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New ultra-high field MRI system available for Radboudumc and Radboud University

10 June 2021

Recently, the Hahn institute in Essen has received a new heart: a 20-ton ultra-high-field MRI scanner from Siemens Healthcare with a magnetic field strength of 7 Tesla. The new CE-approved scanner is ready for business, and projects on body and brain imaging are starting up.

Image recognition for population-based lung cancer screening An interview with Bram van Ginneken

26 April 2021

Being able to automatically recognize lung tumors on CT scans: professor of functional image analysis Bram van Ginneken developed software within his Vici project that is now used worldwide. The resulting cost savings bring the introduction of a population-based lung cancer screening closer.

Millions of euros for study of laser treatment for glioblastoma

2 April 2021

A research group from Radboudumc and UMC Utrecht is to investigate laser treatment of a rare brain tumor, glioblastoma. 3.9 million euros has been made available for the research by Zorginstituut Nederland and ZonMw, under the auspices of the Subsidy Scheme for Promising Care.

PANCAIM aims to significantly improve diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer

10 March 2021

PANCAIM: A European consortium to improve pancreatic cancer treatment with artificial intelligence optimizing, integrating genomics and medical imaging.

Radiation boost lowers risk of prostate cancer recurrence

21 January 2021

An additional external-beam radiation dose delivered directly to the tumor can benefit the prospects of men with non-metastatic prostate cancer, without causing additional side effects. The risk of relapse within five years for these men is smaller than for men who did not receive this boost.

Research on improved irradiation of liver tumors from within NWO grant for public-private partnership

25 August 2020

A research consortium of Radboud university medical center, the University of Twente, University Medical Center Groningen and five companies will be using a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to optimize the treatment of liver tumors with radioembolization

First podcast 'AI for Life' about Artificial Intelligence in Nijmegen Podcast on medical image processing with Bram van Ginneken, Ritse Mann and Eva van Rikxoort

16 July 2020

The first podcast on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Nijmegen was released today. In this podcast on spotify and anchor Bram van Ginneken, Ritse Mann and Eva van Rikxoort talk about AI and medical image processing. The next podcast is about smart chatbots.

UMCs work together on the FAIRification of patient registries

4 June 2020

It has become easier for scientists working with rare diseases to exchange research data. By researchers from Radboudumc and Amsterdam UMC, a rare disease registry codebook has been created. The codebook facilitates data exchange between institutions with different electronic data capture software.

Evaluation of an AI system for detection of COVID-19 on Chest X-Ray images

22 May 2020

In the journal Radiology researchers from Radboudumc, Bernhoven Hospital and Jeroen Bosch Hospital described how an artificial intelligence system (CAD4COVID-XRay) can identify characteristics of COVID-19 on chest x-rays with performance comparable to six independent radiologists.

Jurgen Fütterer appointed Professor of Image-Guided Oncological Interventions

26 February 2020

RIHS researcher Fütterer is an interventional radiologist and an expert in the field of cancer imaging techniques, image-guided interventions and robotics. He is also Professor at the Robotics and Mechatronics Group at the University of Twente.

RIHS Awards Ceremony five winners

19 February 2020

On 18 February the RIHS 'Koek & Zopie' event took place. In front of an audience of more than 125 colleagues, RIHS awardees accepted their awards for the best PhD thesis, the research product with the highest impact on society, the best peer-reviewed publication and the Supervisor of the year 2019.

SPL Medical starts clinical trial with contrast agent ferrotran

11 February 2020

SPL Medical is starting an international registration study for its contrast agent Ferrotran. The study is being conducted in ten hospitals in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. RIHS researcher Jelle Barentsz discovered the value of this drug in patients with lymph node metastases.

New Guidelines for the detection of prostate cancer MRI instead of tissue samples

3 February 2020

The module on diagnostic prostate MRI for the NVU guidelines for prostate carcinoma took effect on 29 January 2020. The development of these guidelines is due in part to the efforts of RIHS researcher Jelle Barentsz and Ivo Schoots (Erasmus MC).

Supplemental MRI screening for women with extremely dense breast tissue

9 January 2020

In the New England Journal of Medicine, the DENSE trial study group including RIHS researchers Ritse Mann and Nico Karssemeijer showed that additional MRI after the nationwide breast screening, reduces interval breast cancer in women with extremely dense breast tissue.

Is Google's lung cancer AI ready for implementation?

19 December 2019

In Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, Colin Jacobs and Bram van Ginneken discussed the recent paper by Google AI in Nature Medicine on deep learning models for automatic detection of lung cancer from computed tomography.

Awarded KWF grants for Radboudumc researchers

18 December 2019

KWF is investing 2.7 million euros in five different studies at Radboudumc. The awards are part of the new round of funding by DCS, in which over 34 million euros will be granted to Dutch cancer research. We congratulate our researchers with this funding and wish them success with their great work.

Jelle Barentsz's trilogy of educational papers in European Urology

12 December 2019

Recently, a trilogy of educational papers by our full professor Jelle Barentsz has been published in European Urology. The publications address what urologists need to know about prostate-MRI.

ERC Consolidator Grant for Bousema and Sechopoulos

12 December 2019

Teun Bousema and Ioannis Sechopoulos each receive an ERC Consolidator Grant of around two million euros. This European research subsidy will enable them to carry out research for the next five years.

Technology for Oncology II grant application funded

21 November 2019

The grant application called "aiREAD – Accurate and Intelligent Reading for EArlier breast cancer Detection” by project leader Ioannis Sechopoulos, has been selected for funding under the NWO TTW – KWF Kankerbestrijding – Top Sector LSH Partnership “Technology for Oncology II”.

Radboudumc and Quirem Medical sign cooperation agreement

31 October 2019

Radboudumc and Quirem Medical signed an agreement for joint research. The agreement includes several existing and future projects based on small radioactive spheres. Enhanced cooperation should improve the treatment of cancer patients and stimulate research into new applications.

VIDI grant for Ritse Mann

27 May 2019

Ritse Mann, theme Women's cancers, receives up to 800,000 euros to develop an innovative research theme and to build up his own research group. NWO is awarding the Vidi grant as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.

Algorithm calculates the presence and aggressiveness of prostate tumors

14 May 2019

A computer program that analyzes MRI images can reliably map the presence and even the aggressiveness of a prostate tumor. This is what Radboudumc researchers and international colleagues have published in the scientific journal Investigative Radiology.

NWO grant 900,000 euros for Chris de Korte

30 April 2019

Chris obtained an Open Technology Program (OTP) grant from NWO Engineering and Applied Sciences for his work on vascular flow imaging using ultrasound.

Honorary Membership Japanese Radiological Society

18 April 2019

During the annual meeting of the Japanese Radiological Society in Yokohama Jelle Barentsz became honorary member.

Rubicon grant for Linda Heskamp

9 April 2019

Linda Heskamp, theme Urological cancers, received a Rubicon grant for her project: Imaging muscle function in ALS patients.

Artificial intelligence vs. 101 radiologists for breast cancer detection

7 March 2019

In an article appearing in the journal of the National Cancer Institute, Ioannis Sechopoulos and colleagues showed that current artificial intelligence systems can detect breast cancer in mammograms as well as a breast radiologists.

Ioannis Sechopoulos elected Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

24 January 2019

Ioannis was named Fellow of the AAPM due to his distinguished contributions to medical physics and the esteem in which he is held by his peers.

Making pregnancy ultrasound available in developing countries

24 January 2019

Many pregnant women in developing countries do not receive an ultrasound examination. As a result, pregnancy risks often go unnoticed, which contributes to the high maternal mortality rates in these countries.

Radboud university medical center treats metastatic liver cancer with holmium microspheres MRI imaging during surgery can improve the outcome

4 January 2019

For the first time Radboud university medical center has treated a patient with liver metastases by using holmium radio-embolization. With this technique, radioactive holmium microspheres are injected via a catheter into the liver artery.

Rectal cancer staging using MRI with endorectal filling

19 September 2018

In the British Journal of Radiology Rutger Stijns and colleagues, showed that using MRI with endorectal filling did not lead to an improved rectal cancer staging and that it has the potential to influence the distance to a key anatomical landmark.

Computer models to predict failure in the spine

28 August 2018

In the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Karlijn Groenen, Dennis Janssen and colleagues reported on their subject-specific non-linear finite element models for predicting vertebral collapse of the metastatically affected spine.

Imaging modalities in synchronous oligometastatic prostate cancer

22 August 2018

In World Journal of Urology Jurgen Fütterer and colleagues described that functional imaging is of added value in patients with oligometastatic prostate cancer.

Disagreement among radiologists on what a perifissural nodule is

10 July 2018

In Radiology Anton Schreuder et al. showed that there is a low agreement among experienced radiologists on what a benign perifissural nodule is on CT, and that the chances that a lung cancer is misclassified as a such is low but not negligible.

Deep learning identifies tumor-associated stroma in breast histopathology

26 June 2018

According to a recent paper of Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi, Jeroen van der Laak and colleagues, deep learning based analysis of digitized microscopic images could accurately identify tumor-associated morphological alterations in the stroma neighboring breast cancer.

ScreenPoint Medical raises 4.3 million euros

7 June 2018

ScreenPoint Medical raises 4.3 million euros for market introduction of mammogram-interpreting AI system.

Brock malignancy risk calculator for pulmonary nodules

6 June 2018

Kaman Chung, Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop and colleagues described the results of their research in Thorax.

Personalizing lung cancer CT screening follow-up

25 April 2018

In Thorax BMJ journals Anton Schreuder, Bram van Ginneken and colleagues described a lung cancer risk model specific for determining whether a CT screening participant should be rescanned one or two years after the baseline scan.

Smart use of artificial intelligence increases reading efficiency of breast ultrasound

20 March 2018

Jan van Zelst and Ritse Mann showed the results of their research in European Radiology.

Beyond the scientist: Anton Nikolaev

14 February 2018

PhD candidate at the department of Radiology and Nuclear medicine and is working on ultrasound guided robotic biopsy.

Computers easily recognize diseases as doctors - or better

14 December 2017

Everywhere where people look at photos, you can also use computers, says Bram van Ginneken in the Volkskrant.

NWO Perspectief grant for Efficient Deep Learning program

23 November 2017

Henkjan Huisman and Jeroen van der Laak ( department of Radiology) are participating with two projects.

NWO Open Mind grant for Gert Weijers and Freke Wilmink

16 November 2017

What do the lungs of unborn children sound like?

Arend Heerschap honorary member of the ESMRMB

26 October 2017

The European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology.

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