JSPS Core-to-Core Program
Ultrasound Pathology Symposium in New York

Date & Time: October 9, 2026 (Fri) 9:15 - 17:30
Venue: Weill Cornell Medicine (407 east 61st street, RR-202, 2nd floor conference room, New York City, NY, USA)
Content: Presentations and exchange of opinions on research related to the U-Path
Participants: U-Path members from each country, medical ultrasound and acoustics researchers and students
Contact person: Jonathan Mamou (Weill Cornell Medicine, USA)

Program

time Session Speaker
9:15～9:20 Welcome remarks Jonathan Mamou (Weill Cornell Medicine)
9:20～9:30 Introduction of U-Path Program Tadashi Yamaguchi (Chiba University)
9:30～9:45 Ultrasound beamforming and application to functional imaging Hideyuki Hasegawa (University of Toyama)
9:45～10:00 Early Detection of Cardiac Dysfunction Using Ultrafast Vector Doppler Imaging in a Murine Model of Dilated Cardiomyopathy Geraldi Wahyulaksana (Weill Cornell Medicine)
10:00～10:10 Uncertainty-Aware Vessel Tracking in Compression Ultrasound for Automatic Diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis Naoki Negishi (University of Toyama)
10:10～10:20 Using the reduced uterine perfusion pressure model of preeclampsia Alexander Gleed (Weill Cornell Medicine)
10:20～10:30 Investigation of the Effect of Venous Flow Velocity Distribution on Ultrasonic Backscatter Characteristics and Attenuation Coefficient of Blood Haruto Niyama (Tohoku University)
10:30～10:40 Robust Data-Driven Parameter Estimation for Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy, Jinuan Lin (Weill Cornell Medicine)
10:40～10:55 Liquid viscosity evaluation using contrast enhanced ultrasonography Kenji Yoshida (Chiba University)
10:55～11:25 Break
11:25～11:35 High-Frequency Quantitative Ultrasound to Monitor Tendon Microstructure in a Murine Model of Patellar tendinopathy Cameron Hoerig (Weill Cornell Medicine)
11:35～11:45 Envelope Statistics for Characterizing Shear-Rate-Dependent Red Blood Cell Aggregation Shoya Sakaguchi (Chiba University)
11:45～12:00 Robot-Assisted Standardization of Ultrasound Scannin Haichong Zhang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
12:00～13:30 Lunch
13:30～13:45 Robust measurement method of 2D sound speed distribution using a high-frequency ultrasonic microscope Mototaka Arakawa (Tohoku University)
13:45～13:55 Optimization of a Sparse 2D Ultrasound Array for Autonomous Transcranial Doppler (TCD) Cerebral Flow Monitoring Tipu Sultan (Weill Cornell Medicine)
13:55～14:05 Real-Time Forearm Ultrasound for Gloveless Capture of Hand Skill and Grasp Force Toward Robot Learning from Demonstration Daniel Alvarenga (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
14:05～14:15 Increasing Ultrasound 2D Matrix Array Field-of-View with Larger Elements and Advanced Beamformers Mick Gardner (Weill Cornell Medicine)
14:15～14:30 A Demonstration of Near Real-Time QUS Imaging Using a Portable Ultrasound System Nitin Burman (Weill Cornell Medicine)
14:30～15:00 Break
15:00～16:30 Visit of the Biomedical Ultrasound Research Laboratory
16:30～17:00 General Discussion
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