computational
modeling in biology

Postdoctoral fellow

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Research

• Computational modelling of stem cell fates based on single-cell gene expression data
  • Structured Gaussian Process Latent Variable model
• Image processing of time-lapse microscopy movies
• Modelling outcomes of radiotherapy treatments

Publications

• Seco J, Sharp G C, Wu Z, Gierga D, Buettner F & Paganetti H 2008 Dosimetric impact of motion in free-breathing and gated lung radiotherapy: A 4D Monte Carlo study of intrafraction and interfraction effects Med Phys 35(1), 356-366.
• Buettner F, Gulliford S L, Webb S & Partridge M 2009a Using dose-surface maps to predict radiation- induced rectal bleeding: a neural network approach. Phys Med Biol 54(17), 5139-5153.
• Buettner F, Gulliford S L, Webb S, Sydes M R, Dearnaley D P & Partridge M 2009b Assessing cor- relations between the spatial distribution of the dose to the rectal wall and late rectal toxicity after prostate radiotherapy: an analysis of data from the MRC RT01 trial (ISRCTN 47772397). Phys Med Biol 54(21), 6535-6548.
• Buettner F, Gulliford S L, Webb S & Partridge M 2010 Using Bayesian logistic regression to evaluate a new type of dosimetric constraint for prostate radiotherapy treatment planning Med Phys 37(4), 1768-1777.
• Buettner F, Gulliford S L, Webb S & Partridge M 2011 Modeling late rectal toxicities based on a parameterized representation of the 3D dose distribution. Phys Med Biol 56(7), 2103-2118.
• Volpe G, Singh GP, Buettner F, Morales A, Petrov D, 2006 Optical Trapping Dynamics for Cell Identification in Proc. SPIE 6326
• Buettner F, Gulliford S L, Partridge M, Sydes M R, Dearnaley D P & Webb S 2009 Assessing correla- tions between the spatial distribution of dose to the rectal wall and late rectal toxicity after prostate radiotherapy in Proc. World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, p. 908-911.
• Buettner F, Gulliford SL, Webb S & Partridge M 2009 Using Bayesian logistic regression with high- order interactions to model radiation-induced toxicities following radiotherapy in Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning and Applications, p. 451-456.
• Buettner F, Gulliford SL, Webb S & Partridge M 2010 Using a parameterized representation of the 3D dose distribution to predict radiation-induced toxicities in Proc. XVIth Conf. on the use of Computers in Radiotherapy.
• Buettner F, Miah A B, Gulliford S L, Harrington J K, Webb S, Nutting C M & Partridge M 2010 Using a Bayesian Feature Selection Algorithm to Identify Dose-response Models Based on the Shape of the 3D Dose-distribution: An example from a head and neck trial in Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning and Applications, p. 740-45.