Biomedical Imaging Scientist

at  Perspectum

Biomedical Imaging Scientist
Do you have an interest in human anatomy and MRI analysis? Do you have experience working in biomedical image analysis or an interest in the application of research to biomedical problems?

YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE WILL INCLUDE:

• Comprehensive grounding in human physiology
• Evidence of an interest in the application of research to biomedical problems
• Evidence of research achievement in areas relating to human anatomy and physiology

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE INCLUDES:

• Experience of medical image analysis
• Experience of using statistical software (e.g. R)
• Human anatomy studies
• Modern computer vision methods, including U-Net and transformer models

ABOUT US

At Perspectum, we offer our employees a flexible, fast-paced, and fun environment. We are driven by hiring the best talent, who share our values of excellence, accountability, integrity, openness, and passion.

We value our employees and are constantly striving to ensure we provide a working environment that offers something for everyone, whether that be flexible working, training opportunities or health and wellbeing initiatives. Benefits include:

• 33 days annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays), increasing with service.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Private healthcare including medical referrals, discounts, access to counselling and nutritional support, and cashback on healthcare bills.
• Life assurance.
• Pension contribution rising to 6% after 2 years’ service.
• Hybrid working – we like our employees to be in the office 3 days per week.
• Our sociable working environment includes pool table, tennis table and table football.
• Office Facilities include free on-site parking, refreshments, onsite showers and changing facilities, bike locks and Electric Vehicle charging points.

Perspectum delivers cutting-edge digital technologies that help clinicians provide better care for patients with liver disease, diabetes, and cancer. With a strong focus on precision medicine using advanced imaging and genetics, our vision is to empower patients and clinicians through quantitative assessments of health enabling early detection, diagnosis, and targeted treatment.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Biomedical Imaging Scientist based in the Data Science team you will help develop methods to accelerate and scale new and existing workflows, research new image analysis methods, validate prototypes and support their translation into clinical trials. You will assess, critique, and implement image analysis techniques from the literature so that quantitative measurements can be made in a systematic, repeatable, and reproducible manner. Your work will especially support Perspectum’s Pharma Solutions business and will involve interacting with many other teams, including Image Analysis, Quality Assurance, Data Management, Engineering, and Business Development.

YOUR DUTIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Supporting pipeline development of new systems and workflows
• Implementation and extension of techniques from academic literature
• Rapid prototyping of novel analysis combinations
• Creation of analysis guidance and documentation
• Deployment and monitoring of new workloads and pharma projects
• Monitor performance of analysis workflows
• Keep up to date with advances in the overlapping biomedical fields, through the literature, team discussion meetings, and conference attendance
• Collaborate with internal research teams and on external research collaborations
• Creating and delivering training packages to image analysts
• Providing support to image analysts with anatomical queries