About

I am a Postdoc Researcher at the University of Edinburgh.

Publications, Conferences, and Workshop

Ongoing burden and recent trends in severe hospitalised hypoglycaemia events in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in Scotland: A nationwide cohort study 2016–2022
William Berthon, Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Luke A.K. Blackbourn, Joseph Mellor, Fraser W. Gibb, Simon Heller, Brian Kennon, Rory J. McCrimmon, Sam Philip, Naveed Sattar, Paul M. McKeigue, Helen M. Colhoun
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2024
Role of Systemic Factors in Improving the Prognosis of Diabetic Retinal Disease and Predicting Response to Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment
Joe Mellor, Anita Jeyam, Joline WJ. Beulens, Sanjeeb Bhandari, Geoffrey Broadhead, Emily Chew, Ward Fickweiler, Amber van der Heijden, Daniel Gordin, Rafael Simó, Janet Snell-Bergeon, Anniina Tynjälä, Helen Colhoun
Ophthalmology Science 2024
Deep learning detection of diabetic retinopathy in Scotland’s diabetic eye screening programme
Alan Fleming, Joseph Mellor, Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Luke A. K. Blackbourn, Keith Goatman, Caroline Styles, Amos J. Storkey, Paul M. McKeigue, Helen M. Colhoun
British Journal of Ophthalmology 2023
Prediction of retinopathy progression using deep learning on retinal images within the Scottish screening programme
Joseph Mellor, Wenhua Jiang, Alan Fleming, Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Luke A. K. Blackbourn, Caroline Styles, Amos J. Storkey, Paul M. McKeigue, Helen M. Colhoun
British Journal of Ophthalmology 2023 (In Press)
Can deep learning on retinal images augment known risk factors for cardiovascular disease prediction in diabetes? A prospective cohort study from the national screening programme in Scotland
Joseph Mellor, Wenhua Jiang, Alan Fleming, Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Luke A. K. Blackbourn, Caroline Styles, Amos J. Storkey, Paul M. McKeigue, Helen M. Colhoun
International Journal of Medical Informatics 2023
Cohort profile: the Scottish Diabetes Research Network national diabetes cohort – a population-based cohort of people with diabetes in Scotland
Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Luke A. K. Blackbourn, Thomas M. Caparrotta, Joseph Mellor, Anna Barnett, Andy Collier, Naveed Sattar, John McKnight, John Petrie, Sam Philips, Robert Lindsay, Katherine Hughes, David McAllister, Graham P Leese, Ewan R Pearson, Sarah Wild, Paul M McKeigue, Helen M Colhoun
BMJ Open 2022
Evaluation of maculopathy deep learning prediction models using the SDRNT1BIO cohort
Joseph C. Mellor, Amos J. Storkey, Helen Colhoun, Paul M. Mckeigue, on behalf of the SDRNT1BIO investigators
EASD 2021
Rising Rates And Widening Socio-economic Disparities In Diabetic Ketoacidosis In Type 1 Diabetes In Scotland: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Observational Study
Joseph E. O’Reilly, Anita Jeyam, Thomas M. Caparrotta, Joseph Mellor, Andreas Hohn, Paul M. McKeigue, Stuart J. McGurnaghan, Luke A.K. Blackbourn, Rory McCrimmon, Sarah H. Wild, John R. Petrie, John A. McKnight, Brian Kennon, John Chalmers, Sam Phillip, Graham Leese, Robert S. Lindsay, Naveed Sattar, Fraser W. Gibb, and Helen M. Colhoun, for the Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group
Diabetes Care
Neural Architecture Search without Training
Joseph Mellor, Jack Turner, Amos Storkey, Elliot J. Crowley
To appear at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
An earlier version of this paper featured on Yannic Kilcher's youtube channel
Risks of and risk factors for COVID-19 disease in people with diabetes: a cohort study of the total population of Scotland
Stuart J McGurnaghan, BSc, Amanda Weir, PhD, Jen Bishop, BSc, Sharon Kennedy, MSc , Luke A K Blackbourn, PhD, David A McAllister, MD, Prof Sharon Hutchinson, HonMFPH, Thomas M Caparrotta, MRCP, Joseph Mellor, PhD, Anita Jeyam, PhD, Joseph E O'Reilly, PhD, Prof Sarah H Wild, PhD, Sara Hatam, MSc, Andreas Höhn, PhD, Marco Colombo, PhD, Prof Chris Robertson, PhD, Nazir Lone, PhD, Janet Murray, MScPH, Elaine Butterly, MBChB, Prof John Petrie, FRCP, Prof Brian Kennon, MD, Prof Rory McCrimmon, MD, Robert Lindsay, FRCP, Prof Ewan Pearson, PhD, Prof Naveed Sattar, FMedSci, Prof John McKnight, MD, Prof Sam Philip, FRCP, Prof Andrew Collier, MD, Jim McMenamin, MBChB, Alison Smith-Palmer, PhD, Prof David Goldberg, DSc, Prof Paul M McKeigue, FRCP, Prof Helen M Colhoun, FRCP, Public Health Scotland COVID-19 Health Protection Study Group, Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group
The Lancet Diabetes and Endochrinology
Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe
Marco Colombo, Joseph Mellor, Helen M Colhoun, M Gabriela M Gomes, Paul M McKeigue
Predicting cardiovascular disease in people with Type 1 Diabetes from fundus images using deep learning
Joseph C. Mellor, Amos J. Storkey, Helen Colhoun, Paul M. Mckeigue, on behalf of the SDRNT1BIO investigators
EASD 2019
Deep Learning Predictions of Diabetic Retinopathy Associated with Progression of Renal Disease in Type 1 Diabetes
Joseph C. Mellor, Amos J. Storkey, Helen Colhoun, Paul M. Mckeigue, on behalf of the SDRNT1BIO investigators
ADA 2019
Improving diabetic retinopathy screening using deep learning
Joseph C. Mellor, Amos J. Storkey, Helen Colhoun, Paul M. Mckeigue, on behalf of the SDRNT1BIO investigators
EASD 2018
The k-Nearest Neighbour UCB Algorithm for Multi-Armed Bandits with Covariates
Reeve, H, Mellor, J & Brown, G
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory . vol. 83.
Better Boosting with Bandits for Online Learning
Nikolaos Nikolaou, Joseph Mellor, Nikunj C. Oza, Gavin Brown
Max-Min Thompson Sampling for the K-Armed Duelling Bandit Problem
Joseph Mellor, Jonathan Shapiro
Multi-armed Bandit Workshop 2016 at STOR-i, Lancaster University, UK
Thompson Sampling in Switching Environments with Bayesian Online Change Point Detection
Joseph Mellor, Jonathan Shapiro
Sixteenth international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats 2013)

Experiences

Senior Software Engineer

2008 - 2011
Apama, Progress Software

Member of the core engineering team for the Apama complex event processing engine.

Software Graduate

2006 - 2008
Fujitsu Services UK

On the graduate scheme. Worked within the VME division.

Notes

Some notes on micellaneous topics

Horseshoe prior in PyMC3, Pyro etc - Horseshoe prior in PyMC3, Pyro etc
RMarkdown notes - RMarkdown notes

Skills & Proficiency

Python

Pytorch

R