Andy French
background | publicationsWithin CPIB my role is to support image analysis of data generated throughout the project. Examples of this include determining ways to quantify confocal image data, developing tools to help users extract data from digital images, building image capture software and designing novel image analysis algorithms to provide new insights into data. I work closely with biologists, engineers and mathematicians, helping to feed quantitative data from biological experiments into mathematical models.
I work with a variety of tools and languages, from writing C++, to writing macros and plugins for open source tools like ImageJ and Fiji. We are also working with project students to develop smart phone apps in this area.
I am also co-organising an Image Analysis for Biologists summer school this year.
Current research
Current image analysis research within CPIB is focused on a number of areas, including developing the RootTrace root growth measuring tool, and developing methods to help segment confocal data. I recently won a Bridging the Gaps award to fund a feasibility study titled “Assessing the feasibility of monitoring and modelling crop growth using a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle”
Background
PhD Computer Science (image analysis), University of Nottingham 2005
- Reviewer for high quality journals including Nature Protocols, PLoS ONE, Bioinformatics, Machine Vision and Applications, Plant Physiology
- On international committee for BIOSTEC BIOINFORMATICS Conference 2011 and 2012
- On programme committee for a workshop at the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012
- On programme committee for the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network’s 10th InCoB – 1st ISCB Asia Joint Conference, 2011