Monthly DIAG News – January

New DIAG members

This month we welcome a large number of new members to DIAG:

- Jonas Laroche
- Mikki Hendriks
- Joel Jacob Tomson
- Lotte van Zwol
- Alon Vigdorovits
- Thijs de Jong
- Sander Moonemans
- Jen Dusseljee
- Myrthe Buser

PhD defense

This month, we celebrate the remarkable achievements of three colleagues who have successfully earned their PhDs. Please join us in congratulating:

• Hans Pinckaers

• Jasper Linmans

• Esther Markus-Smeets

Highlighted publications

Last month the following papers were published!

“Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Model Basedon MRI and Clinical Characteristics to Predict Risk of ProstateCancer Progression” - C. Roest, T. Kwee, MD, I. de Jong, I. Schoots, P. van Leeuwen, S. Heijmink, H. van der Poel, S. Fransen, A. Saha, H. Huisman, D. Yakar; Radiology: Imaging Cancer, 2025.

“External validation of automated prostate MR T2-weighted image quality assessment on multi-centre multi-vendor data” - L. Thijssen , M. de Rooij, H. Huisman; European Journal of Radiology Artificial Intelligence, 2025.

“Artificial intelligence for the analysis of intracoronary optical coherence tomography images: a systematic review” - R. van der Waerden, R. Volleberg, T. Luttikholt, P. Cancian, J. van der Zande, G. Stone , N. Holm, E. Kedhi, J. Escaned, D. Pellegrini, G. Guagliumi, S. Mehta, N. Pinilla-Echeverri, R. Moreno, L. Räber, T. Roleder, B. van Ginneken, C. Sánchez, I. Išgum, N. van Royen, J. Thannhauser; European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 2025.