An Automated Handwritten Notes OCR Pipeline “Automation is not about replacing humans, it’s about freeing them to do more intelligent and creative work.” – Unknown I have been using ChatGPT as a high-hand virtual Notetaker …

Automated workflow from handwritten notes to structured notes in Apple Notes and extracted tasks in Apple Reminders. MacOS Claude required... lucbeaulieu.com/2026/03/22/a...

An Insider Look at One’s Own Publications: Research Trajectories, Long-Term Impact and Mentorship The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley Reaching 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts (not counting peer-reviewed conference proceeding ma…

If you’re interested in research trajectories, mentorship, or how scientific impact accumulates over time, you may find this personnal perspective worth a read.

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Retrospective evaluation of high-dose-rate brachytherapy multicriteria planning using physical dose versus radiobiological criteria for prostate cancer Scientific Reports - Retrospective evaluation of high-dose-rate brachytherapy multicriteria planning using physical dose versus radiobiological criteria for prostate cancer

Our latest research work performed at Université Laval and @crchudequebec.bsky.social "Retrospective evaluation of high-dose-rate brachytherapy multicriteria planning using physical dose versus radiobiological criteria for prostate cancer" is available in Nature Scientific Reports: rdcu.be/eZS87

Our 2023 manuscript "Simultaneous catheter and multicriteria optimization for HDR cervical cancer brachytherapy with a complex intracavity/interstitial applicator" (DOI: 10.1002/mp.16874), is part of the 10% most viewed paper in Medical Physics for the 12 months following publication!

turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness

We have also done the 0.5 mm.

Arxiv was the pre-submission version. This is the peer-reviewed version!

Here is a new manuscript from our team detailing all of the correction factors for use of a plastic scintillation dosimeter in small fields dosimetry: aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Génie | Des algorithmes pour traiter le cancer Allier le génie et la santé permet d’importantes avancées dans le monde médical. Le professeur Luc Beaulieu, de l’Université Laval, pilote un projet utilisant des algorithmes pour planifier des traite...

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When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

"...o1-preview bypassed OpenAI's internal tests and, in a separate December incident, attempted to copy itself to a new server when faced with deactivation". Skynet anyone?

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