CMIC Seminar: Tom Doel and Catarina Veiga

Speaker: Tom Doel and Catarina Veiga
UCL Contact: Dominique Drai (Visitors from outside UCL please email in advance).
Date/Time: 04 May 16, 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: Roberts 106

Abstract

Tom Doel

Title: GIFT-Cloud: a secure data sharing and collaboration platform for medical imaging research.

Abstract:

GIFT-Cloud provides clinicians with a simple process for uploading clinical images directly from their hospital systems to an anonymised research server at UCL, from where they can be accessed by collaborators from multiple institutions. A server API allows direct integration with research software, so researchers can share their results back to the clinicians. GIFT-Cloud builds upon the XNAT system, adding customised gateway software for integration at multiple sites. Both pixel data and metadata are anonymised on-site to ensure that no personal identifiable information leaves the hospital. We developed GIFT-Cloud to support the GIFT-Surg project, an international collaboration across five institutions, which aims to develop novel software and hardware for fetal therapy and surgery. gift-surg.ac.uk

Catarina Veiga

Title: CBCT and deformable image registration for adaptive lung proton therapy

Abstract:

Proton dose distribution is sensitive to inter-fractional changes such as tumour regression and density changes in lung that occur during proton therapy. Cone-beam CT (CBCT) can be used in proton therapy to reduce the number of verification CT scans currently acquired, but is not yet widely available in clinical settings. The world’s first clinical cone-beam CT (CBCT) system mounted on a proton-gantry became available at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center (Philadelphia, USA), and started being used clinically in September 2014. In this talk I will present the implementation and validation of an in-house adaptive proton therapy for lung patients, which uses CBCT imaging, deformable image registration and a fast range-corrected dose estimation.