Dr Damian Farnell

Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics

: farnelld@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29225 10618

: Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview:

I am a senior lecturer of applied mathematics in dentistry at the School of Dentistry at Cardiff University, UK, and I am the module leader for two postgraduate courses on "Research Methods" (DET031) and "Postgraduate Dental Professionalism" in the School of Dentistry. I provide research advice and statistical consultancy for projects in the School of Dentistry.

Research Interests:

Medical imaging and image processing
Medical and dental research: epidemiology & statistical analysis of laboratory and clinical studies data
Mathematical Biology
Quantum magnetism, especially “frustrated” magnetic systems

Burwalls 2020/21:

Together with Dr. Renata Medeiros Mirra, I co-organised an online meeting entitled: Burwalls 2020: For Teachers of Medical Statistics. We will also host this meeting in Cardiff in 2021. For more details, please see the conference website.

Books:

An Introduction to Lattice Quantum Spin Systems by JB Parkinson and DJJ Farnell. Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 816. Written by J.B. Parkinson and D.J.J. Farnell. (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2010). (Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-13289-6).

Quantum Magnetism. Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 645, U Schollwoeck, J Richter, DJJ Farnell, and RF Bishop, (Editors), (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2004). (Hardcover ISBN: 3-540-21422-4. Softcover from 2010: ISBN: 978-3642059766)

Coupled Cluster Method Theories of Quantum Magnetism, RF Bishop, PHY Li, DJJ Farnell, and R Zinke. Accepted for publication in the Springer series: Solid State Science. (To be published in 2021/22.)

Qualifications

PhD entitled “Integrable and Non-Integrable Quantum Arrays” (1994) University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.
BSc (1st) on Mathematical Physics (1991) University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.

Honours and awards

Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research by the Library Research Round Table of the American Library Association for a systematic review of information literacy programs in higher education: Effects of face-to-face, online and blended formats on student skills and views. Alison L. Weightman, Delyth Morris, Heather Strange, Gillian Hallam, Damian J.J. Farnell (Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 12.3, 20-55 (2017)). See the Twitter announcement here.
Poster prize at the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar entitled ‘Quantum Magnetism in Low Spatial Dimensions’ (2012).
Course prize. Undergraduate degree Mathematical Physics (1991) UMIST, UK.

Professional memberships

Academic positions

From 2014-present: Lecturer/Senior lecturer of Applied Mathematics in Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, UK.
2011-2014: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of South Wales, UK.
2007-2011: Research Statistician, University of Manchester, UK.
2003-2006: Lecturer in Ophthalmic Imaging, St. Paul’s Eye Unit + University of Liverpool, UK.
1995-2003: Post-doctoral researcher (theoretical physics and medical research).
1994-1995: Software engineer, Logica UK Ltd.

Speaking engagements

Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses:

“Mathematics in Medicine.” A lecture in the series: Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses at the University of South Wales (each year in March, 2013 to 2019).

Presentations and posters (since 2017 only):

Supporting People bereaved during Covid-19: a mixed methods study. Torrens-Burton A, Goss S, Holland-Hart D, Longo M, Sivell S, Farnell D, Sutton E, Nelson A, Byrne A, Seddon K, Selman L, Harrop E. Poster presentation at the Wales Centre for Primary and Emergency (PRIME) Care Research conference, November 2020.
Analysis of the Blue Book Records. Oral presentation (online via Zoom) at Burwalls: For Teachers of Medical Statistics. (Coorganiser of this meeting.) July 2020.
Multilevel Models of Age-Related Changes in Facial Shape in Adolescents. Poster presentation at the University Hospital Wales, R&D Conference. October 2019. Cardiff City Stadium.
Quantum Magnetism. Informal presentation given to members of the frustrated magnetism group. Physics, Cardiff University. October 2019.
Multilevel Models of Age-Related Changes in Facial Shape in Adolescents. Poster presentation at the British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR) annual meeting. September 2019.
Multilevel Models of Age-Related Changes in Facial Shape in Adolescents. Oral presentation at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) July 2019.
The Use of Flipped Learning in Teaching a Postgraduate Research Methods Module: The Pros and Cons. Dr Damian Farnell. Burwalls: For Teachers of Medical Statistics. University of East Anglia (8th-10th, July 2019). Oral Presentation.
Multilevel Principal Components Analysis (mPCA) of Facial Shape and Image Texture. Invited Oral Presentation, KU Leuven, Belgium (Friday 3rd May 2019).
Flipped learning – experiencing the pros and cons for inverted learning. Dr Damian Farnell and Mrs Rhiannon Jones Association of Science Educators in Dentistry (ASEID), Cardiff University (April 2019).
What’s in a Smile? Initial Results of Multilevel Principal Components Analysis of Facial Shape and Image Texture. Oral presentation at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) July 2018.
What’s in a Smile? Multilevel Models of Facial Shape and Appearance. Dental School R&D day, Cardiff University (May 2017). Oral Presentation.
Emergence of magnetic order in kagome antiferromagnets: The role of next-nearest-neighbor bonds Johannes Richter, Patrick Müller, Oliver Götze, Damian Farnell, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, SCES (July 2017). Poster presentation.
Monte Carlo Methods and Teaching Biostatistics, Damian J.J. Farnell. Burwalls: For Teachers of Medical Statistics. (July 2017). http://burwalls.org.uk/wp/?page_id=456. Oral Presentation.
A systematic review of information literacy programs in higher education: Effects of face-to-face, online and blended formats on student skills and views. Alison L. Weightman, Delyth Morris, Heather Strange, Gillian Hallam, and Damian J.J. Farnell.
Initial Results of Multilevel Principal Components Analysis of Facial Shape, DJJ Farnell, J Galloway, A Zhurov, S Richmond, P Perttiniemi, and V Katic. Poster presentation at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) July 2017.
Oral Health Improves, But Inequalities Remain for Children in Wales. Damian JJ Farnell, Maria Z Morgan, Nigel P Monaghan and Ivor Chestnutt. Oral presentation at the International Association for Dental Research, General Meeting (San Francisco, March 2017).

Committees and reviewing

Committees:

Dental Research Ethics Committee
Dental Toothbank Committee
Dental Postgraduate Research Committee
College Data Strategy Committee
College Training & Research Support Group
MSc Dental Subject Boards

Reviewing:

Journal reviewer, e.g., for: Frontiers of Physics; Journal of Physics Communications; Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine; Journal of Dental and Oral Health; Journal of Emergencies Medicine; Community Dental Health; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter; etc.
Grant reviewer.

2011

Goetze, O.et al. 2011. Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice with arbitrary spin: A higher-order coupled cluster treatment. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 84(22), article number: 224428. (10.1103/PhysRevB.84.224428)
Farnell, D. J. J., Pickles, A. and Roberts, C. 2011. Measurement error in statistical models of shape. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 104(3), pp. E29-E44., article number: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.04.002. (10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.04.002)
Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2011. Spin-half Heisenberg antiferromagnet on two archimedian lattices: From the bounce lattice to the maple-leaf lattice and beyond. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 84(10), article number: 104406. (10.1103/PhysRevB.84.104406)
Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2011. Frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice: A candidate for deconfined quantum criticality. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 84(1), article number: 12403. (10.1103/PhysRevB.84.012403)
Bishop, R. F.et al. 2011. ERRATUM: magnetic ordering of antiferromagnets on a spatially anisotropic triangular lattice. International Journal of Modern Physics B 25(20), pp. 2787-2788. (10.1142/S0217979211059000)

2010

Ho, K. F.et al. 2010. Comparison of patient-reported late treatment toxicity (LENT-SOMA) with quality of life (EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ-H&N35) assessment after head and neck radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology 97(2), pp. 270-275. (10.1016/j.radonc.2010.01.017)
Bishop, R. F.et al. 2010. Magnetic ordering of antiferromagnets on a spatially anisotropic triangular lattice. International Journal of Modern Physics B 24(25-26), pp. 5011-5026. (10.1142/S021797921005716X)
Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2010. Development of a patient-reported questionnaire for collecting toxicity data following prostate brachytherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology 97(1), pp. 136-142.
Bishop, R. F.et al. 2010. Magnetic order in a spin-1/2 interpolating kagome/square Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 82(10), article number: 104406. (10.1103/PhysRevB.82.104406)
Bishop, R. F.et al. 2010. Magnetic order on a frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the Union Jack lattice. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 82(2), article number: 24416. (10.1103/PhysRevB.82.024416)
Richter, J.et al. 2010. Frustrated spin-1/2 J(1)-J(2) Heisenberg ferromagnet on the square lattice studied via exact diagonalization and coupled-cluster method. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 81(17), article number: 174429. (10.1103/PhysRevB.81.174429)
Mehta, J.et al. 2010. Perception of tilt following counter-rotation surgery. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 38(3), pp. 284-291. (10.1111/j.1442-9071.2010.02235.x)
Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2010. Efficacy of data capture for patient-reported toxicity following radiotherapy for prostate or cervical cancer. European Journal of Cancer 46(3), pp. 534-540.
Farnell, D. J. J. and Parkinson, J. 2010. An introduction to quantum spin systems. Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 816. Springer Verlag. (10.1007/978-3-642-13290-2)

2009

Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2009. High-order coupled cluster method study of frustrated and unfrustrated quantum magnets in external magnetic fields. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 21(40), article number: 406002. (10.1088/0953-8984/21/40/406002)
Ho, K. F.et al. 2009. Developing a CTCAEs patient questionnaire for late toxicity after head and neck radiotherapy. European Journal of Cancer 45(11), pp. 1992-1998., article number: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2009.04.010. (10.1016/j.ejca.2009.04.010)
Barker, C. L.et al. 2009. The impact of radiotherapy late effects on quality of life in gynaecological cancer patients. British Journal of Cancer 100(10), pp. 1558-1565. (10.1038/sj.bjc.6605050)
Bishop, R. F.et al. 2009. Magnetic order in a spin-1/2 interpolating square-triangle Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 79(17), article number: 174405. (10.1103/PhysRevB.79.174405)
Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2009. High-Order Coupled Cluster Method (CCM) calculations for quantum magnets with valence-bond ground states. Journal of Statistical Physics 135(1), pp. 175-198. (10.1007/s10955-009-9703-7)
Farnell, D. J. J. 2009. High-order coupled cluster method calculations of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the spin-half one-dimensional J(1)-J(2) model. Condensed Matter Physics 12(3), pp. 411-428. (10.5488/CMP.12.3.411)

2008

Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2008. Enhancement of blood vessels in digital fundus photographs via the application of multiscale line operators. Journal of the Franklin Institute 345(7), pp. 748-765. (10.1016/j.jfranklin.2008.04.009)
Farnell, D. J. J. and Bishop, R. F. 2008. Odd and even behavior with LSUBm approximation level in high-order coupled cluster method (CCM) calculations. International Journal of Modern Physics B 22(20), pp. 3369-3379. (10.1142/S021797920803999X)
Wong, D.et al. 2008. Macular translocation surgery: computer simulation of visual perception. Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 246(6), pp. 831-836. (10.1007/s00417-008-0771-1)

2007

Allen, P. D.et al. 2007. Detecting reduced bone mineral density from dental radiographs using statistical shape models. Ieee Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 11(6), pp. 601-610. (10.1109/TITB.2006.888704)
Cracknell, K. P. B., Farnell, D. J. J. and Grierson, I. 2007. Monte Carlo simulation of latanoprost induced iris darkening. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 87(2), pp. 93-103. (10.1016/j.cmpb.2007.04.010)
Allen, P. D.et al. 2007. Detecting osteoporosis from dental radiographs using active shape models. Presented at: Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2007. ISBI 2007. 4th IEEE International Symposium, Arlington, VA, 12-15 April 2007Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2007. ISBI 2007. 4th IEEE International Symposium. pp. 1256-1259., (10.1109/ISBI.2007.357087)

2006

Kruger, S. E.et al. 2006. Direct calculation of the spin stiffness of the spin-12 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on square, triangular, and cubic lattices using the coupled-cluster method. Physical Review -Series B- 73(9), article number: 94404. (10.1103/PhysRevB.73.094404)

2005

Farnell, D. J. J.et al. 2005. High-order coupled cluster calculations via parallel processing: An illustration for CaV4O9. Physical Review -Series B- 72(17), article number: 172408. (10.1103/PhysRevB.72.172408)
Darradi, R., Richter, J. and Farnell, D. J. J. 2005. Coupled cluster treatment of the Shastry-Sutherland antiferromagnet. Physical Review -Series B- 72(10), article number: 104425.
Farnell, D. J. J., David, T. and Barton, D. C. 2005. Numerical model of self-propulsion in a fluid. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 2(2), pp. 79-88. (10.1098/rsif.2005.0027)
Yang, J.et al. 2005. The effect of ovariectomy on mandibular cortical thickness in the rat. Journal of Dentistry 33(2), pp. 123-129. (10.1016/j.jdent.2004.09.001)
Darradi, R., Richter, J. and Farnell, D. J. J. 2005. Influence of the spin quantum number s on the zero-temperature phase transition in the square-lattice J-J' model. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17(2), pp. 341-350. (10.1088/0953-8984/17/2/009)
Farnell, D. J. J. 2005. Automatic optic disk location in digital fundus images using active appearance models. Investigatiove Ophthamology & Visual Science 46, pp. 4272-4272.
Knox, P. C., Hatfield, F. N. and Farnell, D. J. J. 2005. Automated analysis of the retinal vascular tree - parameterised data from healthy eyes. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 46, pp. 4288.

2004

Farnell, D. J. J., David, T. and Barton, D. C. 2004. Coupled states of flapping flags. Journal of Fluids and Structures 19(1), pp. 29-36. (10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2003.10.001)
Farnell, D. J. J., David, T. and Barton, D. C. 2004. Numerical simulations of a filament in a flowing soap film. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 44(3), pp. 313-330. (10.1002/fld.640)
Schollwoeck, U., Richter, J. and Farnell, D. J. J. eds. 2004. Quantum magnetism. Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 645. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

2003

Kruger, S. E., Farnell, D. J. J. and Richter, J. 2003. Coupled cluster treatments of quantum magnets: two examples. International Journal of Modern Physics B 17(28), pp. 5347-5365. (10.1142/S0217979203020478)
Farnell, D. J. J. 2003. Density matrix renormalization group calculations for two-dimensional lattices: Application to the spin-half and spin-one square-lattice Heisenberg models. Physical Review B 68, article number: 134419. (10.1103/PhysRevB.68.134419)

2002

Farnell, D. J. J., Bishop, R. F. and Gernoth, K. A. 2002. Coupled cluster method calculations of quantum magnets with spins of general spin quantum number. Journal of Statistical Physics 108(3-4), pp. 401-428. (10.1023/A:1015769622279)
Ivanov, N. B., Richter, J. and Farnell, D. J. J. 2002. Magnetic phases of the mixed-spin J1-J2 Heisenberg model on a square lattice. Physical Review B 66, article number: 14421. (10.1103/PhysRevB.66.014421)

2001

Farnell, D. J. J., Gernoth, K. A. and Bishop, R. F. 2001. High-order coupled-cluster method for general spin-lattice problems: an illustration via the anisotropic Heisenberg model. Physical Review-B 64, article number: 172409.
Bishop, R. F. and Farnell, D. J. J. 2001. Marshall-peierls sign rules, the quantum Monte Carlo method, and frustration. International Journal of Modern Physics B 15(10-11), pp. 1736-1739. (10.1142/S0217979201006264)
Farnell, D. J. J., Bishop, R. F. and Gernoth, K. A. 2001. Coupled cluster treatment of an interpolating triangle-kagomé antiferromagnet. Physical Review B 63, article number: 220402. (10.1103/PhysRevB.63.220402)
Bishop, R. F. and Farnell, D. J. J. 2001. High-order coupled cluster results for quantum antiferromagnets and their phase transitions. International Journal of Modern Physics B 15(10-11), pp. 1385-1388. (10.1142/S021797920100588X)

2000

Bishop, R. F., Farnell, D. J. J. and Ristig, M. L. 2000. Ab initio treatments of the Ising model in a transverse field. International Journal of Modern Physics B 14(15), pp. 1517-1536. (10.1142/S0217979200001618)
Kruger, S. E.et al. 2000. Quantum phase transitions of a square-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet with two kinds of nearest-neighbour bonds: a high-order coupled-cluster treatment. Physical Review-B 61, pp. 14607. (10.1103/PhysRevB.61.14607)
Bishop, R. F., Farnell, D. J. J. and Parkinson, J. B. 2000. Sign rules for anisotropic quantum spin systems. Physical Review-B 61, pp. 6775. (10.1103/PhysRevB.61.6775)
Bishop, R. F.et al. 2000. High-order coupled cluster method calculations for the ground- and excited-state properties of the spin-half XXZ model. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 12(30), pp. 6887-6902. (10.1088/0953-8984/12/30/317)
Bishop, R. F., Farnell, D. J. J. and Ristig, M. L. 2000. The Ising model in a transverse magnetic field: a test-bed for many-body theories. Presented at: 22nd International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Nashville, Tennessee, 1-6 June 1998 Presented at Ernst, D. J., Perakis, I. E. and Umar, A. S. eds.Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 14. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers pp. 191-198.
Bishop, R. F. and Farnell, D. J. J. 2000. Symmetry and its breaking: quantum phase transitions via the coupled cluster method. Presented at: 23rd International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Ithaca, Greece, 17-23 June 1999 Presented at Anagnostatos, G. S. ed.Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 15. Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers pp. 57-66.

1999

Bishop, R. F. and Farnell, D. J. J. 1999. Ab initio calculations for the square-lattice anisotropic Heisenberg model. International Journal of Modern Physics B 13(5-6), pp. 709-719. (10.1142/S0217979299000606)
Bishop, R. F., Farnell, D. J. J. and Zeng, C. 1999. Ab initio simulation of the nodal surfaces of Heisenberg antiferromagnets. Physical Review-B 59, article number: 1000. (10.1103/PhysRevB.59.1000)

1998

Bishop, R. F., Farnell, D. J. J. and Parkinson, J. B. 1998. Phase transitions in the spin-half J1-J2 model. Physical Review-B 58(10), pp. 6394-6402. (10.1103/PhysRevB.58.6394)
Zeng, C., Farnell, D. J. J. and Bishop, R. F. 1998. An efficient implementation of high-order coupled-cluster techniques applied to quantum magnets. Journal of Statistical Physics 90(1-2), pp. 327-361. (10.1023/A:1023220222019)
Bishop, R. F. and Farnell, D. J. J. 1998. An ab initio coupled cluster theory of quantum spin lattices and their quantum critical behaviour. Molecular Physics 94(1), pp. 73-85.
Bishop, R. F. and Farnell, D. J. J. 1998. Accurate coupled cluster calculations of general quantum antiferromagnets: an example on a frustrated lattice. Presented at: 21st International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories, Luso, Portugal, 22-26 September 1997 Presented at da Providencia, J. and Malik, F. B. eds.Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 13. Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers pp. 21-43.

1997

Farnell, D. J. J., Kruger, S. E. and Parkinson, J. B. 1997. Coupled-cluster treatment of the XY-model. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 9(36), pp. 7601-7608.

1996

Bishop, R. F., Farnell, D. J. J. and Parkinson, J. B. 1996. The coupled-cluster method applied to the XXZ model using a planar model state. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 8(50), pp. 11153-11165. (10.1088/0953-8984/8/50/038)

1995

Burshill, R.et al. 1995. Numerical and approximate analytical results for the frustrated spin-1/2 quantum spin chain. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 7(45), pp. 8605-8618.

1994

Farnell, D. J. J. and Parkinson, J. B. 1994. A coupled-cluster treatment of spin-1/2 systems with nearest-neighbour and next-nearest-neighbour interactions. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 6(28), pp. 5521-5532. (10.1088/0953-8984/6/28/024)

Module leader for module entitled "Research Methods" for postgraduate students in the School of Dentistry.
Module leader for an online postgraduate module entitled "Postgraduate Dental Professionalism"
Academic tutor for second-year undergraduate dental students
PhD supervision
MSc and undergraduate project supervision

COVID Bereavement

A joint study between Bristol and Cardiff Universities (and beyond), which aims to understand the grief experiences and support needs of people who have been bereaved either due to COVID-19 or another cause of death during the pandemic. This study explores peoples' experiences at the end of life of loved ones (family or close friend) and of grieving, as well as any support that people felt needed during bereavement (and what support they actually received).

Please follow this link for more information at the study website.
To access the first report from this study, please click on click here;
To see ITV News At Ten coverage, please click here
To see Sky News coverage, please click here.

3D Imaging and Shape Modelling

Research in the Orthodontics and 3D Imaging Research group uses 3D facial imaging in order to "explain facial variation (biological make-up, anatomy, facial surface morphology and function) to inform a fully functioning biomechanical head model which is of value to improve healthcare interventions, improve wellbeing and quantify facial variation for face-wear, facial identification/forensics and computer interface industries."

My research focusses on developing mathematical models of 3D facial shape in order to achive the aims above. I have developed a multilevel principal components analysis (mPCA) code that allows us to model different sources of variations at different levels of the model. Recent research successes using the mPCA approach via this code have been:

Detecting changes in facial shapes between different nationalities and also by sex. Click here for more details.
Identifying seven phases of a "smile" in dynamic 3D shape "video" data. Click here for more details.
Modelling age-related facial changes in Finnish and Welsh adolescents. Click here and here for more details.
Influence of Maternal Smoking and Alcohol Consumption on the Facial Shape of English Adolescents. Click here for more details.
In conjunction with the Otter Project at Cardiff University, sex and geographical variation in the shape of otter (Lutra lutra) in the United Kingdom. Click here for more details.

Automated Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA) dataset

I was the principal researcher for the ARIA project at St. Paul's Eye Unit, RLUHT (2003-2006). This involved the recruitment of patients, retinal photography, and image analysis of resulting digital fundus photographs.

Please click here to access the freely available ARIA dataset, which is a directory of images collected by myself and members of staff of St Paul's Eye Unit and the University of Liverpool as part of this project.

CCCM (crystallographic coupled cluster method):

CCCM is a high-order CCM (coupled cluster method) code for lattice spin systems at T=0 by Damian J. J. Farnell (DF).

Historically, this code is based on "foundations" laid by Ray Bishop and John Parkinson (amongst others), and Chen Zeng's work in the 90's on the high-order code.
This code has been exploited and pushed forward by Damian Farnell and Sven Krüger primarily.
Joerg Schulenburg (JS) improved this code greatly and he has set up this webpage for distribution of the most recent code.

Current Supervsion

Co-supervisor (PhD; 33%) of Ms. Jennifer Galloway. Project: 3D facial shape analysis.
Lead supervisor (PhD; 50%) of Mr. Sam Evans. Project: description and interpretation of bruises sustained from physical abuse.

Past projects

Previous Supervision

Co-supervisor (PhD awarded in 2006; 50%) of Dr. Kathryn Cracknell. Project: Latanoprost Induced Iris Darkening in Colour Images of the Eye for Glaucoma Patients. (University of Liverpool.)
Co-supervisor (PhD awarded in 2019; 50%) of Dr. Nor Azlida Binti Mohd Nor. Project: Impact of fluoride concentration in water supply on oral health. (Cardiff University.)

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