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Seminário do CEG-IST
15 março 2021, 12:44 - Fátima Jacinto
No
âmbito do Ciclo de Seminários CEG-IST, temos o prazer de anunciar a realização
do seguinte seminário:
Título:
“Operations Research in Medicine: An important contribution to Medical Physics”
Palestrante:
Joana Matos Dias, Universidade de Coimbra e INESC Coimbra
Dia: 26 de Março 2021
(Sexta-feira)
Hora:
15h30
O seminário decorrerá no Zoom, no seguinte link.
Resumo: When thinking of Operations Research
and health, most of us will immediately think of operations research
applications to health logistics (optimal scheduling, location problems,
assignment optimization, and so on). However, operations research can also have
a very important impact in medicine, improving the treatment delivered to
patients. This is the case with radiotherapy treatments, where operations
research is a central and fundamental scientific discipline to be able to
assure that patients do receive the most adequate treatment. Radiotherapy uses
cutting edge technology, allowing high doses of radiation to be delivered to
the structures that are meant to be treated (tumors) and, at the same time,
sparing as most as possible the healthy tissues. For each patient, a truly
personalized treatment plan must be planned, and this is done resorting to a
TPS (treatment planning system). This is a dedicated software where the
treatment planner has to follow a trial-and-error process until the best
possible treatment plan is found. This can be a lengthy process, and the
quality of the final plan is highly dependent on the planner’s experience.
Operations Research, in a fruitful collaboration with Medical Physics, can
change this paradigm: it can contribute to transform this trial-and-error
procedure into an automatic process. The overall objective is that better plans
are found in less time, freeing the planner for other very important tasks,
like quality assurance and control. In this presentation, this connection
between Operations Research and Medical Physics will be presented, as well as
some of the work that is being developed by a Portuguese research team, and
many interesting paths for future research.
Biografia da
palestrante: Joana
Matos Dias has a BSc in Computers Engineering (University of Coimbra, 1996), an
MSc in Operations Research (University of Lisbon, 2000), an MSc in Quantitative
Finance (University of London, 2011), a PhD and Habilitation in Management
Science (University of Coimbra, 2006, 2017). She is an Associate Professor at
the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, where she has been
responsible for several curricular units like informatics, logistics,
operations research, modeling in management, simulation. She is also a
researcher at Inesc-Coimbra. Her main research interest is decision making
models and algorithms in general, and operations research applied to health
problems, combinatorial optimization, multiobjective optimization, in
particular. She is author or co-author of two books and more than 90 papers in
refereed international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.
Página pessoal da palestrante: https://www.uc.pt/feuc/joanamatosdias
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