Conferences

We have organized a two days course included in the Portuguese School of Medical Physics:

We have been participating in several different scientific events:

Dias, Joana (2021) “Operations Research and Medical Physics: A Match Made in Heaven”, Fast and furious: lightning talks in the Practice of OR Stream, 31st European Conference on Operational Research, 11-14 July 2021, Athens, Greece (hybrid format) Invited Presentation

Dias, Joana, Humberto Rocha, Tiago Ventura, Brígida Ferreira e Maria do Carmo Lopes (2021) “Clinical Validation of a Graphical Method for Radiation Therapy Plan Quality Assessment: elicitation of preferences using linear programming”, 31st European Conference on Operational Research, 11-14 July 2021, Athens, Greece (hybrid format)

Rocha, Humberto and Joana Dias (2021) “Selection of Beam Directions for Prostate Cancer Treated with Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy using a Randomized Direct-Search Method”, 31st European Conference on Operational Research, 11-14 July 2021, Athens, Greece (hybrid format)

Rocha H., Joana Dias, Carrasqueira P., Ventura T., Ferreira B., Lopes M..C. (2020) “Comparison of Different Strategies for Arc Therapy Optimization”. 20th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA2020) – Remote Conference, 1 – 4 July 2020

Ventura T., M. C. Lopes, H. Rocha, B. Ferreira B., Joana Dias (2019) Advantage of Beam Angle Optimization in Head-and-Neck IMRT: Patient Specific Analysis. XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, Coimbra, Portugal, 26-28 September 2019

Ferreira, B., Joana Dias, A. Gomes, P. Mavroidis, H. Rocha (2020) Dose-Response to Different Radiochemotherapy Regimens in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer. XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, Coimbra, Portugal, 26-28 September 2019

Rocha, H., Joana Dias, T. Ventura, B. Ferreira. M.C. Lopes (2020) Optimization of Highly Noncoplanar Arc Therapy Trajectories: A Dosimetric Approach. XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, Coimbra, Portugal, 26-28 September 2019

Dias, Joana, Humberto Rocha, Tiago Ventura, Brígida Ferreira and Maria do Carmo Lopes (2019) “Optimization meets Medical Physics: planning radiotherapy treatments with BAO approaches”, ORAHS 2019, Conference of the European Working Group on Operations Research Applied to Healthcare Services, Karlsruhe, Germany, 28 July-2 August 2019.

Dias, Joana, Humberto Rocha, Tiago Ventura, Brígida Ferreira e Maria do Carmo Lopes (2019) “Optimização Angular no planeamento de tratamentos de radioterapia: a importância da escolha da função objectivo”, XX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Tomar, Portugal, 22-24 July 2019.

Rocha, Humberto, Joana Dias, Tiago Ventura, Brígida Costa Ferreira, Maria do Carmo Lopes (2019) “An Optimization Approach For Noncoplanar Intensity-Modulated Arc Therapy Trajectories”, 19th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA2019), St. Petersburg, Russia,  1 to 4 July 2019

Humberto Rocha, Joana Dias, Tiago Ventura, Brígida Ferreira and Maria do Carmo Lopes (2018), “Optimização Angular no Planeamento de Tratamentos de Radioterapia: a importância da escolha da função objectivo na exploração do espaço de soluções”, XIX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Operacional, Aveiro, Portugal, 5-7 September, 2018

Rocha H., Joana Dias, Ventura T., Ferreira B., do Carmo Lopes M. (2018) “Beam angle optimization in IMRT: are we really optimizing what matters?”, 29th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO2018), Valencia, Spain, 8th - 11th  July, 2018

Rocha H., Joana Dias, Ventura T., Ferreira B., do Carmo Lopes M. (2018) “Comparison of Combinatorial and Continuous Frameworks for the Beam Angle Optimization Problem in IMRT”, The 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2018), 2-5 July, Melbourbe, Australia

Ferreira B., P. Mavroidis, Joana Dias, H. Rocha (2018) “Incorporating the Local Biological Effect of Dose Per Fraction in IMRT Inverse Optimization”. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, 3-8 June, Prague, Check Republic