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Dr. Mirabela Rusu is the director of the Laboratory for Integrative Personalized Medicine (PIMed) at Stanford University. Her work focuses on developing analytical methods for biomedical data integration, with a particular interest in radiology-pathology fusion to facilitate radiology image labeling. This process allows for the creation of detailed spatial labels that are utilized as input for advanced machine learning and deep learning applications. Recently, Dr. Rusu's laboratory has concentrated on applying deep learning methods to detect and differentiate between aggressive and indolent prostate cancers using MRI, leveraging pathology information for both labeling and image content analysis. This innovative work has been published in notable journals such as Medical Physics and Medical Image Analysis. The lab collaborates closely with the Urologic Cancer Innovation Lab at Stanford on prostate cancer research, reinforcing its commitment to improving diagnostic methodologies in oncology.
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