Working Group Meeting: 6th Meeting for WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 and WG 4 and MC Meeting – Belgrade, 20th to 22nd June, 2016

Working Group Meeting: 6th Meeting for WG 1, WG 2, WG 3 and WG 4 and MC Meeting – Belgrade, 20th to 22nd June, 2016

Full Agenda

Day 1
WG4:
09:00 – Registration, welcome note from chair and local organiser
09:00 – Grant holder warnings

09:30 – early Health Technology Assessment, Leandro Pecchia (1)
09:30 – early Health Technology Assessment, Leandro Pecchia (2)

WG3:

14:00 – Miss Vera Miler Jerkovic, Serbia – “Clinical Trials, right and wrong”
15.10 – Dr. Branko Kolundzija, Efficient electromagnetic modeling of highly inhomogeneous structures using method of moments applied to surface integral equations

Day 2
09:00 – Welcome and registration of day 2
09:00 – Welcome and registration of day 2

09:30-11:00 STSM presentations by STSM grantees (order can be re-arranged):
1 Marija Stevanovic – Sparse processing applied to brain and breast microwave imaging
2 Adnan Elahi – “Microwave Imaging of Phantoms and Patients using Radar-based Algorithms
Bárbara Oliveira – Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis for Microwave Breast Imaging
4 Declan O’Loughlin – Hardware development for Microwave Imaging
5 Giuseppe Ruvio – High-accuracy dielectric properties measurements
6 Grazia Cappiello – Investigation of Evolutionary Algorithms for SAR Optimisation in Hyperthermia Treatment
7 Gennaro G. Bellizzi – UWB radar for MNP enhanced breast tumor detection: determination of the optimal working conditions
8 Jorge Tobon – Realistic Phantom: Realization and Skin Estimation Algorithm
9 Saqib Salah-Ud-Din – Investigation of Frequency Spacing for Dielectric Measurements

11:00-12:00 Talk by Dr Jean-Charles Bolomey, Microwave Imaging for Medical Applications: A Thirty Years Pursuit Toward Clinical Acceptance

Joint WG1/WG2 Meeting
14:00 – Introductory talk by Nadine Joachimowicz and Bernard Duchene

14:30 – Experimental Testing of a Low Cost Microwave Imaging System using the Geeps-L2S breast phantom, Francesca Vipiana

14:45 – Microwave tomography of the French breast phantom: initial Chalmers experience without utilizing a priori information, Tomas Rydholm, Andreas Fhager, Mikael Persson, Paul Meaney
15:00 – Possibilities of using the holographic radar for detecting the tumors as exemplified by Geeps-L2S breast phantom, Irina Alborova
15:15 – Mario Solis (via skype)
16:00 – Giuseppe Ruvio and Luca Vanucci – Joint presentation on live phantom (biological and technical presentations)
16:20 – Lourdes Farrugia and Maik Perterm – Joint presentation on phantom materials
16:40 – Jacinta Browne (via skype) – Tissue-mimicking technologies for anthropomorphic breast phantoms

Day 3

– Presentations given at MC meeting:
MC_Meeting_Belgrade_Agenda.pdf

WG1 report

WG2 report

WG3 report

WG4 report

– Minutes of MC meeting:
Minutes-of-MiMed-COST-Action-Management-Committee-Meeting-20160622.pdf