May 22-24 2023
The event will take place at the Graduate Hotel on the University of Minnesota Campus in Minneapolis.
SMI aims to bring together investigators from students to established researchers who are working on projects related to statistical methods and their applications in the broad area of imaging science, including, but not limited to, biomedical imaging, immunofluorescence imaging, and geospatial imaging.
Conference Registration
| Participant Type | Early Bird registration before 3/31/2023 |
Regular Registration |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty Attendee | $330 | $390 |
| Student or Postdoc Attendee | $115 | $170 |
Registration Policy: No refunds are allowed after May 1, 2023. Substitutions are not allowed.
Title: Integrating spatial transcriptomics with histology to infer super-resolution tissue architecture
Abstract: The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies has made it possible to measure gene expression within the original tissue contexts. The applications of ST have enabled researchers to characterize spatial gene expression patterns, study cell-cell communications, and resolve the spatiotemporal order of cellular development, which have transformed our understanding of the functional organization of tissues. Previous studies have shown that gene expression patterns are correlated with histological features, suggesting that gene expression can be predicted from histology images. However, these existing methods do not fully utilize the rich cellular information provided by high-resolution histology images. In this talk, I will present methods that we recently developed that aim to integrate gene expression with histology to computationally reconstruct ST data that cover the entire transcriptome with near-single-cell resolution. Through comprehensive analysis of diverse datasets generated from both diseased and normal tissues, we show that our super-resolution gene prediction is accurate and useful for different applications in tissue architecture inference.
Our second keynote speaker is Dr. Kelvin Lim, who is a Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Adult Mental Health Research, and Drs. T. J. and Ella M. Arneson Land-Grant Chair in Human Behavior at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Li’s main research areas are in investigating how disruptions in brain connectivity influence pathophysiology, prognosis, and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Our Founder’s Talk will be given by Dr. Ranjan Maitra, who is a Professor in Statistics at Iowa State University. Dr. Maitra’s main research areas include the analysis of massive data, statistical computing, and statistical learning.
| Introduction to the tidyverse and Quarto | David Schneck |
| An Introduction to the ANTsX ecosystem through R | Dr. Nick Tustison and Dr. Brian Avants |
| Session Title | Session Organizer |
| New approaches to analyzing neuroimaging data | Dr. Benjamin Risk |
| Statistical Methods for Brain Connectomes | Dr. Selena Wang |
| Novel application to neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases using different imaging techniques | Dr. Dana L. Tudorascu |
| Statistical Methods and Findings from Large Consortia Studies | Dr. Simon Vandekar |
| Recent advancements in statistical methods for brain connectome analysis | Dr. Zhengwu Zhang |
| Event-related potential brain-computer interface data present challenges and opportunities for novel statistical methods | Tianwen Ma |
| Recent Advances in Spatial Analysis of Single-cell Imaging | Dr. Jiangmei Xiong |
| Statistical Methods for Analyzing Multiview and Multi-session Imaging Data | Dr. Suprateek Kundu |
| Recent Developments on Brain Imaging Analysis | Dr. Lin Zhang |
| Modern Statistical Methodology on Spatial, Neuroimaging, and Shape Data Analysis | Dr. Shan Yu |
| New Statistical Methods to Improve the Spatial-omics Analysis Pipeline | Dr. Simon Vandekar |
| Bayesian Methods | Dr. Mark Fiecas |
| Penalized Regression and Functional Data Analysis | Dr. Mark Fiecas |
Poster abstract submission is open until Friday, April 21, 2023. Please submit poster abstracts using this Google Form.
The SMI 2022 organizing committee welcomes your submissions of proposals for invited sessions, with each session classified as “Statistical Methods” or “Collaborative Case Study”. “Statistical Methods” consists of presentations describing new developments in statistical theory and methods. “Collaborative Case Study” consists of presentations that focus on the analyses of imaging data and the statistical challenges present in the analyses. Each session can have 3-4 speakers.
Please use this Google Form to submit a session proposal.
There will be two tracks for the student paper competition: 1) Theory and Methods, and 2) Case Studies and Applications. The selected winners for each track will be invited to present their papers in a session at the Statistical Methods in Imaging Conference held at the University of Minnesota on May 22-24, 2023. The first-place winner and runner-up for each track will also receive a cash prize of $1,000 and $500, respectively.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the student paper competition, the student must satisfy the following criteria:
i) Be a degree candidate at an accredited institution in any term during 2022 and 2023,
ii) Be the first author of the paper. The paper must not be published or accepted for publication at the time of submission,
iii) Be a current member of the Statistics in Imaging Section of the ASA;
iv) Be able to present the paper at SMI 2023.
Submission details
The deadline for submission to the student paper competition is April 3, 2023. Submissions should be sent to biostats@umn.edu with Subject Line either “SMI 2023: Theory and Methods” or “SMI 2023: Case Studies and Applications” depending on the intended track of the submission, and the email should contain the following four attachments in PDF format:
i) The applicant’s Curriculum Vitae;
ii) An unblinded version of the manuscript with no more than 26 pages, including the abstract, figures, tables and references. The manuscripts must be double-spaced with at least 11-point font size;
iii) A blinded version of the manuscript;
iv) A letter from a faculty member familiar with the student’s work. The faculty letter must include a verification of the applicant’s student status and, in the case of joint authorship, should indicate what is the contribution of the applicant to the paper.
A room block from May 21 – May 25 is available at the Graduate Hotel – 615 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
Prices start at $169 per night
American Statistical Association
Statistics in Imaging Section
