Florence Townend | MANIFOLD Lab

Data Day Health - AI in healthcare podcast by Manifold PhD student

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the Turing-Roche Community Scholars Scheme 2023-2024, Florence Townend (PhD student in the lab) made a podcast called Data Day Health, about how data science and AI are changing the healthcare landscape.

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Where to listen

You can listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Episodes

Beyond Steps: The Real Power of Smart Watches
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
AI Revolution: Redefining Healthcare in our Hospitals
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
Would you trust an AI-trained surgeon?? (Surgical AI: Part 1)
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
AI in the Operating Room (Surgical AI: Part 2)
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
Monitoring Disease Progression with Apps?! (Health Apps: Part 1)
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
AI Wellness Apps: Hope or Hype (Health Apps: Part 2)
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify

Interpretable machine learning for dementia: A systematic review

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Authors: Sophie A. Martin, Florence J. Townend, Frederik Barkhof, James H. Cole

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12948

Motor Neurone Disease

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Motor neurone disease (MND) is a rare and incurable neurodegenerative condition which affects the motor neurons in the brain, leading to muscle weakness, speech difficulties, and respiratory failure. Predicting the prognosis of MND at the diagnostic appointment would help with more efficient and effective clinical care management as well as improving clinical trial recruitment. Clinical data recorded at MND-care appointments includes ratings of the patient’s functions and neurodegeneration-related markers in the blood. Brain and spinal imaging (usually MRI) is also taken at the diagnostic appointment to rule out mimic diseases.

We are combining different sources of MND data to predict disease progression through the application of deep learning data fusion techniques. Additionally, we are exploring the relationship between the brain age paradigm and MND disease progession through the use of deep generative modelling. In collaboration with Professor Andrea Malaspina and the UCL Queen Square Motor Neurone Disease Centre https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/research/research-centres/motor-neuron-disease-centre