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 London Health Sciences Centre 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, PhD is a Professor and Radiation Oncologist at Western University in London, Canada. He holds an MD from the University of Western Ontario, a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a PhD from the VU University in Amsterdam. He has led several randomized trials in radiation oncology, focusing on oligometastases, lung cancer, and head and neck cancer, and he is the founding chair of the Canadian Pulmonary Radiotherapy Investigators (CAPRI) group. He is the author of the bestselling book Taking Charge of Cancer: What You Need to Know to Get the Best Treatment.
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Dr. Pencilla Lang, MD, PhD is a radiation oncologist at the London Health Sciences Center and Assistant Professor at Western University in the Department of Oncology. She treats head and neck, lung and soft tissue (bones, cartilage and muscle) cancers. Her PhD focused on image-guidance of medical devices. Her research interests include prediction models in oncology, and translation of research tools into the clinical environment.
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Our Affiliations and Funding Partners
