Innovations Track Session 8: Challenge on CMR Reconstruction (Joint w/ MICCAI)

Moderator(s)

• MM

  Michael Markl, PhD

  Professor
  Radiology
  Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  Chicago, Illinois, United States
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  Aurelien Bustin, FSCMR

  Research Associate
  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
  Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France

Presentations:

• 11:10 AM - 11:25 AM  

  Beyond the black box: can AI can learn the physics of 4D flow?
  

  Speaker: Anthony G. Christodoulou – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• 11:25 AM - 11:35 AM  

  Introduction of the CMRxRecon challenges
  

  Speaker: Chengyan Wang, PhD – Fudan University
• 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
  

  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
• 11:45 AM - 11:55 AM  

  VTransformer: A Universal Field- and Age-Agnostic Foundation Model for 5T and Pediatric Cardiac MRI Reconstruction
  

  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
• 11:55 AM - 12:05 PM  

  Patch-based diffusion model for accelerated cardiac cine reconstruction
  

  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
• 12:05 PM - 12:10 PM  

  Promotion of the CMRx4dFlow2026 challenge
  

  Speaker: Hao Li, PhD – Fudan University