Sir John Michael Brady (born 30 April 1945)
[ ][ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: ] is an emeritus
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professor of oncological imaging at the University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
. He has been a Fellow
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of Keble College, Oxford
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, since 1985 and was elected a foreign associate member of the French Academy of Sciences
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in 2015. He was formerly BP Professor of Information Engineering
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at Oxford from 1985 to 2010 and a senior research scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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(CSAIL)[ in ]Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, from 1980 to 1985.
Education
Brady was educated in the School of Mathematics
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at the University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
, where he was awarded a first class Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics
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in 1966 followed by a Master of Science degree in 1968.[ He went on to study at the ]Australian National University
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, where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1970 for research into group theory
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supervised by László György Kovács.[
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Research and career
Brady is an authority in the field of image analysis
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, initially working on shape analysis while at MIT, then on robotics, but most of all with an emphasis on medical image analysis. At MIT he worked on: the multiscale representation of the bounding contours of shapes (the curvature primal sketch), with Haruo Asada (Toshiba
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); two dimensional shapes (smoothed local symmetries), with Jon Connell; and the application of differential geometry to three-dimensional data, with Jean Ponce and Demetri Terzopoulos
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. He also worked on texture with Alan Yuille. He also worked with John M. Hollerbach, Tomàs Lozano-Pérez, and Matt Mason on robotics, who together published an early influential collection of articles and founded a seminal series of conferences.
Arriving in Oxford in 1985, he established the Robotics Laboratory and recruited Andrew Blake, Andrew Zisserman
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Education
Zisserman received the Part III of the Mathema ...
, Stephen Cameron, Hugh Durrant-Whyte
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, Lionel Tarassenko
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, Alison Noble
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, and David Murray. His initial focus was on mobile robotics, where he worked closely with Huosheng Hu Jan Grothusen, Stephen Smith, Mark Jenkinson, and Ian Reid. This was a collaboration with GEC Electrical Products and led in 1991 to the formation of Guidance Navigation Systems Ltd. The primary interest of this work was sensor data fusion and the real-time detection of obstacles in a robot vehicle's planned path, leading to a “slalom” manoeuvre to avoid it, or, if this was judged infeasible by the robot, a complete re-planning of the path to the goal.
Finishing a spell as head of engineering science (1989–84), Brady was awarded an EPSRC
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Senior Fellowship, during which he spent two year-long periods in the INRIA
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Laboratory headed by Nicholas Ayache. Brady had begun to switch from robotics to medical imaging, specifically breast cancer, in 1989, following the death of his mother-in-law Dr. Irene Friedlander from the disease. For the past 29 years he has worked with Ralph Highnam, first supervising Ralph's thesis, then co-authoring a monograph ''Mammographic Image Analysis'', then co-founding Mirada Solutions Ltd and subsequently Volpara Health Technologies (ASX: VHT). Together, they developed an influential mathematical model of the fluence
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of X-ray
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s through the female breast as a basis for analysis of mammographic images. This work was done in collaboration with Ralph Highnam and pioneered an entirely novel “physics-based” approach. This attracted the interest of Nico Karssemeijer and led to further collaborations and the company ScreenPoint bv co-founded by Mike and Nico.
Brady is the Interim President of the world's first Artificial Intelligence
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-based (AI) University: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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(MBZUAI), in Abu Dhabi
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, United Arab Emirates
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Brady's work in image analysis, specifically medical image analysis, has been wide-ranging and he has contributed algorithm
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s for image segmentation
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, image registration
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and feature detection. With Timor Kadir and Andrew Zisserman
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Education
Zisserman received the Part III of the Mathema ...
he introduced the influential Kadir–Brady saliency detector
The Kadir–Brady saliency detector extracts features of objects in images that are distinct and representative. It was invented by Timor Kadir and J. Michael Brady in 2001 and an affine invariant version was introduced by Kadir and Brady in 200 ...
[ at the ]European Conference on Computer Vision
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in 2004. During his research career, Brady has supervised students including Alison Noble
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,[ David Forsyth,][ and ]Demetri Terzopoulos
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.[
Outside of academia, Brady has been involved with numerous ]start-up companies
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in the field of medical imaging
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including Matakina and ScreenPoint (mammographic image analysis), Mirada Medical (medical image fusion
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) and Perspectum Diagnostics (magnetic resonance imaging
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of the liver
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).
Awards and honours
Brady was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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(FREng) in 1992[ and a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997.][ His FRS certificate of election reads:
Brady was ]knighted
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in the 2004 New Year Honours
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for services to engineering. He delivered the Turing Lecture
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in 2009.[ He was also awarded the ]Faraday Medal
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from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) in 2000,[ the Millennium Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2000.][ He was elected a Founding Fellow of the ]Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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in 1990 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
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(FMedSci) in 2008. Brady was awarded Honorary Doctorates at the University of Essex
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(1996), University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
(1998) the University of Southampton
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
(1999) the University of Liverpool
, mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning
, established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...
(1999), the Paul Sabatier University
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Toulouse III was ...
(Toulouse) (2000), Oxford Brookes University
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(2006), the University of York
, mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £8.0 million
, budget = £403.6 million
, chancellor = Heather Melville
, vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery
, students ...
, and Changsha and Chongqing. In 2007 he was appointed a commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
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.
References
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1945 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Essex
Academics of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Australian National University alumni
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence