Supercomputer and AI to boost Danish cancer treatment – new project awarded €7 million
With a grant of over €7 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Grand AI Challenge, the AIM@CANCER project will enable researchers to harness the vast amounts of imaging data generated during radiation therapy for cancer patients to improve treatment outcomes.
Stine Sofia Korreman, a professor at the Department of Clinical Medicine and a researcher specializing in artificial intelligence and image analysis for enhancing radiation therapy, will lead the new project. She will work closely with researchers from Copenhagen, Odense, New York, and all radiation therapy clinics across Denmark.
The aim is to develop an advanced AI model capable of analyzing medical images, such as CT and MRI scans, so that radiation therapy can be optimized and tailored to each individual cancer patient.
“We will establish a research center where all researchers collaborate closely on the project both nationally and internationally. The goal is to develop an AI model that functions somewhat like a large language model - but for medical images - which can make treatment more precise and better suited to the individual patient, while also easing the workload for doctors,” says Professor Stine Korreman.
The grant paves the way for 15 new research positions and grants the project access to the supercomputer GEFION, which will process 130 million images from Danish radiation therapy clinics, enabling groundbreaking cancer research at an unprecedented pace. This extensive medical image dataset is believed to be the largest of its kind in the world.
The project’s goal is not only to improve treatment for the approximately 14,000 Danish cancer patients who receive radiation therapy each year, but also to develop solutions that can be scaled globally - particularly to benefit low- and middle-income countries.
Contact
Professor Stine Korreman
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine
Aarhus University Hospital, Danish Centre for Particle Therapy (DCPT)
Telephone: +45 28 11 98 86
Email: stine.korreman@clin.au.dk