[BIC-announce] NeuroHub Seminar Series - Nov 19

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Reminder for this talk happening tomorrow!!


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Events



NeuroHub Seminar Series

Better neuroimaging data processing: driven by evidence, open communities, and careful engineering



Dr. Gael Varoquaux (Research Director - INRIA, France & Visiting Scholar, MNI and MILA)



Tuesday, November 19, 2019

1 pm

de Grandpré Communications Centre



Abstract: Data processing is a significant part of a neuroimaging study. The choice of corresponding methods and tools is crucial. I will give an opinionated view how on a path to building better data processing for neuroimaging. I will take examples on endeavors that I contributed to: defining standards for functional-connectivity analysis, the nilearn neuroimaging tool, http://neuroquery.org<http://neuroquery.org/>, the scikit-learn machine-learning toolbox -an industry standard with a billion regular users. I will cover not only the technical process -statistics, signal processing, software engineering- but also the epistemology of methods development. Methods govern our results, they are more than a technical detail.



Bio: Gaël Varoquaux is a tenured computer-science researcher at Inria. His research focuses on statistical learning tools for data science and scientific inference. He has pioneered the use of machine learning on brain images to map cognition and pathologies. More generally, he develops tools to make machine learning easier, with statistical models suited for real-life, uncurated data, and software for data science. He co-funded scikit-learn, one of the reference machine-learning toolboxes, and helped build various central tools for data analysis in Python. Varoquaux has contributed key methods for learning on spatial data, matrix factorizations, and modeling covariance matrices. He has a PhD in quantum physics and is a graduate from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.



Organizer: Dr Jean-Baptiste (JB) Poline is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill; the co-Chair of the NeuroHub and Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) at the Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital (the NEURO); and a Primary Investigator at the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health



For more information and to RSVP:

·         Ludmer: http://ludmercentre.ca/events/neurohub-seminar-gael-varoquaux/

·         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/409936089680616

·         Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/neurohub-seminar-gael-varoquaux-tickets-78971087649



Contact: Dr Jean-Baptiste Poline, Associate Professor, 514 398-3956, jean-baptiste.poline at mcgill.ca<mailto:jean-baptiste.poline at mcgill.ca>

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