Research Platform Medical Imaging (RPMI) Festival 2025

The Symphony of Medical Imaging - A Synergy of Scientific Instruments

Waves and frequency, just to bring up one example, do not only play a major role in music, but are also of crucial importance in imaging for obtaining insights into different tissues, organs or organ systems. Let us therefore compose a new symphony of medical imaging at the 7^th RPMI festival by discovering different ways of combining the different instruments of basic sciences and clinical disciplines to construct imaging harmony.

This event is the ideal stage for reflecting this orchestral interaction, bridging the gap between basic science and clinical application.

This year's festival aims to intensify the exchange between scientists of different disciplines, with specific focus on integrating clinical and translational research.

Therefore - come, meet, discuss ideas and initiate collaborations with various researchers and industry partners!

Plenty of opportunities to network will be available, including poster presentations, hands-on sessions and tutorials.

The festival will feature a keynote lecture and of course also our speaker-centered presentation setup, which so successfully enhanced the interaction between speaker and audience. Stay tuned!

Join us for the 7^th Research Platform Medical Imaging (RPMI) Festival

Theme: The Symphony of Medical Imaging - A Synergy of Scientific Instruments
Date: June 12^th, 2025
Location: Van Swieten Saal, Van Swieten Gasse 1a, 1090 Wien
Time: 9.00 am - 6.00 pm
Scientific Committee: Wolfgang Birkfellner, Roxane Licandro, Severin Mairinger, Claudia Kuntner-Hannes, Lena Hirtler (Lead)

What to Expect:

• Keynote Lecture 
• Speaker-Centered Presentations to Foster Interaction 
• Poster Presentations 
• Hands-On Sessions and Tutorials 
• Networking Opportunities with Researchers and Industry Partners

Don’t miss the chance to meet, discuss ideas, and initiate collaborations at this exciting event!

Stay tuned for further updates!

We look forward to seeing you at the festival!

Programme

9.00 - 9.30 am, Registration & Poster Hanging

9.30 - 9.45 am, Welcome & Opening Speech

Moderation: Lena Hirtler, Coordinator of the Scientific Organization Team

Speakers:

• Michaela Fritz (Vice Rector for Research and Innovation)
• Cécile Philippe (RPMI Steering Board Speaker)

9.45 - 10.30 am, Hands-On Session and Coffee

• Hands-on 1: Lena Zachhuber - Mice just wanna have fun: the science of enrichment for lab mice
• Hands-on 2: Barbara Knäusl - Precision matters: image-guided small animal irradiation
• Hands-on 3: Siddharth Mittal - GEM-pRF: A High-Performance Computing Implementation for Visual Receptive Field Mapping
• Hands-on 4: Bernardo Campilho - CITRUS System Demonstration: Exploring MR-Based Ultrasound Neuromodulation
• Hands-on 5: Philipp Velicky - At your service - Core Facility Imaging

10.30 - 11.30 am, Project Talks

• 10:30 - 11:00am Invited Project Experience Talk 1 - 4 presenters 4 perspectives
• 11:00 - 11:30am Invited Project Experience Talk 2 - 4 presenters 4 perspectives

11.30 am - 1.00 pm, Lunch Break

• 12.00 - 1.00 pm, Poster Session 1 + Hands-On Session

1.00 - 1.30 pm, Oral Session: Focus Translational Topics

Moderation: Richard Haindl

• Atieh Moghaddam: Arterial supply to the human carotid body: A three-dimensional (3D) study of glomic artery anatomy
• Pierre Bouvet: The advent of non-invasive micromechanical anisotropy studies in biology
• Anastasia Asvestopoulo: Multimodal imaging of organoids and tissue samples: A high-resolution OCT and HREM pipeline
• Verena Pichler: Sustainability in medical imaging and green radiopharmaceutical sciences
• Lisa Aichinger: Molecular imaging of long-term microplastic-triggered inflammation in mice using [¹⁸F]FDG PET
• Carmen Guadalupe Colin Tenorio: Impact of ambiguous regions on nuclei instance segmentation performance using deep learning models in H&E stained histological images

1:30 - 1:50  Sounds-Quiz - Wolfgang Birkfellner

1:50 - 2:20 Oral Session: Focus Clinical Topics

Moderation: Thomas Helbich

• Arezoo Borji: An AI-driven pipeline for predicting IVF live birth outcomes using genetic algorithm-based feature selection and transformer models
• Philipp Lazen: A quantitative metabolic analysis of meningiomas using high resolution 7T MR spectroscopic imaging
• Giulia Rotunno: OCTA-Based radiomic and vascular analysis for monitoring skin cancer response to radiotherapy
• Daniela Prinz: Insights into the potential of non-invasive multi-metabolic cancer imaging with CEST-MRI: From glycolysis and pH to protein synthesis
• Clemens Spielvogel: Multimodal opportunistic screening of at-risk patients for cardiac amyloidosis using machine learning
• Daphne Resch: Radiomic shape features for assessment of early therapy response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy of breast cancer patients - preliminary results of the PREDICTOME-study

2.20 - 3.00 pm Panel "How to better orchestrate preclinical and clinical collaborations"

Moderation: Roxane Licandro

3.00 - 4.00 pm, Coffee Break 

• 3.20 - 4.00 pm, Poster Session 2 + Hands-On Session

4.00 - 5.00 pm, KEYNOTE TALK "The musical brain" by Peter Vuust - Center for Music in the Brain

Moderation: Lena Hirtler

 5.00 - 5.30 pm, Award Ceremony & Closing

• Sounds Quiz Game Winner 
• Best Poster Award
• Best Presentation Award
• Travel support recipients Summer Term

5.30 - 6.30 pm - Conclusion and Networking

Important Dates

Deadline Abstract Submission: 2^nd of April 2025, Extension to 16th of April 2025 Link. 

Deadline Proposal Hands-on Session: 24^th of March 2025, Extension to 16th of April 2025 Link

Deadline Project Talk Submission Deadline: 12^th of March 2025

Notification of Acceptance: 15^th of May 2025

RPMI Festival : 12^th of June 2025, 09:00

Acknowledgment: The Microsoft CMT service is planned to be used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this festival. This service is provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Registration

Scientific Committee

Contact: rpmi-festival-submissions (a) meduniwien.ac.at

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