Work Packages
Work Package 1
A Wearable for Data Fusion
The team’s aim is to design a unique TORUS wearable as one component of a data-fusion system. Uniquely, it will be context- and mission-aware – continually–reconfigured by the TORUS system to make the most of its battery, data storage, computation and connectivity.
Members:
Dr George Oikonomou, Dr Silvia Del Din, Dr James Pope, Dr Zahraa Abdallah, Dr Kirsty Scott, Dr Lisa Alcock, Dr Shuhao Dong
Work Package 2
Video Sensing for Data Fusion
The team will focus on using video features, computed in the home, to characterise mobility-related activities of patients over periods of many months. This raw image/video data will be processed into useful but privacy-preserving features of movement by an AI-enabled camera.
Members:
Prof Majid Mirmehdi, Dr Amirhossein Dadashzadeh, Dr Jingjing Liu
Work Package 3
Data Fusion and Distributed Machine Learning
This team will lead on the design, creation and implementation of the TORUS distributed machine learning pipeline, including orchestrating the approach to data fusion as a collaboration with WP1 and WP2, optimising the powerful fusion of wearable and video-derived data.
Members:
Prof Paul Watson, Dr Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho, Prof Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Dr Zahraa Abdallah, Prof Majid Mirmehdi, Dr Guanxiong Sun, Dr Chloe Winchliffe
Work Package 4
System Integration, Security, Testing and Trial Support
This team will lead on designing the overall TORUS system architecture; undertaking all the work required to support the integration of the outcomes of individual work packages into a single, autonomous, secure, privacy-preserving and resilient system. This WP will also develop the TORUS system’s remote monitoring and fault diagnostics.
Members:
Dr George Oikonomou, Prof Paul Watson, Dr Em Tonkin
Work Package 5
PPIE, Codesign, Ethics and Acceptability
This team will lead on co-design for TORUS, collaborating with other WPs, drawing on methods for empirical Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE). It will ensure that key aspects of the TORUS system itself are co-designed with those with lived experience of Parkinson’s disease, plus with stakeholders in industry, charities and the TORUS multidisciplinary Co-Is.
Members:
Prof Abi Durrant, Prof Dave Kirk, Dr Aisling O’Kane, Prof Kenton O’Hara, Dr Alan Whone, Dr Cathy Morgan, Dr Elaine Czech, Dr Lenia Margariti
Work Package 6
Into the Real World
This team will lead TORUS in a real-world proof of concept trial of its technology in a patient cohort. This includes co-design of the trial and consent process with patients, ethical approval, recruiting patients, conducting the trial and analysing the data.
Members:
Prof Lynn Rochester, Dr Alan Whone, Prof Alison Yarnall, Dr Cathy Morgan