Christopher Bridge
Assistant Professor Of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Bridge is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who applies machine learning to medical imaging and clinical datasets, drawing on nine years of industry and academic experience. He holds a D.Phil. in Biomedical Image Analysis from Oxford and engineering degrees from Cambridge, blending rigorous research training with production-focused data science leadership. Christopher has led ML teams within the MGB Data Science Office and the MGH/BWH Center for Clinical Data Science, moving models from research into clinical workflows. He is also an active open-source contributor to pydicom, improving core DICOM handling and data validation—work that supports reliable medical image interoperability. Based in Boston, he balances academic inquiry with practical engineering, and maintains a more complete portfolio on his personal site chrisbridge.science.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) Biomedical Image Analysis, Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) Biomedical Image Analysis at University of OxfordMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Engineering at University of CambridgeKing Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
Github Skills (5)
dicom10
data-validation10
python10
pydicom10
testing7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pydicom/pydicom
May 2019 - Jul 2021
Read, modify and write DICOM files with python code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed to the development of the `pydicom` library, specifically focusing on enhancing the `PersonName` class and improving data validation. Their work included the addition of new constructors and methods related to `PersonName` and the implementation of functions to truncate and validate decimal strings. The user also addressed a bug in the `DSfloat` class when `enforce_valid_values` is enabled, and updated documentation and release notes.
python-codepythoncffimodifydicom
CPBridge/RIFeatures
Oct 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 4 months
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