Our Research Team
Our research team brings together cancer imaging scientists, postdoctoral fellows, postgraduate students in MSc and PhD programs and research support staff.
We have a variety of backgrounds including medical biophysics, medical imaging, biomedical engineering, biology and health sciences, radiation therapy, radiation oncology, mathematics, computer science, epidemiology and biostatistics.
We have a variety of backgrounds including medical biophysics, medical imaging, biomedical engineering, biology and health sciences, radiation therapy, radiation oncology, mathematics, computer science, epidemiology and biostatistics.
Principal Investigators
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Dr. Sarah Mattonen, PhD is an assistant professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics, Oncology, and Biomedical Engineering within the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. 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.
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Dr. Aaron Ward, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering and Oncology within the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. He is also a Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. His research program focuses on the development and application of machine learning, image registration, and image segmentation techniques to further improve image-guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for cancer patients. His team applies these techniques to both medical imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and ultrasound, as well as high-resolution digital histopathology images, and has developed imaging-histopathology fusion techniques for imaging validation.
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Dr. David Palma, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC is a radiation oncologist at the London Health Sciences Centre and a Clinician-Scientist with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. His research focuses on translational imaging science, including evaluating new imaging and radiotherapy technologies and running clinical trials. He is the chair of the Canadian Pulmonary Radiotherapy Investigators Group and also runs a patient website focused on improving quality of cancer care. His clinical practice focuses on the treatment of lung cancer, head and neck cancer, and oligometastatic disease.
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Our Affiliations and Funding Partners
