Mattonen Lab

Principal Investigator
Dr. Sarah Mattonen, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Western University in the Department of Medical Biophysics with a cross-appointment in the Department of Oncology. She holds the inaugural Gerald C. Baines Research Chair for Translational Cancer Imaging. She is also a scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. She received her PhD in Medical Biophysics from Western University in 2016 and completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University in the Department of Radiology in 2019. Her research interests include developing, evaluating, and translating quantitative image analysis tools to support diagnosis, treatment, and response assessment in oncology. Her laboratory develops tools in image segmentation, image feature extraction, and outcome modelling to correlate imaging features with clinical outcomes. These computational imaging models will assist clinicians in decision-making and allow for personalized medicine, with the goal of improving outcomes for cancer patients.

Current Students

Tricia Chinnery, BSc, is currently a CAMPEP PhD candidate in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University.  She completed her Honours BSc in Medical Physics (Co-op) at McMaster University in 2019.  Her research involves using radiomics on the CT images of oropharyngeal cancer patients to predict recurrence and survival.  Outside of the lab, she enjoys singing and playing the ukulele. 
Jaryd Christie, BSc, is currently a CAMPEP PhD candidate in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. He completed his BSc at Western University in 2019 with an Honours Specialization in Medical Biophysics. His research focuses on risk stratification in lung cancer patients using radiomics and machine learning on pre-treatment CT images. In his spare time, he enjoys football, tennis and playing the guitar.
Lauren Zelko, BSc, is currently a MSc student in the Department of  Medical Biophysics at Western University. She recently completed her fourth year thesis project focusing on the reproducibility of radiomic biopsies on PET/CT imaging. She will be staying in the lab and starting her MSc this September analyzing MRI and CT images for patients undergoing radiotherapy for bone metastases.
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 Edward Wang, BASc,  is an MD/PhD student in the Department of  Medical Biophysics at Western University. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 2019 with a degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering. He is currently completing his first two years of medical school and will be officially starting his PhD in 2022. During his PhD, he will study how radiomic features can be linked to genomic information in head and neck cancers.