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Dr Michael Roberts

Mike Roberts is Principal Research Associate (Reader / Professor Grade 11) at DAMTP and also at the Department of Medicine. He is a member of the Cambridge Image Analysis group (CIA), leads the BloodCounts! consortium (https://www.bloodcounts.org/) and also leads the algorithm development team for the global COVID-19 AIX-COVNET collaboration (https://covid19ai.maths.cam.ac.uk/).

Career

Positions:

October 2023 onwards: Principal Research Associate at DAMTP and Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.
April 2021 to September 2023: Senior Research Associate at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.
March 2020 to March 2021: Research Associate at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.
April 2019 to July 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow at AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK

Education:

July 2019: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK
June 2015: Master’s degree in Mathematics with Honors, Durham University, UK

Research

Mike's research interests focus on variational methods for image processing (in particular image segmentation and registration), machine learning for image and data analysis, image processing and data analysis. More recently, he has been focussing on best practice and scientific integrity in machine learning and data science, in particular for understanding the crisis of reproducibility affecting these fields. He has active interdisciplinary collaborations with other applied mathematicians, computer scientists and clinicians focussing on medical imaging problems. He has vast experience in studying high-dimensional data and medical imaging problems for lung diseases including (but not limited to) lung cancer, idiopathic lung fibrosis, mesothelioma and drug induced interstitial lung disease.

Publications

Machine Learning for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Prognostication: Lessons for Amplifying the Signal While Reducing the Noise
D Driggs, I Selby, M Roberts, E Gkrania-Klotsas, J Rudd, G Yang, J Babar, E Sala, C Schoenlieb
– Radiology. Artificial intelligence
(2021)
3,
e210011
(doi: 10.1148/ryai.2021210011)
Common pitfalls and recommendations for using machine learning to detect and prognosticate for COVID-19 using chest radiographs and CT scans
M Roberts, D Driggs, M Thorpe, J Gilbey, M Yeung, S Ursprung, AI Aviles-Rivero, C Etmann, C McCague, L Beer, JR Weir-McCall, Z Teng, E Gkrania-Klotsas, A Ruggiero, A Korhonen, E Jefferson, E Ako, G Langs, G Gozaliasl, G Yang, H Prosch, J Preller, J Stanczuk, J Tang, J Hofmanninger et al.
– Nature Machine Intelligence
(2021)
3,
199
(doi: 10.1038/s42256-021-00307-0)
Assessing robustness of carotid artery CT angiography radiomics in the identification of culprit lesions in cerebrovascular events.
EPV Le, L Rundo, JM Tarkin, NR Evans, MM Chowdhury, PA Coughlin, H Pavey, C Wall, F Zaccagna, FA Gallagher, Y Huang, R Sriranjan, A Le, JR Weir-McCall, M Roberts, FJ Gilbert, EA Warburton, C-B Schönlieb, E Sala, JHF Rudd
– Scientific reports
(2021)
11,
3499
(doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82760-w)
Machine churning
M Roberts
– NEW SCIENTIST
(2021)
245,
23
(link to publication)
Common pitfalls and recommendations for using machine learning to detect and prognosticate for COVID-19 using chest radiographs and CT scans
M Roberts, D Driggs, M Thorpe, J Gilbey, M Yeung, S Ursprung, AI Aviles-Rivero, C Etmann, C McCague, L Beer, JR Weir-McCall, Z Teng, E Gkrania-Klotsas, JHF Rudd, E Sala, C-B Schönlieb
(2020)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.06388)
Machine learning for COVID-19 detection and prognostication using chest radiographs and CT scans: a systematic methodological review.
M Roberts, D Driggs, M Thorpe, JD Gilbey, M Yeung, S Ursprung, AI Avilés-Rivero, C Etmann, C McCague, L Beer, JR Weir-McCall, Z Teng, JHF Rudd, E Sala, C-B Schönlieb
– CoRR
(2020)
abs/2008.06388,
On an effective multigrid solver for solving a class of variational problems with application to image segmentation
M Roberts, K Chen, J Li, KL Irion
– International Journal of Computer Mathematics
(2019)
97,
2015
(doi: 10.1080/00207160.2019.1674290)
Chan-Vese Reformulation for Selective Image Segmentation.
M Roberts, J Spencer
– J Math Imaging Vis
(2019)
61,
1173
(doi: 10.1007/s10851-019-00893-0)
A Convex Geodesic Selective Model for Image Segmentation
M Roberts, K Chen, KL Irion
– Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
(2018)
61,
482
(doi: 10.1007/s10851-018-0857-2)
Multigrid algorithm based on hybrid smoothers for variational and selective segmentation models
M Roberts, K Chen, KL Irion
– International Journal of Computer Mathematics
(2018)
96,
1623
(doi: 10.1080/00207160.2018.1494827)
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Cambridge Image Analysis

Email

mr808@dpmms.cam.ac.uk

Room

F1.13

Telephone

01223 760390

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