CCLG Research Talks: Why use artificial intelligence with childhood cancer scans?

With Dr Heather Rose

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We talk to Dr Heather Rose about how artificial intelligence could help doctors diagnose brain tumours more quickly and accurately.

  • Learn more about MRI scans used in brain tumour diagnosis
  • Find out about how AI can support scanning used to diagnose childhood cancer

Dr Heather Rose

Heather is an imaging and computing scientist in the NHS. She was previously part of the Children's Brain Tumour Research Team at the University of Birmingham, where she worked with Professor Andrew Peet on a Little Princess Trust-funded project to develop an app that could use scans to identify brain tumour type.

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