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Saad Jbabdi is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a concentration on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • NMR spectroscopy and applications

Saad Jbabdi has contributed to multiple recent papers. Among those are:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank," published in 2022 in Nature
  • "XTRACT - Standardised protocols for automated tractography in the human and macaque brain," published in 2020 in NeuroImage
  • "SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank," published in 2021 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Challenges and future directions for representations of functional brain organization," published in 2020 in Nature Neuroscience
  • "The Developing Human Connectome Project Neonatal Data Release," published in 2022 in Frontiers in Neuroscience

The frequent coauthors working with Saad Jbabdi include:

  • Karla L. Miller
  • Michiel Cottaar
  • Rogier B. Mars
  • Amy Howard
  • Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos

Saad Jbabdi's research appears regularly in a set of key academic venues. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • NeuroImage
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Imaging Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • The minimal preprocessing pipelines for the Human Connectome Project.

    Matthew F. Glasser;Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;J. Anthony Wilson;Timothy S. Coalson

  • Probabilistic diffusion tractography with multiple fibre orientations: What can we gain?

    Behrens Tej.;H J Berg;S Jbabdi;Rushworth Mfs.

  • Bayesian analysis of neuroimaging data in FSL.

    Mark William Woolrich;Saâd Jbabdi;Brian Patenaude;Michael A. Chappell

  • SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank

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  • Multimodal population brain imaging in the UK Biobank prospective epidemiological study

    Karla L Miller;Fidel Alfaro-Almagro;Neal K Bangerter;David L Thomas

  • Image processing and Quality Control for the first 10,000 brain imaging datasets from UK Biobank.

    Fidel Alfaro-Almagro;Mark Jenkinson;Neal K. Bangerter;Jesper L. R. Andersson

  • Advances in diffusion MRI acquisition and processing in the Human Connectome Project.

    Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;Saâd Jbabdi;Junqian Xu;Jesper L. R. Andersson

  • Pushing spatial and temporal resolution for functional and diffusion MRI in the Human Connectome Project

    Kamil Ugurbil;Junqian Xu;Edward J. Auerbach;Steen Moeller

  • Task-free MRI predicts individual differences in brain activity during task performance

    I Tavor;I Tavor;O Parker Jones;R B Mars;R B Mars;S M Smith

  • Tractography - where do we go from here?

    Saad Jbabdi;Heidi Johansen-Berg

  • MSM: a new flexible framework for Multimodal Surface Matching.

    Emma C. Robinson;Saâd Jbabdi;Matthew F. Glasser;Jesper L. R. Andersson

  • Automated probabilistic reconstruction of white-matter pathways in health and disease using an atlas of the underlying anatomy.

    Anastasia Yendiki;Patricia Panneck;Priti Srinivasan;Allison Stevens

  • DTI measures in crossing-fibre areas: increased diffusion anisotropy reveals early white matter alteration in MCI and mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Gwenaëlle Douaud;Saâd Jbabdi;Timothy Edward John Behrens;Ricarda A. Menke

  • Social Network Size Affects Neural Circuits in Macaques

    J. Sallet;R. B. Mars;M. P. Noonan;J. L. Andersson

  • Connectivity-Based Subdivisions of the Human Right “Temporoparietal Junction Area”: Evidence for Different Areas Participating in Different Cortical Networks

    Rogier B. Mars;Jérôme Sallet;Urs Schüffelgen;Saad Jbabdi

  • Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: Imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects

    Michael P. Harms;Leah H. Somerville;Beau M. Ances;Jesper Andersson

  • Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Tractography-Based Parcellation of the Human Parietal Cortex and Comparison with Human and Macaque Resting-State Functional Connectivity

    Rogier B. Mars;Saad Jbabdi;Jérôme Sallet;Jill X. O'Reilly

  • Imaging human connectomes at the macroscale

    R Cameron Craddock;Saad Jbabdi;Chao-Gan Yan;Chao-Gan Yan;Chao-Gan Yan;Joshua T Vogelstein

  • Diffusion-weighted imaging tractography-based parcellation of the human lateral premotor cortex identifies dorsal and ventral subregions with anatomical and functional specializations.

    Valentina Tomassini;Saad Jbabdi;Johannes C. Klein;Timothy E. J. Behrens

  • Model-based analysis of multishell diffusion MR data for tractography: how to get over fitting problems.

    Saad Jbabdi;Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;Alexander M. Savio;Manuel Graña

  • Motor Skill Learning Induces Changes in White Matter Microstructure and Myelination

    Cassandra Sampaio-Baptista;Alexandre A. Khrapitchev;Sean Foxley;Theresa Schlagheck

  • The Organization of Dorsal Frontal Cortex in Humans and Macaques

    Jérôme Sallet;Rogier B. Mars;Rogier B. Mars;MaryAnn P. Noonan;Franz-Xaver Neubert

Frequent Co-Authors

Rogier B. Mars
Rogier B. Mars University of Oxford
Timothy E.J. Behrens
Timothy E.J. Behrens University of Oxford
Karla L. Miller
Karla L. Miller University of Oxford
Stephen M. Smith
Stephen M. Smith University of Oxford
Suzanne N. Haber
Suzanne N. Haber University of Rochester Medical Center
Heidi Johansen-Berg
Heidi Johansen-Berg University of Oxford
Jesper L. R. Andersson
Jesper L. R. Andersson University of Oxford
Mark Jenkinson
Mark Jenkinson University of Oxford
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Paul M. Matthews
Paul M. Matthews Imperial College London

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