1. A method for predicting tissue fate, the steps comprising: a) imaging tissues with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system; b) acquiring data from the tissues with the system that contains information indicative of a physiological parameter related to tissue health; c) reconstructing an image of the tissues form the acquired data; d) calculating from the acquired data a physiological parameter at tissue locations in the reconstructed image; e) selecting a core region in the reconstructed image; f) calculating a location parameter related to the distance of each of said tissue locations from the core region, the location parameter being equal to the distance of the tissue location form the core region; and g) predicting the fate of tissues at each of said tissue locations using a predetermined model that employs as inputs the physiological parameter and the location parameter.