Professor Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Head of FMRIB Analysis Group
Steve Smith is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and head of the Analysis Group at The Oxford University Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB). The Analysis Group, which he started in 1997, now comprises about 30 research fellows, postdocs, students and support staff, carrying out functional and structural brain image analysis and statistics research. The group has produced the brain image analysis software package FSL (FMRIB Software Library) which is widely used in many laboratories across the world. Recent personal research has concentrated on resting state networks, showing that these correspond closely to explicit functional networks as seen in task FMRI (Smith, PNAS, 2009), showing new networks on the basis of distinct temporal dynamics (Smith, PNAS, 2012), and most recently relating functional networks to behaviour and lifestyle (Smith, Nature Neuroscience, 2015). The FMRIB Analysis Group is playing a major role in several Big Data imaging projects, including: the Human Connectome Project, UK Biobank Brain Imaging, and the Developing Human Connectome Project.
Recent publications
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Assessing the impact of COmorbidities and Sociodemographic factors on Multiorgan Injury following COVID-19: rationale and protocol design of COSMIC, a UK multicentre observational study of COVID-negative controls.
Shergill S. et al, (2025), BMJ open, 15
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A generative model for evaluating missing data methods in large epidemiological cohorts.
Radosavljević L. et al, (2025), BMC medical research methodology, 25
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From Big Data to the Clinic: Methodological and Statistical Enhancements to Implement the UK Biobank Imaging Framework in a Memory Clinic.
Gillis G. et al, (2025), Human brain mapping, 46
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Post-hospitalisation COVID-19 cognitive deficits at one year are global and associated with elevated brain injury markers and grey matter volume reduction.
Wood GK. et al, (2024), Nat Med
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From Big Data to the clinic: methodological and statistical enhancements to implement the UK Biobank imaging framework in a memory clinic
Gillis G. et al, (2024)