[BIC-announce] Gael Varoquaux's Seminar

[JB Poline]

Dear All,

Here is Gael Varoquaux's title and abstract for his seminar (*Tuesday Aug.
21st  1pm, de Grandpre)*


Cheers
JB


* MRI biomarkers extraction: teachings from an autism-prediction challenge *
Can MRI be useful to extract practical biomarkers of brain pathology? We
recently ran a blind challenge of prediction of Autism spectrum disorder
diagnostic status. The 10 winning solutions scored on average 0.81 area
under the ROC curve, which is a very good prediction score. This confirms
our experience that combining machine learning with MRI can lead to
robust biomarkers.

I will talk about what this challenges teaches us: tackling heterogeneity
and overfit, and the importance of resting-state fMRI. I will show that
its findings are consistent with other studies of biomarkers extractions.

Moving back in time, I will summarize what we have learned over the years
on biomarker extraction from MRI, in particular from resting-state fMRI.


On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Jean-Baptiste Poline, Dr <
jean-baptiste.poline at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
> We will have the pleasure (and the honor) of having Gael Varoquaux for a
> seminar
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> Location:  *de Grandpré*
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> Date: *Tuesday Aug. 21st  1pm *
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> Title: "MRI biomarkers extraction: teachings from an autism-prediction
> challenge"
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>
> Gael has a unique experience in machine learning, neuroimaging and
> computational methods : this is going to be excellent.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> JB
>
>
>
>
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