乐播传媒

Contact

• workRoom A3 Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre
  University Park
  乐播传媒
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 84 66881
• Alex.Daniel@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am a research fellow at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Physics and Astronomy, working on using MRI to assess kidney transplant viability.

Expertise Summary

Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for end-stage kidney disease. However, patients on the transplant list have prolonged haemodialysis with increased morbidity and mortality rates. Donor kidney viability is currently assessed using donor age, medical history, and serum creatinine, but these have limited predictive power, resulting in potentially viable donor organs not being transplanted. I aim to develop a rapid, non-invasive, assessment method of donor kidney quality by scanning the kidney outside the body. This additional information about the viability of a potential transplant organ will give surgeons confident to make use of more donated kidneys.

In addition to my work on assessing transplant kidneys, I also develop open source software/computational methods for the renal MRI community. This has focused on development of AI kidney segmentation algorithms to eliminate the need for slow manual segmentation, thus enabling studies with hundreds of participants. Additionally I work on the (UKAT), a Python package for analysis of renal MRI data.

Teaching Summary

Modules I have taught/tutored/supervised include:

• 乐播传媒 Medical Imaging Academy (NMedIA) Image Analysis module
• NMedIA Computing module
• Machine Learning in Science MSc projects

Selected Publications

• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE E., ALLCOCK, THOMAS, SCERRI, DANIEL, COX, ELEANOR F., PRESTWICH, BENJAMIN L. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T., 2021. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 86(2), 1125-1136
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T., 2026. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 63(2), 508-522
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T., 2025. Journal of Open Source Software. 10(111), 8121
• ALEXANDER J DANIEL, FABIO NERY, JOAO SOUSA and CHARLOTTE BUCHANAN, 2026. Available at: <https://github.com/UKRIN-MAPS/ukat>

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• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T., 2026. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 63(2), 508-522
• FRANCIS, SUSAN, BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE E., CHESTER, VICTORIA, COX, ELEANOR F., CRAIG, MARTIN, DHAUN, NEERAJ, DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., GILTHORPE, MARK, GILLIS, KEITH A., HALL, MATTHEW, JUDGE, PARMINDER, KALRA, PHILIP A., LEWINGTON, ANDREW, MENDICHOVSZKY, IOSIF A., MORRIS, DAVID, PRIEST, ANDREW N., SHEERIN, NEIL S., SHERMAN, RACHELLE, SOURBRON, STEVEN, TAAL, MAARTEN W., THOMAS, DAVID L. and SELBY, NICHOLAS M., 2026. Kidney International Reports. 106594
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER, ELZAWAHRY, MOHAMED, AXFORD, AARON, TYLER, DAMIAN, FRANCIS, SUSAN and HUNTER, JAMES, 2026. Multiparametric MRI to assess the Effects of Oxygenated Hypothermic Machine Perfusion on Ex-Vivo Pancreases In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 35.
• ALEXANDER J DANIEL, FABIO NERY, JOAO SOUSA and CHARLOTTE BUCHANAN, 2026. Available at: <https://github.com/UKRIN-MAPS/ukat>
• ALEXANDER J DANIEL, 2026. Available at: <https://github.com/alexdaniel654/Renal_Segmentor>
• DAMIANO, ROSSELLA, LANZARONE, ETTORE, LUSSANA, FRANCESCA, VILLA, GIULIA, DANIEL, ALEXANDER J, FRANCIS, SUSAN, CAROLI, ANNA and SCALCO, ELISA, 2025. Medical Physics. 52(7), e17995
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T., 2025. Journal of Open Source Software. 10(111), 8121
• ALEXANDER J DANIEL, 2025. Available at: <https://qlayers.readthedocs.io/latest/>
• LI, HAO, DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE E., NERY, F脕BIO, MORRIS, DAVID M., LI, SHAOHANG, HUANG, YUAN, SOUSA, JO脙O A., SOURBRON, STEVEN, MENDICHOVSZKY, IOSIF A., THOMAS, DAVID L., PRIEST, ANDREW N. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T., 2024. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 60(5), 2144-2155
• BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE E, LI, HAO, NERY, FABIO, DANIEL, ALEXANDER J, SOUSA, JOAO DE, SOURBRON, TEVEN, PRIEST, ANDREW, THOMAS, DAVID and FRANCIS, SUSAN T, 2021. Harmonisation of Multiparametric Renal MRI for Multi-Centre Studies In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 29. 2402
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J, NERY, FABIO, SOUSA, JO脙O, BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE, LI, HAO, PRIEST, ANDREW N, SOURBRON, STEVEN, THOMAS, DAVID L. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T, 2021. UKRIN Kidney Analysis Toolbox (UKAT): A Framework for Harmonized Quantitative Renal MRI Analysis In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 29. 2379
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE E., ALLCOCK, THOMAS, SCERRI, DANIEL, COX, ELEANOR F., PRESTWICH, BENJAMIN L. and FRANCIS, SUSAN T., 2021. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 86(2), 1125-1136
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J, 2021. Developing Techniques for Quantitative Renal Magnetic Resonance Imaging At: Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., COX, ELEANOR, BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE and FRANCIS, SUSAN, 2020. In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 28.
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE, ALLCOCK, THOMAS, SCERRI, DANIEL, COX, ELEANOR, PRESTWICH, BENJAMIN and FRANCIS, SUSAN, 2020. In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 28.
• KAZMI, ISMA, DANIAL, ALAXANDER, BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE, FRANCIS, SUSAN, MAARTEN W, TAAL and NICK, SELBY, 2019. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 34(gfz106.FP093),
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE, KAZMI, ISMA, COX, ELEANOR, SELBY, NICHOLAS, GARDNER, DAVID and FRANCIS, SUSAN, 2019. In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 27.
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., SMITH, JAMES A., SPENCER, GLYN S., JORGE, JO脙O, BOWTELL, RICHARD and MULLINGER, KAREN J., 2019. Human Brain Mapping. 40(2), 578-596
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J., COX, ELEANOR, BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE, BRADLEY, CHRISTOPHER and FRANCIS, SUSAN, 2018. In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 26.
• DANIEL, ALEXANDER J, BUCHANAN, CHARLOTTE, MORRIS, DAVID M., LI, HAO, NOBLE, REBECCA, SOUSA, JO脙O, SOURBRON, STEVEN, THOMAS, DAVID L., PRIEST, ANDREW N and FRANCIS, SUSAN T, In: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 30. 2160