Annual Scientific Conference
Join us Wednesday, Dec. 3 for the 2025 CHRI Scientific Conference. The keynote speaker will be Marius George Linguraru, DPhil, MA, MSc, the principal investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Linguraru directs the Precision Medical Imaging Group and is professor of radiology and pediatrics and secondary professor of Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University. He co-founded PediaMetrix Inc., a company focused on infant well-being by creating solutions to improve the management of conditions of early childhood. He joined the Sheikh Zayed Institute from the National Institutes of Health, completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford and held fellowships at the French National Institute of Research in Computer Science (INRIA) and at Harvard University.
Dr. Linguraru is the recipient of numerous awards, including a prize for Excellence in Engineering by a Younger Engineer at the Houses of Parliament in London, UK. He has served on boards and committees of the of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) Society, the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the Foundation of the International Society of Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM). He founded and chairs the MICCAI Career Development Program. He was the general chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2019 in Venice, Italy, co-chair of SIPAIM 2020 in Lima, Peru (virtual) and will be the program chair of MICCAI 2024 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Discounted early bird registration available until October 14. Registration closes November 25 at 11:59 p.m.
Research Submission
Outstanding scientific work will be recognized via opportunities to present during the conference. Abstract submission will be open until October 30, 2025 at 11:59pm (pretty sure this is CST)
Investigators who submit must be registered or register for the CHRI Conference by the registration deadline (November 25).
Please note that case studies, QI projects and educational projects are not eligible for submission for this platform.
Full members of CHRI (see membership page for eligibility and/or apply) with qualifying entries will be considered for three $1,000 faculty development awards to use toward publication expenses. Up to three awards will be given. The award-winning entries will also be invited to present in the plenary session on Wednesday, December 3rd in the morning.
Abstracts will be evaluated according to the following criteria below. Please make sure to address each criterion while limiting your entry to 400 words. Submitted abstracts will not be edited for typing, spelling or grammatical errors.
- Background: Is the background sufficient to frame the hypothesis or question under investigation?
- Significance of the Problem: Is the significance of the problem under study conveyed convincingly?
- Hypothesis, Problem OR Question: Is the hypothesis, problem or question well focused and clearly stated?
- Experimental Design: Is the design described adequately? Is it an appropriate approach to the question under study?
- Results/Data: Are specific results given and stated clearly?
- Conclusions: Are stated conclusions supported by the data presented? Are conclusions appropriate in scope?
