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Thank you. So suppose you get sick and go to the doctor who knows a little bit about
a lot of illnesses. Chances are she'll figure out what's roughly the problem and then send
you to a specialist who's an expert in those problems. But the thing is, experts are quite
rare, so you might find you're waiting a log time or having to travel a long distance to
get to see one. So the problem that I'm really interested in is how do we get that specialist
knowledge from out of the experts' head and put it into a computer program that can be
accessed by anybody at any time from any place. For example in the work I'm doing now, we're
taking images of the tiny blood vessels underneath the finger nail and our computer program will
analyse those and then count how many vessels there are. It'll tell us what shape and size
they are, and also measure how fast the blood is flowing through them. It will then take
those measurements and use those to tell us whether or not someone has the disease that
we're interested in, or if they do, whether the treatment that they're receiving is actually
being effective or not. So what we hope is that with software like this and with computer
programs such as this, we'll be able to provide better medical treatment and develop new drugs
and make it easier and faster for people to get the specialist medical care that they
need.