MICCAI 2016 Daily - Thursday

Effective Brain Connectivity Through a Constrained Autoregressive Model Alessandro Crimi Presentation 22 MICCAI Daily: Thursday Alessandro Crimi presented his poster and told us about his work. He works on structural and functional connectomes, which is the network of connections in the brain. The novelty of his work is that he is particularly interested in merging the two modalities. Merging the structural and functional information, trying to reach the holy of effective connectivity. This is important because structural connectomes shows all the brain connections but not the causality and what is really used by the brain, and functional connections shows only the correlation of brain areas which are activated at the same time by a task or fundamental cognitive activity. With effective connectivity we can see the structural connections which are really used. He solved this issues by combining the two modalities. The benefit of this approach is that it can help to study underlying process of the brain, or be used in intra-operative settings for tumor, stroke and other types of lesions during surgery. Besides, Alessandro - together with other colleagues as Prof. Menze, Prof. Handels, Prof. Reyes, Oskar Meier and Stefan Winzeck - organized the BrainLes MICCAI workshop , held the day before the main conference. The event includes segmentation challenges, keynote talks and more about brain tumor, multiple sclerosis and stroke. This was the second edition and they look forward for suggestions for the third edition of BrainLes next year . “ Help studying underlying process of the brain, or be used in intra-operative settings for tumor, stroke and other types of lesions during surgery ”