Background

Tessa van Bergen received her bachelor’s (2021) and master’s (2024) degrees in biomedical sciences at the University of Amsterdam. The work for her master’s thesis was conducted at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and focused on photodynamic therapy (PDT), immune checkpoint therapy, oncology, fluorescent imaging, and photoacoustic imaging.

Since June 2024, Tessa works as a PhD student in the Computational Imaging Group under the supervision of Nico van den Berg, Arthur Braat, and Timo Soeterik. The project aims to develop deep learning models for the segmentation and classification for the prognosis of patients with metastasized hormone sensitive prostate cancer using PSMA PET/CT scans.

Three most recent publications

• Tessa D. van Bergen, Arthur J.A.T. Braat, Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, and Timo F.W. Soeterik. Integration of prostate-specific membrane antigen-PET and multiparametric MRI for gross tumour volume definition in localised and locally advanced prostate cancer treated with image-guided radiotherapy. Current Opinion in Urology, 2025.
• Tessa D. Van Bergen, Arthur J. A. T. Braat, Rick Hermsen, Joris G. Heetman, Lieke Wever, Jules Lavalaye, Maarten Vinken, Clinton D. Bahler, Mark Tann, Claudia Kesch, Tugce Telli, Peter Ka-Fung Chiu, Kwan Kit Wu, Fabio Zattoni, Laura Evangelista, Francesco Ceci, Marcin Miszczyk, Pawel Rajwa, Francesco Barletta, Giorgio Gandaglia, Jean-Paul A. Van Basten, Matthijs J. Scheltema, Harm H. E. Van Melick, Roderick C. N. Van Bergh, Cornelis A. T. Van den Berg, Giancarlo Marra, and Timo F. W. Soeterik. External validation of nomograms including PSMA PET information for the prediction of lymph node involvement of prostate cancer. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2025.
• Derek Allen, Madeline JoAnna Szoo, Tessa D van Bergen, Ani Seppelin, Jeonghyun Oh, and Mohammad A Saad. Near-infrared photoimmunotherapy: mechanisms, applications, and future perspectives in cancer research. Antibody Therapeutics, 2025.

Projects:

• Deep learning in radiotherapy

Keywords: Deep Learning

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Email: t.d.vanbergen-2@umcutrecht.nl