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Applications are invited for a fully funded 4 years PhD CDT STaR-AI studentship (including tuition fees, annual stipend and consumables) starting in October 2026.

Congratulations to Tom Vercauteren and Oluwatosin Olatunde Alabi, who have been awarded a King’s College London Global Engagement Partnership Fund grant for a new collaboration with Adewale Adisa, Professor of Surgery at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Applications are invited for a fully funded 4 years PhD EPSRC CDT PSI studentship (including tuition fees, annual stipend and consumables) starting in June 2026.

Applications are invited for a fully funded 4 years PhD EPSRC CDT DRIVE-Health studentship (including tuition fees, annual stipend and consumables) starting in October 2026.

Applications are invited for a fully funded 1+3 years MRes+PhD or 4 years PhD MRC DTP studentship (including tuition fees, annual stipend and consumables) starting in October 2026.

This paper introduces CholecInstanceSeg, the largest open-access dataset for surgical tool instance segmentation to date. It addresses key gaps in existing datasets by providing high-quality instance annotations for over 41,000 frames derived from clinical laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedures.

• Focus: Support surgical imaging data analysis tasks and work on computational algorithms to help streamline data annotation
• Line manager: Tom Vercauteren
• Salary: Grade 5, £38,482 - £43,249 or Grade 6, £44,355 – £47,882 (max SP34) per annum including LWA depending on experience
• Duration: Fixed term contract until 30 Sep 2025

Tom Vercauteren has been invited to be a keynote speaker at the MICAD 2025 conference (The 6th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis) to be held in London in November.