Radiotherapy and Machine Learning for Head and Neck Cancer Workshop
Workshop on Radiotherapy, machine learning and Head and Neck Cancer
Interdisciplinary workshop on Head and Neck Cancer
Aim
To provide a platform to exchange ideas, raise awareness of recent developments and stimulate discussion on data oriented research into Head and Neck (H&N) cancer.
Areas of the workshop
Clinically
- What questions need answering?
- What data is routinely collected?
- How can data analysis improve H&N cancer treatment?
Methodological
- What is Machine Learning? Data Science?
- What data do researchers need?
- What methods can be applied to clinical data?
Important details
When: Tuesday 10th March 9.30-4.30
Where: Private Dining Room 1, County South, Lancaster University
Who: Researchers, Academics and Clinicians in the fields of statistics, data science, ML, Radiotherapy and H&N
Speakers
The current confirmed speakers are listed below, more will be added in the coming weeks.
Glyn Shentall
Glyn Shentall is the Head of Radiotherapy Physics at the Rosemere Cancer Centre in Preston and Visiting Professor at the University of Cumbria. Glyn has over 37 years experience working in this field, previously working at The Royal Free Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospitals in London. Glyn has been involved with innovative research through the clinical application of physics particularly in dynamic radiotherapy.
Andrew Green
Dr Andrew Green is a research fellow in software engineering based at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. His research focuses on generating hypotheses that will inform clinical practise and improve cancer survival through exploratory data analysis. His work includes the use of a novel atlas for muscles of mastication to reduce inter observer variability in H&N radiotherapy contouring and Machine learning to explore the effect of Sarcopenia for patients undergoing cancer treatments.
North West Cancer Research
North West Cancer Research (NWCR) is the leading cancer charity for the North West and North Wales, focusing on types of cancer that affect people in the region. They fund pioneering research into the cause, care and cure of cancer. NWCR highlight H&N cancer as a regional cancer that requires addressing, therefore prioritising this as an area of continued funding.
Jamie-Leigh Chapman
Dr Jamie-Leigh Chapman is a Data Scientist at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS. Her work involves developing and implementing systems based on routinely collected hospital data to contribute towards service improvement. Prior to this Jamie was the lead data scientist at Howz and completed a PhD in statistics and operational research. Projects she has worked on include forecasting online delivery sales for a large supermarket, learning people’s routines and detecting changes using smart home data and developing an admission risk score for A&E attendees.
Matthias Ehrgott
Matthias is Professor in Management Science at Lancaster University. He is the current president of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making. He studies the theory, methodology and application of multi-objective optimisation in particular in transportation and health. Matthias has worked on many aspects of radiotherapy treatment planning in oncology and is interested in data driven methods to help treatment planners achieve the best outcome for patients.
Rob Lyon
Rob is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Edge Hill University. His research interests include the development of new machine learning algorithms for imbalanced learning problems, real-time data processing, image analysis,and the ethics of A.I. He is the principle investigator for an STFC funded project that set up the Radiotherapy Machine Learning Network
