Category: Press Release

On January 1, 2023, a new EU-funded research project establishing an Open Consortium for Decentralized Medical Artificial Intelligence (ODELIA) has officially begun, with the goal of revolutionising Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare through the use of Swarm Learning (SL). Over the next five years, the project aims to overcome the obstacles of data collection in healthcare by utilising SL, where partners work together to train AI models without the need to share any personal patient data. Thereby, ODELIA will break...

About ODELIA

The ODELIA consortium brings together partners from twelves academic institutions and industry partners from across Europe: European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (Austria), University Hospital Aachen (Germany), Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (Spain), Mitera Hospita (Greece), Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands), University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands), Ribera Salud (Spain), Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS (Germany), OSIMIS (Belgium), Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), University of Zurich (Switzerland) and University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). The project will run from January...

Zoetermeer, The Netherlands, 1 February 2023 – Canon Medical strengthens its valuable partnership with the European Society of Radiology for the 2023 edition of ECR. The company will showcase its new meaningful innovations and solutions during the event, accompanied by an educational program, including practical workshops presented by world-renowned clinical experts, proudly supported by the Canon Medical Academy.
 
Visitors can discover Canon Medical’s innovations at their well-known booth at Expo X3. Brought back by popular demand are the highly...

January 25, 2023, Vienna - The European Society of Radiology is pleased to announce that it has received a total of 1,164 new abstracts for ECR 2023. This represents a 9% increase in comparison to the late-breaking abstract submission period held for ECR 2022. Despite having a far shorter period between congresses this year, due to ECR 2022 being held in July, as well as having abstract submission periods that were half as long in duration, abstract submission figures this...

The EUCAIM consortium and the European Commission are excited to announce the official launch of the European Federation for Cancer Images (EUCAIM), a ground-breaking federated infrastructure deployment project aiming to power up imaging and AI towards precision medicine for Europe’s cancer patients and citizens.

EUCAIM will address the fragmentation of existing cancer image repositories and establish a distributed Atlas of Cancer Imaging with over 60 million anonymised cancer image data from over 100,000 patients, accessible to clinicians, researchers and innovators...

Young professionals will enjoy a comprehensive programme at the European Congress of Radiology 2023 aimed at offering education and advice to attendees who have recently entered the world of medical imaging. Trainees in Focus will also enjoy its own dedicated area in the congress center where students, residents and trainees can meet and relax.

The Trainees in Focus programme will offer professional and personal insights into topics and issues that affect young radiologists and radiographers in their educational and working...

Following years of close collaboration, Philips will strengthen its partnership with the ESR at the European Congress of Radiology 2023, where it will take over an entire Congress floor. Level 2, to be named [email protected] Level at the 2023 meeting, will host the company alongside many of its most innovative products, services and partnerships.

With this commitment, Philips will hold the largest exhibition area at the Congress, which attracts hundreds of companies each year. As a Platinum Supporting Member...

The new EU-funded project “Transforming brain surgery by advancing functional-guided neuronavigational imaging” will develop a novel cost-effective, transportable, compact optical imaging system (“HyperProbe”) to measure brain function during surgery to achieve better guidance during brain tumour removal by 2027. It will thus critically improve surgical outcomes for patients.

More than 13 million patients require brain surgery every year. Measuring brain function is paramount during neurosurgery, for example, when removing brain tumours. Neurosurgeons need to differentiate between healthy tissue and the...

The Conference on Hybrid Imaging Live took place last week marking its fifth anniversary. The event proved to be highly popular attracting more than 4,600 hybrid imaging enthusiasts and over 2,200 live viewers from 133 different countries.  

As in previous years, CHILI was held as an online-only event and was available to attend free of charge. Organised by the European Society for Hybrid, Molecular and Translational Imaging (ESHIMT) and hosted on ESR Connect, the conference was recorded in the...

The European Society of Radiology is pleased to announce that it has reached a new all-time high in its membership count this year. The society recorded a total of 129,294 members worldwide in 2022, increasing its membership by 2.6 percent in comparison to 2021 with more than 3,300 new members. 

Membership has risen in line with a continued expansion of the ESR’s online educational offerings, which appeal to radiologists both inside and outside of...

Vienna, Austria – September 9, 2022 – The ESR Board of Directors proudly announced today that the European Congress of Radiology 2023 will now take place on March 1-5, 2023. This decision was made following careful consideration of all stakeholder feedback regarding the annual congress and after re-evaluating the requirements that made a summer congress necessary in 2022. ESR leadership look forward to welcoming participants back to Vienna for a Spring congress, with abstract submission and registration for the meeting...