Mike Brady, Professor of Information Engineering, University of Oxford, UK

Lectures

  1. Feature detection and density estimation in medical image analysis
  2. Image analysis in colorectal and liver cancer
  3. Some aspects of molecular imaging: glycolysis, hypoxia, and optical image analysis


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.