Philip A Cook

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My main research interest is the use of diffusion imaging to study white matter in the brain. My previous work has focused on modeling uncertainty in the fiber tracking process and providing open-source tools to the diffusion imaging community. I am currently part of the team investigating white matter connectivity and visual function in the congenitally blind, under the mentorship of Professors Geoffrey Aguirre and James Gee.

My first experience of medical imaging was during my master's degree course at University College London, where I worked on visualization of diffusion tensor and fiber tracking data under the supervision of Daniel Alexander. I developed and applied image processing algorithms for tractography within the Medical Imaging Processing Group (MIPG), which later became the Medical Imaging Theme (MITh), which later became part of the Medical Image Computing (MedIC) center, which almost became the Centre Of Medical Image Computing (COMIC) before becoming the excellent Center for Medical Image Computing (CMIC). Somewhere between MedIC and CMIC I worked extensively on Camino, a free, open-source diffusion MRI toolkit.

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