THANKS for a great week in Chania dedicated to BIG DATA in IMAGING!
It was a pleasure meeting all of you in Crete . With all the open-minded dicussions, the inspiring, interactive atmosphere, excellent lectures and projects all of you contributed to the success of the workshop.
We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, you have enlarged your network, and it will help you to further contribute to the sucess story of IMAGING SCIENCE.
The term “BIG DATA” refers to increasingly large data sets. Due to their volume, the processing of big data requires specific tools and processes – also and especially related to imaging data. The emergence of big data is the result of the exponential growth: both in the availability and automated use of information, which has prompted the development of complex analytics based on algorithms to spot patterns.
The EC announced the conscientious collection, processing, and use of (big) data resources as overarching theme also for researchers. And the question on how to handle and translate big data and basic research results into clinical applications as one of the key challenges.
TOPIM TECH is a series of high level Summer Workshops focussing each year on one hot topic in Imaging Technology.
The success of the ESMI’s winter conference in the French Alps - TOPIMannually held at the Ecole de Physique des Houches - drove the society towards the south and the warmth of the Mediterranean Sea. The idea of a correspondent summer workshop purposefully named TOPIM TECH, was realized for the first time in 2016 focussing on Multiparametric Imaging. After this first inspiring, succesful edition it has been decided to continue. In 2017 the second edition focussed on Optical Imaging, the third edition in 2018 dealt with "Big Data in Imaging Science".
TOPIM and TOPIM TECH aim at bringing scientists from various fields together and providing a “think tank” to foster new ideas and inter-disciplinary cross connections through discussions between participants. By combining expert descriptions of the most up-to-date imaging technologies and/or applications TOPIM and TOPIM TECH contribute in collectively describing the imaging approaches, categorizing them and drawing the landscape of in vivo imaging applied to a specific scientific issue.
The overall goal of both TOPIM conferences is to spend one week at an inspiring place and to provide a platform for intensive discussions and exchange of ideas between high-level international experts, senior, and junior scientists – and to tackle the crucial questions in Imaging Science.
TOPIM TECH was co-organized and supported by the Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures - LASERLAB EUROPE
Date: 09 - 14 July 2018
Venue: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania - MAICh
Chania, Crete
THANKS for your inspiring lectures!
Thomas Bocklitz - Jena, Germany
Kevin W. Eliceiri - Wisconsin, USA
Peter Horvarth - Budapest, Hungary
Anant Madabhushi - Cleveland, USA
Julia Mannheim - Tübingen, Germany
Carsten Marr - Munich, Germany
Wiro Niessen - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Daniel Rueckert - London, UK
Jason Swedlow - Dundee, UK
Bertrand Tavitian - Paris, France
Michael Unser - Lausanne, Switzerland
And excellent practical courses!
Jonathan Disselhorst & Prateek Katiyar, Tübingen
Petr Walczysko & William Moore, Dundee
The best PRESENTATION award (talk + poster) was presented to MIREIA CRISPIN-ORTUZAR from the University of Cambridge for her excellent presentation on "Using convolutional neural networks to create spatial predictors of response to chemotherapy based on H&E histopathology images"
The POSTER award was presented to ANDREAS KLEIBER from Jena for his work on "Advanced imaging flow cytometry".
CONGRATS to both of you!
Standing Committee
Sarah Bohndiek - Cambridge
Julia Mannheim - Tubingen
Markus Rudin - Zurich
Giannis Zacharakis - Heraklion/Crete
Standing Advisory Committee
Vasilis Ntziachristos - Munich
Bernd Pichler - Tubingen
Committee members 2018
Jonathan Disselhorst - Tübingen
Dušan Chorvát - Bratislava, Slovakia
Jürgen Popp & Christian Kraft - Jena