Jason Dowling
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
Jason.Dowling@csiro.au
Projects
- High Precision MRI Based Prostate Radiotherapy
Biography
Jason is a member of the Biomedical Imaging team in Brisbane. The main aim of his current work is to investigate the use of MRI in radiation oncology (focusing on prostate cancer). 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++), information retrieval using latent semantic indexing , computer graphics (OpenGL/DirectX/ITK/VTK) and shotokan karate.
Project web site
Full list of Jason's publications
Academic Qualifications
| 2007 | PhD Queensland University of Technology |
| 2002 | BComp (Hons 1) Monash University |
| 1999 | BAppSc(Psych/Comp) Monash University |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2007- | High Precision MRI Based Prostate Radiotherapy |
| 2006-2007 | Medical Image Watermarking, CSIRO e-Health Research Centre. |
| 1996-2006 | Contract analyst/software engineer (Oracle/Microsoft, various sites, mainly database applications, warehousing and reporting software). |
Achievements & Awards
| 2009 | 1st Prize MICCAI 3D Segmentation Challenge for Clinical Applications: Prostate Segmentation, London 24th September. |
| 2008 | Invited speaker 38th Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium, Cambridge University, September 2008. Topic: "Current and future prospects for optoelectronic retinal prostheses" |
| 2002 | Australia Day Award (Family Court of Australia - software development) |
| 2002 | Australia Postgraduate Industry Award |
Science Citizenship
| 2010 | MICCAI Prostate Workshop Organising Committee |
| 2010 | Member Australia-Canadian Prostate Cancer Research Alliance |
| 2009 | CSIRO ICT Centre Conference Organising Committee |
| 2009 | 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’09) ("Visualization Enhanced Data Analysis for Health Applications" track) Program Committee 2007 MICCAI local planning committee member |
| 2007+ | Member MICCAI Society |
| 2006+ | Book reviewer for the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) newsletter. |
| 2006+ | Member International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) |
| 2005+ | Ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging; Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine; Spatial Vision; Journal of Neural Engineering, Journal of Systems and Software. |
| 1999+ | Member IEEE: Computer Society; Engineering in Medicine and Biology |
Top 10 Publications
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| J. Dowling. (2009). Current and future prospects for optoelectronic retinal prostheses. Eye, 23, 1999–2005. |
| Jason A. Dowling, Pierrick T. Bourgeat, David Raffelt, Jurgen E. Fripp, Peter Greer, Jacqueline Patterson, James Denham , Sanjiv Gupta, Colin Tang, Peter Stanwell, Sébastien Ourselin, and Olivier Salvado. (2009) Nonrigid correction of interleaving artefacts in pelvic MRI. In Proceedings of SPIE Volume 7259: Image Processing, volume 7259-100. |
| J. Dowling, P. Bourgeat, D. Raffelt, J. Fripp, P. Greer, J. Patterson, J. Denham, P. Stanwell, S. Ourselin, and O. Salvado. Fast automatic correction of non-rigid motion artefacts in MRI of the abdomen. In Proceedings of MICCAI Prostate Workshop (New York, September 2008), 2008. |
| Dowling, J., Boles, W., Maeder, A. (2008). Visual Prostheses for the Blind: A Framework for Information Presentation, In J. Billingsley (Ed.), Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, pp. 275-288. Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg, Germany. |
| J. Dowling, B. Planitz, A. Maeder, J. Du, B. Pham, C. Boyd, S. Chen, A. Bradley, and S. Crozier. A comparison of DCT and DWT block based watermarking on medical image quality. In Y.Q. Shi, H.-J. Kim, and S. Katzenbeisser, editors, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Digital Image Watermarking ( IWDW), Guangzhou, China, December 2007, volume LNCS 5041, pages 454-466, 2008. Springer-Verlag |
| Dowling, J., Planitz, B.M., Maeder, A.J., Chen, S. , Bradley, A.P., Crozier, S. Du, J., Pham, B., Boyd, C. (2007). Visual quality assessment of watermarked medical images. Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, San Diego. |
| Dowling, J., Boles, W., Maeder, A. (2006). A Display Framework for Artificial Human Vision information presentation Thirteenth Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP 2006), December 5-7 2006, Toowoomba, Australia |
| Dowling, J., Boles, W., Maeder, A. (2006). Simulated Artificial Human Vision: The Effects of Spatial Resolution and Frame Rate on Mobility. Advances in Intelligent IT - Active Media Technology 2006 (pp. 138-143), June 2006, Brisbane, Australia. |
| Dowling, J., Boles, W., Maeder, A. (2005). Mobility assessment using simulated Artificial Human Vision. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05) Volume 03 (pp. 32) |
| Dowling, J. (2005). Artificial human vision. Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2(1), 73-85. |