Expanding the medical physicist curricular and professional programme to include Artificial Intelligence.

Journal: Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
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Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a guideline curriculum related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), for the education and training of European Medical Physicists (MPs).

Authors

  • F Zanca
    Palindromo Consulting, W. de Croylaan, 51 3000 Leuven Belgium. Electronic address: Federica.Zanca@Palindromo.Consulting.
  • I Hernandez-Giron
    Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Radiology Department, Division of Image Processing, Albinusdreef 2, 2333ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • M Avanzo
    Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO) IRCCS, Department of Medical Physics, 33081 Aviano, PN, Italy.
  • G Guidi
    Medical Physics Department, Az. Ospedaliero Universitaria di Modena, Italy; Physics Department, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: guidi.gabriele@policlinico.mo.it.
  • W Crijns
    KU Leuven, Dept. Oncology, Laboratory of Experimental Radiotherapy, & UZ Leuven, Radiation Oncology, Belgium.
  • O Diaz
    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
  • G C Kagadis
    3DMI Research Group, Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, GR 265 04, Greece.
  • O Rampado
    S.C. Fisica Sanitaria, A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza, Corso Bramante 88/90, 10126 Turin, Italy. Electronic address: orampado@cittadellasalute.to.it.
  • P I Lønne
    Department of Medical Physics, Oslo University Hospital, PO Box 4953 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway.
  • S Ken
    Institut Universitaire du Cancer de Toulouse - Oncopole - Institut Claudius Regaud, Engineering and Medical Physics Department, Toulouse, France.
  • N Colgan
    School of Physics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
  • H Zaidi
    Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; Geneva University Neurocenter, Geneva University, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
  • G A Zakaria
    Biomedical Engineering, Faculty EMW, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Koethen, Germany.
  • M Kortesniemi
    HUS Medical Imaging Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.