Ioannis Sechopoulos

Prof. Sechopoulos is the chair of the Advanced X-ray Tomographic Imaging (AXTI; homophone of “action” in Dutch) lab at the Department of Medical Imaging and Anatomy of the Radboud University Medical Center, part-time Professor of Advanced X-ray Imaging Systems at the Multi-Modality Medical Imaging (M3i) group at the University of Twente, and Scientific Advisor of the Dutch Expert Center for Screening (LRCB). He obtained his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, performing research in the area of tomographic x-ray imaging of the breast at Emory University. Since then, his main area of research is the development of advanced x-ray-based imaging techniques, especially for breast cancer detection, diagnosis, and therapy response monitoring. Prof. Sechopoulos has performed extensive work in radiation dosimetry, x-ray scatter modeling and correction, image acquisition optimization and image reconstruction, processing, and analysis algorithm development for various x-ray imaging modalities. He also performs patient trials to assess the clinical performance of these and other novel imaging technologies. Lately, he has also performed several evaluation studies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for breast image interpretation, especially for screening. Prof. Sechopoulos is a member or chair of approximately 20 different tasks groups and committees of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the European Federation for Organization of Medical Physics (EFOMP), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and the European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI). He is a Deputy Editor of the journal Medical Physics and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Radiology.