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Welcome to the Radiomics Newsletter!
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Dear SPP colleagues, Still deciding what to do after the holidays? We’re getting you ready for autumn with our latest news update. We’ll cover highlights from this spring’s and summer’s events, announce new activities, and provide an evaluation of the first year’s internal reports. Be sure to mark your calendars for the upcoming Midterm Meeting! Don’t miss out—join us! All the best, Your coordination team |
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Second SPP Summer School for ECR |
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The second SPP Summer School brought together fourteen Early Career Researchers in a serene, historic villa setting. The event kicked off with an energised meet and greet with the Programme Coordinator Prof Fabian Bamberg, followed by a “Scientific Leadership” workshop led by Patricia Meyer and a keynote speech by Lilian Gehrke-Vetterkind on “Female Leadership”. The second day focused on a “Grant Writing” workshop with Dr Christina Schütte, offering practical advice on funding sources, proposal writing, and evaluation criteria. The event was highly successful, enhancing participants’ leadership and grant writing skills and fostering connections among young researchers, all within a structured and enriching environment. Check out the Radiomics website for a full recap and explore the event’s picture gallery. |
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Virtual Statistics Workshop |
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Our first statistics workshop took place on 17th and 18th June 2024. In collaboration with the Statistics Institute, we conducted a two-day online workshop for 19 participants, including SPP members as well as scientists from other projects.
The first day focused on data integration, covering standardisation, data imputation, feature reduction, variable selection, and outlier detection with Python.
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The second day delved into outcome prediction, classical regression models, and machine learning techniques. Despite the diverse backgrounds and skills of participants, the workshop was well-received and considered useful for their future work. Read the full recap at the Radiomics website. |
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Virtual Gender Equality Workshop
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Join us on 12 th November for a workshop on gender equality with Dr Amma Yeboah. The session will address the gender gap in STEM, examining the impact of structural violence on gender relations, individual wellbeing, and career prospects, as well as strategies to overcome these barriers. Stay tuned for a detailed mailing or check the project website for ongoing updates on the Gender Equality Workshop. The registration website is now live, and you can sign up today! We look forward to your participation! |
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Individual Mentoring & Tutoring
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Individual mentoring and coaching with our partner Gross & Hepp is still available. Take advantage of one-on-one sessions to unlock your potential and gain fresh perspectives. For more information and to sign up, visit the SPP homepage. |
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At the beginning of the year, we asked you to fill out the internal progress report. Following our programme’s guidelines, each project must submit an annual report on ongoing research and significant changes to the coordination office. We are pleased to share some interesting outcomes from these first-year evaluations, providing an overview of the status of individual projects.
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87 % of all projects reported that they have met their goals so far, indicating that the projects are generally progressing well. |
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Moreover, there are eight collaborations between projects within the SPP, leveraging the synergies that arise from related topics. |
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With your help, we obtained a clear overview of the consortium and its fields of work. The majority of SPP participants are working in medicine, followed by AI, applied statistics, and other areas. |
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Early Career Researchers (ECR) comprise 43 % of all SPP participants. Their primary research interests include computational / AI techniques for automatic image analysis, as well as machine learning, deep learning, radiomics, and other related topics. |
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The internal report also enabled us to examine the gender distribution within the SPP. Women represent 36 % of all participants. However, only 25 % of senior scientists are female, while this percentage increases to 51 % among younger researchers. This discrepancy is also reflected in the distribution of academic titles: the numbers of female and male holders are relatively close for master’s (10/13), doctoral (6/9), and medical doctoral degrees (8/12), but there is a significant gender gap at the professorship level (4/19). |
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Additionally, with your help we could update our publication list on the Radiomics website. Thank you again for your effort in filling out the report. |
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Midterm Meeting
25th + 26th March 2025
Schaltwerk, Freiburg
Save the date!
Further details coming soon. For the latest updates, check the website.
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Visual Communication Workshop
to be scheduled
Stay tuned for more information.
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Please use the following quotation for publications within the SPP2177 programme:
- Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – Projektnummer(n)* / SPP2177
In foreign language publications, a translation of the DFG into the language of the publication should be added, e.g. in English:
- funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Projektnummer(n) * / SPP2177
* You will find the project number on your DFG award letter or at gepris.dfg.de. If a publication refers to several projects, the project numbers must be separated by semicolons. |
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More information regarding the SPP2177 Priority Programme you will find on the official project website:
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