Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) predicts executive function performance and measures of prefrontal cortical function, but little is known about its anatomical correlates. Structural MRI and demographic data from a sample of 283 healthy children from the NIH MRI Study of … Continue reading
Across the Penn campus in the radiology department, Farah sits in a low chair while Brian Avants, assistant professor of radiology, explains their recent study, using a slide on a computer screen. Farah presented the study at the Society for … Continue reading
Some things I’ve been working on lately: Expanded NIfTI support. You can now use NIfTI files for most image I/O, and ROIs defined in NIfTI are correctly aligned in the tractography programs More options for tractography including greater control over … Continue reading
This collaboration with the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute at the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network involves the development of methologies for examining both structural and connective properties in the brains of TBI survivors.
We are developing a new class of techniques that focus statistical analysis of functional neuroimaging data on specific structures such as the hippocampus, using the shape of the structures as the guide by which to combine information across subjects in … Continue reading
SNAP is a software application used to segment structures in 3D medical images. It provides semi-automatic segmentation using active contour methods, as well as manual delineation and image navigation. In addition to these core functions, SNAP provides a number of … Continue reading