Collaborating with Bonn University to improve patient outcomes
2 min read 23 March 2023
Peter Mac welcomed a delegation from Bonn University, Germany to collaborate on a new area of research in the field of artificial intelligence and radiomics.
Dr Hyun Ko, Radiologist and clinician researcher at Peter Mac said that radiomics is an emerging technique of extracting large quantities of additional data from medical images that cannot be appreciated by the naked eye.
“Another ground-breaking tool in medicine is the use of artificial intelligence to better understand the prognosis and progression of someone’s cancer,” said Dr Ko.
“It really is a new promising field in personalised and precision medicine,” she said.
Research projects in pancreatic cancer and cancer cachexia will be the first to use the expertise from Bonn University and Peter Mac’s clinical, research and artificial intelligence knowledge.
Dr Ko’s expertise in radiology and in radiomics and artificial intelligence aims to improve patient outcomes.
“Artificial intelligence can be divided into machine learning and deep learning,” said Dr Ko.
“Machine learning automates big data handling (large quantities of data) while deep learning takes big data analysis to a higher level by making new connections among factors that might otherwise not be made.
“It therefore might come up with new life-altering or even life-saving discovery because it was able to syphon through big data that humans are not capable to capture,” she said.
The collaboration between Peter Mac and Bonn University is a perfect match of skillsets said University Hospital of Bonn Director of Radiology, Prof Ulrike Attenberger.
“We have been building up our artificial intelligence expertise for the last three years and there is already a strong relationship with Peter Mac and Melbourne University so there is a large scope for many conjoint research opportunities,” she said.
The delegation saw four key representatives, led by the Dean of the medical faculty Prof Bernd Weber and Managing Director of experimental immunology Prof Christian Kurts from Bonn University tour Peter Mac research facilities while an additional group joined online to hear further about the proposed research projects.
We look forward to sharing the outcomes of this exciting new area of research in the future.