Heart Modelling Workshop

Time: Thursday, March 31, 2005, 12:00—16:00

Location: seminar room in Turku PET centre

Program

11:00--11:30 Visiting tour to Turku PET centre (Guided by hospital physicist Mika Teräs)

Part1: 12:00—14:10 Chairperson: Dr. Chunlei Han

12:00—12:20	Prof. Juhani Knuuti, Turku PET Centre
	The expectations of cardiac investigator from modelling
12:20—13:05	Dr. Ulla Ruotsalainen, Tampere University of Technology
	Stackgram and its application
13:05—13:50	Dr. Jyrki Lötjönen, VTT Information Technology, Tampere
	Statistical atlas of the heart
13:50—14:10	Dr. Jussi Pärkkä,Turku University Central Hospital
	Quantification of myocardial perfusion with MRI

14:10—14:30 Coffee Break

Part 2: 14:30—16:00 Chairperson Dr. Patricia Iozzo

14:30—15:15	Dr. Aapo Hyvärinen, Helsinki University of Technology
	Independent component analysis and blind source separation
15:15—15:30	MSc. Anu Juslin, Tampere University of Technology
	Assessment of separation of functional components with ICA from dynamic cardiac perfusion PET phantom images for volume extraction with deformable surface models
15:30—15:45	Dr. Alexandru Naum, Turku PET Centre
	Software applications in PET Cardiac Imaging
15:45—15:55	Dr. Chunlei Han, Turku PET Centre
	Application of gradient vector flow (GVF) active contour in searching heart surface
15:55—16:00	Dr. Patricia Iozzo, Turku PET Centre
	Closing remark

Organized by: Modelling group of Turku PET centre

Coordinators: Dr. Chunlei Han (02-3132796/050-3419568, chunlei.han@tyks.fi)

Dr. Patricia Iozzo

http://www.turkupetcentre.net/modelling/workshop.html