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Dr Kathleen Curran BSc (Hons), MSc, Phd
Lecturer
Dr Curran is an Assistant Professor in Diagnostic Imaging in UCD School of Medicine and an Affiliated Principal Investigator in the Centre for Biomedical Engineering. She is a funded investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland centre for research training in machine learning (ML-Labs) and directs the UCD machine learning in medical imaging research group. Her research interests are in Medical Image Analysis and Machine Learning applied to MRI, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography data. Her group conducts basic and applied research in MRI of the brain, heart and the musculoskeletal system. These multidisciplinary international research studies span medical imaging, computer science and biomedical engineering, have a proven success in publications and encourage innovative approaches amongst her postgraduate researchers. Ultimately, she hopes to bridge the gap between researchers and clinicians and build real-world clinical applications with the support of industrial partners. In partnership with Axial Medical Printing Ltd. she was awarded the 2019 InterTrade Ireland FUSION Project Exemplar Award and is a winner of an Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund 2020. She has authored several book chapters and is currently editor for a special issue on AI enhanced Diffusion MRI in neuroimaging for the journal Frontiers in Neurology. She also leads an MSc programme on AI in medical image analysis.
Publications - Machine Learning
Enterprise imaging and big data: A review from a medical physics perspective
Nicholas McCarthy, AdilDahlan, Tessa S. Cook, Neil O’Hare, Marie-Louise Ryan, Brendan St John, Aonghus Lawlor, Kathleen M. Curran
Physica Medica Volume 83, March 2021, Pages 206-220
Semi-Supervised Siamese Network for Identifying Bad Data in Medical Imaging Datasets
Niamh Belton, Aonghus Lawlor, Kathleen M Curran (MIDL 2021)
Interpretability of a deep learning model in the application of cardiac MRI segmentation with an ACDC challenge dataset
Adrianna Janik, Jonathan Dodd, Georgiana Ifrim, Kris Sankaran, Kathleen Curran
Proceedings Volume 11596, Medical Imaging 2021: Image Processing; 1159636 (2021)
Book Chapter - Deep Learning for Magnetic Resonance Images of Gliomas
John J Healy, Kathleen M Curran, Amira Serifovic Trbalic
Studies in Computational Intelligence Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis, 2020, p. 269-300
Bone Segmentation in Contrast Enhanced Whole-Body Computed Tomograph
Patrick Leydon, Martin O'Connell, Derek Greene, Kathleen M Curran
Journal of Medical Physics for a possible publication (2020)
Cross-correlation Template Matching for Liver Localisation in Computed Tomography
Patrick Leydon, Martin O'Connell, Derek Greene, Kathleen M Curran
The 2019 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2019), Technological University Dublin, 28-30 August 2019
Synthetic Positron Emission Tomography Using Conditional-Generative Adversarial Networks for Healthy Bone Marrow Baseline Image Generation
Patrick Leydon, Martin O'Connell, Derek Greene, Kathleen M Curran
The 2019 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP 2019), Technological University Dublin, Irealnd, 28-30 August 2019
Book Chapter - Semi-automatic bone marrow evaluation in PETCT for multiple myeloma
Patrick Leydon, Martin O’Connell, Derek Greene, Kathleen Curran
Medical Image Understanding and Analysis. MIUA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 723. Springer, Cham
Automatic bone marrow segmentation for PETCT imaging in multiple myeloma
Patrick Leydon, M O’Connell, D Greene, K Curran
Physica Medica Volume 32, Supplement 3, September 2016, Page 242
Machine learning in prediction of prostate brachytherapy rectal dose classes at day 30
Patrick Leydon, Frank Sullivan, Faisal Jamaluddin, Peter Woulfe, Derek Greene, Kathleen M Curran
The Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, 26-28 August 2015
Publications - PET Imaging
Differences in regional bone metabolism at the spine and hip: a quantitative study using 18 F-fluoride positron emission tomography
T Puri, ML Frost, KM Curran, M Siddique, AEB Moore, GJR Cook, PK Marsden, I Fogelman, GM Blake
Osteoporosis International volume 24, pages 633–639 (2013)
Comparison of six quantitative methods for the measurement of bone turnover at the hip and lumbar spine using 18F-fluoride PET-CT
Tanuj Puri, Glen M Blake, Michelle L Frost, Musib Siddique, Amelia EB Moore, Paul K Marsden, Gary JR Cook, Ignac Fogelman, Kathleen M Curran
Nuclear Medicine Communications: June 2012 - Volume 33 - Issue 6 - p 597-606
Semiautomatic region-of-interest validation at the femur in 18f-fluoride pet/ct
Tanuj Puri, Glen M Blake, Kathleen M Curran, Hamish Carr, Amelia EB Moore, Niall Colgan, Martin J O’Connell, Paul K Marsden, Ignac Fogelman, Michelle L Frost
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology September 2012, 40 (3) 168-174
Bone turnover at the spine and hip measured using 18F-PET
T Puri, GM Blake, ML Frost, M Siddique, AE Moore, PK Marsden, I Fogelman, KM Curran
Bone, Volume 48, Supplement 2, 7 May 2011, Page S89
Validation of new image-derived arterial input functions at the aorta using 18F-fluoride positron emission tomography
Tanuj Puri, Glen M Blake, Musib Siddique, Michelle L Frost, Gary JR Cook, Paul K Marsden, Ignac Fogelman, Kathleen M Curran
Nuclear Medicine Communications: June 2011 - Volume 32 - Issue 6 - p 486-495
Validation of image-derived arterial input functions at the femoral artery using 18F-fluoride positron emission tomography
Tanuj Puri, Glen M Blake, Michelle L Frost, Amelia EB Moore, Musib Siddique, Gary JR Cook, Paul K Marsden, Ignac Fogelman, Kathleen M Curran
Nuclear Medicine Communications: September 2011 - Volume 32 - Issue 9 - p 808-817
Long-term precision of 18F-fluoride PET skeletal kinetic studies in the assessment of bone metabolism
Michelle L Frost, Glen M Blake, So-Jin Park-Holohan, Gary JR Cook, Kathleen M Curran, Paul K Marsden, Ignac Fogelman
Journal of Nuclear Medicine May 2008, 49 (5) 700-707
FDG-PET as a" metabolic biopsy" tool in non-lung lesions with indeterminate biopsy
A Beggs, S Hain, Kathleen Curran, M O'Doherty
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging volume 29, pages542–546(2002)
FDG-PET as a" metabolic biopsy" tool in thoracic lesions with indeterminate biopsy
Sharon F Hain, Kathleen M Curran, Andrew D Beggs, Ignac Fogelman, Michael J O'doherty, Michael N Maisey
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine volume 28, pages1336–1340(2001)
The'metabolic biopsy': Dedicated FDG-PET for failed biopsy in non-lung lesions
SF Hain, AD Beggs, KM Curran, I Fogelman
JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE 41 (5) 304P-304P, 2000
The use of FDG PET as a ‘metabolic biopsy’for non-lung tumours
AD Beggs, SF Hain, KM Curran, I Fogelman
Nuclear Medicine Communications: April 2000 - Volume 21 - Issue 4 - p 380
The metabolic biopsy: FDG-PET for the management of failed or contraindicated biopsies.
SF Hain, KM Curran, I Fogelman, MN Maisey
JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE 40 (5), 101P-101P, 1999
Publications - DTI
Anatomically accurate model of EMG during index finger flexion and abduction derived from diffusion tensor imaging
Diego Pereira Botelho, Kathleen Curran, Madeleine M Lowery
PLoSComput Biol 15(8):e1007267 (2019)
Visualization of visual pathway disruption in patients with nystagmus associated with multiple sclerosis: value of DTI at 3T
R Dunne, P Iyer, JF Meaney, A Fagan, K Curran, N Colgan, G Boyle, J Redmond
European Congress of Radiology, March 2011
Applying DTI white matter orientations to finite element head models to examine diffuse TBI under high rotational accelerations
Niall C Colgan, Michael D Gilchrist, Kathleen M Curran
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology Volume 103, Issues 2–3, December 2010, Pages 304-309
Book Chapter_- Quantitative DTI measures
Curran K.M., Emsell L., Leemans A.
(2016) Quantitative DTI Measures. In: Van Hecke W., Emsell L., Sunaert S. (eds) Diffusion Tensor Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3118-7_5
Publications - Image Registration
Similarity Measures for Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging Registration
Carla Gil, Adrianus J Bakermans, Baastian J van Nierop, Gustav J Strijkers, Hans C van Assen, Kathleen M Curran
2011 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011, pp. 82-83
Comparison of similarity measures for driving diffusion tensor registration
KM Curran, DC Alexander
Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 13 (2005)
Matching Orientation in Diffusion Tensor Images for Improved Image Registration
Kathleen Mary Curran
University of London, 2005
Diffusion tensor orientation matching for image registration
Kathleen M Curran, Daniel C Alexander
Proc. SPIE 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing, (15 May 2003)
Orientation coherence optimization in tensor image registration
KM Curran, DC Alexander
Orientation matching for registration of diffusion tensor images
Kathleen M Curran, Daniel C Alexander
Publications - Other
Doctoral Colloquium—A Snapshot of the Future: Virtual and Augmented Reality Training for Radiology
Xuanhui Xu, Eleni Mangina, David Kilroy, Kathleen M Curran, John J Healy, Abraham G Campbell
2020 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, 2020, pp. 407-410
Suppression of the CT Beam Hardening Streak Artifact Using Predictive Correction on Detector Data
John G Stowe, Kathleen M Curran
Universal Journal of Medical Science, 4 (2): 69-80, 2016
Horizontal nystagmus and multiple sclerosis using 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging
PM Iyer, AJ Fagan, JF Meaney, NC Colgan, SD Meredith, DO Driscoll, KM Curran, D Bradley, J Redmond
Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) volume 185, pages881–886(2016)
Deep evolution of image representations for handwritten digit recognition
Alexandros Agapitos, Michael O'Neill, Miguel Nicolau, David Fagan, Ahmed Kattan, Anthony Brabazon, Kathleen Curran
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Sendai, Japan, 2015, pp. 2452-2459
A method for improved clustering and classification of microscopy images using quantitative co-localization coefficients
Vasanth R Singan, Kenan Handzic, Kathleen M Curran, Jeremy C Simpson
BMC Research Notes volume 5, Article number: 281 (2012)
Dual channel rank-based intensity weighting for quantitative co-localization of microscopy images
Vasanth R Singan, Thouis R Jones, Kathleen M Curran, Jeremy C Simpson
BMC Bioinformatics volume 12, Article number: 407 (2011)
Bioluminescent imaging: a critical tool in pre‐clinical oncology research
K O'Neill, SK Lyons, WM Gallagher, KM Curran, AT Byrne
J Pathol 2010; 220: 317–327
Vascular-targeted photodynamic therapy with BF2-chelated Tetraaryl-Azadipyrromethene agents: a multi-modality molecular imaging approach to therapeutic assessment
AT Byrne, AE O'connor, M Hall, J Murtagh, K O'neill, KM Curran, K Mongrain, JA Rousseau, R Lecomte, S McGee, JJ Callanan, DF O'shea, WM Gallagher
British Journal of Cancer volume 101, pages1565–1573(2009)
Gastrointestinal side effects associated with novel therapies in patients with multiple myeloma: consensus statement of the IMF Nurse Leadership Board.
Lisa C Smith, Page Bertolotti, Kathleen Curran, Bonnie Jenkins
Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2008 Jun;12(3 Suppl):37-52
Management of side effects of novel therapies for multiple myeloma: Consensus statements developed by the International Myeloma Foundation’s Nurse Leadership Board
Page Bertolotti, Elizabeth Bilotti, Kathleen Colson, Kathleen Curran, Deborah Doss, Beth Faiman, Maria Gavino, Bonnie Jenkins, Kathy Lilleby, Ginger Love, Patricia A Mangan, Emily McCullagh, Teresa Miceli, Kena Miller, Kathryn Rogers, Sandra Rome, Stacey Sandifer, Lisa C Smith, Joseph D Tariman, Jeanne Westphal
Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2008 Jun; 12(3 0): 9–12
Visual adaptation: softcopy image contribution to the observer's field of view
RJ Toomey, Kathleen Curran, C D'Helft, Maria B Joyce, John Stowe, JT Ryan, Mark F McEntee, David J Manning, PC Brennan
Proceedings Volume 6917, Medical Imaging 2008: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 69170O (2008)
Vascular targeted photodynamic therapy with adpm agents
Annette Byrne, Aisling O'Connor, Michael Hall, Julie Murtagh, Karen O'Neill, Kathleen Curran, Kim Mongrain, Roger Lecomte, Sharon McGee, Donal O'Shea, William Gallagher
AACR Annual Meeting-- Apr 12-16, 2008; San Diego, CA
A browser based image bank, useful tool or expensive toy?
PJ Liepins, KM Curran, CR Renshaw, MN Maisey
Medical Informatics Volume 23, 1998 - Issue 3
Developing global resonance for global leadership
Kathleen Curran
Leadership and Power in International Development (Building Leadership Bridges), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 311-329
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