CIBM Annual Symposium 2025
The CIBM Annual Symposium 2025 will take place on December 1st, 2025 at the Auditoire Alex‐F. Müller, CMU, University of Geneva. The annual event aims to gather members of the biomedical imaging community in Switzerland and beyond allowing them to exchange during an exciting and intellectually stimulating day filled with insightful talks and poster presentations.
Visits to the new CIBM infrastructure at HUG (CIMA.X 3T MRI and Nanoscan PET/CT) will be organised at the end of the day. As places are limited, registration is required.
PROGRAMME
Registration opens at 8h30
9:00 Welcome Breakfast: Posters and Demos
10:00 Opening & CIBM Achievements 2020-2024
Pina Marziliano
CIBM Executive Director
10:30 Session 1
Ileana Jelescu
CHUV UNIL
11:15 State-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging of the musculoskeletal system: from technique development to clinical translation
Dimitrios Karampinos
Head, CIBM MRI EPFL MR Imaging Technology Section
12:00 Lunch Break: Posters and Demos
13:30 Learning from Structure: Graph AI in Medical Imaging
Dorina Thanou
EPFL AI Center
ABSTRACT
AI is opening new frontiers in medical imaging, offering unprecedented opportunities to understand complex biological systems and improve patient care. Yet, the richness and variability of medical data — from anatomy to physiology — demand new learning paradigms that are firmly grounded in medical knowledge. In this talk, we will discuss how advances in graph-based learning are reshaping our ability to model the intricate organization of living systems. Through showcases in cardiology and oncology, we will illustrate how these approaches enable the development of AI-assisted tools, that support diagnosis and prediction.
BIO
Dorina Thanou is a senior researcher and lecturer at EPFL, where she leads strategic initiatives on AI for Health within the EPFL AI Center. Her research aims to advance personalized and preventive medicine by developing interpretable and robust machine learning models which intergrate biological and clinical domain knowlege. She has led numerous interdisciplinary collaborations to foster the adoption of AI in medicine, and has been recognized with multiple distinction, including Best Paper Awards at ICASSP and PCS, and election as an ELLIS Scholar. She is an IEEE Senior member.
14:15 From 7T to 17 grams: advancing high-precision imaging and long-term wearable monitoring to fill in the puzzle of human health
João Jorge
CSEM
15:00 From brain to spine and back: A signal processing ride
Dimitri Van De Ville
Head, CIBM SP EPFL-UNIGE Connectomic Imaging Section
ABSTRACT
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides unprecedented opportunities to non-invasively measure human brain structure (anatomy) and function (physiology). To fully exploit the rich spatiotemporal structure of these data and gain insights into brain function in health and disorder, novel signal processing and modeling approaches are needed, informed by domain knowledge from neuroscience and instrumentation. This journey will bring us from the brain to the spinal cord, revealing several organizing principles between these two key structures of the central nervous system. Finally, recent acquisition protocols that allow simultaneous coverage of the brain and spinal cord enable a comprehensive view of their interplay.
BIO
Dimitri Van De Ville is a Full Professor at EPFL, Neuro-X Institute, with a joint affiliation with the University of Geneva, Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics. He is the Director of the Medical Image Processing Laboratory, and the Head of the CIBM EPFL-UNIGE Signal Processing Section. He was a recipient of the Pfizer Research Award 2012, the NARSAD Independent Investigator Award 2014, the Leenaards Foundation Award 2016, and IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award 2024. He was elevated to Fellow of the IEEE in 2020 and the EURASIP in 2023. He serves as a Senior Member of the Editorial Board for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine since 2021, as a Handling Editor for the new journal Imaging Neuroscience since 2023, and as an Editor for the SIAM Journal on Imaging Science since 2018.
15:45 Closing remarks
16:00 Posters and demos.
Visits to CIBM infrastructure: CIMA.X 3T MRI and Nanoscan PET/CT at HUG.
17:00 Apèro & Networking
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