Overview

Preterm born infants are at risk of altered neurodevelopmental outcomes in childhood and adolescence. Early diagnosis of brain injury and/or brain dysmaturation as well as early detection of impairments are important strategies to: (i) improve the well-being of children and their families allowing for developmental monitoring and medical evaluation of the specific type of disorder that affects a child (ii) optimize therapeutic options. PARENT is a vision for a multidisciplinary approach to develop diagnostic and predictive platforms focused on newborn motor/cognitive impairments. PARENT will make a critical contribution towards an open neurodevelopmental disease diagnostic software infrastructure by interlinking disciplines from clinical data, neuroimaging collection and processing, biomarkers, data fusion, machine learning applied to clinical data, novel prediction algorithms. PARENT combines the efforts of a multidisciplinary network of 10 leading European research groups, industry partners, pediatric hospitals and parents’ association to develop a technological infrastructure that will train 15 Early Stage Researchers. PARENT is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network 2020.