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Yasser Ghanbari, Ragini's old postdoc, died unexpectedly a few days ago during a bone marrow transplant. Yasser's wife, Marzi, is expecting there child, a boy, this summer. The child is a big reason Yasser was trying to get fully healthy, and agreed to the surgery. Marzi is an incredibly strong person, a PhD, working two jobs and now preparing to send the body of her husband home to Iran, while she cannot travel with him due to the pregnancy. It's a heart breaking situation.

She has requested support ... please consider it.

Click here to support Let's shower Marziyeh with love! Dear Friends: As you all know by now, Yasser left us unexpectedly before he got to hold his first and only child in his arm. Yasser and his loving wife, Marziyeh, have touched all of our lives with their generosity, love, and positive energy. In honor of Yasser's life, Marziyeh's friends are...

Meet our team at the Quantitative Imaging Reading Room Booth 18 at the Learning Center of 2017 from Tue-Thu 12:15-13:15

Team: Sarthak Pati, Spyridon Bakas, Saima Rathore, Aimilia Gastounioti

The Cancer Imaging Archive
Scientific Data

Congratulations to Spyridon Bakas and Christos Davatzikos for successfully leading and co-organizing the "International Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) Challenge" and the "Brain-Lesion (BrainLes) Workshop", respectively, in this year's Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Interventions (MICCAI) conference.

Both events have been included in the BEST OF MICCAI section in "Computer Vision News (October 2017)"!

BraTS 2017:
http://www.rsipvision.com/ComputerVisionNews-2017October/ #7

BrainLes 2017:
http://www.rsipvision.com/ComputerVisionNews-2017October/ #30

Computer Vision News - October 2017 Animated publication

Congrats to Spyridon Bakas and the brain tumor team on their Nature Scientific Data paper "Advancing The Cancer Genome Atlas glioma MRI collections with expert segmentation labels and radiomic features" (https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017117) and being featured in the online front page of the journal: https://www.nature.com/sdata/

Advancing The Cancer Genome Atlas glioma MRI collections with expert segmentation labels and radiomic features Data Descriptor