Research
Tiered by time to first publishable output. Each is grounded in Vitacore's formal-methods identity.
Auscultation accuracy is clinician-dependent and inconsistent. Existing AI classifiers lack formal noise robustness guarantees and operate only in ideal acoustic conditions.
Funding: NIHR Digital Health · NHS AI regulation pathway
Speech biomarkers for neurological and respiratory conditions lack formal signal chain specification. No regulatory framework defines minimum signal quality requirements.
Funding: MHRA 2026 AI device framework · NIHR digital biomarker streams
Sepsis early-warning systems are point-in-time statistical models. No formal model of pre-clinical physiological trajectory exists. Alarm-threshold verification is ad hoc.
Funding: NIHR 2026/27 strategic funding · Innovate UK AI in healthcare
There is no foundational analysis of what physiological information is theoretically recoverable from surface measurements. Sensing research proceeds without knowing fundamental limits.
Funding: EPSRC theoretical foundations · basis for all sensing grants
Non-invasive intracranial pressure has remained unsolved for thirty years. The missing piece is a principled signal-fusion framework grounded in the physics of propagation through brain tissue.
Funding: NIHR i4i Product Development · Innovate UK · DASA
Bone stress fractures and joint degradation produce acoustic emission signatures identical to structural micro-fracture in civil engineering. Nobody has formally bridged these disciplines.
Funding: EPSRC materials and healthcare crossover · Innovate UK
Geophysics uses sophisticated deconvolution and source-separation algorithms for micro-seismic events. Neurological tremor is the same signal-processing problem at human scale — a bridge never formally made.
Funding: UKRI/EPSRC cross-disciplinary · Parkinson's UK · MRC
WiFi and RF signals already permeate hospitals. Changes in propagation caused by breathing and heartbeat are detectable without worn devices. No formally specified, regulatory-compliant acquisition architecture exists.
Funding: NIHR digital health · NHS monitoring for resistant cohorts
Pulmonary oedema and fluid density gradients in ocean layers are physically identical acoustic propagation problems. Pulmonologists have not applied oceanographic methods.
Funding: NIHR respiratory · BHF · EPSRC cross-disciplinary
Phase transitions in engineering materials — steel fatigue, composite delamination, concrete micro-cracking — are described statistically. No formal automata model of phase-transition dynamics enables verified prediction of failure reachability.
Funding: EPSRC materials · Innovate UK infrastructure · defence and aerospace
Every hospital system purchasing AI is buying correlation. No deployed system can reason causally about counterfactual clinical questions. This is the most important limitation of clinical AI.
Funding: NIHR · Wellcome Trust digital health · UKRI AI for health
Non-invasive neuromodulation devices are being developed without formal specification of closed-loop control behaviour. The MHRA 2026 framework will require it.
Funding: NIHR i4i · Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst