PhD position available (online application details below)
Title: Computational methods for longitudinal studies of
structural brain connectivity
Topic: machine learning / pattern recognition for diffusion MRI
data analysis
Description: Diffusion MRI provides indirect information of the
anatomical structure of the white matter of the
brain. Neurological diseases and brain disorders may introduce
alterations in such structures. Additionally, after neurosurgery
and cognitive rehabilitation, there may be reorganization of the
white matter. The goal of this project is to design
computational
methods to detect and characterize white matter changes over
time, disentangling the intrinsic variability of brain
recordings
from actual anatomical changes, in order to support
neuroscientific and clinical inference.
References:
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00554
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00754
Emanuele Olivetti