The 2nd UPLIFT School for “Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy”

1–7 Nov 2026

Congressi Stefano Franscini (CSF)

Europe/Zurich timezone

UPLIFT school support team

UPLIFT_School_2026@psi.ch

Speaker List

Panagiotis Alafogiannis
- Speaker at Development of a robust validation workflow for AI-based Deformable Image Registration software
Kristjan Anderle (Cosylab d.d., Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Speaker at Probabilistic clinical target model: combining anatomy-constrained primary tumor spread with lymphatic progression
Ane Appelt (Rigshospitalet & Technical University of Denmark)
- Speaker at Re-irradiation: from previous dose to robust treatment optimisation
Leonna Aranda (OncoRay - National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology)
- Speaker at ANTHROPOMETRIC PATIENT MODELLING AS A DESIGN BASIS FOR AN UPRIGHT PATIENT POSITIONING SYSTEM IN PAEDIATRIC MR-GUIDED PROTON THERAPY
Pit Arend (DKFZ, KIT)
- Speaker at A rotation platform for upright radiotherapy research with anthropomorphic phantoms on standard linear accelerators and fixed-beam particle therapy systems
Marianne Aznar (The University of Manchester)
- Speaker at Treatment outcome modelling
Rasmus Bokrantz (RaySearch Laboratories, Sweden)
- Speaker at Impact of higher multileaf collimator speed on plan quality for Upright vs supine photon radiotherapy
Joachim Buhmann (ETH Zurich)
- Speaker at CS plenary: Artificial Intelligence - a Paradigm Shift in Human Thought!?
Nicole Caballero-Canchanya (Loughborough University)
- Speaker at Designing for Comfort: A Usability Engineering Gap in Upright Head and Neck Radiotherapy Immobilisation
Alessandra Catalano (Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano)
- Speaker at Quantitative imaging and explainable AI identify survival phenotypes for personalised radiotherapy in locally advanced NSCLC
Jiale Chen (Fondazione CNAO)
- Speaker at Towards respiratory motion management for upright particle therapy: from human-in-the-loop visual guidance to surrogate-mapping robustness
Alejandro del Pozo Domínguez
- Speaker at A real association is not a usable predictor: a five-stage workflow for machine learning on routine radiotherapy QA data
Maximilian Dick (GSI)
- Speaker at Real-Time Range Prediction for a Mixed Helium–Carbon Beam
Therese Egli
- Speaker at Welcome address
Erik Engwall (RaySearch Laboratories)
- Speaker at Intellectual property and patents
Erik Engwall (RaySearch Laboratories, Sweden)
- Speaker at Impact of higher multileaf collimator speed on plan quality for Upright vs supine photon radiotherapy
Courtney Ford
- Speaker at Design of an Isocentric MRI-Guided Upright Particle Therapy System
Christian Graeff (GSI Helmholtzzentrum f¨ur Schwerionenforschung)
- Speaker at UPLIFT supervisor meeting
Nick Hardcastle (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre)
- Speaker at Accuracy of an open-source, deep-learning body composition measurement on PET/CTs in a large cohort
Zixin He (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)
- Speaker at Non-coplanar arc radiotherapy trajectory planning in Blender
Aswin Hoffmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
- Speaker at AI4RT plenary discussion
- Speaker at Round table discussion: Research/Clinic/Industry
Robert Jeraj (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
- Speaker at Probabilistic clinical target model: combining anatomy-constrained primary tumor spread with lymphatic progression
Barbara Knaeusl (Medical University of Vienna)
- Speaker at Adaptive radiotherapy - offline, online, real-time
Stine Korreman (Aarhus University)
- Speaker at Opening plenary: AI in RT
Guillaume Landry (LMU Munich)
- Speaker at Direct image to dose prediction -AI vs. MC
Guangsheng Li (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)
- Speaker at Dosimetric trade-offs between ITV expansion and robust optimization for inter-fractional anatomical variation in upright carbon-ion radiotherapy for lung cancer
Timothy Lo (UCL Hawkes Institute, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London)
- Speaker at SPLASH: A Semi-automatic Pipeline for Lung motion Analysis using Single-frame Human-Input
Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
- Speaker at Scientific writing and peer review
Björn Messing (RaySearch Laboratories, Sweden)
- Speaker at Impact of higher multileaf collimator speed on plan quality for Upright vs supine photon radiotherapy
Nkuebe Clément MOLEKO
- Speaker at Impact of higher multileaf collimator speed on plan quality for Upright vs supine photon radiotherapy
Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
- Speaker at Advanced image guidance and treatment verification in PT
Zoltan Perko (Radformation & Delft University of Technology)
- Speaker at AI boost plan optimisation
María Plana Herranz (CNAO)
- Speaker at Shoot-Through Beams for Robust Head and Neck Proton Therapy in Upright Particle Therapy Systems
Jintao Ren (Aarhus University)
- Speaker at Auto contouring - clinical status and limitation
Mauricio Reyes (University of Bern)
- Speaker at AI-based medical image segmentation
Daniel Richter (ETH Zurich)
- Speaker at Quantifying Posture-Dependent Respiratory Motion for Upright Radiotherapy Using AI-Tracked Cine MRI
- Speaker at Synthesizing Upright Head and Neck Anatomies from Supine CT Using MRI Guided Deformable Registration
Chrysa Rousi (Czech Technical University in Prague)
- Speaker at Considerations for the quality assurance of upright photon and proton radiotherapy
Alhassan Aliyu Saad (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
- Speaker at Towards a Feasibility Study of Range Verification in Radioactive Carbon-Ion Beam Therapy using J-PET Scanner
Anna Sampanai (ASG Superconductors Spa and Department of Mathematics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy)
- Speaker at Development of a 4D MRI Framework for Characterising Abdominal Motion in Supine and Upright Positions
Vasily Sorokin (University of Oxford)
- Speaker at Quantitative Timepix4 Imaging of Heterogeneous Alpha-Emitting Radiopharmaceutical Distributions in Tissue Sections
Ronja Stern (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
- Speaker at From Plausible to Controllable: Multimodal Digital Phantom Generation for Radiotherapy
Kurt Stockinger (Zurich University of Applied Sciences & University of Zurich)
- Speaker at Agentic AI for Natural Language Exploration of Multi-Modal Healthcare Data
Daniela Thorwarth (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
- Speaker at MRgRT - clinical status and future direction
Petra Trnkova (Czech Technical University in Prague)
- Speaker at Round table discussion: Research/Clinic/Industry
Esther Troost (Technische Universität Dresden)
- Speaker at Clinical plenary: Intelligent radiation oncology in the age of AI
Tracy Underwoods (Leo Cancer Care & UCL)
- Speaker at Conflict resolution
Wouter van Weerelt (RaySearch Laboratories)
- Speaker at Energy Layer Filtration for Upright Static Carbon Arcs
Eliana Vasquez Osorio (The University of Manchester)
- Speaker at AI boost deformable image registration
Lola Vegeas (Therapanacea, Gustave Roussy)
- Speaker at From supine imaging to upright anatomy: Quantifying gravity-induced pelvic deformation towards patient-specific biomechanical simulation
Fabio Veneruso (Centre Leon Berard)
- Speaker at Methods and Evidence in Economic Evaluations of Modern Radiotherapy: A Systematic Mapping Review
Gregoire Vincent (Centre de Lutte contre le cancer Léon Bérard (CLB), France)
- Speaker at Impact of higher multileaf collimator speed on plan quality for Upright vs supine photon radiotherapy
Lennart Volz (GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research GmbH)
- Speaker at Deep-learning assisted single-scenario robust optimization for carbon ion therapy
Lennart Volz (GSI Helmholtzzentrum f¨ur Schwerionenforschung)
- Speaker at Exercise I: Introduction to AI development platform and basic funtion
- Speaker at Exercise II: DL based image segementation // commerical software
Yi Wang (MGB)
- Speaker at Generative AI
Panzifan Wu
- Speaker at Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Patient Preparation for Upright Radiotherapy
Ruoxu Xia (Cosylab d.d., Ljubljana, Slovenia;)
- Speaker at Probabilistic clinical target model: combining anatomy-constrained primary tumor spread with lymphatic progression
Lei Xing (Stanford University)
- Speaker at Closing plenary: future of AI for RT
Xiaofeng Yang (University of Chicago)
- Speaker at Physics plenary: From image synthesis to digital twins
Ye Zhang (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
- Speaker at Opening: 2nd UPLIFT school
- Speaker at Welcome address
- Speaker at AI4RT plenary discussion
Chuxin Zhang (UCLouvain)
- Speaker at Structure-Level Uncertainty for Quality Control in Prostate MRI Segmentation under Image Degradation