Professor Alison Noble
Professor Alison Noble, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor Alison Noble FREng is a Statutory Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Oxford University Department of Engineering Science and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IET, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
She is a Director of the Biomedical Image Analysis (BioMedIA)Laboratory, a multi-disciplinary research group working in the area of biomedical imaging and image analysis, a subarea of biomedical engineering. The laboratory is based in the Oxford Institute for Biomedical Engineeering (IBME), part of the Department of Engineering Science, which opened in January 2008 and is the hub for biomedical engineering at Oxford.
Professor Noble heads large research activities in cardiovascular image analysis, women's health imaging (obstetrics and perinatal), oncology and smaller activities in image-guided interventions and therapy and cellular image analysis. A particular research strength is ultrasound image analysis (segmentation, registration and RF-signal analysis), with current activities including machine learning for ultrasound segmentation and ultrasound-based biomechanical property estimation. Recent research highlights include the group's publications on fusion echocardiography, multi-modality cardiac image analysis, elasticity and slip imaging for breast cancer diagnosis, and fetal ultrasound image analysis. Much of her group's research is motivated by the need to make more intelligent use of ultrasound information for clinical decision-making and the desire to extract quantitative functional information from spatio-temporal acquisitions (movies of moving objects).To find out more about her research activities see the laboratory Research webpages.
Professor Noble has published oround 250 publications. A list of her recent publications can be found at the BioMedIA website Publications webpages. She has supervised 30 PhD students to successful completion, with 17 further DPhil students currently under her sole or co-supervision.
Professor Noble has played a major role in setting up the Biomedical Engineering taught courses and doctoral training programmes at Oxford since 2002. She led setting up and was the first Course Director of the 1yr Oxford MSc in Biomedical Engineering (Director 2006-7,2008-9), also playing a key role in introducing biomedical engineering into the MEng in Engineering Science during 2002-6. From 2002-8 she was on the management committee of the EPSRC Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre postgraduate DPhil programme, and the engineering department co-ordinator for that programme. In 2008 she led the successful bid, and is now Director of the £7.1m RCUK Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation, which is pioneering the way to train postgraduate PhD students in healthcare innovation and translational in biomedical engineering. She received a University Teaching Award for her contributions to biomedical engineering teaching and training at the University of Oxford in 2010.
Further details of research and teaching activities and a more extended biography are given below.
Last modified Mar 31, 2011
