 With Timor Kadir and Andrew Zisserman he introduced the influential Kadir–Brady saliency detector at the European Conference on Computer Vision in 2004.During his research career, Brady has supervised 115 students including Alison Noble, David Forsyth, and Demetri Terzopoulos Philip Agre, Wenjia Bai, Margaret Fleck, Ralph Highnam Huosheng Hu, Faraz Janan, Kieran Smallbone, Stephen Smith and Mark Woolrich

Outside of academia, Brady has been involved with numerous start-up companies in the field of medical imaging including Matakina and ScreenPoint (mammographic image analysis), Mirada Medical (medical image fusion) and Perspectum Diagnostics (magnetic resonance imaging of the liver).Brady was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997.