Vitacore Research Collaborative

Research

Methods.

Our toolkit is domain-agnostic by construction. The same mathematics that characterises a physiological waveform characterises a seismic signal, a financial time series, or a materials microstructure. One investment in a tool produces papers across multiple fields.

Topological data analysis

Persistent homology of physiological signals.

Detects structural changes in waveforms invisible to amplitude-based methods. Applied across sepsis trajectory, ICP morphology, tremor analysis.

Stack: giotto-tda · ripser

Normalised compression distance

Parameter-free complexity from compression.

Measures signal complexity collapse — a proven early marker of physiological deterioration. Approximates Kolmogorov complexity practically.

Stack: zlib · standard library

Graph signal processing

Signal processing on irregular network structures.

Models organ-system coupling, brain connectivity, RF propagation networks. Spectral and filtering operations on graph-structured signals.

Stack: PyGSP · NetworkX

Process algebra (CSP)

Formal specification of communicating processes.

Verifies that clinical pathways and closed-loop device protocols cannot deadlock or reach unsafe states. Direct application to MHRA safety cases.

Stack: FDR4 · CSP-M

Probabilistic timed automata

Formal models of timed system dynamics.

Specifies physiological state transitions with verified timing properties. Reachability analysis for early-warning alarm verification.

Stack: UPPAAL · PRISM

Structural causal models

Counterfactual reasoning machinery.

Provides the formal foundations for digital twins that can answer counterfactual clinical questions — what would happen if we intervened now versus later?

Stack: DoWhy · CausalNex

Information theory

Shannon capacity and mutual information.

Bounds the theoretical recoverability of physiological state from surface measurements. Provides the channel capacity of clinical assays (e.g. ctDNA detection).

Stack: Information-theoretic derivations

Adaptive signal processing

Multipath cancellation, channel estimation.

Direct transfer from telecommunications. Applied to acoustic and electromagnetic propagation through biological tissue.

Stack: SciPy signal · custom