PI: Sharmila Majumdar, PhD

Dr.  Majumdar and collaborators have a new technology development grant from the NIH, as part of the HEAL Initiative and BACPAC consortium, aimed at improving treatments for chronic pain and curbing the rates of opioid use.

PI: Andreas Rauschecker, MD, PhD

Dr. Rauschecker is developing an AI system for probabilistic brain MRI diagnoses.  This system computationally models a neuroradiologist’s process of image interpretation by using a convolutional neural network for detection of imaging abnormalities, image processing for quantitative descriptions of these abnormalities in terms of signal, location, and volumetric features, and a probabilistic integration of these derived features with clinical features in the form of Bayesian inference, ultimately arriving at a probability-ranked differential diagnosis.

PI: Jae Ho Sohn, MD

Dr. Sohn has combined Deep Learning techniques with brain imaging to discover changes in brain metabolism predictive of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previous research had demonstrated a link between patterns of glucose uptake in the brain and the disease process, but biomarker discovery was lacking.