A picture paints a thousand words. Modern medical imaging techniques produce an immense amount of data. Professor Williams’ research applies Machine Learning and AI methods to extract information from multiple sources that might be invisible on individual scans. Michelle is Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at Edinburgh University and associate director of the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre.

Our annual Curious Minds Lecture series, presented by Culture Perth & Kinross and the Perthshire Society of Natural Science is themed around “Contemporary Science in Scotland” and, over past seasons, speakers have covered a stimulating array of scientific topics from dinosaur fossils in Skye, through the human genome to black holes, gravitational waves and the science of consciousness.