Boguslaw Obara is a Professor of Image Informatics in the School of Computing, Dean of Business, Innovation and Skills at Newcastle University and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Before joining Newcastle University he was a professor at the Department of Computer Science at Durham University and has also held postdoctoral positions at the Center for BioImage Informatics (University of California) and the Oxford e-Research Centre (University of Oxford).

Professor Obara’s research focuses on the design and implementation of complex image analysis and processing, pattern recognition, computer vision and machine learning solutions applied to a wide range of domains, which includes medical imaging. This expertise will be utilised throughout the project and will be able to guide the image analysis. Furthermore, Professor Obara works closely with Phillips & Siemens (scanner manufacturers) and thus will be ideally placed to advise on implementation of this work into clinical practice.