Dr. Norton leads team to algorithm predicting brain injury survival

Dr. Loretta Norton, Assistant Professor of Psychology, led an interdisciplinary team of researchers which, in collaboration with neurologists at London Health Sciences Centre and Lawson Health Research Institute, tackled the question of which intensive care unit (ICU) patients will survive severe brain injuries. The end result was that two graduate students from Western University combined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with state-of-the art machine learning techniques that will predict recovery from those injuries with an accuracy of 80 per cent.

As senior author, Dr. Norton collected a lot of the data and provided oversight for the analysis for the study, "Predicting neurologic recovery after severe acute brain injury using resting‑state networks," which was published in the Journal of Neurology. 

Media coverage:

Globe and Mail: Algorithm could predict outcomes after severe brain injuries, Western University researchers find (Subscription required)

Western News: Researchers use AI to predict recovery after serious brain injury

Science Daily: Researchers use AI to predict recovery after serious brain injury

Bolly Inside: AI Utilized by Researchers to Forecast Rehabilitation Following Severe Brain Injury

ReachMD: Researchers use AI to predict recovery after serious brain injury