Integrative imaging of brain structure and function in populations and individuals
Year of award: 2019
Grantholders
Prof Stephen Smith
University of Oxford
Prof Saad Jbabdi
University of Oxford
Prof Mark Jenkinson
University of Oxford
Prof Christian Beckmann
Radboud University Nijmegen
Dr Emma Robinson
King's College London
Prof Mark Woolrich
University of Oxford
Prof Karla Miller
University of Oxford
Project summary
Neuroscientists and doctors use neuroimaging to study the brain without cutting into it. Neuroimaging allows us to see different brain tissues, map brain connections and watch brain activity in real time.
Big data imaging studies of thousands of volunteers are now being collected and this will help us discover more about how the brain works and how brain diseases occur. However, imaging neuroscientists are not yet able to take full advantage of such huge, high-resolution and complex datasets and detect disease early enough to treat it successfully. Using new imaging neuroscience and artificial intelligence research, we will learn much more about how the brain varies across different people and how it changes with disease.
We aim to bring our research together with big datasets so that we can learn how to predict disease in new patients.