Biography
Raj Jena is a Professor of AI in Radiation Oncology based at the University of Cambridge Department of Oncology and Cambridge University Hospitals. His research interests focus on clinical image processing, data science and machine learning applications. Raj is the chief Investigator for Hamlet.rt, a multi-centre radiomics study in radiation therapy open at over 12 sites over the UK and Tata medical centre in Kolkata. He is a member of the Royal College of Radiologists’ AI in Clinical Oncology (AICO) committee and is Director of the Oncology Translational Research Collaboration (O-TRC) at the National Institute for Healthcare Research.
Research
Radiotherapy is used in the treatment of half of all patients cured of cancer. It is a precise treatment that destroys tumour cells from outside the body using x-rays. We use scans to map out tumour targets for radiotherapy, and to mark healthy tissues that must be shielded from radiotherapy as much as possible. I work on developing new artificial intelligence tools to read scan data, to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy and to monitor how cancers and health tissues respond to treatment.
