About

I am a DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford and am currently a member of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain. I am jointly supervised by Dr Julia Schnabel and Dr Mark Woolrich.

I studied Computer Science with Image and Multimedia at the University of Southampton, graduating with MEng 1st class in 2008 with the Quantum Research Group award for academic achieviement. I also recieved the MISYS scholarship for academic achievement for 3 years during my undergraduate studies.

My CV is available here.

Teaching

I jointly design and run a week long course on Engineering for gifted AS/A2 students at the Villiers Park Educational Trust with Rob Spanton.

I am involved in teaching on the Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation DPhil program. Specifically doing lab demonstration on Biological Signal Processing and demonstrating and lecturing on Information Driven Healthcare.

Work

The focus of my DPhil is in the development of non-rigid registration methodology with application to the detection of Alzheimer's Disease through the use of biomarkers derived from structural MR images of the brain. Speci cally, my thesis explores the use of Bayesian statistical methods in facilitating adaptive regularisation and providing estimates of registration uncertainty. I subsequently describe approaches for incorporating registration uncertainty into statistical analysis for the detection of Alzheimer's Disease.

General research interests include: Medical Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Statistical Learning.

Peer Reviewed Publications

2012

Simpson, I.J.A., Schnabel, J.A., Groves, A.R., Andersson, J.L.R., Woolrich, M.W.
Probabilistic inference of regularisation in non-rigid registration
Neuroimage 59(3), pp. 2438-51, 2012
Paper

Simpson, I.J.A., Schnabel, J.A., Andersson, J.L.R., Groves, A.R., Woolrich, M.W.
A Probabilistic Non-Rigid Registration Framework Using Local Noise Estimates
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2012.
Paper

Simpson, I.J.A., Schnabel, J.A., Andersson, J.L.R., Groves, A.R., Woolrich, M.W.
Ensemble Learning Incorporating Uncertain Registration
Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) 2012.

2011

Simpson, I.J.A, Woolrich, M.W., Groves, A.R., Schnabel, J.A.
Longitudinal Brain MRI Analysis with Uncertain Registration
In: Fichtinger, G., Martel, A. and Peters, T., MICCAI 2011, LNCS, vol. 6892, pp. 647-654, 2011
Poster, Slides from talk and Paper

Simpson, I.J.A., Woolrich, M.W., Schnabel, J.A.
Probabilistic segmentation propagation from uncertainty in registration
Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) 2011.
Poster and Paper

Contact

Email: ivor.simpson@eng.ox.ac.uk