This webinar showcases a Wollongong-grown software called OnkoDICOM, used by medical specialists to save lives.
Event Start:
Tue 26 Oct 06:00 PM AEDT
Event Finish:
Tue 26 Oct 07:00 PM AEDT
Registration End Date: Mon 25 Oct 12:00 PM
<p>In this webinar, you will learn about the <a href="https://onkodicom.com.au/" target="_blank">OnkoDICOM</a> Project. Our special guest speaker, Professor Andrew Miller from the Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, will demonstrate how the OnkoDICOM software can help individual oncologists and others in their research and clinical work. </p> <p><br>OnkoDICOM is not a standard piece of software in hospitals. Using OnkoDICOM, event guests will be taken on a CT imaging journey of a patient with lung problems which could relate to radiotherapy, immunotherapy and/or COVID-19. </p> <p><br>The audience will gain first-hand knowledge describing the usefulness of this kind of tool, and how it can assist doctors to undertake research using images.</p> <p> </p> <p>While OnkoDICOM is developed for Radiation Oncologists, the demonstration will show how diagnostic imaging research can assist in other medical specialities.</p> <p> </p> <p>The presentation will define the advantages in having students from the University of Wollongong design and develop OnkoDICOM for all doctors, rather than doctors relying on commercial software for purchase.</p> <p> </p> <p>The final part of the evening recognises Professor Willy Susilo, Head of School, SCIT, the University of Wollongong as a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.</p> <p><br><u><b>Background on why OnkoDICOM is revolutionising the work for Radiation Oncologists</b></u></p> <p><br>When a technology can help save lives, it’s worth getting excited about.<br>X-rays and other medical images have been used for over 100 years. Rather than film, scans like MRI, CT, X-Ray are now created using digital imaging. Doctors use these scans to determine the best treatments.</p> <p> </p> <p>Radiomics is a field of medical study that aims to understand more of the information held in digital images. The information is assessed for improved decision support. In addition, it has the potential to uncover disease characteristics that are difficult to identify by human vision alone.<br>Radiomics software for Medical Physicists was becoming very common. However, there was very little Radiomics software specifically for Radiation Oncologists. The creation of OnkoDICOM at Wollongong University fills this void.</p> <p> </p> <p>OnkoDICOM will soon be in Beta Release. OnkoDICOM is already being used in clinical research. Students from Albania, Saudi Arabia, France, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, China and Australia have collaborated to produce the software in their final year projects.</p> <p> </p> <p>Some of the world’s best Universities have students work on real open source projects. Hence, the students experience working on more extensive projects than their small teams could attempt and learn to code in environments requiring governance and complex standards. For example, the DICOM standard is over 1000 pages in length. Three years, 28 students and five student teams is a great deal of hard work.<br><br><br><img alt="User-added image" src="https://id.acs.org.au/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?id=0150o00000HtBqK&oid=00D90000000o5NE&lastMod=1632982307000"></img></p>
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