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Professor Michael Roberts

Mike Roberts is Research Professor at DAMTP and also at the Department of Medicine. He is a member of the Cambridge Image Analysis group (CIA), leads the BloodCounts! consortium (https://www.bloodcounts.org/) and led the algorithm development team for the global COVID-19 AIX-COVNET collaboration (https://covid19ai.maths.cam.ac.uk/).

Career

Positions:

October 2023 onwards: Research Professor at DAMTP and Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK.

April 2021 to September 2023: Senior Research Associate at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.

March 2020 to March 2021: Research Associate at DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK.

April 2019 to July 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow at AstraZeneca, Cambridge, UK

Education:

July 2019: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK

June 2015: Master’s degree in Mathematics with Honors, Durham University, UK

Research

Mike's research interests focus on variational methods for image processing (in particular image segmentation and registration), machine learning for image and data analysis, image processing and data analysis. More recently, he has been focussing on best practice and scientific integrity in machine learning and data science, in particular for understanding the crisis of reproducibility affecting these fields. He has active interdisciplinary collaborations with other applied mathematicians, computer scientists and clinicians focussing on medical imaging problems. He has vast experience in studying high-dimensional data and medical imaging problems for lung diseases including (but not limited to) lung cancer, idiopathic lung fibrosis, mesothelioma and drug induced interstitial lung disease.

Publications

SurvSurf: a partially monotonic neural network for first-hitting time prediction of intermittently observed discrete and continuous sequential events
YK Chen, S Dittmer, K Bernatowicz, J Arús-Pous, K Bliznashki, J Aston, JHF Rudd, C-B Schönlieb, J Jones, M Roberts
– RSS: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
(2026)
udag002
(doi: 10.1093/rssdat/udag002)
Coronary artery calcification: Contemporary diagnosis from invasive imaging to percutaneous treatment.
K Mohee, E Tsiartas, J Sangha, M Roberts, M Bennett
– Trends in cardiovascular medicine
(2026)
S1050-1738(26)00109-X
(doi: 10.1016/j.tcm.2026.08.010)
How many slices are required for accurate tumour pathological response assessment? A computational modelling approach on real-world solid tumours
YK Chen, AY Warren, W McGough, A Bex, MT Tetzlaff, M Crispin-Ortuzar, GD Stewart, M Roberts, JO Jones
(2026)
(doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10279831/v1)
PLAQUE STRUCTURAL STRESS AS A POTENTIAL BIOMARKER FOR CORONARY PLAQUE EROSION: AN IN-VIVO OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY-BASED FEASIBILITY STUDY
E Tsiartas, J Sangha, Y Huang, B Jessney, M Roberts, M Bennett
– Atherosclerosis
(2026)
419,
121787
(doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2026.121787)
Rethinking Clinical Relevance in Chest X-ray Machine Learning: How Evaluation References Define Performance
P Fytas, I Selby, C Karner, J Babar, S Baker, J Beckford, TJ Sadler, S Shahipasand, A Thavakumar, JL Chen, A Sawer, M Roberts, J Weir-McCall, JHF Rudd, C-B Schönlieb, A Korhonen, A Breger
(2026)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.26333)
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of the DERIVO 2heal Embolization Device.
R Khanduja, C Cole, T Davies, T Patankar, J Lynch, C Kabbasch, A Nania, P Keston, A Sastry, Y Huang, M Roberts, Y Joshi, T Booth, AH Ashok
– World Neurosurgery
(2026)
213,
125191
(doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2026.125191)
Biomechanical determinants of plaque erosion: translational implications and precision care
J Sangha, E Tsiartas, Y Huang, S Gu, K Mohee, F Zhang, M Roberts, M Bennett
– JACC Basic to Translational Science
(2026)
11,
101621
(doi: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2026.101621)
Embedding-Based Federated Learning with Runtime Governance for Iron Deficiency Prediction
F Zhang, S Deltadahl, ML Delouee, D Kreuter, J Taylor, A Visser, B Consortium, JHF Rudd, NS Gleadall, S Sivapalaratnam, F Asselbergs, MC Schut, M Roberts
(2026)
(doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21563)
Embedding-Based Federated Learning with Runtime Governance for Iron Deficiency Prediction
F Zhang, S Deltadahl, ML Delouee, D Kreuter, J Taylor, A Visser, B Consortium, JHF Rudd, NS Gleadall, S Sivapalaratnam, F Asselbergs, MC Schut, M Roberts
– 2026 2nd International Conference on Federated Learning and Intelligent Computing Systems Flics 2026
(2026)
00,
524
(doi: 10.1109/FLICS70075.2026.11621932)
PLAQUE STRUCTURAL STRESS ESTIMATIONS FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-DRIVEN OCT ANALYSIS IMPROVE PREDICTION OF FUTURE MAJOR ADVERSE CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS
J Sangha, Y Huang, S Gu, B Jessney, X Chen, CV Bourantas, L Raber, F Prati, M Roberts, M Bennett
– JACC-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2026)
87,
A788
(link to publication)
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Email

mr808@cam.ac.uk

Room

F1.13

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