Research conducted at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBS PAN) is applied in various areas of social life. One particularly vibrant research stream is connected to applications in medicine. Recently, this has been documented, among other things, in the following ways.
Radiotherapy Planning
The team led by Professor Ignacy Kaliszewski, in collaboration with physicians from Poland and researchers from abroad, is conducting studies on the development of radiotherapy treatment plans. The research results could contribute, in particular, to significantly improving the effectiveness of radiation sessions, which are an important tool in the treatment of cancer.
Recent research findings have been described in the article:
Juan José Moreno, Savíns Puertas-Martín, Juana L. Redondo, Pilar M. Ortigosa, Anna Zawadzka, Pawel Kukołowicz, Robert Szmurło, Ignacy Kaliszewski, Janusz Miroforidis, and Ester M. Garzón. 2025. Bi-Level Optimization to Enhance Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Planning. Informatica 36, 1 (2025), 99–124.
These results were also popularized on the Nauka w Polsce website.
ExplainMe Project
Since July 2024, the SRI PAS has been implementing a project entitled Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring Acoustic Features extracted from Speech, led by a team directed by Professor Katarzyna Kaczmarek-Majer.
The project is part of the FIRST TEAM initiative and is funded by the program European Funds for a Modern Economy (FENG). Its aim is to develop algorithms and tools for the analysis and explanation of complex medical data—particularly those provided as multidimensional time series representing patient speech recordings.
As part of the project, a recent paper was presented: M. Ostrowski, K. Kaczmarek-Majer, J. Budzianowski, P. Burchardt, J. Rzeźniczak: Fuzzy Weighted Shapley Values Based On Nearest Neighbor Classification, for which Marcin Ostrowski, M.Sc. received the Outstanding Student Paper award at the 16th European Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Mathematics (ESCIM 2025) in A Coruña, Spain.