Welcome to AIMday Medical Imaging, Sensing and Analytics

The University of Edinburgh will host AIMday Medical Imaging, Sensing and Analytics as a hybrid event on 12 March 2026 at Usher Building at Edinburgh BioQuarter. 

What is AIMday? 

AIMdays are made up of purpose-built focused workshops where companies and organisations bring real-world challenges and discuss them with academics from relevant disciplines, enabling exploration of new solutions, de-risking of innovation, and identification of potential partners for future collaboration.

Read more about the AIMday Concept. 

AIMday Medical Imaging, Sensing and Analytics

Bring a challenge that needs:

1. Greater precision and accuracy in measurement
2. Advanced analytics for interpreting complex, multimodal data
3. Effective translation of innovation into clinical workflows

We invite you to pose technically focused, clinically applied, or cross-disciplinary questions that push the boundaries of current capability.

What kind of challenges can you bring?

AIMday challenges are open, exploratory questions that start conversations. You don’t need to have the solution – just a challenge worth tackling.

Your question might aim to:

• Raise imaging performance

Improve MRI, CT, ultrasound and PET quantification of tissue structure, function, microvascular flow and metabolic processes.

• Innovate in sensing

Develop minimally invasive, wearable and implantable devices to capture physiological, biomechanical and molecular signals from interventional and point of care settings, to the home.

• Turn multisource data into decisions

Use reconstruction, multimodal fusion, computer vision or timeseries modelling, to extract reliable, deployable outputs, including on device AI where appropriate.

• Integrate into real workflows

Enable secure linkage of imaging and sensor data to clinical records,  pathway fit design and prospective evaluation with care teams.

For example questions and guidance on shaping a submission see Creating your questions.

Why Edinburgh?

Edinburgh provides worldclass facilities, methods and interdisciplinary teams to codesign studies, generate high quality data and deliver robust analytical outputs.

• Imaging modalities and platforms: comprehensive clinical, preclinical and large animal imaging (including total body PET), aligned to quantitative method development and clear routes to translation.
• Sensors and device platforms: semiconductor enabled device engineering and bio integrated microsystems, alongside physiological signal acquisition and analysis, with testbeds for interventional, point of care and in home deployment.
• Analytics: end to end capability from reconstruction to decision support, including multimodal fusion, machine learning and on device AI, with rigorous evaluation, data governance and secure linkage to clinical records, all linked via a unique identifier, which in Scotland is the CHI Number.

For details see Our expertise.

Clinical focus areas

Priority areas include brain and neurology, cardiovascular, cancer, women’s health, and veterinary and animal health. Each combines deep clinical expertise, access to cohorts, and strong device and data assets. See more under Our expertise and use Creating your questions to tailor your challenge.

How to participate 

To participate in AIMday, you need to submit at least one challenge phrased as a question, which you wish to discuss in a small workshop setting. 

Join us at AIMday Medical Imaging, Sensing & Analytics to access expertise across the University. Participating companies meet teams of researchers to explore and address the specific challenges each company faces. Each question submitted by a company is tackled by a multi-disciplinary group of academics with the aim of finding pathways to solutions. We are happy to help you come up with or phrase appropriate question(s), so please do not hesitate to get in touch with us at EPSRCIAA@ei.ed.ac.uk.

One question, one hour, a group of academic experts: that is the AIMday format! 

After the event, our academics can apply for funding from an exclusive funding call, to work with an AIMday participant on their challenge.

Register your attendance at AIMday Medical Imaging, Sensing & Analytics by submitting your question(s) on the registration page for organisations by Friday 16 January 2026.

REGISTER (ORGANISATIONS)

Read more about participating in AIMday as an academic in the Introduction for researchers and academics. 

Please note that workshops are in general open for other participating organisations to observe where relevant, but closed workshops can be requested if required. 

Your question(s) and (organistion) name will be published on this website. 

We are happy to help you come up with or phrase appropriate question(s), so please do get in touch with organisers at EPSRCIAA@ei.ed.ac.uk