Methods for the analysis and characterization of brain morphology from MRI images

Date: 14th December 2018

Time: 10.00 - 11.00

Speaker: Irene Brusini (PhD student, KTH biomedical imaging /KI geriatrics)

Location:  Karolinska NEO (Hälsovägen 7C, 14157 Huddinge, KTH's twin building) Room: DNA room 5105 in the 5th floor

Abstract: Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most commonly used methods for investigating brain morphology, since it allows to produce detailed 3D images of its soft-tissue structures. In this seminar, I will present the brain image processing methods that I have applied and implemented during my first year of research, with a particular focus on two main project. The first one is based on the analysis of both structural and diffusion MRI to investigate how domestication has affected the brain architecture of domestic rabbits. The second project is focused on the use of statistical shape models of the hippocampus—one of the first brain structures to be affected by Alzheimer's disease—​for improving the performance of deep learning-based hippocampal segmentation methods.​