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multicoloured CT scans of brains

Learning the unseen

Find out how deep learning can help improve the images produced by MRI, CT and PET scans, making patients more comfortable and cutting NHS waiting lists.

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Mind the data gap

Disruptions to public services are annoying – but that data about these disruptions is more useful than you might think.

Podcast
Digital heart

Living Proof: Building digital hearts

A digital heart might sound like science fiction, but these personalised mathematical descriptions of patients' hearts are already being put to the test.

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Stochastic spread

When a new infectious disease enters a population everything depends on who catches it — superspreaders or people with few contacts who don't pass it on.  We investigate the stochastic nature of the early stages of an outbreak.

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chickens

Beating bird flu with maths

With bird flu spreading through cattle herds in the US and infecting humans, the diseases poses a severe threat to wild life, poultry and also people. What can mathematical modelling do to help?