Posted on 22/06/2011
BIOCORE Breast Screening project: one of the UK's 100 ground breaking pieces of research

The wealth of research currently taking place in universities across the UK was revealed in a new report published on 16 June 2011 to mark Universities Week. "Big Ideas for the Future" looks at 100 ground breaking pieces of research from all fields, including science, social sciences, engineering and the arts and the humanities. The report, which is being jointly published by Universities UK and Research Councils UK (RCUK), is narrated and backed by high-profile celebrities such as Professor Lord Robert Winston, Dr Alice Roberts and Professor Iain Stewart.

In the report, BIOCORE's work on breast screening work is described: "A team of researchers at Coventry University is developing a way of improving attendance at the Breast Screening Programme (BSP). The more people who are tested the better chance of detecting the disease early and effectively treating it. The researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence Attendance (AI-ATT) algorithm that can predict the likelihood of a person attending screening. By predicting a person’s attitude towards testing GPs can intervene and help encourage more people to attend screening. If they are better informed, people will hopefully be more likely to attend the BSP".

The publication of the report forms part of the second annual Universities Week, which takes place from 13-19 June 2011, and aims to increase public awareness of the wide and varied role of the UK's universities. Universities Week looks at the many different ways in which universities affect all of our lives - from supporting the economy, to working within local communities, to looking at how their research programmes could change our futures.
[Read the full report here]



BIOCORE research hits the news

Dr Vikram Baskaran's research on increasing uptake in the UK breast screening service was recently promulgated as an international press release. The article was picked up by the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, medilexicon.com, medicalnewstoday.com, healthcareinternational.net amongst many others. [Read the full text here]