Anders Dale

Who is Anders Dale?

Anders Martin Dale is a prominent neuroscientist and Professor of Radiology, Neurosciences, Psychiatry, and Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, and is one of the world’s leading developers of sophisticated computational neuroimaging techniques. He is the founding Co-Director of the Multi-Modal Imaging Laboratory at UCSD.

Dale founded and initially developed the brain imaging analysis software FreeSurfer as a graduate student at UCSD. He later co-developed FreeSurfer at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School with Bruce Fischl. In addition to FreeSurfer, his major scientific contributions include developing: a event related functional magnetic resonance imaging, b an in vivo method to quantify the gray matter thickness of the cerebral cortex using MRI images, c an analysis platform to combine fMRI with magnetoencephalography, d computational morphometry to automatically label brain regions using MRI scans, and e MRI-based methodologies to quantify longitudinal change in brain regions.