[Ace-recruitment] IBIS Network - Week In Review - 3/7/2025

[Chappell, Chad]

IBIS Week In Review
3/7/2025

IBIS DS
Renewal Submission
The IBIS-DS Renewal has been submitted.  Congratulations to Natasha, Heather and everyone who helped get this across the finish line!

IBIS Internship 2025
Interns Selected
A huge welcome to two fantastic interns for the IBIS Network this summer!
Aldair Argueta-Vazquez will be working with Becca Grzadzinski and Jose Rodriguez-Romaguera at UNC
and
Miftahul Jannat will be working with Chimei Lee at UMN.

IBIS Executive Committee
Approvals
Martin Styner - MICCAI Submission: "Predicting Cognitive Outcomes by Mapping White Matter Tracts to Surface White Matter Tracts to Surface”
Here, we propose a new framework for convolutional deep learning on white matter tract data. Rather than directly analyzing the tracts as individual measures, we propagate the tract information to the cortex. This way we can combine both structural information (surface area, cortical thickness) and diffusion information (propagated tract data) via a graph-based convolutional network (GCN) on regional cortex data. We evaluate this on IBIS1-2 and EBDS (PI Gilmore) data, predicting 2y Mullen from 1y structure & diffusion data.
Martin Styner - MICCAI Submission: "Phenotype Representation and Analysis via Discriminative Atypicality (PRADA) to capture the structural heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder”
Here, we extended the phenotype learning with a hierarchical approach into primary and secondary levels of phenotypes. That approach yields a significantly improved clustering resulting into 2 main ASD phenotypes (there might be more, but we do not have sufficient samples). We also gave the overall method finally a name (PRADA for Phenotype Representation and Analysis via Discriminative Atypicality).

IBIS Annual Meeting 2025
May 29 (~9-5:00) & May 30 (~9-12:00)
UMN
Minneapolis, MN
Our group Hotel is The Graduate
Please make your reservations with this link<https://book.passkey.com/e/50972604>
-Or call the hotel at (612) 379-8888, press 2 for reservations, & request the IBIS Autism Research Meeting 2025 room block
-Please book a room for the nights of 5/28 and 5/29 (at least).
More details to come.  Stay tuned!

Have a fabulous and restful weekend!

Chad



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