"We have pioneered novel, automated and highly accurate methods for combining and comparing image derived information, with application in the neurosciences, cardiovascular sciences, oncology and orthopaedics. Our advances in image registration technologies, image guided interventions, cardiac MR, structural neuroimaging and optical tomography are widely recognised as world leading. We are now integrating models of physiological function (e.g. electrophysiology of the heart), statistical shape models (e.g. in orthopaedic surgery), and models of repetitive motion (e.g. cardiac imaging, liver interventions, lung radiotherapy, and PET imaging) with image guidance technologies. We are developing models of disease processes to better interpret image-derived information (e.g. in image based monitoring of disease progression in dementia and response to therapy and in analysis of fibre tracts in the brain). We will be developing novel image guidance and therapy monitoring for translation to the clinic of the new, targeted therapies based on cellular and molecular processes."

"We work very closely with colleagues in clinical and biomedical research and with the medical imaging industries. We strongly believe that effective clinical solutions in our area require a combination of academic engineering and scientific research, industrial based research and development, and clinical research. We have been successful at building teams of researchers in particular clinical and biomedical areas of research activity that encompass all three groups. We also strongly believe in a supportive, cooperative and collaborative environment to provide our PhD students and RAs with high quality training in the wide range of skills required in this multidisciplinary research area."

"Our current portfolio includes £5M of support from EPSRC, MRC and other government sources, £1.5M from industry and £0.7M from the medical charities."