[BIC-announce] Séminaire UNF _ Dr Benjamin De Leener - jeudi 7 juin 1pm

[Claude Godbout]

LES SÉMINAIRES DE L’UNF / SEMINAR UNF SERIES


Présentateur/ Speaker:

Benjamin De Leener, Ph.D.


Titre/  Title:

The MRI anatomy of the spinal cord, Part I


Endroit/ Where:

CRIUGM – Local E1910 (http://www.criugm.qc.ca/en/contact.html)


Date/ When:

Jeudi 7 juin, 13h-14h/ Thursday, June 7th 1pm-2pm


 

*La conférence sera présentée en anglais/The seminar will be present in
English

 

Dr. Benjamin De Leener (PhD) is a  HBHL Postdoctoral Fellow at Doyon Lab).
He has a strong passion for medical imaging technologies and computer vision
in general. Being able to understand and utilize the content of an image has
the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with the world. His main
contribution is the development of the Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT), a
comprehensive and open-source software for analyzing MRI images of the
spinal cord. SCT includes tools for automatically detecting and segmenting
spinal cord structures and extracting multi-parametric MRI data from white
matter pathways and gray matter sub regions. His research interests are the
development of new analysis and processing methods for medical data, with a
particular interest in MRI and neurosciences.

 

Abstract:

Over the last decade, the neuroimaging community has developed various tools
for processing and analyzing MRI data of the spinal cord. Particularly,
recent advances in MRI templates of the spinal cord allows unbiased
multicentric studies of large groups of patients, by providing a common
referential space. However, the coordinate systems used to build these
templates and atlases are based on anatomical structure (a.k.a. the
vertebral bodies) and do not appropriately represent the functions of the
spinal cord, therefore leading to potential errors when analyzing functional
MRI data or the spinal cord internal structure (gray/white matter). This
study presents a novel approach for approximating the position of the spinal
roots along the spinal cord, and introduces the premise of a new coordinate
system for template-based analysis, based on the functional structure of the
spinal cord.

 

I hope to see you there / J’espère vous voir nombreux.

 

Pierre Bellec 

Assistant professor/Professeur adjoint sous octroi, Département
d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle ( <http://diro.umontreal.ca/>
DIRO)

Director/Directeur, Unité de Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle (
<http://unf-montreal.ca> UNF)

Researcher/Chercheur Centre de recherche de l'institut Universitaire de
gériatrie de Montréal ( <http://www.criugm.qc.ca/> CRIUGM)

Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Phone +1 514 713 5596  

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 <http://simexp-lab.org> Laboratory/Laboratoire SIMEXP

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