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  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Innovations Track Session 1: Unmet Clinical Needs in CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Matthew Aitken, MBChB – Gold Coast University Hospital
    Moderator: Amit R. Patel, MD, FSCMR – Division of Cardiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    9:10 AM - 9:20 AM  
    The Clinician’s Wishlist: Unmet Needs from a Cardiology Perspective
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Dudley Pennell, MD, FSCMR – Imperial College London
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    9:20 AM - 9:30 AM  
    Imaging Gaps in Practice: A Radiologist’s Viewpoint
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Karen Ordovas, MD, FSCMR – University of Washington
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    9:30 AM - 9:40 AM  
    Tools We Don’t Have Yet: A Scientist’s Perspective on CMR Gaps
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Rajiv Ramasawmy, PhD – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    9:40 AM - 9:50 AM  
    Congenital Heart Disease: What We Still Need from CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Anne Marie Valente, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    9:50 AM - 10:00 AM  
    Who, When, and Why to Scan in STEMI: Early Triage for Precision CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: KEYUR P. VORA, MD, MSc, FSCMR – Indiana University School of Medicine
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    10:00 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Deep Learning--Based Automatic Frequency Offset Selection for Frequency Scout in Cardiac Cine MRI at 3.0T
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: Andrew D. Scott, PhD, FSCMR – Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 2: Innovations in Patient Centric CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Jamieson M. Bourque, MD – University of Virginia
    Moderator: Sven Plein, MD, PhD – Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    11:10 AM - 11:17 AM  
    Unmet needs in patient centric CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Amit R. Patel, MD, FSCMR – Division of Cardiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    11:17 AM - 11:27 AM  
    Philips Healthcare
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Alexander Isaak, MD – University Hospital Bonn
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    11:27 AM - 11:37 AM  
    Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc.
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Kevin Steel, DO, FSCMR – Circle Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    11:37 AM - 11:47 AM  
    GE Healthcare
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Luigi Natale, MD – Catholic University - Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome (Italy)
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    11:47 AM - 11:57 AM  
    Bayer AG
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Marta Santiuste
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    11:57 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Panel Discussion
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 3: CMR Open-Source Software Oral Abstracts
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Simon Thalén, MD, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
    Moderator: Rajiv Ramasawmy, PhD – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    2:40 PM - 2:50 PM  
    Introduction to Open-Source Software
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Rajiv Ramasawmy, PhD – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    2:50 PM - 3:00 PM  
    OpenMRF: A Pulseq-based Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Framework for simultaneous T1, T2 and T1ρ Quantification
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: Maximilian Gram, PhD – University Hospital Wuerzburg
    Primary Author: Maximilian Gram, PhD – University Hospital Wuerzburg
    Co-Author: Tom Griesler, MSc – University of Michigan
    Co-Author: Jannik Stebani, MSc – University of Würzburg
    Co-Author: Ivaylo Angelov, MSc – University of Würzburg
    Co-Author: Petra Albertova, MSc – University Hospital Würzburg
    Co-Author: Sydney Kaplan, MSc – University of Michigan
    Co-Author: Calder D. Sheagren, PhD – University of Michigan
    Co-Author: Martin Blaimer, PhD – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
    Co-Author: Peter Michael Jakob, PhD – University of Würzburg
    Co-Author: Nicole Seiberlich – University of Michigan
    Co-Author: Peter Nordbeck, MD – University Hospital Würzburg
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    3:00 PM - 3:10 PM  
    MIRACLE: An Open-Access API for Evidence-Based Reference Values in Cardiovascular MRI
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: Ankush Ankush, MD – Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
    Primary Author: Ankush Ankush, MD – Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
    Co-Author: Janardhana Ponnatapura, MD – Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
    Co-Author: Muthu Sakthivel, MD, FSCMR – UNC School of Medicine
    Co-Author: Eswara Sellamuthu, MD – Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    3:10 PM - 3:20 PM  
    mobstr3D: Open-Source Software for Analysing Cine DENSE CMR to Quantify Regional Heart Motion and Strain
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: George E. Harpur, MSc, BEng – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
    Primary Author: George E. Harpur, MSc, BEng – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
    Co-Author: Robin C. Laven, BEng – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
    Co-Author: Vicky Y. Wang, PhD – The University of Auckland
    Co-Author: Joshua R. Dillon, BEng – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
    Co-Author: Debbie Zhao, PhD – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
    Co-Author: Alistair Young, PhD – Auckland Bioengineering Institute; King’s College London
    Co-Author: Thiranja P. Babarenda Gamage, PhD – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
    Co-Author: Martyn P. Nash, PhD, BEng – Auckland Bioengineering Institute
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    3:20 PM - 3:30 PM  
    4D Flow MRI MATLAB Toolbox
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: Julio Sotelo – Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Primary Author: Julio Sotelo – Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Co-Author: Sergio Uribe, PhD – Monash University
    Co-Author: Daniel Hurtado – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    Co-Author: Joaquìn Mura, PhD – Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
    Co-Author: Hernan Mella, PhD – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
    Co-Author: David Marlevi, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
    Co-Author: Pablo Lamata, PhD – King’s College London
    Co-Author: Joao Filipe F. Fernandes – King's College London
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    3:30 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Accelerated Dictionary-Based Motion Correction for Free-Breathing Cardiac Multi-Parametric Mapping
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: Chenxi Hu – School of Biomedical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Primary Author: Haiyang Chen, BEng – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Co-Author: Tianshu Zhao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Co-Author: Lan Lan, MD – Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
    Co-Author: Juan Gao – School of Biomedical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Co-Author: Zhuo Chen – School of Biomedical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Co-Author: Haibo Xu, MD – Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    4:40 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 4: Innovations in AI to Automate CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Frederick H. Epstein, PhD – University of Virginia
    Moderator: Jeanette Schulz-Menger, MD – Charité/ University Medicine Berlin and Helios
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    4:40 PM - 4:47 PM  
    The unmet clinical need in AI to automate CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Matthias G. Friedrich, MD, FSCMR – McGill University Health Center, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    4:47 PM - 4:57 PM  
    Philips Healthcare
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Tim Leiner, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    4:57 PM - 5:07 PM  
    Vista AI
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Daniel Hawkins – Vista AI
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    5:07 PM - 5:17 PM  
    NeoSoft
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Steven Wolff, MD, PhD – NeoSoft, LLC
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    5:17 PM - 5:40 PM  
    Panel Discussion
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Innovations Track Session 5: Innovations for Community CMR Centres
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Christopher J. Francois, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Moderator: Anupama Rao, MD, FSCMR – Rush University Medical Center/St. Luke's Hospital
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:10 AM - 9:17 AM  
    The unmet clinical need of community CMR centres
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Deborah Kwon, MD, FSCMR – Cleveland Clinic
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:17 AM - 9:27 AM  
    Philips Healthcare
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Ibraim Masciarelli Pinto, MD, PhD – Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:27 AM - 9:37 AM  
    Vista AI
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Bob Hu, MD – Vista.ai
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:37 AM - 9:47 AM  
    MyCardium
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Mark Westwood, MD – Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:47 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Panel Discussion
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 6: Beyond Image Analysis: Which Other Software for my CMR Unit
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Deborah Kwon, MD, FSCMR – Cleveland Clinic
    Moderator: Venkateshwar Polsani, MD – Piedmont Heart Institute
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:10 AM - 11:17 AM  
    The unmet clinical need for new software based solutions
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Sven Plein, MD, PhD – Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:17 AM - 11:27 AM  
    Imricor
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Marco J.W Götte, MD, PhD – Stephenson Cardiac Imaging Centre
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:27 AM - 11:37 AM  
    Area19
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Matthias G. Friedrich, MD, FSCMR – McGill University Health Center, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:37 AM - 11:47 AM  
    NeoSoft
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Innovations Presenter: Steven Wolff, MD, PhD – NeoSoft, LLC
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:47 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Panel Discussion
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    1:30 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 7: Emerging Frontiers in CMR: Current State, Limitations, and Future Perspectives
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Paul Finn, MD, MSc – UCLA
    Moderator: Santo Dellegrottaglie, MD, PhD – Villa dei Fiori Hospital Acerra, Naples, Italy
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    1:30 PM - 1:45 PM  
    Xenon MRI in Cardiovascular Imaging: From Concept to Clinical Potential
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Fawaz Alenezi, MD – Duke University Health System
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    1:45 PM - 2:00 PM  
    Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Mapping Myocardial Architecture for Clinical Insight
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Daniel B. Ennis, PhD – Stanford University
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    2:00 PM - 2:15 PM  
    T1 Mapping in Clinical CMR: Present Utility, Unresolved Issues, and Future Promise"
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Martin Ugander, MD, PhD – University of Sydney
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    2:15 PM - 2:30 PM  
    Tomorrow’s Sequences Today: Innovative Acquisition and Reconstruction Methods in Clinical CMR
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Wolfgang Rehwald, PhD – Siemens Healthineers
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Innovations Track Session 8: Challenge on CMR Reconstruction (Joint w/ MICCAI)
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Michael Markl, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Moderator: Aurelien Bustin, FSCMR – Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, CHU de Bordeaux, Avenue de Magellan, Pessac, France; IHU LIRYC, Electrophysiology and Heart Modeling Institute, Université de Bordeaux – INSERM U1045, Avenue du Haut Lévêque, Pessac, France; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    11:10 AM - 11:25 AM  
    Beyond the black box: can AI can learn the physics of 4D flow?
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Anthony G. Christodoulou – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    11:25 AM - 11:35 AM  
    Introduction of the CMRxRecon challenges
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Chengyan Wang, PhD – Fudan University
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    11:35 AM - 11:45 AM  
    Quantifying the Impact of Dataset Shifts in Deep Learning-based Dynamic MRI Reconstruction: Need for Spatially Localized Performance Metrics
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: M. Berk Sahin – Purdue University
    Primary Author: M. Berk Sahin – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Dilek M. Yalcinkaya, MSc – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Hazar Benan Unal, PhD – Laboratory for Translational Imaging of Microcirculation, Purdue University
    Co-Author: Khalid Youssef, PhD, MSc – Indiana University, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
    Co-Author: Abolfazl Hashemi, PhD, MSc, BSc – Purdue University
    Co-Author: Behzad Sharif, PhD – Purdue University
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    11:45 AM - 11:55 AM  
    VTransformer: A Universal Field- and Age-Agnostic Foundation Model for 5T and Pediatric Cardiac MRI Reconstruction
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: Neda Tavakoli, PhD – Northwestern University
    Primary Author: Neda Tavakoli, PhD – Northwestern University
    Co-Author: Mingzhen Li – Northwestern University
    Co-Author: Santiago López-Tapia, PhD – Northwestern University
    Co-Author: Amir Ali Rahsepar, MD – Northwestern University
    Co-Author: Aggelos Katsaggelos, PhD – Northwestern University
    Co-Author: Daniel Kim, PhD, FSCMR – Northwestern University
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    11:55 AM - 12:05 PM  
    Patch-based diffusion model for accelerated cardiac cine reconstruction
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Presenting Author: Rizwan Ahmad, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Primary Author: Xuan Lei, BSc – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Philip Schniter, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Juliet Varghese, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Co-Author: Rizwan Ahmad, PhD – The Ohio State University
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    12:05 PM - 12:10 PM  
    Promotion of the CMRx4dFlow2026 challenge
    Location: Americas IV (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Hao Li, PhD – Fudan University