Associate Professor Wei Wen

Associate Professor Wei Wen

Associate Professor

BE, Ph.D.

Medicine & Health
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing

Research Interests:
Computational neuroanatomy is about a comprehensive structural and functional model of the brain. The distribution of structural changes of human brain reflects the underlying pathology. The increasing sophistication of MRI allows neuroanatomical structures to be visualized in vivo in unprecedented detail. Clinical MRI is able to give good soft-tissue contrast and high spatial (<1 mm) resolution. Due to rapid advances in computing power and algorithm development, we are ...

Phone
+61 2 9385 0438
E-mail
w.wen@unsw.edu.au
Location
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, Level 1, AGSM Building UNSW Sydney 2052, NSW

1. Chief Investigator A (CIA): One ARC Discovery project (https://www.arc.gov.au/grants/discovery-program/discovery-projects ); and three NHMRC projects (https://nhmrc.gov.au/funding/find-funding/project-grants ).

2. Chief Investigator (CIx): NHMRC projects.

 

Current Research Themes:

  • Connectome of older brains – both structural and functional descriptions.
  • Longitudinal study of brain in older brains – atrophy, connectivity and functionality.
  • Predicting brain ageing trajectory using imaging, genetics and clinical data.
  • Mapping genetic influences on brain structures and functions with twins design.
  • Functional and structural connectivity and its cognitive relevance.
  • Development of computational algorithms to segment brain lesions – development of a pipeline for automatic lesion detection and computation.
  • Construction of a MRI index for measuring cerebrovascular disease (CVD) burden: a computational approach (together with Dr. Anbu Thalamuthu)

My Research Supervision

Ph.D. and Master's students, ILP and Honours students, and Postdoc fellows.