Health research theme
The Health theme spans the technologies of biomedical image analysis, cloud-based and mobile health systems, health informatics, telemedicine and bioinformatics. It links research undertaken within different research groups, including Biomedical Image Computing, Digital Media for Healthcare, Component and Distributed Systems, Information Systems and Wireless Multimedia and Networks.
Examples of health related projects are shown below:
Associated Research Groups
Vascular Quantitative Imaging
This collaborative project between Kingston University, Lausanne University Hospital and St George's Hospital concentrates on detecting, measuring and quantifying the vascular diseases using CT angiography.
Selected recent publications
Dehmeshki, Jamshid, Amin, Hamdan, Valdivieso, Manlio and Ye, Xujiong (2008) Segmentation of pulmonary nodules in thoracic CT scans: a region growing approach. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 27(4), pp. 467-80. ISSN (print) 0278-0062
Nikravanshalmani, A., Qanadli, S., Ellis, T., Crocker, M., Ebrahimdoost, F., Karamimohammadi, M.and Dehmeshki, J. (2011) Three-dimensional semi-automatic segmentation of intracranial aneurysms in CTA. In: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB 2010); 3-5 Nov 2010, Corfu, Greece. ISBN 9781424465590
Project Groups
Project Members
- Professor Jamshid Dehmeshki
- Professor Salah Qanadli
Bioinformatics Analysis of Crystallins
This collaborative project between Kingston University (computing and life science) and Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland) conducts bioinformatics analysis of eye lens proteins (crystallins) to gain insight about human cataract. Research focuses on their optical properties and aggregation process.
Selected recent publications
Primary sequence contribution to optical function of the eye lens, K. Mahendiran, C. Elie, J.-C. Nebel, A. Ryan and B.K. Pierscionek, Scientific Reports, 4, 5195, 2014.
Project Groups
Project Members
- Dr J.C. Nebel
- Dr Ali Ryan
- Prof. Barbara Pierscionek
- Ms Johanna Laibe
- Prof. Malgorzata Kotulska - Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland)
Retinal Image Analysis
This collaborative project between Kingston University and St George's concentrates on analysing vessel shape and size in thousands of retinal fundus images using automated techniques developed within the group
Selected recent publications
Fraz, M.M., Welikala, R.A., Rudnicka, A.R., Owen, C.G., Strachan, D.P. and Barman, S.A. (2015)QUARTZ : QUantitative Analysis of Retinal Vessel Topology and size : an automated system for quantification of retinal vessels morphology. Expert Systems with Applications, 42(20), pp. 7221-7234. ISSN (print) 0957-4174
Fraz, M. M., Remagnino, P., Hoppe, A., Rudnicka, A. R., Whincup, P.H., Owen, C. G. and Barman, S.A. (2013) Quantification of blood vessel calibre in retinal images of multi-ethnic school children using a model based approach. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 37(1), pp. 48-60. ISSN (print) 1879-0771
Project Groups
Project Members
- Dr Sarah Barman
- Mr Mohamed Habib
- Dr Chris Owen
- Dr Alicja Rudnicka
- Prof. David Strachan
- Dr Roshan Welikala
