Lectures

Lectures, talks and presentations.

We have developed a genetic algorithm for optimising a technique for diagnosing dementing diseases by taking coarse regional measurements of cerebro-spinal fluid volumes to measure the distribution of cerebral atrophy. The original technique is described in TINA Memo no. 2000-007, and has also been published in Radiology (Thacker et. el., Radiology 224 p 278-285, 2002). The technical details of the GA are described in TINA Memo no. 2002-008. Below are some lectures I have given on GAs in general and our diagnostic technique in particular.

pab_ga_oh_1.pdf (301kB). Slides from a lecture on GAs given at the ISBE Active Systems Symposia.

pab_ga_talk_1.pdf (100kB). A rough transcript from the above lecture.

pab_ga_oh_2.pdf (731kB). Slides from a lecture on the optimisation of our dementing disease diagnosis technique given at the ISBE Active Systems Symposia.

pab_ga_talk_2.pdf (97kB). A rough transcript from the above lecture.

pab_ga_oh_5.pdf (386kB). Slides from an invited lecture on the optimisation of our dementing disease diagnosis technique given at the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, De Montfort University.

Monday_meeting_260207.ppt (1.3MB). Powerpoint presentation on evaluation of cortical thickness measurement techniques, from the ISBE Monday Meeting on 26/2/2007.

Presentation on practical examples of how to evaluate the errors on the results of medical image analysis algorithms.

Online version.

PDF of the slides (2.5MB).

PDF of the handouts (2.5MB).