Lectures
Reading Group
Prof. Mike Brady will lead the session marked Reading, which will be based
on the weekly reading seminar he has lead in Oxford for the past 20 years.
The students will be assigned a paper in advance of arriving in Lipari and
will be expected to have read it thoroughly. They should be prepared to
explain the content, either in broad outline, or on detailed points, to all
the rest of the students.
Reading Group Paper
During a typical PhD and subsequent research year, you will read probably 100 papers.
Reading research papers is a skill that can be acquired and that is very different
from reading a novel. This session is to introduce you to that skill. It is based
on Professor Mike Brady experience running a weekly reading group with his
Laboratory in Oxford University. You are expected to have read the attached paper
before the reading group session. Professor Mike Brady will ask one of you, at
random, questions that will vary from overall assessment to leading the group
through the details of some particular section. The attached paper have been
chosen because it is worth your while understanding it. However, it will mainly
serve as an exemplar of the more general process.
Brief Biosketch
Professor Sir Mike Brady FRS, FREng, FMedSci is Professor of Information Engineering at
the University of Oxford. Mike is the author of over 450 articles and 24 patents in
computer vision, robotics, medical image analysis, and artificial intelligence, and the
author or editor of ten books, including (with Ralph Highnam) Mammographic Image Analysis
(Kluwer, January 1999) and (with Sue Astley, Chris Rose and Reyer Zwiggelaer) the
International Workshop on Digital Mammography (Springer 2006). Mike's research mostly
concerns cancer, both clinical and preclinical, of the breast, colorectum, liver and
pancreas, with image modalities that include mammography (and digital breast
tomosynthesis), ultrasound, MRI, PET, and optical imaging. He has a strong commitment to
model-based image analysis, ranging from modelling the formation of an image to (most
recently) modelling cellular pathways involved in tumour hypoxia.
Mike has a strong commitment to entrepreneurial activity, and serves as a
non-executive director and Deputy Chairman of Oxford Instruments plc
(http://www.oxinst.com)
, and he is a director of Isis Innovation
http://www.isis-innovation.com (Oxford University's intellectual property
company). Mike is a founding Director of the start-up companies Guidance
(http://www.gcsltd.co.uk), which develops navigation systems for mobile
robots and for dynamic ship positioning as well as electronic tags for
offenders, and Mirada Solutions Limited (http://www.mirada-solutions.com)
which develops medical image analysis software, in particular Miraview for
multimodal image fusion. Mirada Solutions was acquired in 2003 by CTI
Molecular Imaging Inc (NASDAQ) and CTI was acquired in turn by Siemens in
April 2005, becoming Siemens Molecular Imaging. Most recently, Mike is
Senior Independent Director of the start-up company http://www.ixico.net
which provides image analysis services to the pharmaceutical industry, is a
Director of http://www.dexela.co.uk which is developing a novel 3D
mammography system for more reliable and early detection of breast cancer.
Most recently, Siemens Molecular Imaging decided to concentrate the
resources in Oxford on developments for use within Siemens, and, as a result
to cease its OEM activities. This resulted in a management buy-out of the
OEM business, which, with the support of Siemens, Mike is a director of.