Health and medicine

Covid-19 is a new, highly contagious disease, and there are no established protocols for treatment.

The Queensland Digital Health Research Group specialises in the creation and integration of decision support (including AI) into routine clinical care

ML and decision-making research involves using health and administrative data to developing explainable ML learning models to support decision-making.

Bioinformatics draws on computer science, math and statistics to enable discoveries in emerging molecular biology data.

Research on novel medical diagnostic tools and therapies with the goal to improve the health outcomes of people in Australia and globally and bridge the gap between clinical physiology and biomedical engineering.

Dr Shakes Chandra leads research on automatic medical image analysis. His expertise includes image processing, ML, discrete tomography and medical image analysis.

Prof. Brian Lovell leads UQ’s Digital Pathology team. The team aims to develop technologies that make pathology workflows faster and more efficient.

Prof. Simon Smith leads the Sleep and Health Group, with the broad aim to bridge the biological and social sciences for community benefit.

Professor Stuart Crozier’s expertise lies in imaging technology and applications instrumentation for physiological measurement and semi-automated diagnostics.