News articles
Blog: The IACR and NAACCR Conference, Vancouver 2019
The joint International Association of Cancer Registries and North American Association of Central Cancer Registries conference 2019, Vancouver written by Cong Chen The IACR is an organisation based in France which coordinates cancer registration practices and rules...
HDI collaborates with machine learning experts to explore new ways to improve patient outcomes
In March 2019, Health Data Insight joined forces with Professor Mihaela van der Schaar and eight data science PhD students from the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Medicine group to explore how machine learning can be used to improve outcomes in...
The Simulacrum is launched
This new database revolutionises the way scientists and researchers investigating cancer analyse the disease. The Simulacrum, so called because it artificially simulates real data about cancer without any risk of individual patients being identified, is a breakthrough...
HDI: annual symposium
In November 2018, HDI held its annual symposium. Once again the teams excelled themselves by showing the projects they’ve been working on. This years’ hot topics included looking at ways to use primary care prescription data to find people who might be suspected of...
“Index of Suspicion” has received a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award
HDI has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award for research to improve the early diagnosis of cancer using machine learning and computer-based inference algorithms.