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Directeur.e(s) de recherche
Philippe Després
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Title of the research project
Robust data pipelines in radiation oncology
Description

This project consists of establishing good practices in health data management and building a software infrastructure in order to apply them.

We have developed pipelines that allow daily recovery of brachytherapy treatment data in order to calculate and store their dosimetric indices in a database dedicated to research. These indices are essential for planning radiotherapy treatments and for estimating their quality.

The aggregation of these indices allows different researchers such as bio-statisticians and radiation oncologists to carry out studies on larger data sets.

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