The Evolution of Neuroimaging: From brain function to AI and back again

Dr Kathryn Broadhouse is a physicist specialising in studying the brain using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Her work focuses on translating cutting-edge imaging techniques to map and model mental health disorders and healthy ageing. With the aim to better understand the healthy brain, how our brains differ in disease and how we can all stay mentally healthy.

In this talk she will look at how we use neuroimaging to study the human brain and its function. We will first look at how the brain’s structure is tied to our evolutionary past and how this, in some ways, determines how we think and process information. We will then look at how machine learning, neural networks and artificial intelligence have evolved from models of the brain and how we are using them to study the brain further.

This lecture was recorded on Zoom on 12th February 2021.