Monthly DIAG News – End-of-Year 2025 News
New DIAG members
We are pleased to welcome the following new members to DIAG. We look forward to working together in the year ahead.
Awards and grants
In November, Bart Sturm successfully defended his PhD thesis on digital and computational pathology, focusing on AI's role in diagnosing early cancers and predicting chemotherapy effectiveness. Bart will now begin his role as a Clinical Pathologist at Pathan.
In December, Megan Schuurmans and Natália Alves both defended their PhD theses on pancreatic cancer AI at Radboud University, earning the cum laude distinction for their outstanding work. Their research contributed to the PANORAMA study, which built an international dataset for pancreatic cancer detection using AI. Their defenses were followed by a symposium on precision oncology and AI. Megan will join Sogeti as a Data Scientist, and Natália will become a Postdoctoral Researcher at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine.
Additionally, the PANORAMA study was published in The Lancet Oncology, showing that AI outperformed radiologists in detecting pancreatic cancer on CT scans, achieving 92% accuracy compared to 88% for radiologists. Congratulations to all involved in this groundbreaking work!
Highlighted publications
As we approach the end of the year, we look back at some of the notable publications from DIAG members. Below are the papers published last month:
← Back to overview“Fairness Evaluation of Risk Estimation Models for Lung Cancer Screening” - S. Gaur, M. Vitale, A. Hering, J. Kwisthout, C. Jacobs, L. Philipp, F. van der Graaf; MELBA Journal, 2025.
“Democratizing Pathology Co-Pilots: An Open Pipeline and Dataset for Whole-Slide Vision-Language Modelling” - S. Moonemans, S. Ram, F. Meeuwsen, C. Lems, J. Laak, G. Litjens, F. Ciompi; Computer Science, Medicine, 2025.
“Incidental pulmonary nodules on CT imaging: what to do?” - E. van der Heijden, M. Snoeren, C. Jacobs; Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde, 2025.
“Evaluating Tumor Quantification in Place of Proportions in Prostate Cancer: Principles of the ProQuant Group” - A. Vickers, S. Fine, ProQuant Group; European Urology, 2025.