Lewis Howell

Email: scljh@leeds.ac.uk
Thesis title: AI Integrated Treatment Planning and Real-time Guidance for Ultrasound Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (USgHIFU) Cancer Ablation
Supervisors: Dr James R McLaughlan, Dr James Chandler, Dr Tze Min Wah

Profile

I am a Postgraduate Research Student at the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Artificial Intelligence for Medical Diagnosis and Care at the University of Leeds where I have studied since 2021.

Prior to moving to Leeds, I completed a master’s degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Exeter, specialising in deep learning and its application to high-throughput cell screening. It was during this time that I developed my interest in the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computer vision to the medical domain.

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Research interests

My research focuses on the development of therapeutic devices for Head and Neck cancers, using AI to improve treatment planning and real-time guidance of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) therapy.

HIFU is a non-ionizing and non-invasive technique which could provide a safer alternative to radiotherapy, with fewer side effects for patients. Combining advances in computer vision with co-robotic guidance will improve cost-effective cancer treatments such as HIFU, which could have significant impacts on the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

MSci Natural Sciences, University of Exeter