The CAT is a research group on translational methods for tomography lead by Ander Biguri.

The research focus is threefold:

• Developing mathematical optimization algorithms based on both machine learning based and traditional optimization for inverse problems in tomography (applied maths).
• Developing computational methods, high performance computing solutions, machine learning models and software packages for the algorithms above (computer science).
• Applying these methods into real datasets and applications of tomography, and proposing novel uses of tomography enabled by the previous two points (applied science & medicine).

Find a full list of publications in the Publications page and the Gallery of research images for more information.

The CAT currently also maintains two open source packages for reconstruction, particularly for all modalities of CT:

• TIGRE toolbox 🐯: A toolbox for easy to use and fast tomographic reconstruction of real datasets
• LION toolbox 🦁 (in development): A toolbox for reliable and reproducible Machine Learning based tomographic reconstruction.

The CAT group is part of the greater Cambridge Image Analysis (CIA) group lead by Prof Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge.

The Team

Current Members:

• Prachi Sarma
• Guonian (Ricky) Qiu
• Georg Lovric
• Bryn Drury

Previous Members:

• Charlie Shoebridge
• Fred Vickers Hastings

See also the list of MSc/MPhil thesis students that I supervised.

Collaborations

There are several active research collaborations currently ongoing, such as with Dr. Sepideh Hatamikia at the Danube Private University on CBCT in interventional imaging, Dr Malena Sabaté Landman at the University of Oxford on development Krylov methods for applied medical imaging or with Dr Subhadip Mukherjee at IIT Kharagpur on data-driven model-based algorithms for inverse problems in CT, among many others.

If you want to collaborate, please drop me an email. I currently have no funding for PhD students (albeit you are free to apply to DAMPT to do a PhD with me), but if you are already a student (MSc/PhD) and want to do research with me as part of your degree, please do get in contact.