Professor Gilbert is one of the leading specialists in imaging AI in the UK. She is successfully applying artificial intelligence to breast imaging, having worked with several companies to evaluate their software. Previously she carried out ground-breaking research on Computer Aided Detection, participated in a federated learning project across five continents with a Covid AI chest X-ray tool and helped develop an AI tool with DeepMind to detect cancer on screening mammograms.
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Royal College of Radiologists appoints Cambridge Professor to Lead AI Advisor role
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) have announced that Professor Fiona Gilbert has been appointed as their first ever Clinical Radiology AI Lead Advisor at the College, following a competitive process.
A practicing consultant and academic radiologist, Professor Gilbert is one of the leading specialists in imaging AI in the UK. She is successfully applying artificial intelligence to breast imaging, having worked with several companies to evaluate their software. Previously she carried out ground-breaking research on Computer Aided Detection, participated in a federated learning project across five continents with a Covid AI chest X-ray tool and helped develop an AI tool with DeepMind to detect cancer on screening mammograms. Professor Gilbert currently works at University of Cambridge and Addenbrookes Hospital and is a Fellow Emerita of Newnham College, Cambridge.
The AI Lead Advisor will help to shape the College’s thinking in the field of AI, build relationships across the sector and find opportunities to drive and transform AI in radiology.
Confirming the announcement, Dr Katharine Halliday, President of the RCR, said:
“I’m delighted to announce Fiona will be joining us as Clinical Radiology AI Lead Adviser, advising us on AI, a complex area that is growing rapidly in importance. From stroke detection to cancer treatment, AI is already changing the way things are done. The College is determined to ensure radiologists are at the heart of how AI is taken forward in imaging and Fiona will be invaluable in helping us achieve that.”
Commenting on her appointment, Professor Fiona Gilbert, Radiology Department, University of Cambridge, said:
“I am honoured to be joining the RCR to help them achieve their ambition of transforming diagnostics in the UK through the rollout and embedding of evidence-based AI in the NHS. Having witnessed firsthand the potential AI holds in breast imaging it is an exciting time to be working across the NHS, and with partners from the Department of Health and Social Care, industry, academia, and patient groups, to seize the opportunity AI presents.”