Research at Uppsala University
History of human antibiotic use written in the oral bacteria of wild brown bears
25 August 2021. An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of huma ...
How research can encourage us to cycle instead
19 August 2021. How do you get to work in the mornings? Transport currently accounts for 25 per cent of GHG emission ...
Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA
13 August 2021. The Philippine ethnic group Ayta Magbukon has the highest proportion of genes from our extinct relat ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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A flexible automated cell tracking system optimized on an application basis by user-controlled feedback
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Obtaining quantitative data from live cell images is the key to understanding molecular and cellular processes. Automated microscopes enable the collection of images at a rate which outpaces researchers ...
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AI-Driven Large-scale Screening for Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer
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Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Purpose and goal: High mortality from cancer of the oral cavity and throat is largely due to late diagnosis. Today´s methods for cancer detection are expensive and painful. Modern AI-techniques make it ...
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Adaptive learning for personalised instructional robots
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
After the advent of industrial automation, we are now witnessing a second robotics revolution, but, as scientists strive to move the robots out of the factories and better integrate them into our daily ...
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Autonomous phenotypic drug profiling
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Research project from 2020-12-01 to 2024-11-30
The experimental space of biomedical research is vast and in many cases infeasible to cover with conventional methods where experiments are selected and carried out by humans. The purpose of this project ...
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Beyond Gleason Grading - Malignancy Grading of Prostate Cancer with Image Analysis
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Prostate cancer is the leading cause of death in men. The diagnosis and prognosis is based on Gleason grading which is the most widely used system for determining the severity of prostate cancer from tissue ...
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Collaborative development of methods for robust and precise image analysis for cost effective and reliable detection of cervical cancer
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Cervical cancer is killing a quarter of a million women worldwide every year. Screening based on analysis of so called PAP-smears has proven very effective in reducing cancer mortality. Systematic screening ...
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Eleventh International Symposium for Mathematical Morphology
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Centrum för bildanalys i Uppsala har fått äran att arrangera den elfte konferensen i serien "International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology" (ISMM). Matematisk morfologi är en gren av den tillämpade ...
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Medical image analyser for cervical cancer prescreening
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Cervical cancer is killing a quarter million women every year. Most of these deaths could be prevented if population screening programs similar to those in operation in most western countries were in operation ...
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New Eyes on Sweden s Medieval Scribes. Scribal Attribution using Digital Palaeography in the Medieval Gothic Script
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Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2020-12-31
This project proposes the development and evaluation of digital methods for scribal attribution in the medieval gothic script, the most widely used script type in medieval Europe. The groundbreaking aspect ...
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News from a Missing Continent: exploring the world of the earliest tetrapods with synchrotron tomography and machine learning
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Research project from 2020-12-01 to 2024-11-30
The origin of tetrapods is poorly understood. The oldest trackways are much older than the oldest body fossils, and while most Devonian tetrapod fossils are from Laurussia, the tetrapod lineage probably ...
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Precise image-based measurement through irregular sampling
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Mathematical morphology (MM) is a widely-used framework for efficient processing and analysis of images. Linear filters, according to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory, are not affected by the sampling ...
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Regional Orthogonal Moments for Texture Analysis: Applications in Microscopy Image Analysis
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Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Precise and quantitative image feature descriptors hold the potential to discern/detect subtle morphological differences hardly discernable by application experts. This, in combination with the increasing ...
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Research spotlight: The coronavirus
New method for discovery of antiviral drugs
2 August 2021. The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed dru ...
Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
8 July 2021. For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contac ...
The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
3 June 2021. The national Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal was launched one year ago to support researchers in utilis ...
Lectures
Uppsala University’s researchers share their knowledge in public lectures. Every year, the University is visited by leading researchers and influential people from around the world. At Uppsala University, you can hear Nobel laureates, researchers, authors, politicians and many others give lectures. Here we present some of the most prominent, annually occurring lectures at Uppsala University.