DrMark Gardner

Dr Mark Gardner is using deep learning and advanced image processing methods to monitor and compensate for different types of patient motion during radiation therapy. Dr Gardner’s work on monitoring patient motion aims to improve the accuracy of cardiac radioablation treatments and to provide faster and more accurate lung cancer treatments in fewer treatment session. He is also working to reduce patient anxiety in head and neck cancer patients during radiation therapy treatments by removing the need for immobilisation masks. Dr Gardner has partnered with Royal North Shore Hospital, Westmead Hospital and Blacktown Hospital to bring his innovations to patients in the clinic.

Dr Gardner uses deep learning-based segmentation and registration methods, as well as cone-beam CT reconstruction methods to achieve his research goals. Dr Gardner aims to implement real-time tracking of key organs during radiation therapy including head and neck tumours and cardiac substructures. He is also looking at developing methods for simulation-free single fraction lung cancer radiation therapy treatments. He welcomes expressions of interest from students and collaborators looking for challenges in image processing and CT reconstruction methods and to improve radiation therapy treatments.