The following educational exhibits and research projects were honoured at the CAR 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting in Montreal. Congratulations to all of the deserving research teams on their incredible work!
Educational Exhibits
1st Place – Sagar Kulkarni, Chandni Gupta and Jacqueline Matthew
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Fetal Ultrasound: Potential to Improve Anomaly Screening?
2nd Place – James Huynh, Vidhu Anand, Ashish Khandelwal
Multimodality Imaging of Stress-Induced (Takotsubo) Cardiomyopathy
3rd Place – Michelle Ferderbar, David Koff, Thomas Doyle and Reza Samavi
Computer Aided Diagnosis: The Future of Lung Cancer Screening
Radiologist-in-Training Research Projects
1st Place (Tie) – Elena Adela Cora, Vias Demetriou, Fahad Essbaiheen, Hanan AlQahtani, Brian Drake, Howard Lesiuk, Philip White and Dana Iancu
Acute Thrombectomy in the Ageing Population: A Retrospective Analysis of Radiological and Clinical Outcomes in Acute Thrombectomies Performed in Patients ≥80 Years with an Intention to Treat Analysis
1st Place (Tie) – Hamed Basseri, Fernando Gastaldo, Sabarinath Nair, Sam Schulman and Gordon Yip
Evaluating the Effect of Direct Oral Anticoagulants versus Warfarin on Rates of Thrombosis Related Failure of IVC Filter Retrieval
2nd Place – Nancy Jiang, Crystal Fond, Demetrios Sahlas and Ramiro Larrazabal
Degree of Conjugate Gaze Deviation on Computed Tomography Scan Predicts Proximal Vessel Occlusion and Expedite Candidates for Endovascular Therapy
Scientific Research Projects
1st Place – Lisa Y.W.Tang, Emmanuelle Lapointe, Jillian Chan, Youngjin Yoo, Lisa Lee, Andrew Riddehough, Shannon Kolind, Herena Kim, Ho Jin Kim, David Li, Anthony Traboulsee and Roger Tam
Machine learning for automated analysis of brain lesional patterns for NMO-MS differential diagnosis
2nd Place – Joao R. Inacio, Ashish Gupta, Hamid Bayanati, Carolina Souza, Sebastian Gilbert, Patrick James Villeneuve and Carole Dennie
CT-guided placement of microcoils to direct video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical resection of small lung nodules: safety, efficacy and outcome
3rd Place – Khashayar Rafatzand, Gabriela Santos-Nunez, Hazel Marecki, Alan Goldstein, James Carroll and Richard Perugini
Classification of Ventral Hernias (VH) Based on Rectus Anatomy and Function using Dynamic MRI (dMRI)
Departmental Clinical Audit Projects
1st Place – Craig Ferguson, Gavin Low, Marina McToal, Stuart Jackson and Sean Winters
Renal Biopsy Adequacy and Complication Rates at a Large University Institution
2nd Place – Anthony Vo, Chris Fung, Jesse Stewart, and Richard Coulden
What Clinical Information Is Provided to Radiologists Interpreting Pelvic Radiographs from the ER at an Adult Trauma Center
3rd Place – Florence Thibault, Rachid Hadjeres, Antonio Maietta, Jennifer Sirois and Céline Bard
Fluoroscopically Guided Lumbar Puncture: Evaluation of the Cytological Diagnosis
Value of Radiology Research Project Award
Ania Kielar, Tetyana Maniuk, Stephanie Kenny, Mohamed El-Khodary, Joseph O’Sullivan and Wael Shabana
Cost Savings as a Result of Implementing TI-RADS Standardized Reporting in a Radiology Department