PROF. DAFNA BEN-BASHAT (PhD)
Deputy Director of the Sagol Brain Institute, Senior Researcher at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine & Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University.
Visiting Professor at the Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Clinical Medical School of Yangzhou University.
Prof. Ben-bashat is the Leading Investigator of the #Advanced Brain Imaging research team at the Sagol Brain Institute.
Research Projects
Brain Tumor Classification
MRI is the established method for assessment of patients with brain tumors. However, the response assessment in neuro-oncology (RANO) criteria currently rely on conventional imaging, which provides only a rough estimation of enhancing and non-enhancing lesion volumes. These parameters fail to reliably distinguish between different tissue components such as tumor progression versus therapy response, and treatment ramifications are influenced by the correct understanding of the nature of the lesion.
Our studies aim to improve therapy response assessment in patients with brain tumors by providing quantitative and reliable tools; using advanced methods of MR data acquisition, state of the art image processing and machine learning algorithms for data analysis
Collaborations
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center – departments of: Radiology, Neuro-Oncology, Neuro-surgery, Neurology, Gynecology and obstetrics, Neonatology.
School of Mechanical Engineering
Tel Aviv University
School of Chemistry
Tel Aviv University
The Hebrew University – The center of Bioengineering
Technion – Electric Engineering and Faculty of Medicine
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Canada - Radiology Department
Oxford Brookes University, UK - Rehabilitation
Henry Ford Health System, USA, Neurology
Active Grants
Gulton Foundation
6 Weizman St.
Tel Aviv, 64239
Sagol Brain Institute
Tel-Aviv
(Located at: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Affiliated with Tel Aviv University)