The UK Biobank imaging enhancement of 100,000 participants: rationale, data collection, management and future directions

TJ Littlejohns, J Holliday, LM Gibson, S Garratt… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
UK Biobank is a population-based cohort of half a million participants aged 40–69 years
recruited between 2006 and 2010. In 2014, UK Biobank started the world's largest multi …

Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

D Dey, PJ Slomka, P Leeson, D Comaniciu… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
Data science is likely to lead to major changes in cardiovascular imaging. Problems with
timing, efficiency, and missed diagnoses occur at all stages of the imaging chain. The …

[HTML][HTML] The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

C Bycroft, C Freeman, D Petkova, G Band, LT Elliott… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The UK Biobank project is a prospective cohort study with deep genetic and phenotypic data
collected on approximately 500,000 individuals from across the United Kingdom, aged …

Self-supervision with superpixels: Training few-shot medical image segmentation without annotation

C Ouyang, C Biffi, C Chen, T Kart, H Qiu… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has great potential for medical imaging applications.
Most of the existing FSS techniques require abundant annotated semantic classes for …

Multimodal population brain imaging in the UK Biobank prospective epidemiological study

KL Miller, F Alfaro-Almagro, NK Bangerter… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Medical imaging has enormous potential for early disease prediction, but is impeded by the
difficulty and expense of acquiring data sets before symptom onset. UK Biobank aims to …

Building better biomarkers: brain models in translational neuroimaging

CW Woo, LJ Chang, MA Lindquist, TD Wager - Nature neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Despite its great promise, neuroimaging has yet to substantially impact clinical practice and
public health. However, a developing synergy between emerging analysis techniques and …

[HTML][HTML] Reference ranges for cardiac structure and function using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in Caucasians from the UK Biobank population cohort

SE Petersen, N Aung, MM Sanghvi, F Zemrak… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard method for the
assessment of cardiac structure and function. Reference ranges permit differentiation …

Analysis of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in 36,000 individuals yields genetic insights into dilated cardiomyopathy

JP Pirruccello, A Bick, M Wang, M Chaffin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of heart failure and the leading
indication for heart transplantation. Many rare genetic variants have been associated with …

[HTML][HTML] UK Biobank's cardiovascular magnetic resonance protocol

SE Petersen, PM Matthews, JM Francis… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background UK Biobank's ambitious aim is to perform cardiovascular magnetic resonance
(CMR) in 100,000 people previously recruited into this prospective cohort study of half a …

Obesity and cancer: an update of the global impact

M Arnold, M Leitzmann, H Freisling, F Bray… - Cancer …, 2016 - Elsevier
In view of the growing global obesity epidemic, this paper reviews the relation between
recent trends in body mass index (BMI) and the changing profile of cancer worldwide. By …