NAmur Research Institute for LIfe Sciences
François-Xavier Hanin
Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning in nuclear medicine imaging
Dr. François-Xavier Hanin MD, PhD
CHU UCL Namur, Site Sainte-Elisabeth, Department of Nuclear Medicine
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Expertise and research interests
FDG PET-CT in clinical oncology, inflammation, infection, or neurology
Conventionnal nuclear medicine scintigraphy
Therapy using internal emitters like Iodine-131 Radium-223 Lutetium-177
Dosimetry of internal emitters
General thyroidology; thyroid cancer
Particular interest in AI and its applications as computer vision for medical imaging
Research projects
- Deep learning systems for computer vision in thyroid scintigraphy
- Deep learning segmentation for dosimetric CT scans in radiation oncology
- Deep learning evaluation of relative uptake in DAT scans and thyroid scintigraphy
- Deep learning evaluation of lung perfusion scintigraphy for diagnosis aid in pulmonary embolism
- Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy using somatostatin analogs : preclinical tumor parameters modulation for potential dose optimization. PhD thesis defended by François-Xavier Hanin on 26/03/2012. Under co-supervision by Prof. François Jamar and Prof. Stanislas Pauwels, UCLouvain, IREC
Selected publications
Ibrahim A, Vaidyanathan A, Primakov S, Belmans F, Bottari F, Refaee T, Lovinfosse P, Jadoul A, Derwael C, Hertel F, Woodruff HC, Zacho HD, Walsh S, Vos W, Occhipinti M, Hanin FX, Lambin P, Mottaghy FM, Hustinx R. Deep learning based identification of bone scintigraphies containing metastatic bone disease foci. Cancer Imaging. 2023 Jan 25;23(1):12.
Destine M, Hanin FX, Mathieu I, Willemart B, Seret A. Deconvolution of Tc-99m-Mercaptoacetyltriglycine Renograms with the Concomitant Use of a Sparse Legendre Polynomial Representation and the Moore-Penrose Pseudo-inverse. Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther. 2022 Feb 2;31(1):7-15.
Longton E, Lawson G, Bihin B, Mathieu I, Hanin FX, Deheneffe S, Vander Borght T, Laloux M, Daisne JF. Individualized Prophylactic Neck Irradiation in Patients with cN0 Head and Neck Cancer Based on Sentinel Lymph Node(s) Identification: Definitive Results of a Prospective Phase 1-2 Study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2020 Jul 15;107(4):652-661.
Hanin FX, Pauwels S, Bol A, Melis M, Breeman W, de Jong M, Jamar F. Effect of interferon-alpha treatment on [68Ga-DOTA,Tyr3,Thre8]octreotide uptake in CA20948 tumors: a small-animal PET study. J Nucl Med. 2011 Apr;52(4):580-5.
Hanin FX, Pauwels S, Bol A, Breeman W, de Jong M, Jamar F. Tumor uptake of 68Ga-DOTA-Tyr3-octreotate: animal PET studies of tumor flow and acute somatostatin receptor modulation in the CA20948 rat model. Nucl Med Biol. 2010 Feb;37(2):157-65.
