[BIC-announce] Special BIC Lecture "Generative-Deep Hybrid Models to Decipher Brain Functionality" | March 20, 11.45-12.45 | JTA

[Boris Bernhardt]

Hi BIC & FYI: special Feindel BIC lecture on Friday March 20 (11.45 @JTA) 

Title: 
Generative-Deep Hybrid Models to Decipher Brain Functionality
 
Abstract:
Clinical neuroscience is a field with all the difficulties that come from high dimensional data, and none of the advantages that fuel modern-day breakthroughs in computer vision, automated speech recognition, and health informatics. It is a field of unavoidably small datasets, massive patient variability, environmental confounds, and an arguable lack of ground truth information. It is also a field where classification accuracy plays second fiddle to interpretability, particularly for functional neuroimaging modalities, such as EEG and fMRI. As a result of these challenges, deep learning methods have gained little traction in understanding neuropsychiatric disorders.
 
My lab tackles the challenges of functional data analysis by blending the interpretability of generative models with the representational power of deep learning. This talk will highlight three ongoing projects that span a range of “old school” methodologies and clinical applications. First, I will discuss a joint optimization framework that combines non-negative matrix factorization with artificial neural networks to predict multidimensional clinical severity from resting-state fMRI. Second, I will describe a probabilistic graphical model for epileptic seizure detection using multichannel EEG. The latent variables in this model capture the spatio-temporal spread of a seizure; they are complemented by a nonparametric likelihood based on convolutional neural networks. Finally, I will touch on a very recent initiative to manipulate emotional cues in human speech, as a possible assistive technology for autism. Our approach combines traditional speech analysis, diffeomorphic registration, and highway neural networks.
 
 
Biography:
Archana Venkataraman is a John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She directs the Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory and is a core faculty member of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Dr. Venkataraman’s research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, network modeling and clinical neuroscience. Her work has yielded novel insights in to debilitating neurological disorders, such as autism, schizophrenia and epilepsy, with the long-term goal of improving patient care. Dr. Venkataraman completed her B.S., M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 2006, 2007 and 2012, respectively. She is a recipient of the MIT Provost Presidential Fellowship, the Siebel Scholarship, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, the NIH Advanced Multimodal Neuroimaging Training Grant, the CHDI Grant on network models for Huntington's Disease, and the National Science Foundation CAREER award. Dr. Venkataraman was also named by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2019. 
 
 


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Tal Arbel & Louis Collins 
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