技術獎助金 | Varian

綜合研究

• Resource-constrained areas
• Clinical Evidence/Trials
• Cost Effectiveness
• Value-Based Care
• Operational Studies (reducing infrastructure complexities, reducing clinician burden)

適應性放射治療

• Treatment quality (clinically meaningful metrics), compare to historical
• Outcome modeling (NCTP, TCP, etc.)
• Automated target contouring
• Clinical decision support -- offline or at- console
• Deformable image registration visualization
• Longitudinal response assessment
• Novel approaches pushing the therapeutic envelope (shrinking margins, increasing tumor doses)
• Functional adaptation (multi-modality imaging applications using adaptive tools)
• Novel use of adaptive tools (eg. rapid plan & treat)

人工智慧

• Increasing safety of systems and processes
• Error detection and augmentation (treatment planning, data transfer, imaging, treatment delivery)
• Decreasing planning and treatment variability
• Uncertainty quantification
• Assisted plan review
• Novel algorithms, benefits and applications
• AI agents
• Reinforcement learning, continuous or incremental learning
• Cognitive AI
• Clinical benefits
• Outcomes prediction

自動化

• Target segmentation
• Identification of crucial inputs
• Evidence-based decision making

癌症照護管理

• Decision support to enable precision medicine
• AI-based workflow optimization
• Patient Reported Outcomes and impact on care
• Elevating patient engagement
• AI-based scheduling and resource utilization
• Survivorship focused research
• Elevating outcomes using digital technology

臨床運作

• Analysis of care patterns, efficiency studies, etc
• Quantifying benefits of software tools
• Centralized treatment planning

臨床研究

• Use and value of new Varian technologies and solutions
• Use of SBRT, especially for oligometastatic disease
• Comparative and cost effectiveness studies (e.g., RT vs non-RT modalities)
• Clinical studies in precision medicine, incorporating genomic and/or radiomic information into Varian systems
• Role of radiotherapy as an immune system modulator
• Evaluation of novel applications of radiation using linear accelerators for non- oncologic diseases (functional SRS, pain, OCD, etc)

雲端軟體解決方案

• Aggregation and curation solutions
• Data security, cyber security
• Data privacy
• Efficient ways of transferring data to/from the cloud
• Microservices and workflow
• Web services
• Algorithm parallelization and high performance computing
• Assisted automated commissioning of algorithm updates

成像

• Dual energy imaging applications in RO
• Technology comparison of imaging techniques for specific applications
• Unique multi-modal imaging applications
• Site-specific imaging solutions for unmet clinical needs
• Incorporating imaging with dynamic trajectories during

移動管理

• Motion modeling/prediction (includes AI approaches)
• DTS for motion monitoring during treatment
• Soft tissue tracking/monitoring during treatment delivery
• Unique methods for noninvasive internal motion monitoring
• Respiratory regulation techniques/studies
• Optimal breath-hold approaches

Michael Davis 理學碩士和法學博士
研究與教學贊助主管
電子郵件：michael.davis@varian.com

Timo Berkus 博士
醫學聯絡窗口
地區：歐洲和印度
電子郵件：timo.berkus@varian.com

Camille Noel，MSCI，研究博士
醫學聯絡窗口
地區：北美洲東北部、東南部和中部
電子郵件：camille.noel@varian.com

Johnny Cheng
醫學聯絡窗口
地區：亞洲和澳洲
電子郵件：johnny.cheng@varian.com