This Week Dr Juliana Bowles brought together nine leading academic and industry partners for the 4th Consortium meeting for the Serums project. The project aims to produce tools and technologies to support future-generation healthcare systems that will integrate home-based healthcare into a holistic treatment plan, reducing cost and travel-associated risks and increasing quality of healthcare … The Serums Project Consortium meeting
The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer have funded a PGR Studentship relative to the project entitled ‘Detecting high-risk smokers in Primary Care Electronic Health Records: An automatic classification, data extraction and predictive modelling approach’. The supervisors are Prof. Frank Sullivan of the School of Medicine and Prof. Tom Kelsey of the … The Melville Trust for the Care and Cure of Cancer PhD award
Next Monday is the annual St Andrews Bioinformatics workshop in Seminar Room 1, School of Medicine. Some of the presentations are very relevant to Computer Science, and all should be interesting. More information below: Agenda: 14:00 – 14:15: Valeria Montano: The PreNeolithic evolutionary history of human genetic resistance to Plasmodium falciparum 14:15 – 14:30: Chloe Hequet: Estimation … St Andrews Bioinformatics Workshop 10/06/19
Title: Predicting Drug Interactions with Kernel Methods Abstract: Many real world prediction problems can be formulated as pairwise learning problems, in which one is interested in making predictions for pairs of objects, e.g. drugs and their targets. Kernel-based approaches have emerged as powerful tools for solving problems of that kind, and especially multiple kernel learning … Juho Rousu: Predicting Drug Interactions with Kernel Methods
Arne Sunde, the incoming Editor-in-Chief, has appointed Tom Kelsey as Associate Editor of Human Reproduction Update. Human Reproduction Update is the leading journal in Reproductive Medicine, with an Impact Factor of 11.852. The journal publishes comprehensive and systematic review articles in human reproductive physiology and medicine, and is published on behalf of the European Society … Tom Kelsey appointed Associate Editor of Human Reproduction Update
The Schools of Medicine and Computer Science are seeking to appoint three highly motivated data scientists with a passion for computer vision and deep learning, and specifically their application to medical imaging. The data scientists will be based in the Schools of Computer Science and Medicine at the University of St Andrews and will work … Job vacancies: Interdisciplinary Data Scientists
Modern external beam radiation therapy techniques allow the design of highly conformal radiation treatment plans that permit high doses of ionsing radition to be delivered to the tumour in order to eradicate cancer cells while sparing surrounding normal tissue. However, since it is difficult to avoid irradiation of normal tissue altogether and ionising radiation also … Computational Approaches for Accurate, Automated and Safe Cancer Care – HIG Seminar
“Addiction” Seminar Room 1 School of Medicine 12:00: Alex Baldacchino- Introduction 12:15: Ognjen Arandjelović & Aniqa Aslam- Understanding Fatal and Non-Fatal Drug Overdose Risk Factors in Fife: Overdose Risk (OdRi) tool 12:45: Damien Williams & Fergus Neville- Transdermal alcohol monitoring 13:15: David Harris-Birtill & David Morrison- Narco Cat – waste water analysis in substance misuse … DHSI Seminar Series (Digital Health Science Initiative)
On 10th February, Michael Pitcher gave a talk on his upcoming work for his PhD. Michael is a first-year PhD student based in the School of Computer Science, whose research also involves close collaboration with the School of Medicine. Michael’s work involves investigation of the use of computational models to simulate the progression and treatment … Computational Models of Tuberculosis
At the group meeting on 13th January Dr David Harris-Birtill gave a talk about ongoing work creating an automated remote pulse oximeter. Here’s an abstract about this work which was presented at a recent conference in India: “A patient’s blood oxygen saturation and heart rate are crucial indicators for monitoring their wellbeing; standard practice is … Automated Remote Pulse Oximetry Talk