Medical Physics Seminar – Monday, October 4, 2021
Artificial Intelligence in Total-Body PET and Theranostics
Kuangyu Shi, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland
Recent advances in total-body PET and nuclear medicine theranostics bring new opportunities for precision medicine. On the other side, the increased complexity makes the exploration of the potential of the new instrument and therapy more challenging. This talk will share some developments of artificial intelligence in total-body PET and theranostics in Bern from the perspectives of imaging optimization, diagnosis assistance, and treatment planning. It will also discuss the potentials and challenges during the development of AI technology for nuclear medicine.
Prof. Kuangyu Shi is head of Lab for Artificial Intelligence and Translational Theranostics at Dept. Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland and senior scientist at Chair for Computer-aided Medical Procedure, Dept. Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He completed his bachelors in Nanjing University (1999-2003), China, and did his Master and PhD at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (2003-2008), Germany. Then he moved to Dept. Nuclear Medicine, Technical University of Munich for postdoctoral research and worked as subgroup leader from 2012 to 2018. On May 2018 he completed habilitation at Dept. Informatics, Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on developing artificial intelligence and computational modeling methods for nuclear medicine imaging and therapy and interpreting the results to the underlying pathophysiology by designing corresponding in vivo and ex vivo experiments. He is member of physics committee of EANM and serves as associate editor or member of editorial board of EJNMMI Physics, Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, EJNMMI Research and Nuklearmedizin.