Am Mittwoch, dem 27.01.2016 findet in der Lukasklause ab 15.00 Uhr das STIMULATE-Kolloquium statt.
Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Björn Menze, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and of Medicine at TU München
Thema: "Image-based modeling of tumor growth in patients with glioma"
Abstract: Glioma is the most frequent primary brain tumor and intensive neuroimaging protocols are used to evaluate the progression of the disease and the success of a chosen treatment strategy. This gives rise to large and complex multimodal data sets and extracting diagnostic information across different clinical imaging modalities and along time poses a significant problem when analysing these data. We provide an overview of the state of the art in brain tumor image segmentation, and present a generative model of tumor growth and image observation that describes the tumor evolution at the macroscopic imaging level. Model personalization relies on a forward model of the patho-physiological process adapted to organ geometries together with image likelihood functions, and an efficient Bayesian inference approach. We illustrate the application of the tumor growth model in radiation therapy.
CV: Professor Menze conducts research in the field of medical image computing. He develops algorithms that analyze biomedical images using models from computational physiology and biophysics. The emphasis of this work is on applications in clinical neuroimaging and the personalized modeling of tumor growth. He has organized workshops on medical computer vision and on neuroimaging at MICCAI, NIPS and CVPR, served as a member of the program committee of MICCAI, and is a member of the editorial board of the Medical Image Analysis journal. Professor Menze studied physics in Heidelberg (Germany) and Uppsala (Sweden) and obtained a PhD in computer science from Heidelberg University in 2007. He subsequently moved to Boston (USA) where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and MIT. This was followed by a research position at Inria in Sophia-Antipolis (France) and then by a senior researcher and lecturer position at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In 2013 he was the first scholar to have been appointed a Rudolf Moessbauer Professor at TUM. He now heads the 'Image-based Biomedical Modeling Group' at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering (IMETUM).
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