Integrative imaging of brain structure and function in populations and individuals 

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.