My first FOSDEM has come and gone, and what a whirlwind it was! Over 8,000 attendees, more than 1,000 talks, and 70 parallel tracks—all squeezed into two intense days, where no matter where you stood, you were never more than five minutes away from a place serving strong Belgian beer. It’s an overwhelming, exhilarating, and […]

To champion the creation of sustainable, robust, and equitable digital healthcare systems that prevent the perpetuation of healthcare inequalities, ARC researchers took the lead in organising the second workshop on Open-Source Software for Surgical Technologies at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics on June 28th, 2024. The workshop focused on a key question: how can […]

When time is scarce on a research project, it is important to continuously plan and effectively collaborate with the whole team. A good example of this is the DiRAC project, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in 3d Models of Fermions with Prof Simon Hands (PI) which, due to a funding deadline, had to be delivered in 5 […]

Blender is a free and open-source software for 3D geometry rendering. Uses include modelling, simulation, animation, virtual reality applications, and more recently synthetic datasets generation. This last application is of particular interest in the field of medical imaging, where often there is limited real data that can be used to train machine learning models. By […]

One of ARC’s longest-running collaborations is with the Biomedical Ultrasound Group. Over the past three years, we’ve been developing a graphical user interface to simulate ultrasound treatment plans! This software is called k-Plan, and licences are now available for sale through UCL’s commercial partner, BrainBox (who also sell ultrasound transducers). If you’re interested in medical […]

Use of continuous integration (CI) is an important part of creating robust and reproducible research software, however running automated jobs on services such as GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD comes with an associated energy, and so environmental, cost. As an example, in the 30 days from 2nd October to 1st November 2023, the UCL/TLOmodel repository […]

Observing how light interacts with materials allows us to develop non-invasive medical imaging techniques, that rely on these interactions to assemble an image or infer an appropriate diagnosis. Light interacts with materials in many different ways. One of the most commonly observed interactions is dispersion; which causes white light to split into individual colours, creating […]

UCL’s Geochronology software “IsoplotR” is available as an R package (just the calculations or with a web GUI) or online in a number of different locations. We already have Prometheus installed on one of our machines collecting metrics from various pieces of software we have running, and we have Grafana to display nice dashboards of […]