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Judit Chamorro participates in the Falling Walls Lab – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

03.10.2018

 

For the second year, a group of 30 on-going MSCA fellows took part in the ‘Falling Walls Lab – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions’.  In this science contest, researchers have to pitch their project in three minutes to a distinguished jury representing science and business organisations, and to the public. All scientific disciplines are eligible, and contestants were selected following an open call. Judit Chamorro, member of BCN MedTech, was selected as one of the 30 finalists to go to Brussels last week and talk about her MSCA project on colorectal cancer called “COLONINFO”.

This event is a great opportunity for getting to know the MSCA community and to know about other outstanding granted projects in other disciplines.

The winner of the contest was invited to the Finale in Berlin in November 2018 where 100 promising researchers from around the world will compete to present their projects. The three winners of the Finale in Berlin are awarded the title of "Young Innovator of the year", receive a cash prize and get the opportunity to give their talk on the grand stage of the Falling Walls Conference on in November in front of 600 guests

The contest was part of a bigger event that was organized by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, the European Parliament and  Falling Walls Lab called “Science is Wonder-ful”

 

COLONINFO Project- Improving Colorectal cancer screening: Novel Inverse and Forward algorithms for a new real-time microwave endoscopy

One in twenty-two men and one in twenty-four women will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) in their lifetime. When CRC is found at an early stage, the 5-year relative survival rate is about 90%. However, when cancer has spread outside the colon or rectum, survival rates are lower, and only about 4 out of 10 CRC are found at the early stage with the current screening techniques. The PhySense group, together with SIMBIOsys group at the DTIC, in collaboration with the HCPB and the AntennaLab-UPC group, have recently proposed MiWEndo, a prototype of microwave image generation. MiWEndo targets to reduce the occultation problems produced by the colon folds and angulations (thanks to the ability of microwaves to penetrate light opaque tissues), to offer a better understanding of the CRC and to improve the detection rate (by combining endoscope and microwave imaging). However, it is not possible to achieve these aims, and pursuit to the MiWEndo commercialization and clinical practise, without the accomplishment of this MSCA project aiming to provide effective low computational burden methods for solving the reconstruction imaging process in real-time (not possible yet with the prototype) and efficient in-situ quantification (neither possible yet). The idea is to translate an array of computational methods developed in medical imaging, remote sensing, electromagnetics, electrocardiography and heat transfer towards allowing the novel MiWEndo prototype to appropriately detect, quantify and classify polyps during a real-time exploration.

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