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Deep learning applied to fundus images from the Scottish Diabetic Retinopathy Screening programme

Title: Deep learning applied to fundus images from the Scottish Diabetic Retinopathy Screening programme Speaker: Joe Mellor, University of Edinburgh Usher Institute Abstract: In…

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Studying cancer biology online

Rachel is a student on the online Cancer Biology and Precision Oncology masters programme at The University of Edinburgh. This cutting-edge MSc programme launched in 2022. Since then, students from…

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Functional Genomics for drug target identification by Professor Kenneth Baillie

Title: Functional Genomics for drug target identification Speaker: Professor Kenneth Baillie, Personal Chair of Experimental Medicine, University of Edinburgh Abstract: Most drugs work by…

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Regulation and Standards in the Safe and Ethical Adoption of AI Systems in Healthcare

Title: Regulation and Standards in the Safe and Ethical Adoption of AI Systems in Healthcare Abstract: Following a series of high profile commercial and research developments such as alpha…

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Didier Devaurs: A Tale of Two Strategies to Efficiently Explore the Conformational Space of Molecular Systems

Speaker: Didier Devaurs, University of Edinburgh Abstract: Protein interactions are often associated with changes in a protein's conformation. Studying this structure-function…

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Danya Glabau: Technology Won’t Solve It: Perspectives on Medical AI from STS

Abstract: Many problems in healthcare are funding, governance or management problems that can’t be solved solely by the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) or other automated,…

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Holding AI to Account: Challenges for the Delivery of Trustworthy AI in Healthcare by Rob Procter 13 January 2023

Biomedical AI CDT seminar series 13 January 2023, Rob Procter, University of Warwick Abstract: The need for AI systems to provide explanations for their behaviour is now widely recognised as key…

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Examining patient perspectives on artificial intelligence in health care Sally Wyatt and Flora Lysen

Speakers: Flora Lysen and Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University) Abstract: Presentation of research examining patient perspectives on artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. (How) can and should…

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Alumni Insights (Deanery of Biomedical Sciences & School of Biological Sciences) - Andrew Lee, Associate Principal Biostatistician, Astra Zeneca

Andrew Lee, Associate Principal Biostatistician, Astra Zeneca, shares his career journey since graduating and offers insights to what has helped her to progress his career. After gaining his…

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Alumni Insights (Deanery of Biomedical Sciences & School of Biological Sciences) - Ana Bermejo, Research Environment Project Officer, Welcome Trust

Ana Bermejo, Research Environment Project Officer, with the Welcome Trust, shares her career journey since graduating and offers insights to what has helped her to progress her career. After…

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Git, The basics and beyond Part 1

Two part series, by Anna Hadjitofi, providing an intro to Git, designed for the Biomedical AI PhD CDT cohort, University of Edinburgh (Jan-Feb 2023).Anna is a third year PhD student in the School…

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Git, The basics and beyond part 2

The goal of the tutorials is to provide you with a solid understanding of Git, to cover the most important usage patterns and to introduce you to some advanced features. Anna is a third…

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Creating Scientific Figures in Inkscape

This workshop covers the basics of Inkscape as well as several of its more advanced features that are useful for making scientific figures. Topics covered: - Shape and text manipulation and…

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Predicting the usage of healthcare services using neural networks and nationwide healthcare register data

Speaker: Pekka Marttinen, Aalto University. Abstract: Accurately predicting the need for healthcare services is important, to allocate the limited resources fairly and efficiently. In this…

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Learning mixtures and DNA copy-numbers from bulk sequencing of tumor samples

Speaker: Brian Arnold, Senior Data Scientist, Princeton University. Abstract: As tumors expand, they evolve via the accumulation of copy-number aberrations (CNAs; amplifications or deletions…

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A model for academic-industry partnerships to deliver clinical AI solutions that are fit for purpose

Speaker:Carlo Tacchetti, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University Abstract: A correct assessment of patients’ diagnostic, prognostic, and therapy response to standard of care treatments,…

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