Overview

The BioMedIA  laboratory consists of around 40 postgraduate and postdoctoral engineering researchers working in the area of biomedical image analysis. The problems that motivate our research are clinical, related to improving clinical diagnosis, therapy planning, image-based treatment guidance and post-therapy assessment. We work closely with internationally leading physicians on all our projects with around 10 clinical fellows registered for degrees or undertaking research projects which direct involve using technology developed in our laboratory. The laboratory is based in the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering in the heart of Oxford’s medical campus and adjacent to the Churchill Hospital and within easy walking distance to the two other main Oxford John Radcliffe Hospitals Trust sites.

The main areas of research interest are:

• Cardiovascular imaging (functional assessment)
• In vivo Tissue Biomechanics
• Image Guided Interventions and Therapy
• Mammography
• Women's Health Imaging (obstetrics and perinatal care)
• Personalised Perinatal Monitoring
• Microscopy image analysis
• Nonlinear Registration Methodology
• Machine learning in medical imaging
• Segmentation Methodology

The laboratory's research is linked to some major university-wide, national  and international initiatives including

• Oxford Cancer Imaging Centre - Image Analysis
• Centre of Excellence in Personalized Healthcare
• Intergrowth-21st Study
• Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

as well as we host postgraduate research students funded from a number of bespoke postgraduate research training programmes, including.

• RCUK Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation
• EPSRC Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre
• National Institutes of Health Oxford and Cambridge Scholars Program