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Chunk #36 — Discussion — Challenges of population imaging

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Multimodal population brain imaging in the UK Biobank prospective epidemiological study.
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The mapping of disease associations and population patterns (e.g., learned from UK Biobank data) onto individuals will be an important long-term goal. For example, population distributions of imaging measures and health outcomes can be learned, and used to form patient-specific prior distributions to combine with measures from a new patient. While this might not provide statistical certainty for a diagnosis or interventional recommendation, it should allow for single-patient imaging to be used in a similar way to current state-of-the-art patient-tuned genetic testing.