The SWAN Project supports postgraduate research for students at our main collaborating university, the University of Western Australia, as well as under supervision of partners at collaborating institutions. The SWAN Project integrates data collected during multi-centre clinical trials and facilitates subsequent data analytics for deriving models of outcomes and for development of new and efficient treatment technologies. As such, the project can support research spanning the following areas, for students studying medical physics, computer science, biostatistics, clinical oncology, radiation therapy, informatics:
- The development of data acquisition and processing systems for medical imaging and radiation oncology clinical trials.
- Multi-modal image registration.
- Image segmentation.
- Image processing, radiomics and derivation of imaging biomarkers.
- Optimisation and operations research approaches for radiotherapy treatment planning.
- Biostatistics, machine learning and deep learning approaches to outcomes modelling.
- Patient outcomes assessment.
- Trial-specific questions relating technique, radiotherapy dose prescription and patient-specific features to survival, disease progression and treatment toxicity.
- Clinical trial data quality assurance (QA) and the impact of QA on clinical trial and analysis outcomes.
Inquiries should be directed to NMHSswanproject@health.wa.gov.au.