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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

Local Brain-Age: A U-Net Model.

Sebastian G Popescu, Ben Glocker, David J Sharp, James H Cole

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

36 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  11. Metabolic Status Modulates Global and Local Brain Age Estimates in Overweight and Obese Adults.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025
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  20. Geroscience-Centric Perspective for Geriatric Psychiatry: Integrating Aging Biology With Geriatric Mental Health Research.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sebastian G PopescuBiomedical Image Analysis Group, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Ben GlockerBiomedical Image Analysis Group, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
David J SharpComputational, Cognitive & Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
James H ColeCentre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Funding

Smartphone-Based "Burst" Cognitive AssessmentsP01AG003991 · NIA · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JOHN MORRIS · 1985 to 2026
$69.5M
Medical Research Council MR/R024790/2NIA NIH HHS P01 AG003991
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose a new framework for estimating neuroimaging-derived "brain-age" at a local level within the brain, using deep learning. The local approach, contrary to existing global methods, provides spatial information on anatomical patterns of brain ageing. We trained a U-Net model using brain MRI scans from

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brain agedeep learningdementiaU-netvoxelwise

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PMID34966266
PMCPMC8710767

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