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Zhang Group: Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging

  • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research

We work with clinicians and MR scientists on a day-to-day basis to develop novel AI machine-learning approaches for cardiovascular imaging.

The Group’s primary aim is to advance cardiac diagnostic imaging and enrich cardiovascular clinical studies through the deep integration of AI machine learning with MRI and cardiology. In particular:

  • Make cardiovascular MRI scanning safer, faster and more informative by enhancing the image contrast with novel generative AI approaches. A representative work is the Virtual Native Enhancement technology.
  • Automate the cardiovascular MRI post-processing and reporting using pipelines empowered by feature detection, registration and segmentation machine-learning methods.
  • Enrich large biomedical studies with novel AI imaging biomarkers and machine-learning tools, through collaborations with the BHF CRE network, Big Data Institute and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Contact: qiang.zhang@cardiov.ox.ac.uk

DPhil Project Available FOR 2026 entry:

 

  1. MRC Enterprise iCASE: Developing Accountable AI for Automated Cardiovascular MR Processing towards Precision Diagnostic Reporting
  2. DPhil based at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine: 2026 Zhang Group: Artificial Intelligence for cardiovascular imaging and clinical big data — Radcliffe Department of Medicine
  3. DPhil based at the Big Data Institute: Deep learning of multimorbidity trajectories in cardiovascular disease: capturing cross-talk between diseases with AI and big data

 

Our team

COLLABORATORS

  • Prof Thomas Nichols, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford
  • Prof Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Institute of Biomedical Imaging, University of Oxford
  • Prof Sven Plein, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, University of Leeds
  • Prof Rohan Dharmakumar, Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center, Indiana University, USA
  • Prof Steffen Petersen, Queen Mary University of London, NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
  • Prof Minjie Lu, National Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases (NCCD), Chinese Academy of Medical Science, China