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Imaging Office

The Imaging Office offers a comprehensive range of services aimed at supporting all aspects related to medical imaging.
Projects range from within our institute, to national and international level.

Imaging Office

Radiology & Nuclear Medicine

The Imaging Office acts as a gateway to the combined knowledge and skills of the department

Radiology & Nuclear Medicine

Population Imaging

As Population Imaging Flagship node Rotterdam, the Imaging Office is connected to the European Biomedical Imaging Infrastructure (Euro-BioImaging). Via this infrastructure the Imaging Office is able to provide its services on a European level.

Population Imaging

Erasmus MC

The University Medical Center Rotterdam is an innovative center for high-quality medical research, education and care

The Imaging Office helps to fulfill the research aim of the Erasmus MC to translate bench discoveries to bedside applications

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image analysis

We have access to a wide range of fantastic (AI) tools, developed by our own researchers. With the help of our experienced research software engineers, we can reuse these for new clinical applications.

data services

A structured database that adheres to the FAIR principles is crucial for the quality of imaging studies. We combine the expertise of research software engineers and data managers to accomplish such a structured database.

software development

In addition to the image analysis processing that we do ourselves, we can also make this become part of user-friendly software for a specific user.

Clinical implementation

We want to minimize the gap between in-house developed software and patient care. So, is there a high demand for certain imaging software in the clinical workplace that cannot be met by a commercial product? In addition to developing the software, we also provide support in technical and legal implementation.

Example Projects

The services offered by the Imaging Office are very versatile. Have a look at some example projects.

  • Research infrastructure of the neuroimaging study within the large population-based Rotterdam Study, such as image data storage, workflow automation, tailored software development, and support in applying existing automated image analysis algorithms.

    Prof. Dr. Meike Vernooij
    Prof. Dr. Meike Vernooij

    Professor,

    Epidemiology & Radiology

  • Using a custom-made plugin for ImageJ to analyse intracranial arteriosclerosis in a large population study of 1,000 native Bolivian citizens, and relate this to dementia.

    Dr. Sutherland & Dr. Barisano
    Dr. Sutherland & Dr. Barisano

    MemorialCare Health System & Stanford University

  • Analysis of the Dutch Heart-Brain Connection Consortium brain imaging data (close to a 1000 scans). We have performed a series of studies using these data, improving our understanding of hemodynamic factors in vascular cognitive impairment, already generating well over 10 journal papers.

    Prof. Dr. Geert Jan Biessels
    Prof. Dr. Geert Jan Biessels

    Neurologist & professor,

    UMC Utrecht

  • The development of specific software to interact with thorax CT and MRI scans in order to determine quantitative scores for diagnosis and prognosis of patients with lung diseases.

    Dr. Daan Caudri
    Dr. Daan Caudri

    Director,

    LungAnalysis lab

  • Automatic epicardial fat measurements on CT scans of the thorax and the heart in healthy individuals and patients for risk assessment of cardiovascular disease.

    Dr. Daniel Bos
    Dr. Daniel Bos

    Epidemiologist

  • Automatic brain volume and white matter hyperintensity measurements in around 1500 MRI scans of patients attending the Alzheimer Centre. Because of the success of the first project, a new project is intitiated that cover similar analyses on another 800 MRI scans.

    Dr. Frank Wolters
    Dr. Frank Wolters

    Epidemiologist

  • Automatic brain volume measurements in around 80 MRI scans of peadiatric patients with rare brain conditions for the ENCORE expertise center.

    Dr. Danielle Veenma
    Dr. Danielle Veenma

    Pediatrician

  • Implementation of automatic tumor volume measurements for brain MRI scans in clinical practice.

    Prof. Dr. Marion Smits
    Prof. Dr. Marion Smits

    Neuro-radiologist

  • Tailored software development to measure the length of the pineal gland cysts and height of the cerebellar tonsils on brain MRI scans of the Generation R population-based study.

    Drs. Marjolein Dremmen
    Drs. Marjolein Dremmen

    Pediatric Radiologist

How to make use of our service

The Imaging Office works with a standardized service request form on which can be indicated which services are requested with regard to imaging data, image analysis and image processing. The form can be found and submitted through the contact page. After reception of the fully completed request form, a confirmation of receipt will be sent within three working days and an intake interview will be scheduled within ten working days. On the basis of the intake interview it will be decided whether it is possible to accept the request. There will be costs associated with the service provided. These costs could be included in a grant application. An indication for the price for grant applications can also be requested via the service request form. Please indicate clearly in the explanation if a price indication is needed.


Imaging Office Workflow

News

Final call for funding of Imaging Office services via canSERV

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Final call for funding of Imaging Office services via canSERV

on April 15, 2025

The canSERV consortium releases their 4th, and final, open call: Open Call for Transnational Service Provision. As Imaging Office we are one of the service providers of canSERV with our Image Analysis and Image Storage services. Now, what does this mean? Projects from outside of the Erasmus MC (can be on a national level, can be on a European level) can apply for this call, and if accepted, make use of the Imaging Office services for free.

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Euro-BioImaging All Hands Node Meeting 2025

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Euro-BioImaging All Hands Node Meeting 2025

on March 30, 2025

From 24-28th of March, the annual All-Hands Node meeting of Euro-BioImaging took place in the picturesque city of Heidelberg. In between the hills and the forest, houses the EMBL: the hosting location of the meeting. It was a very fruitful meeting with exchange of opportunities, ideas, an challenges but above all the feeling of a very open and welcoming community.

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Master internship data curation

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Master internship data curation

on February 17, 2025

The Imaging Office is looking for a master student for a thesis project entitled: “Automatic MRI sequence classification” Please see more details below. If you’re interested, write an email with motivation and CV to i.vanhouwelingen@erasmusmc.nl

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Contribution as Population Imaging Flagship Node to imaging of vascular calcifications in the brain

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Contribution as Population Imaging Flagship Node to imaging of vascular calcifications in the brain

on February 13, 2025

For their fascinating research, Dr. M. Linda Sutherland and Dr. Giuseppe Barisano made use of an image analysis tool provided by the Population Imaging Flagship Node Rotterdam via the Euro-BioImaging network. In particular, a custom ImageJ plugin was provided for the analysis of intracranial arteriosclerosis. The group applied the plugin on brain CT scans of a native Bolivian population of 1,000 individuals to test their hypothesis that calcification of the intracranial internal carotid artery can be related to dementia.

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