About
A/Prof Dowling is a CSIRO Principal Research Scientist and leads the CSIRO Medical Image Analysis Team located at the Australian e-Health Research Centre (Brisbane). This team is focused on linking precision medicine and artificial intelligence methods to 3D MRI, CT, and PET data to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disease diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment delivery.
Projects in the team range from MRI based musculoskeletal image analysis, novel theranostics development, radiation oncology treatment planning, trauma related fracture detection, and paediatric lung analysis. The paediatric lung imaging project aims to improve health outcomes for children with cystic fibrosis and ataxia-telangiectasia using MRI to non-invasively monitor lung status and disease progression. In collaboration with respiratory physicians and Siemens Healthcare, the team are conducting trials to develop and validate automated quantitative analysis methods.
A/Prof Dowling has an extensive track record in medical image acquisition and analysis for automatic tissue identification, organ modelling, image registration, and radiation therapy treatment planning. He has active collaborations with many Australian universities, hospitals, and industry (Siemens Healthcare) and holds honorary appointments at the Universities of New South Wales (medicine), UQ, Wollongong and UC (all engineering and IT), Newcastle and Sydney (both medical physics). He is an Australian representative on ISO committee JTC1/WG12 (image segmentation), the NASA-led International Space Exploration Co-ordination Group; and is an Australian Space Agency advisory group member.