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Dr. Nickolas Papanikolaou

Nickolas Papanikolaou, PhD (Male), is a Principal Investigator in Oncologic Imaging at CHAMPALIMAUD FOUNDATION and research group leader of the Computational Clinical Imaging Group. He is an Affiliated Researcher at Karolinska Institute and a Senior Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science – FORTH. Dr. Nikolaos Papanikolaou studied biomedical engineering while he obtained his Ph.D. from the Medical School of the University of Crete. He has been a research associate of the Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Heraklion, from 1999 to 2009.

He has published 85 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 17 chapters in international books. At the same time, he edited a series of 3 books on Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Applications in GI, GU, and Hepatobiliary systems. He has delivered more than 100 invited lectures in international congresses and educational courses. He served as a member of the editorial board of European Radiology in the section of experimental radiology while he was a member of the abdominal subcommittee of ECR. He has been awarded two research scholarships from ECR.

Finally, he is an honorary member of the Spanish Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology (SEDIA). The main focus of his research is the development and validation of imaging biomarkers on cancer applications. He recently initiated the development of a Radiomics Network comprising luminary clinical sites in the US and Europe to advance research in that area of Radiomics. He is the section editor on AI, Radiomics, and Machine Learning in Cancer Imaging, and he is chairing the e-learning subcommittee of ICIS.