Seminar: Wearables in mega-scale biobanks – are there some learnings for rare disease research?
Prof Aiden Doherty, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Oxford
Monday, 10 June 2024, 11am to 12pm
Richard Doll Building
Hosted by Prof Laurent Servais
MDUK OXFORD NEUROMUSCULAR CENTRE SEMINAR SERIES
ATTENDANCE
This seminar is intended for the personnel and students at the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Hybrid seminar at the Richard Doll Building or on Teams. For the online link, please email chelsea.larabee@idrm.ox.ac.uk.
ABSTRACT
I will discuss the story behind the collection of wrist-worn accelerometer data in over 150,000 research participants across the UK and China, while also describing efforts to collect complementary open human activity recognition validation datasets to further enhance these resources. I will share the development of machine learning methods for sleep, sedentary behaviour, physical activity behaviours and steps, referring to open software tools and data resources of relevance to others in the field, and hopefully beyond to identify opportunities for collaboration with rare disease researchers.
SPEAKER
I am a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Oxford. My team of ~20 researchers develop reproducible methods to analyse wearable sensor data in very large health studies to better understand the causes and consequences of disease. https://www.bdi.ox.ac.uk/Team/aiden-doherty
