External speakers:

• Ralph Sinkus, INSERM, France, King’s College London: Direct assessment of myocardial stiffness utilizing cardiac MR-elastography
• Jørgen Jensen, DTU, Denmark: Advanced ultrasound imaging and future trends
• Kjell Kristoffersen, GE Vingmed Ultrasound: Trends in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging
• Bruni Wellge, Charité, Berlin: Point-of-care cardiac elastography with external vibration for stiffness-based diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction

Programme

Day 1: 3 May 2023

09:30-10:00 Registration

10:00-11:15 Welcome/maritime

• Ann Blomberg, NGI, Smart AUVs - a project aimed at efficient monitoring of greenhouse gas seepage in the oceans
• Helge Balk, UiO, Post-processing of fishery acoustic data
• Morten Dæhlen, UiO, dScience - Centre for Computational and Data Science at UiO

11:15-11:45 Break

11:45-13:00 Maritime

• Marianne Lanzky Kolstrup, FFI, Underwater sightseeing in Norwegian waters – descriptions of the seabed for acoustic modeling application 
• Sverre Holm, UiO, Two models for sediment acoustics and the link to medical ultrasound
• Hefeng Dong, NTNU, Sub-surface shear wave velocity imaging by ocean ambient noise

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:45 Maritime/cardiac

• Ellen Sagaas Røed, Kongsberg Maritime, Impact of single crystal properties on underwater transducer designs
• Marlene Iversen Halvorsrød, NTNU, Mechanical waves by 3D high frame rate echocardiography in myocardial infarction

14:45-15:15 Break

15:15-16:15 Cardiac mechanics

• Ralph Sinkus, INSERM, France, King’s College London, Direct assessment of myocardial stiffness utilizing cardiac MR-elastography
• Bruni Wellge, Charité, Berlin, Point-of-care cardiac elastography with external vibration for stiffness-based diagnosis of diastolic dysfunction,

16:15 End Day 1

19:00 Conference Dinner

Day 2: 4 May 2023

09:00-10:15 Medical ultrasound

• Jørgen Jensen, DTU, Denmark, Advanced ultrasound imaging and future trends
• Kjell Kristoffersen, GE Vingmed Ultrasound, Trends in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging
• Discussion 

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-11:30 Speed updates

• Jessica Lage Fernandez, NTNU, Real-time intravital multiphoton microscopy of tumours during Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT)
• Gilles Van De Vyver, NTNU, Robust cardiac ultrasound image segmentation with graph neural network
• Mohammad Reza, UiO, Transesophageal Echocardiography Robot – Design, Development, and Deep Learning Modeling
• Anders Vrålstad, NTNU, Sound speed correction using image quality maximization
• Magnus Kvalevåg, NTNU, Integrating beamforming into machine learning pipelines and vice versa
• Shivanandan Indimath, NTNU, Challenges in using ultrasound backscatter for counting bubbles

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-13:15 Speed updates continued

13:15-13:45 Break

13:45-14:45 New companies

• Ole Marius Hoel Rindal, Sonair, Sonair introducing ADAR: 3D Acoustic detection and ranging in air
• Tristan Hollande, Respinor, Doppler ultrasound for diaphragm monitoring
• Torbjørn Hergum, Cimon Medical & Hans Torp, Cimon Medical & NTNU, Circulation Monitoring in the Brain by Ultrasound Doppler Technology 

14:45-15:15 Summary and closing remarks

15:15 Conference ends