research assistant Hammersmith, England
Job description
Applications are invited for 18 months postdoctoral research position within the Computational Cardiac Imaging Group, led by Prof Declan O’Regan We are seeking a talented scientist with a background in deep learning image segmentation with excellent programming skills in Python.
This project will develop automated tools for extracting 3D aortic geometries from CT imaging and develop machine learning techniques for visualising and predicting growth over time. The project will also use event data to understand features that increase risk of rupture. The data for this project is diverse – both in terms of disease severity and image quality – so developing techniques that are robust and generalise well to heterogenous data are important. This post is part of a Heart Research UK-funded project on Novel and Emerging Technologies (NET).
For more information please visit https://oreganlab.org/.
Duties and responsibilities
You will have an opportunity to work in a diverse team that brings together clinicians, mathematicians and engineers to work on problems that are key to human health. There are excellent opportunities for development and training – including working part-time at the new Imperial-X centre for transformational innovation in AI. We offer excellent mentoring and support to reach your career goals. The post holder will have the opportunity to liaise with an extensive network of collaborators, attend scientific conferences, and publish the results of their work in leading journals.
Essential requirements
- Research Associate: Hold a PhD (or equivalent) in Mathematics, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline.
- Research Assistant: Near completion of a PhD (or equivalent) in Mathematics, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline.
- Experience of developing DL architectures for classification and prediction tasks.
- Previous knowledge and experience of DL medical image segmentation.
Further information
This is a Full time, Fixed term contract for 18 months, based at Hammersmith Campus, London.
Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be appointed as a Research Assistant within the salary range £38,194 - £41,388 per annum.
The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/
The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.
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