface), Andrew McCulloch (Multi-Scale Modeling of the Heart: From Molecular to Organ System Scales), Alejandro Frangi (Subject-specific hemodynamics of cerebral aneurysms: from images to flow patterns and beyond), Hervé Delingette (Personalized Physiological Models: Applications Cardiac Imaging and Tumor Growth Modeling) and Gábor Székely (Multi-Physics Modeling and Simulation of Vascular Tumor Growth.
The event was closed by Alejandro Frangi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), who wrapped up the meeting and discussed trends and perspectives in VPH research. “It is important to “reach out” toward neighbourhood research communities through scientific presentations and tutorial, like this one given by key figures in the VPH/Physiome community. We thank the MICCAI2009 organiser and Gábor Székely for this opportunity” said Peter Hunter (University of Auckland), core member of the VPH Network of Excellence.