<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Francesca Biondo | MANIFOLD Lab</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/author/francesca-biondo/</link><atom:link href="https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/author/francesca-biondo/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Francesca Biondo</description><generator>Hugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><image><url>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/author/francesca-biondo/avatar_hu4042821118151852293.jpg</url><title>Francesca Biondo</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/author/francesca-biondo/</link></image><item><title>Brain-age in ultra-low-field MRI: how well does it work?</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/publication/brain-age-in-ultra-low-field-mri-how-well-does-it-work/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/publication/brain-age-in-ultra-low-field-mri-how-well-does-it-work/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Authors:&lt;/strong> Francesca Biondo, Carly Bennallick, Sophie A. Martin, Lemuel Puglisi, Thomas C. Booth, David A. Wood, Juan Eugenio Iglesias, František Váša, James H Cole&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>DOI:&lt;/strong> &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.19.25338298" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.19.25338298&lt;/a>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Latent Representations of Early Brain Development: A Multivariate Normative Model of Brain Structure and Behaviour</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/publication/latent-representations-of-early-brain-development-a-multivariate-normative-model-of-brain-structure-and-behaviour/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/publication/latent-representations-of-early-brain-development-a-multivariate-normative-model-of-brain-structure-and-behaviour/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Authors:&lt;/strong> Mariam Zabihi, Francesca Biondo, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, Thomas Wolfers, Sean Deoni, Andre Marquand, Muriel M.K. Bruchhage, James H. Cole&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>DOI:&lt;/strong> &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.14.668769" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.14.668769&lt;/a>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Public Engagement - Alzheimer's UK Open Day</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/post/aruk24/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/post/aruk24/</guid><description>&lt;p>Members of the MANIFOLD Lab* presented our ongoing dementia research to the public during an open day organised by Alzheimer&amp;rsquo;s UK. Through interactive activities, we engaged attendees with our work using brain-age and normative modelling, highlighting how these approaches can contribute to the understanding, diagnosis and prognosis of dementia.&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>*Fran Biondo, Maitrei Kohli, Sophie Martin &amp;amp; James Cole&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>For more details, see &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ucl-centre-medical-image-computing-cmic_well-done-to-the-team-in-cmic-that-showcased-ugcPost-7227597159196430336-eqol?utm_source=share&amp;amp;utm_medium=member_desktop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn&lt;/a>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Brain Matters: Exploring Bias in AI for Neuroimaging Research</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/publication/martin_biondo_cole_taylor-miccai-2023/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/publication/martin_biondo_cole_taylor-miccai-2023/</guid><description>&lt;!--
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&lt;p>&lt;strong>DOI:&lt;/strong> &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.03.21254781" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.03.21254781&lt;/a>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>BARCODE</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/project/barcode/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/project/barcode/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Neurodevelopment</title><link>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/project/neurodevelopment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://manifold.cs.ucl.ac.uk/project/neurodevelopment/</guid><description>&lt;p>Using machine and deep learning approaches, this project aims to determine whether characteristics of brain structure (as indexed by neuroimaging)
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