[BIC-announce] [Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture] Pedro Antonio Valdes-Sosa -- "Multimodal quantitative neuroimaging databases and methods: the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project"; Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 1:00 pm; de Grandpré Communications Centre, MNI

Mon May 16 17:07:57 EDT 2016

The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series<https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/training-events/feindel-brain-imaging-lecture-series-winterspring-2016>

"Multimodal quantitative neuroimaging databases and methods:
   the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project"

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 1:00 pm
de Grandpré Communications Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute

 [Vice Director Centro de Neurociencias de Cuba.JPG]
Dr. Pedro Antonio Valdes-Sosa<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Antonio_Valdes-Sosa>
General Vice-Director for Research, Cuban Neuroscience Center (Habana, Cuba)
Director of the Joint China-Cuba Lab for Frontiers Research in Translational Neurotechnology, UESTC (Chengdu, China)

Abstract:
This presentations reviews the contributions of the Cuban Neuroscience Center to the evolution of the statistical parametric mapping (SPM) of quantitative Multimodal Neuroimages (qMN), from its inception to more recent work. Attention is limited to methods that compare individual qMN to normative databases (n/qMN). This evolution is described in three successive stages: (a) the development of one variant of normative topographical quantitative EEG (n/qEEG-top) which carries out statistical comparison of individual EEG spectral topographies with regard to a normative database--as part of the now popular SPM of brain descriptive parameters; (b) the development of n/qEEG tomography (n/qEEG-TOM), which employs brain electrical tomography (BET) to calculate voxelwise SPM maps of source spectral features with respect to a norm; (c) the development of a more general n/qMN by substituting EEG parameters with other neuroimaging descriptive parameters to obtain SPM maps. The study also describes the creation of Cuban normative databases, starting with the Cuban EEG database obtained in the early 90s, and more recently, the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project (CHBMP). This project has created a 240 subject database of the normal Cuban population, obtained from a population-based random sample, comprising clinical, neuropsychological, EEG, MRI and SPECT data for the same subjects. Examples of clinical studies using qMN are given and, more importantly, receiver operator characteristics (ROC) analyses of the different developments document a sustained effort to assess the clinical usefulness of the techniques.

Quick bio:
Professor Pedro Antonio Valdes-Sosa is the General Vice-Director for Research of the Cuban Neuroscience Center; of which he was the co-founder in 1990. Since 2013 he is also a Distinguished Professor of Neuroinformatics at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. In 2015 he was awarded the "1000 talent foreign professorhip" of China, and was designated as the Director of the Joint China-Cuba Laboratory for Frontier Research in Translational Neurotechnology. He is a senior professor of the Higher Institute for Medical Sciences, full member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, full member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences and ex officio Program Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.

Dr. Valdes-Sosa studied medicine at the University of Havana and graduated in 1972. During his medical studies he was part of the team working developing ERP multivariate statistical software the first Cuban microcomputer (1970). He also got a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1973. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1978. In 1979 he undertook his postdoctoral training on "Neurometrics and Computational Techniques" and "Biophysical Modeling of brain electrical activity" with Prof. E. Roy John at the Brain Research Lab of New York University USA. In 2011 Cuban National Science Degree Council granted him a Doctorate in Science as a Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering contribution to Quantitative, EEG and Neuroimaging.

He is the author of the VARETA technique for EEG source imaging and other techniques for MRI, MEG, fMRI analysis. His papers (more than 180 with H index of 42) have appeared in many of the major electrophysiological and neuroimaging. In the Proceedings of the IEEE in 2015 he published one of his most recent paper "Tensor Analysis and Fusion of Multimodal Brain Images", which for the first time introduced that Granger causal analysis of brain networks as a tensor regression problem, thus allowing the atomic decomposition of brain networks.
Emails: <peter_valdes at yahoo.com<mailto:peter_valdes at yahoo.com>> <pedro.valdes at neuroinformatics-collaboratory.org<mailto:pedro.valdes at neuroinformatics-collaboratory.org>>.
Publications: <http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0M2PVJIAAAA>.
Webpages: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Antonio_Valdes-Sosa> <http://www.neuroinformatics-collaboratory.org/>.

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Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2016<https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/training-events/feindel-brain-imaging-lecture-series-winterspring-2016>

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01) Mon-Jan-11: Gleb Bezgin<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=hrVdXzcAAAAJ&hl=en>  [Multimodal Brain-Connectivity-Analyses: From Sensory Processing to Clinical Cases]
02) Wed-Jan-20, 13:30 - 15:30: David Faul<https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-faul-17792b5> [Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging for Brain, Cardiac, and Cancer Research]
---) Mon-Jan-25: No Lecture

03) Mon-Feb-01: Patricia Conrod<https://recherche.chusj.org/en/Axes-de-recherche/Bio?id=9c4c6303-24ed-4d68-a375-02795554d609> [ENIGMA-Addiction: Meta and Mega Data-Pooling Strategies for Analysing Addiction Neuroimaging Datasets]
04) Mon-Feb-08: Marta Kersten<http://www.martakersten.ca/> [Augmented Reality in Image-Guided Surgery]
05) Mon-Feb-15:  Dieter Heiss<http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universitaet/whois/05982/index.php>  [Hybrid PET/MR Imaging in Neurology: Present Applications and Prospects for the Future]
06) Tue-Feb-23 at 13:30:  Shirin Abbasi Nejad Enger<https://www.mcgill.ca/medphys/staff/shirin-enger> [High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy]
07) Fri-Mar-04 at 13:30:  Charles Guttmann<http://cni.bwh.harvard.edu/personnel/charles.html> [Brain-Imaging Predictions of Outcome in Neurological Conditions]

08) Mon-Mar-07: Christian Janicki<https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/research/researchers/janicki> [Radioactivity and Radiation Safety]
09) Wed-Mar-09, 14:00 - 15:00: Adrian Thorogood<https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-thorogood-355430bb> [Embracing Open Science: Best Practices for Responsible Data Sharing]
10) Mon-Mar-14: Sophie Scott<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scott> [The links between speech perception and production]
11) Mon-Mar-21: Benjamin Morillon<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Morillon> [Motor Origin of Temporal predictions in Auditory Attention]
12) Wed-Mar-30: Dean Jolly<https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-jolly-ab320426> [Zen and the Art of Cyclotrons]

13) Mon-Apr-04: Matt Kinsella<https://www.mcgill.ca/bioengineering/people/faculty/j-matt-kinsella> [Probing Multiple Scales of Physiology Using Nanomaterials]
14) Mon-Apr-11: Kaleem Siddiqi<http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi/> [Streamline Flows and Minimal Surfaces, Part 1: Fiber Geometry in the Heart]
15) Thu-Apr-14 at 14:00: Kaleem Siddiqi<http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi/> [Streamline Flows and Minimal Surfaces, Part 2: Mathematics and  Tractography in the Brain]
16) Mon-Apr-18: David Rudko<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=co0ZZoUAAAAJ&hl=en> [Ultra-High Field MRI: Methodological Considerations and Applications]
17) Mon-Apr-25: Carolina Makowski<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carolina_Makowski> [Neural Underpinnings of Psychosis: At the Intersection of Structure, Function, and Symptoms]

---) Mon-May-02: No Lecture (GRSNC Symposium<http://www.grsnc.umontreal.ca/38s/home.html>)
---) Mon-May-09: No Lecture (ISMRM Meeting<http://www.ismrm.org/2016-annual-meeting-exhibition/>)
18) Mon-May-16: Samir Das<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~samir/> [Overview of Major Neuroimaging Data Sharing Initiatives]
19) Tue-May-17: Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Antonio_Valdes-Sosa> [Multimodal quantitative neuroimaging databases and methods: the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project]
20) Tue-May-24: BIC Travel Awards Competition<https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/training-events/bic-travel-award-competition>
21) Mon-May-30: Peter Herscovitch<http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/about/SeniorStaff/peter_herscovitch.html> [Contributions of PET to Basic and Clinical Neuroscience]

22) Mon-Jun-06:  Tim David<http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/profiles/staff/people/tim_david.shtml>  [In Silico Models of Neurovascular Coupling]
23) Mon-Jun-13: BICnic at Parc Jeanne-Mance
24) Mon-Jun-20: Amir Shmuel<https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/research/researchers/shmuel>  [Mechanisms of fMRI-Based Decoding of Information Conveyed by Cortical Columns]
---) Mon-Jun-27: No Lecture (OHBM Meeting<http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3662>)

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These lectures are named in honour of Dr. William Feindel<http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2014/01/dr-william-feindel-1918-2014/> (1918-2014), Former Director of the Neuro<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/site_info/contact/> (1972-1984) and Founding Director of the BIC<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Main/HomePage> (1984-1988).  Dr. Feindel's<http://www.behance.net/gallery/Neuro-portraits-William-Feindel/10906655> presence and contribution are greatly missed at our weekly Brain Imaging Lectures, where he almost always asked the final, most-germane question of the day: one that usually bridged the clinical and research realms, and that brought together the past, the present, and the future of brain science.

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Subject: TODAY [Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture] Samir Das -- "Overview of Major Neuroimaging Data Sharing Initiatives"; Monday, May 16, 2016 at 1:00 pm; de Grandpré Communications Centre, MNI

Please note that we will also be having a Special Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture tomorrow, Tue-May-17, by Dr. Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Antonio_Valdes-Sosa> on the topic of: "Multimodal quantitative neuroimaging databases and methods: the Cuban Human Brain Mapping Project" (1:00 pm, de Grandpré Communications Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute)

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