One Day Meeting: BMVA Symposium on Advancing Medical Care with AI Agents

Wednesday 27 May 2026

Chairs: Dr Vivek Singh - (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London), Dr Md Mostafa Kamal Sarker, (Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge), Dr Pramit Saha, (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford), Dr Concetta Piazzese, (Barts Health NHS Trust), Venu Tammabatula - (Pulse AI Care Ltd)

Queries? contact the Meeting's Organiser Andrew Gilbert here

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Mihaela Van Der Schaar, University of Cambridge John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, where she is director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM), and a Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles and is building next generation medical AI agents

• Prof. Kyle Lam, Imperial College London NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in General Surgery, developing LLM-based agentic systems in medicine and healthcare

• Dr Ricky Gondhia, Pulse AI Care Ltd, UK Medical doctor and co-founder of Pulse AI, applying AI to improve cancer patient monitoring and outcomes.

• Dr. Andrew Soltan, University of Oxford and NHS NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, Junior Research Fellow in Engineering, and Medical Oncology Specialty Registrar, leading the development of TrustedMDT, an agentic AI system to support multidisciplinary decision making in oncology

• Dr Mobarak I Hoque, University of Manchester Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Multimodal Agentic AI for Healthcare, Biomedical Data Science and AI, Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Sciences

• Dr. Harshita Sharma, Microsoft Research Lab - Cambridge Senior ML Researcher in the Biomedical Imaging team at Microsoft

• Tamara Suaris (Barts Health NHS Trust)

• Dr. Arijit Patra (UCB Biopharma UK)

Meeting Overview

The British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) is pleased to announce a one-day Technical Meeting entitled Advancing Medical Care with AI Agents. This symposium brings together researchers, clinicians, and industry practitioners to explore how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision are transforming medical care, with a particular focus on oncology and surgery as clinically rich, challenging, and emerging application domains.

Event Schedule

Accepted Talks Pt. 1 — Agentic AI & Clinical Decision Support (3 × 10 mins)

• Agentic AI for Healthcare: Collaborating with Humans, for Humans, and among Humans
  Cheng Ouyang · University of Oxford
• Human-Centered Decision Support for Sepsis Management
  Manisha Dubey · University of Edinburgh
• Checkup2Action: Prioritised Patient Action Cards from Clinical Check-up Reports
  Sike Xiang · Durham University

Accepted Talks Pt. 2 — Cancer Care, Monitoring & Diagnostics (2 × 10 mins)

• MedIntel AI
  Muhammad Samama Saleem
• Experience-Guided Self-Adaptive Cascaded Agents for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis
  Joshua Strong · University of Oxford

Accepted Talks Pt. 3 — Imaging, Surgical & Neonatal AI (2 × 10 mins)

• OxSurGemma — A Surgical AI-Copilot for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
  Felix Wagner · University of Oxford
• Explainable Neonatal Pain Assessment: Computer Vision Challenges and Future Directions
  Carlos Moreno-Garcia · Robert Gordon University

Important: This is an in-person event, with no virtual attendance option. We kindly ask all presenters to join us at the British Computer Society on the day.

Meeting Location

The meeting will take place at:

British Computer Society (BCS), 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP

Registration

We keep the cost of attending these events as low as possible to ensure no barriers from the whole computer vision community attending. The registration costs are as follows

• All Attendees: £30 Including lunch and refreshments for the day