Multimodal population brain imaging in the UK Biobank prospective epidemiological study
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Author(s):
Karla L Miller, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Neal K Bangerter, David L Thomas, Essa Yacoub, Junqian Xu, Andreas J Bartsch, Saad Jbabdi, Stamatios N Sotiropoulos, Jesper L R Andersson, Ludovica Griffanti, Gwenaëlle Douaud, Thomas W Okell, Peter Weale, Iulius Dragonu, Steve Garratt, Sarah Hudson, Rory Collins, Mark Jenkinson, Paul M Matthews, Stephen M Smith
The UK Biobank combines detailed phenotyping and genotyping with tracking of long-term health outcomes in a large cohort. This study describes the recently launched brain-imaging component that will ultimately scan 100,000 individuals. Results from the first 5,000 subjects are reported, including thousands of associations, population modes and hypothesis-driven results.
We will apply image processing software to the neuro imaging data, in order to a) further develop image processing algorithms and software, for use by…
