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Maspero

Researcher/Postdoc

Biography

Matteo is an assistant professor investigating adaptive Radiotherapy through automatic segmentation, speeding-up image acquisition/reconstruction and synthesis with the aid of deep learning. Since 2023, next to the research activities, he is also a medical physicist resident.

Background
Matteo is born in Como (Italy) in May 1989 and studied Physics at Insubria University graduating (cum laude) in March 2014. In those years he gained interest in experimental Physics, with a predilection for particle detectors. Following this interest, he had the opportunity to perform profilometry measurements of an anti-proton beam. He also developed a detector for spectral measurements of neutrons produced by an in-hospital linear accelerator.
After getting in touch with the hospital environment and feeling the need of broadening his horizons, he decided to step into the field of medical imaging, where, by chance, detectors are somehow involved. From May 2014 to May 2018 he was enrolled as a PhD candidate at the Radiotherapy Department of the Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht (The Netherlands). During his PhD project, he had the luck to discover the beauty of magnetic resonance imaging in the practical realm of radiotherapy.
Until December 2021, Matteo was employed as a post-doc/clinical scientist facilitating the clinical implementation of deep learning methods in the radiotherapy department and ideating/validating approaches for future use, e.g., in the field of data-driven image reconstruction.

In January 2022, Matteo was appointed assistant professor, continuing his clinical support, teaching, and research activities within the radiotherapy department and Computational Imaging group.

Since February 2023, Matteo is also a medical physicist resident, aiming at deepening clinical knowledge and facilitating clinical innovation.

Nowadays, Matteo still enjoys combining research and clinical activities.

Recent publications

Artificial intelligence to generate synthetic CT for adaptive particle therapy Adrian Thummerer, Paolo Zaffino, Maria Francesca Spadea, Antje C Knopf, M Maspero
2024, p.1-16
Generating synthetic computed tomography for radiotherapy Evi M C Huijben, Maarten L Terpstra, Arthur Jr Galapon, Suraj Pai, Adrian Thummerer, Peter Koopmans, Manya Afonso, Maureen van Eijnatten, Oliver Gurney-Champion, Zeli Chen, Yiwen Zhang, Kaiyi Zheng, Chuanpu Li, Haowen Pang, Chuyang Ye, Runqi Wang, Tao Song, Fuxin Fan, Jingna Qiu, Yixing Huang, Juhyung Ha, Jong Sung Park, Alexandra Alain-Beaudoin, Silvain Bériault, Pengxin Yu, Hongbin Guo, Zhanyao Huang, Gengwan Li, Xueru Zhang, Yubo Fan, Han Liu, Bowen Xin, Aaron Nicolson, Lujia Zhong, Zhiwei Deng, Gustav Müller-Franzes, Firas Khader, Xia Li, Ye Zhang, Cédric Hémon, Valentin Boussot, Zhihao Zhang, Long Wang, Lu Bai, Shaobin Wang, Derk Mus, Bram Kooiman, Chelsea A H Sargeant, Edward G A Henderson, Satoshi Kondo, Satoshi Kasai, Reza Karimzadeh, Bulat Ibragimov, Thomas Helfer, Jessica Dafflon, Zijie Chen, Enpei Wang, Zoltan Perko, Matteo Maspero
Medical Image Analysis, 2024, vol. 97
Assessing the Robustness of Image Registration Models Under Domain Shifts with Learnable Input Images Iris D. Kolenbrander, Vidya Prasad, Leanne Zikken, Maureen A.J.M. van Eijnatten, Matteo Maspero, Josien P.W. Pluim
2024, p.101-111
Automatic segmentation for magnetic resonance imaging guided individual elective lymph node irradiation in head and neck cancer patients Floris C.J. Reinders, Mark H.F. Savenije, Mischa de Ridder, Matteo Maspero, Patricia A.H. Doornaert, Chris H.J. Terhaard, Cornelis P.J. Raaijmakers, Kaveh Zakeri, Nancy Y. Lee, Eric Aliotta, Aneesh Rangnekar, Harini Veeraraghavan, Marielle E.P. Philippens
Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology, 2024, vol. 32
Deep-learning-based joint rigid and deformable contour propagation for magnetic resonance imaging-guided prostate radiotherapy Iris D Kolenbrander, Matteo Maspero, Allard A Hendriksen, Ryan Pollitt, Jochem R N van der Voort van Zyp, Cornelis A T van den Berg, Josien P W Pluim, Maureen A J M van Eijnatten
Medical Physics, 2024, vol. 51, p.2367-2377
Validation of SynthSeg segmentation performance on CT using paired MRI from radiotherapy patients Selena Huisman, Matteo Maspero, Marielle Philippens, Joost Verhoeff, Szabolcs David
NeuroImage, 2024, vol. 303

Fellowships & Awards

2024: Best in Physics at ESTRO24

2018: IOP Publishing Reviewer Awards as "Oustanding Reviewer" in Physics in Medicine and Biology

2018: Outstanding Reviewer Radiation Oncology

2017: IOP Publishing Reviewer Awards as "Oustanding Reviewer" in Physics in Medicine and Biology

2016: IOP Publishing Reviewer Awards as "Oustanding Reviewer" in Physics in Medicine and Biology