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Dr Malika Bendechache Secures a Horizon Europe MSCA-2024 Award as a PI

PI on a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship, with a budget of €269.418€ over 30 months (24 months research and 6 months placement). This will fund a postdoctoral researcher to work under Malika’s mentorship, on a project entitled “Deep Learning Based Interpretable Paediatric Brain Tumours Segmentation and Classification”. The project aims to address the significant impact of paediatric brain tumours (PBTs) as the leading cause of cancer death in children and adolescents. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly being explored to assist doctors in detecting and diagnosing through clinical decision support systems (CDSS). However, They face the challenges in successfully segmenting PBTs due to the scarcity of available medical image datasets. Additionally, the lack of transparency in black-box AI models has raised concerns among doctors, hindering the adoption of AI in CDSS. To tackle these challenges, the project will develop a state-of-the-art interpretable AI-based framework to classify PBTs including tumour segmentation. DL-I-PBraTSC will identify the location of PBTs, classify of PBT types, and enable quantitative analysis of sub-region of PBT parameters helping clinicians in diagnosis, treatment planning, monitoring disease progression, and predicting patient outcomes.