In 2020, more than 2.7 million people were diagnosed with cancer in the European Union (EU), whereas 1.3 million people died from cancer. By 2035, the number of cancer cases is expected to increase by 24%, making cancer the leading cause of death in the EU. Currently, the leading specific molecular imaging technique for cancer diagnosis is based on positron emission tomography (PET), which is available in less than 0.5% of medical centers worldwide, mainly due to the high cost of PET scanners. In the European Innovation Council project PetVision, coordinated by the Jožef Stefan Institute, we are developing a new generation of devices that will enable completely modular, affordable, and adaptable PET scanners by means of precise time measurement. In this lecture, I will present the long-term vision, project goals and breakthroughs in the design of the detector, photosensor and data acquisition electronics.
Methods for semi-automated hypothesis generation from scientific literature: an open science approach
The rapid growth of scientific publications makes it difficult to manually review and keep up to date with new research findings. Literature-based discovery (LBD) is a field of artificial intelligence at the intersection of natural language processing and machine...
