JSPS Core-to-Core Meeting
Ultrasound Pathology Kick-off Meeting in Japan
JSPS Core-to-Core Meeting
Ultrasound Pathology Kick-off Meeting in Japan
| Date: 2024.05.21(Tue) |
| Venue: Conference room #2, Engineering Reserach Buiding 2, Chiba Univerity |
| Short presentations and exchange of opinions on research related to the U-Path |
| Participants: U-Path members from Japan and USA, medical ultrasound researchers and students, and related companies |
| Contact person: Kenji Yoshida, Shinnosuke Hirata (Chiba University) |
| Session | Facilitator | Presenters | Topics | |
| 13:30 ~13:40 |
Opening remark and Introduction of U-Path Project | Tadashi Yamaguchi | ||
| Session 1 13:40 ~14:00 |
Elastography technology for visualizing elasticity and viscosity | Shinnosuke Hrata | Shinnosuke Hrata | Ultrasound elastography |
| Mikio Suga | MR elastography | |||
| Kazuki Tamura | Optical Microscopic Elastography | |||
| Masashi Sekine | Construction of a measurement systems | |||
| Session 2 14:10 ~14:35 |
Relationship between various biomarkers and liver fibrosis/steatosis, and radiomics AI image diagnosis based on these relationships | Tadashi Yamaguchi | Hiroko Iijima, Takashi Nishimura, Hirosisa Yano, Toshifumi Tada | Big data analysis from multiple facilities |
| Riwa Kishimoto | Standardization of diagnostic indicators for liver diseases | |||
| Takayuki Kondo, Hidemi Unosawa, Shinnosuke Hirata | AI-based image diagnosis of liver fibrosis and steatosis | |||
| Yukihiro Nomura | Machine Learning that spans hospitals and research bases | |||
| Satoki Zenbutsu | Construction of medical image datebase | |||
| Session 3 14:45 ~15:10 |
Multiscale, Dynamic Medical Imaging and Image Quality Enhancement Technology Using AI | Kenji Yoshida | Yoshufumi Saijo | Photoacoustic microscope |
| Hideuki Hasegawa, Ryo Nagaoka, Masaaki Omura | Ultra-high-speed ultrasound imaging, AI image processing | |||
| Takayuki Okamoto | AI technology to improve image quality | |||
| Kenji Yoshida | Dynamic contrast-enhanced ultrasound | |||
| Takuro Ishii | Visualization and measurement technology for fluids | |||
| Session 4 15:20 ~15:35 |
New tissue characterization methods that makes ultrasonic pathology a reality | Tadashi Yamaguchi | Tadashi Yamaguchi | Multi-scale QUS |
| Shohei Mori | Evaluation of liver fibrosis using amplitude envelope analysis | |||
| Kazuyo Ito | Evaluation of amplitude envelope and backscattering coefficient | |||
| Session 5 15:45 ~16:05 |
Keynote lecture | Tadashi Yamaguchi | Jonathan Mamou | Tissue characterization at Weill Cornell Medicine |
| Session & 16:20 ~17:20 |
Poster presentations by 15 graduate students | |||
| Session 7 17:30~19:30 |
Exchange of opinions |


