OpenKMI Workshop at IEEE Medical Imaging Conference 2023

The Yale PET Center has been actively involved in the development and application of models for new tracers and new modeling methods.   The modeling infrastructure is built around a SQL database which tracks all modeling steps and the parameters used in each step. The strengths and weaknesses of this approach in an academic research environment will be presented.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Carson is Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University with over 40 years of experience in new algorithms for PET image recon­struction, mathematical models for novel radiopharmaceuticals, and applications of PET tracers in clinical populations and preclinical models of disease.

Siemens Healthineers mantra when implementing the whole body (WB) FDG Patlak PET feature was to make it “wickedly automated” to facilitate its use in the clinic. This talk will summarize this clinical use and highlight how it adds more information and confidence versus static standard of care PET FDG imaging alone. Feature enhancements and moving beyond the Patlak FDG model will also be discussed.

Speaker Bio: Anne M. Smith, PhD, works for Siemens Healthineers Molecular Imaging in Knoxville, TN as a Senior Staff Systems Engineer.  She has worked in the medical imaging field for thirty years and has a passion for commercializing mature scientific discoveries for broad clinical use.  Her scientific interests focus on PET image quality, image analysis, kinetic modeling and translational imaging of new biomarkers.