PhD candidate 'Al-powered handheld ultrasound for prenatal diagnosis'

Radboudumc

You will be part of two research groups within the Department of Medical Imaging at Radboudumc: the Medical UltraSound Imaging Center (

MUSIC

) and the Diagnostic Image Analysis Group (

DIAG

).

MUSIC is an international expertise center that develops ultrasound based techniques for improved diagnosis, guiding intervention and monitoring treatment. The close collaboration with clinicians on one side and commercial partners on the other side warrants that these techniques not only result in academic output, but also are translated to clinical applications and when appropriate to commercial products. Point-of-care ultrasound (ultrasound using handheld devices) is a new research line within MUSIC.

DIAG is an internationally renowned group on deep learning for medical imaging. DIAG currently has 50 deep learning researchers focused on various medical image analysis topics. The focus of DIAG is the development and validation of novel methods in a broad range of medical imaging applications. The key to the success of DIAG is close cooperation with clinicians. A team of scientific programmers supports deep learning research, maintaining a high-performance compute cluster with over 100 GPUs for large-scale experimentation.

Research Institutes
At the moment there are more than 1,300 PhD candidates at our medical hospital. This number includes PhD candidates on our pay roll as well as external candidates (those employed somewhere else but researching on our premises).

• Radboud Institute for Health Sciences: ± 700
• Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences: ± 400
• Donders Center for Medical Neurosciences: ± 200

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to do a PhD at the Radboud University Medical Center.

Radboudumc
Radboud university medical center is a university medical center for patient care, scientific research, and education in Nijmegen. Radboud university medical center strives to be at the forefront of shaping the healthcare of the future. We do this in a person-centered and innovative way, and in close collaboration with our network. We want to have a significant impact on healthcare. We want to improve with each passing day, continuously working towards better healthcare, research, and education. And gaining a better understanding of how diseases arise and how we can prevent, treat, and cure them, day in and day out. This way, every patient always receives the best healthcare, now and in the future. Because that is why we do what we do.

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