April 26, 2017 Predicting people’s ‘brain age’ could help to spot who is at risk of early death A method for predicting someone’s ‘brain age’ based on MRI scans could help to spot who might be at increased risk of poor health and dying earlier. By combining MRI scans with machine learning algorithms, a team of neuroscientists led by researchers at Imperial College London, has trained computers to provide a predicted ‘brain […]
July 14, 2014 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust ranks third in London for recruiting to clinical research The Trust is third in London for the number of patients it recruits into clinical research, successfully recruiting 11,835 people into clinical trials in 2013/14. It also ranks 11th nationally out of 267 organisations, a league table released by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) shows. These figures illustrate the rise in the amount […]