<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transitional state between normal ageing and dementia. In a number of cases, MCI carries the risk of conversion to Alzheimer’s disease-related dementia. MCI typically includes slowing of motor performance and information processing, impaired attention and impaired executive functions with partial preservation of memory. Machine learning techniques have recently been identified as promising tools in neuroimaging data analysis and can, to a certain extent, work on a single patient basis in predicting conversion from MCI to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This PhD will investigate novel convolutional and Bayesian deep learning techniques to identify biomarkers of MCI and improve the accuracy of detecting early signs of the potential for MCI to progress into AD. Early AD diagnosis is important for giving access to treatments that can improve symptoms and slow down the progress of the disease.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The successful applicant will be supervised by Dr Luca Citi and Dr Alba García and will be part of the Essex BCI and Neural Engineering Lab (<a href="http://essexbcis.uk/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">http://essexbcis.uk</a>): today the UK’s largest research group in brain-computer interfaces.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Deadline: Friday 23 February 2018<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BHF171/phd-studentship-bayesian-deep-learning-for-alzheimers-conversion-prediction-in-mild-cognitive-impairment-subjects/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BHF171/phd-studentship-bayesian-deep-learning-for-alzheimers-conversion-prediction-in-mild-cognitive-impairment-subjects/</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span la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