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Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith first became interested in working with computers when at school and now works in the Department of Electronics at the University of York.

“We had an old Elliott 803 which took up a whole room and used paper tape to load programs and data. This is now firmly regarded as a museum piece, but the principles are not much different to programming apps on smart phones today. This led me to study computer science at university and it was in my final year that I first undertook a project with the local hospital to enhance medical images."

"Since then my research has always been focused on the application of computer-based technologies to healthcare, but over the last eight years has centred on the theory and application of biologically-inspired algorithms to problems in medicine. Specific examples include diagnosis, differentiation and monitoring of neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease, and mammography (high resolution x-rays) used to detect breast cancer.”