Contact information
Colleges
Teaching Experience
- FMRIB Graduate Teaching Programme (internal Oxford course)
- FSL Course (external course)
Websites
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@NeuroFidelity
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Fidel Alfaro Almagro
Bioinformatician
DPhil in Brain Image Analysis.
MSc in Artificial Intelligence.
BSc in Computer Sciences.
My research is focused on developing fully automated analyses tools for UK Biobank Project, the biggest brain imaging study up to date with 6 different brain imaging modalities for 100,000 subjects. In that project my aim will be to develop new methods for multimodal-imaging population modelling using supervised machine learning methods. The final goal will be to find early biomarkers of brain diseases.
Department: FMRIB Analysis Group
Research interests: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, brain imaging, quality control, big data.
Personal interests: Science policy, public engagement and science communication.
Supervisors: Mark Jenkinson and Stephen Smith.
UK Biobank
Key publications
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Image processing and Quality Control for the first 10,000 brain imaging datasets from UK Biobank.
Alfaro-Almagro F. et al, (2018), Neuroimage, 166, 400 - 424
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Confound modelling in UK Biobank brain imaging
Alfaro-Almagro F. et al, (2020)
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Genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank.
Elliott LT. et al, (2018), Nature, 562, 210 - 216
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Multimodal population brain imaging in the UK Biobank prospective epidemiological study.
Miller KL. et al, (2016), Nat Neurosci, 19, 1523 - 1536
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Handedness, language areas and neuropsychiatric diseases: insights from brain imaging and genetics.
Wiberg A. et al, (2019), Brain
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BIDS apps: Improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods.
Gorgolewski KJ. et al, (2017), PLoS Comput Biol, 13
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Hand classification of fMRI ICA noise components.
Griffanti L. et al, (2017), Neuroimage, 154, 188 - 205
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An empirical, 21st century evaluation of phrenology
Parker Jones O. et al, (2018)
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SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank.
Douaud G. et al, (2022), medRxiv
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Medium-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on multiple vital organs, exercise capacity, cognition, quality of life and mental health, post-hospital discharge.
Raman B. et al, (2021), EClinicalMedicine, 31