Members

Dr Antoniya Georgieva, Scientific Director, has been with the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (NDOG), University of Oxford since Nov 2007. Her background is in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Her interests lie in biomedical pattern recognition and data analysis applied to fetal monitoring.

Professor Chris Redman, Clinical Director, has been a member of the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology since 1976. He pioneered the first commercial computerised antepartum fetal heart rate analysis (Sonicaid Dawes Redman) system. His interest is now to develop a comparable system for use in labour.

Dr Stephen Payne (Institute of Biomedical Engineering) has been an integral part of the team since 2007. There are currently three students jointly supervised under this collaboration.

Mr Aris Papageorghiou (NDOG and St George's Hospital, London) has a joint appointment with St George’s Hospital in London and NDOG in Oxford. He brings clinical and research expertise to the project and facilitates collaborations between his two departments.

Dr Gari Clifford heads the Intelligent Patient Monitoring Group at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. His group has been working in fetal ECG analysis since 2005 and has numerous common interests. Currently one student is jointly supervised under this collaboration.

Dr Chao Wang joined the group in 2012 as a full-time postdoctoral statistician. He brings expertise in time-seriescross-sectional modelling and statistical analysis.

Ms Mary Moulden, Medical Technical Officer, is a core person behind the development of the Antepartum Monitoring Sytem. She has also been maintaining our large database of antepartum and intrapartum traces.

Mr Pawel Szafranski, Data Programmer

 

Students

Ms Christina Aye (Clinical Researcher)
Mr Liang Xu (DPhil candidate, with S. Payne)
Mr Alex Clibbon (DPhil candidate, with S. Payne)

 

Been and gone

 

Collaborations within Oxford University

Dr Orlaith Burke (Department of Statistics) brings expertise in multivariate time series and time series cross-sectional models to intrapartum fetal heart rate records.

Ms Jacqueline Birks (Center for Statistics in Medicine) provides general statistical advice.

 

Past collaborations

Mr Ben Fulcher and Dr Nick Jones (Physics Department) have developed a new tool for High Throughput Time-Series Analysis. In pilot studies, we applied it for the automated time-series extraction of electronic fetal monitoring features related to acidaemia at birth. The 10 most promising features have been selected for further study.