PhD thesis of an employee of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Ph.D. Marek Wodziński won the main prize of PLN 30,000 in the 19th ABB competition for the best diploma theses.

The award-winning doctoral dissertation “Medical image registration methods focused on the problem of missing data” proposed a number of innovative methods, primarily based on artificial intelligence and deep learning, to match medical images with the problem of missing data.

The developed methods can be used in areas such as supporting cancer diagnostics using histopathological images, localization of the breast cancer bed in the context of planning supportive radiotherapy, or supporting the surgeon during resection of brain tumors.