São Paulo – Alberta BrainHack 2.0

About the Workshop

The São Paulo – Alberta BrainHack 2.0: Multimodal Medical Image Analysis is supported by the Brazilian funding agency CNPq, which stands for National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. It builds on a established collaboration between medical imaging researchers at the University of Calgary and the University of Campinas, which since 2012 has led to 16 trainee exchanges, 11 faculty and senior scientist visits, 6 international workshops with this being the second BrainHack event (link). The BrainHack will bring together researchers, trainees, and professionals working at the intersection of AI and medical image analysis. The workshop will feature invited talks, and a hands-on component that will tackle the problem of multimodal brain tumor segmentation. The workshop will cover the entire medical imaging workflow — from data acquisition and preprocessing to model development, and validation.

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Workshop Location
Room: ENG 207, Building: Schulich School of Engineering, 622 Collegiate Pl NW, Calgary, AB T2L 0Y2

Speakers

Dr. Diedre Carmo

Assistant Professor · University of Campinas

Dr. Carmo works in medical image processing using deep learning (DL), with research spanning automated segmentation in brain MRI and chest CT, as well as multimodal models that integrate imaging and textual data to enhance both performance and explainability.

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Dr. Roberto Souza

Associate Professor · University of Calgary

Dr. Souza's research is focused on developong innovative strategies for data integration and data mining in imaging applications with a special focus in brain and bone applications. Dr. Souza is a great enthusiast of open science and a PI in the Calgary-Campinas dataset.

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Dr. Mumu Aktar

Postdoctoral Fellow · University of Calgary

Dr. Aktar’s research focuses on integrating longitudinal imaging data with textual clinical information to improve healthcare workflows for patients with brain cancer and stroke. She is also interested in adapting deep learning models for pediatric populations.

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Dr. Andre Paschoal

Assistant Professor · University of Campinas

Dr. Paschoal's research focuses on brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition and processing. His primary research focus is MRI pulse programming and the non-invasive assessment of the blood-brain barrier using Arterial Spin Labeling.

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Workshop Schedule

Hands-On AI Challenge

The BrainHack challenge focuses on developing an automated segmentation approach for identifying and delineating distinct tumor-related regions within brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) images from BRATS2020 dataset. Participants will build models, evaluate performance, and present their findings. To support participants, baseline model is provided along with sample code for loading images.

Please find detailed instructions and resources in the following GitHub repository: BrainHack Challenge GitHub Repository

Access the dataset here: Dataset

Find all slides presented by invited speakers: Click to get the slides

Organizers

Dr. Mariana Bento

Assistant Professor

University of Calgary

Dr. Leticia Rittner

Associate Professor

University of Campinas

Mumu Aktar

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Calgary

Anik Das

Research Assistant

University of Calgary

Contact

For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please email: mariana.pinheirobent@ucalgary.ca OR anik.das@ucalgary.ca