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PIDSC Young Investigator Award
SNMMI symposium and competition, in association with the Computer and Instrumentation Council, for the best scientific abstracts on computer and instrumentation nuclear medicine. The objectives of the award are to identify promising young investigators working in computer and instrumentation nuclear medicine. To be considered, submitting authors must check the designated box (Consider for YI award?) during their online abstract submissions for the SNMMI Annual Meeting.
Only abstracts submitted to categories within the Instrumentation & Data Analysis track will be considered for the ERF PIDSC Young Investigator Award Symposium.
- All applicants must be currently enrolled or within five (5) years of a completed certified training program.
- All former first prize winners are ineligible.
- Abstracts must be submitted to one of the instrumentation & data analysis track.
- All applicants must choose "Oral" as the Presentation Type.
Monetary prizes are offered for the above award in the following amounts:
- 1st Prize: $500
- 2nd Prize: $300
- 3rd Prize: $200
2021 PIDSC Young Investigator Award Winners
First Place
First author: Elena Maria Zannoni
Second Place
Data-driven motion compensation using cGAN for total-body [18F]FDG-PET imaging
First author: Lalith K. Shiyam Sundar
Third Place
36-to-1 Multiplexing with Prism-PET for High Resolution TOF-DOI PET
First author: Andy LaBella
Honorable Mention
Super-resolution in brain PET Using a Real Time Motion Capture System
First author: Yanis Chemli
First author: Ivan S. Klyuzhin
First author: Da-ano Ronrick
Self-supervised Bone Scan Denoising
First author: Si Young Yie
Past PIDSC Young Investigator Award Winners