Editorial by Prof Manolis Tsiknakis, Coordinator of ProCAncer-I project The ProCAncer-I consortium welcomes you to our first newsletter! We are very happy that our project ProCAncer-I on dealing with prostate cancer was funded by the EU and that through its successful...
Newsletter #1
MRI based Artificial Intelligence tools will improve the management of patients with prostate cancer
Βy Prof. Daniele Regge [Chief of the Radiology Unit, Candiolo Cancer Institute, Torino-Italy] and Simone Mazzetti [Candiolo Cancer Institute, Torino-Italy] Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed tumour in Europe with one new cancer detected every...
The major challenge of a common anonymization strategy
Βy Prof Kostas Marias [Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)], Ioannis Karatzanis [Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)] and Katerina Nikiforaki [Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)] Anonymization is an...
Interview with Dr. Nickolas Papanickolaou (Scientific Coordinator of the project) on the vision of the project
Βy Nickolas Papanikolaou [Principal Investigator in Oncologic Imaging at the Fundação Champalimaud] Why did you select prostate cancer as the center of your research? What kind of clinical unmet needs will be addressed in ProCancer-I? Prostate cancer is among the most...
Legal and Ethical Aspects of ProCAncer-I: The Anonymisation of Personal Data
By the legal team of ProCAncer-I, The University of Vienna Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law (UNIVIE) Given the innovative nature of the technology being developed in the ProCAncer-I project, complex legal questions have arisen concerning the...
Presentation of partner Radboud UMC – Major Clinical partner of the project
By the Radboud UMC Radboudumc is one of the leading centres for prostate cancer imaging worldwide. Within the ProCAncer-I project, two groups of the Department of Imaging of Radboudumc are represented. The Diagnostic Image Analysis Group (DIAG), under the...
Presentation of partner UNIVIE – Legal partner of the project
By the University of Vienna – Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law (UNIVIE) The University of Vienna is the oldest University in the German-speaking world, and the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law is the newest addition to the...
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Highlights

The ProCAncer-I at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) in Malta
Nov 28, 2023
The ProCAncer-I Consortium is organising a mini symposium under the scope Data Engineering in Cancer, chaired by prof. Dimitris Fotiadis and are inviting every interested stakeholder to participate. The mini symposium will take place during the IEEE EMBS International Conference on Data Science and Engineering in Healthcare, Medicine & Biology, in Malta (Hilton Malta Hotel) on December 7, 2023 – December 9, 2023, on the second day.

ProCAncer-I at the “Al and Cancer: Unleashing Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges” workshop
Nov 16, 2023
240 professionals from more than 20 countries registered for the workshop event ’Al and Cancer: Unleashing Opportunities, Overcoming Challenges’, coorganized by INCISIVE, EUCAIM, and the AI4HI cluster, with the local support of Medtronic and TIC Salut Social Foundation, the 7th of November in Madrid, Spain.

Prof Tsiknakis: Launch of the federal European infrastructure for cancer imaging
Oct 23, 2023
The EUCAIM (European Federation for Cancer Images) project is the cornerstone of the European Cancer Imaging Initiative, launched by the European Commission, within the framework of the European Beating Cancer Plan, emphasized Prof. Manolis Tsiknakis, as Coordinator of the ProCAncer-I project and Affiliated Professor at the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory (CBML), speaking at the Health IT conference.

EUCAIM unveils first release of groundbreaking platform to fuel collaborative innovation and data sharing across Europe
Oct 2, 2023
EUCAIM unveils first release of groundbreaking platform to fuel collaborative innovation and data sharing across Europe