Jessica de Kort Best Oral Presentation at IGT x ImNO

Congratulations to UWinnipeg senior Physics student Jessica de Kort on winning the BEST PRESENTATION AWARD in the Oral Presentations 4; Deep Learning / Machine Learning Methodology 1 category at the IG x ImNO Joint Symposium held March 5-6, 2025 in Toronto.

Jessica presented her work titled: Automatically segmenting curved catheters in prostate brachytherapy ultrasound images with a deep learning and feature extraction pipeline. Jessica worked during the summer, under the supervision of Dr. Jessica R. Rodgers (Assistant Professor, Physics and Astonomy, at the University of Manitoba), conducting research that led her to attend the symposium.

IGT x ImNO stands for Image-Guided Therapeutics x Imaging Network Ontario. It is a joint symposium for students and experts in the Ontario region who are involved in medical imaging, image-guided therapy, and artificial intelligence to showcase what they have done to progress the field. Students attending the symposium are predominantly graduate students (Master and PhD). Jessica was one of only a handful of undergraduate students attending the conference which makes it all that more impressive that she won the award in her presentation category.

Well done, Jessica!