Welcome!
Welcome to my website! I am Sebastiaan Breedveld, assistant professor at the unit Medical Physics, department of Radiotherapy Erasmus MC Cancer Institute (Erasmus University Medical Center) Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Generate, evaluate, modify your treatment plans in real-time, using deep-learning!
Added a fully updated project page on the TROTS dataset here.
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TEDxDelft 2016!
Giving each patient the best treatment technically possible
LEGO Linac movie now online!
Demonstration of different radiotherapy techniques using a LEGO model of a typical treatment device. See the comments on the YouTube website for a more thorough description.
Radiotherapy is one of the main treatments for cancer, used in 50% of cancer treatments, and a multi-disciplinary field of research, mostly involving medicine, physics, mathematics, and computer science. My focus lies in improvements from the field of mathematics, where the subfields operations research, decision-analysis, optimisation, numerical mathematics and mathematical physics play the most prominent role.
I have been working on inventing new treatment planning algorithms, resulting to the Erasmus-iCycle algorithm. Through the efforts of many people, this was introduced clinically in 2010. The number of patients treated is still expanding, with a total close to 500 in 2013, more than 10% of the radiotherapy treatments at the Erasmus MC - Cancer Institute - and growing!
On this website you will find my academic CV, background information on radiotherapy, the mathematics involved, illustrated by many figures, movies, and you can even perform Pareto-navigation online!
Feel free to use the information and content provided for presentations, just make sure you name the Erasmus MC - Cancer Institute.
PhD Thesis
My PhD thesis, Towards Automated Treatment Planning in Radiotherapy, can be downloaded here:
