SPECIAL SPEAKERS

Invited Speakers:

- Effectiveness of ultrasonography screening for breast cancer; Up-dated data from the RCT of 76,196 women aged 40-49 (J-START) Noriaki Ohuchi, MD, PhD (Department of Surgical Oncology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine)

Keynote Speakers:

- Computer-aided diagnosis for B-mode, elastography and automated breast ultrasound Ruey-Feng Chang, PhD (National Taiwan University) - Advanced telecommunications in breast imaging - Streamlining telemammography, telepathology & teleoncology services to improve patient care Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD (University of Arizona) - Virtual clinical trials in the assessment of novel breast screening modalities Andrew Maidment, PhD (University of Pennsylvania) - Will new technologies replace mammography CAD as we know it ? Julian Marshall, PhD (Hologic, Inc.) - Breast imaging diagnosis and screening in Korea Woo Kyung Moon, MD, PhD (Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital) - Measurement and clinical use of breast density Kwan-Hoong Ng, PhD, MIPEM, DABMP (University of Malaya) - Low-dose molecular breast imaging - Diagnostic and screening applications in women with dense breasts Michael K. O'Connor, Ph.D., FAAPM (Mayo Clinic) - Tomosynthesis: What we know now and why TMIST is needed Etta D. Pisano, MD (Medical University of South Carolina)

Featured Lectures:

Monday (June 30) luncheon sponsored by Hitachi-Aloka Medical Session chair: Eriko Tohno, MD (Total Health Evaluation Center Tsukuba) - Real-time tissue elastography: Theory and usefulness for breast cancer diagnosis Tsuyoshi Shiina, Dr. of Eng. & Med. Sc. (Department of Human Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University) Tuesday (July 1) luncheon sponsored by FUJIFILM Medical Co.,Ltd. Session chair: Tokiko Endo, MD (National Hospital Organization Higashi Nagoya National Hospital) - Clinical benefit using Tomosynthesis Ch. Mueller-Leisse, MD Mechthild Schulze-Hagen, MD (Maria Hilf Moenchengladbach)