Politecnico Milano 1863

Research

Research in Computer-Aided Radiotherapy (CART) and Computer-Aided Surgery (CAS) focuses on leveraging advanced medical imaging, computational modeling, and innovative technologies to enhance cancer treatment and surgical interventions.

CART research is dedicated to enhancing radiotherapy accuracy and effectiveness through 2D-3D-4D medical imaging, methods for automatic structures delineation (segmentation), rigid and elastic image registration for planning and on the integration between in-room imaging and technologies for organ motion management, patient position, treatment verification and tumor localization in image-guided radiotherapy, as photon and particle therapy (proton and carbon ion therapy).

CAS research is focused on modeling of anatomo-pathological structures from volumetric images (CT, MRI) to provide decision support tools in surgical planning and navigation.

Specific research topics are:

A notable collaboration with the National Centre of Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO, Pavia, Italy) has resulted in the design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and clinical implementation of a customized integrated system for precise optical and image-based patient positioning and verification in proton-therapy and carbon-ion therapy.

CART