Dr John McGonigle

Not MRI, but superconducting magnets all the same.

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About me

Since 2011, I have been a postdoc in Prof. David Nutt's Centre for Neuropsychopharmacology at Imperial College London where I work as the image analyst for the ICCAM Platform. This project is a collaboration between Imperial College London and the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester, and is funded by the Medical Research Council to study the neural mechanisms of addiction.

My PhD was based in the Visual Information Laboratory at the University of Bristol, under the supervision of Prof. Majid Mirmehdi and Dr Andrea Malizia (Psychopharmacology Unit). My research was in the development of novel methods for the analysis of pharmacological MRI data.

Sex differences in functional connectivity (HBM 2011)

Research

Pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging (phMRI) is a technique similar to functional MRI (fMRI) which can be used to examine the effect of certain drugs as they act on the brain. These types of experiments are usually analysed by comparing a model of the expected effect with what is observed. However, the neural response in phMRI may be unknown or under informed. My research aims to develop novel techniques which can be used in the exploratory, data-driven analysis of this kind of data.

This work is supported by the EPSRC.

Publications

Journal Papers

Adam J. Schwarz, John McGonigle, Negative edges and soft thresholding in complex network analysis of resting state functional connectivity data. NeuroImage, Vol. 55, Issue 3 (2011), pp 1132-1146. [DOI] PAPER

Conference Papers

John McGonigle, Majid Mirmehdi, Andrea L. Malizia, Empirical Mode Decomposition in data-driven fMRI analysis. Workshop on Brain Decoding, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August 2010, Istanbul. [DOI] TALK

John McGonigle, Majid Mirmehdi, Andrea L. Malizia, Automated detection of fMRI artefacts from Shannon entropy distributions. Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2010. ISBN 978-0-9566150-0-8, pp. 173-177. July 2010, Warwick. POSTER

John McGonigle, Majid Mirmehdi, Robin Holmes, Robin Tyacke and Andrea L. Malizia, Enhanced Motion Correction in Long TR phMRI through Dual Modified Temporal Cluster Analysis. Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2009. ISBN 1-901725-39-1, pp. 7-11. July 2009, Kingston. TALK

John McGonigle, Majid Mirmehdi, Robin Holmes, Andrea L. Malizia, Suppression of Artefactual Time Courses in phMRI through Iterative Wavelet Cluster Analysis. Proceedings of Medical Image Understanding and Analysis 2008. ISBN 1-901725-35-9, pp. 199-203. July 2008, Dundee. POSTER

Conference Abstracts

John McGonigle, Majid Mirmehdi, Laurence J. Reed, Andrea L. Malizia, Methodological issues in comparing brain connectivity between groups. ISMRM 20th Annual Meeting, May 2012, Melbourne. TALK

John McGonigle, Andrea L. Malizia, Majid Mirmehdi, Visualising functional connectivity in fMRI using hierarchical edge bundles. 17th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 2011, Québec City. [Interactive version] POSTER

Adam J. Schwarz, John McGonigle, Beyond thresholding: fully-weighted graph representations of brain functional connectivity. ISMRM 19th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, May 2011, Montreal. POSTER

John McGonigle, Andrea L. Malizia, Majid Mirmehdi, Automated detection of datasets with artefactual signal in large n studies using Shannon entropy. 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, June 2010, Barcelona. POSTER

John McGonigle, Majid Mirmehdi, Robin Holmes, and Andrea L. Malizia, The Rényi entropy in data-driven analysis for pharmacological MRI. Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, May 2010, Stockholm. POSTER

John McGonigle, Andrea L. Malizia, Robin Holmes, Robin Tyacke, Majid Mirmehdi, Using Iterative Wavelet Cluster Analysis to Produce Individualised Reference Regions for Characterisation of Drift in Pharmacological MRI. NeuroImage, Vol 47, Supp. 1, pp. S-81. June 2009 (15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco). [DOI] POSTER

[Departmental publications database]

Contact

Address	Department of Computer Science University of Bristol 1.15 Merchant Venturers Building Woodland Road, BRISTOL, BS8 1UB United Kingdom
Tel.	~~+44 (0)117 33 15233~~
Email
Web	www.cs.bris.ac.uk/home/mcgonigle/

Alma maters

University of Aberdeen - where I did my MSc in Medical Physics Computing.

University College London - where I did my BSc in Physics with Space Science.

Other

I used to run the Computer Science departmental seminars. My personal homepage is netedge. It's got lots of photos from the last few years, as well as some videos of my old MSc project.