Dr Jason Dowling
Research Project Leader / Research Scientist
Contact
Level 5 - UQ Health Sciences Building Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Herston QLD 4029
Tel: 61 7 3253 3634
Mob: 0418 654 284
Fax: 61 7 3253 3690
Jason.Dowling@csiro.au
Themes
Projects
- Advances in Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy
Science Area
- Imaging and Computer Vision
Biography
Dr Jason Dowling leads the prostate cancer radiation therapy project at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia. The main aim of his current work is to investigate the use of MRI in radiation oncology (focusing on MRI-alone treatment planning). This has involved firstly the development of methods to automatically detect and segment organs of interest from MRI scans and secondly the development and clinical validation of methods to automatically assign electron density information from MRI (generating pseudo-CTs) for dose calculations (currently this is not possible as MRI scans lack the electron density information required to calculate radiation dose). Jason is experienced in the transfer of image and structure data between treatment planning systems and open source software (such as ITK) via DICOM-RT.
Jason previously worked on Image Quality Sensitive Watermarking of Medical Images project at the Australian e-Health Research Centre. His PhD work was supported by Cochlear Ltd , and researched mobility enhancement for visual prosthesis ("bionic eye") recipients. Jason's BComp(Hons) research was in the area of latent semantic indexing for information retrieval. C++ source code is available from this link.
Jason's interests include image registration and segmentation, medical physics, radiotherapy planning, human and computer vision, visual prosthetics , programming (mainly C,C++, Python, ITK), information retrieval using latent semantic indexing , computer graphics (OpenGL/DirectX/VTK) and shotokan karate (JKA) .
Project web site
Full list of Jason's publications
Google Scholar
Academic Qualifications
| 2007 |
PhD Queensland University of Technology
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| 2002 |
BComp (Hons 1) Monash University
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| 1999 |
BAppSc(Psych/Comp) Monash University
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Recent Professional Experience
| 2007- |
High Precision MRI Based Prostate Radiotherapy
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| 2006-2007 |
Medical Image Watermarking, CSIRO e-Health Research Centre.
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| 1996-2006 |
Contract analyst/software engineer (Oracle/Microsoft, various sites, mainly database applications, warehousing and reporting software). |
Achievements & Awards
| 2012 |
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia/Cure Cancer Australia Foundation (CCAF) Fellowship
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| 2009 |
1st Prize MICCAI 3D Segmentation Challenge for Clinical Applications: Prostate Segmentation, London 24th September.
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| 2008 |
Invited speaker 38th Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium, Cambridge University, September 2008. Topic: "Current and future prospects for optoelectronic retinal prostheses"
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| 2002 |
Australia Day Award (Family Court of Australia - software development)
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| 2002 |
Australia Postgraduate Industry Award |
Grants
| 2013 |
Fusion d'images multimodales pour le ciblage du cancer de prostate. Collaboration with Université de Rennes, France (funding from Fondation pour la recherche sur le cancer).
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| 2012 |
Early stage breast tumor detection using spintronic based microwave imaging sensors. Collaboration with Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. University of Manitoba/Cancer Care Manitoba.
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| 2012 |
MRI based cervical cancer treatment planning. Fuding for CSIRO OCE Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Liverpool And Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre. 3 yrs $276,000
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| 2011 |
Does the initial treatment plan predict doses delivered to normal tissues during prostate radiation therapy? Cancer Council NSW (RG 11-05). Peter Greer, Jason Dowling, James Denham & Olivier Salvado. Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital/University of Newcastle. 3 yrs. $349,794.
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| 2011 |
Development of high precision MRI based prostate cancer radiation therapy. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (Young Investigator Grant YI2011). 2 yrs. $300,000. |
Student Supervision
| 2011+ |
Jidi Sun, PhD, University of Newcastle |
Science Citizenship
| 2012 |
Scientific Committee 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR2013), Melbourne 6 – 9 May 2013
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| 2012 |
Member Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate (ANZUP) Cancer Trials Group
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| 2011 |
Associate Editor (Guest), Medical Physics
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| 2011 |
MICCAI Prostate Workshop Organising Committee (Toronto, Canada)
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| 2010 |
MICCAI Prostate Workshop Organising Committee (Beijing, China)
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| 2010 |
Member Australia-Canadian Prostate Cancer Research Alliance
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| 2009 |
CSIRO ICT Centre Conference Organising Committee (Sydney, Australia)
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| 2009 |
5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’09) ("Visualization Enhanced Data Analysis for Health Applications" track) Program Committee (Las Vegas, USA)
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| 2007 |
MICCAI local planning committee member (Brisbane, Australia)
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| 2007+ |
Member MICCAI Society
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| 2006+ |
Book reviewer for the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) newsletter.
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| 2006+ |
Member International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
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| 2005+ |
Ad hoc reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging; Medical Image Analysis; Journal of Imaging Science and Technology; Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine; Spatial Vision; Journal of Neural Engineering, Journal of Systems and Software.
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| 1999+ |
Member IEEE: Computer Society; Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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