[BIC-announce] Gael Varoquaux's Seminar

[JB Poline]

Dear all

A quick reminder that this seminar is today at 1pm

Cheers
JB

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:19 AM, JB Poline <jbpoline at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>> Location:  *de Grandpré*
>>
>> Date: *Tuesday Aug. 21st  1pm *
>>
>>
>> Title: "MRI biomarkers extraction: teachings from an autism-prediction
>> challenge"
>>
>>
>> Gael has a unique experience in machine learning, neuroimaging and
>> computational methods : this is going to be excellent.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> JB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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