Get to know…Visual Function & Integrative Epidemiology

Matteo Carandini

University College London

“From vision to navigation: a journey across mouse cortex”

Vision provides crucial signals to guide navigation, and guiding navigation is one of vision’s main functions. To understand how images are transformed into estimates of position, we recorded from populations of neurons in mice that navigated virtual environments. Surprisingly, we found that neurons as early as primary visual cortex exhibit preferences for spatial position. Their activity correlates with brain regions associated with navigation, and with the animal’s own estimate of position. Navigational signals, therefore, appear remarkably early in the visual system. 

Pearse Keane
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

"Development of an artificial intelligence (AI) pipeline for ophthalmology"

In this talk, I will present the first results from the Moorfields-DeepMind collaboration, related to the application of deep learning to optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans. As a byproduct of this collaboration, Moorfields has developed a pipeline for the aggregation and curation of medical imaging data for AI - I will describe the current status of this pipeline and our longer term vision for it. 

Dates for your diary

Weds Jan 23 at 11am - Gus Gazzard and Adam Dubis