Sander Boelders
Data scientist and deep learning researcher and PhD student at the Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital, Neurosurgery department and Tilbrurg University, department of cognitive sciences and AI.
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Cognitive impairment is common amongst patients with primary brain tumors (PBT). The exact mechanism by which primary brain tumors affect different cognitive functions, however, is not well understood. Cognitive impairment in PBT patients is likely the result of local effects of the tumor, global effects of the tumor, and patient characteristics. Finding predictors, or the potentially complex interactions between them, may improve our understanding of how different variables influence cognitive function. Moreover, this may facilitate personalized prediction of cognitive function aid personalized treatment decisions. Several big challenges arise when aiming to make personalized predictions of cognitive functioning in PBT patients, many of these problems likely generalize to other applied machine learning tasks.