UNC IDEA Group

UNC IDEA group consists of IDEA Lab in the Department of Radiology and Image Analysis Core Lab in the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC). The IDEA lab is devoted to the development of novel image analysis methods and tools, and their applications to various clinical research and trials. The developed methods include deformable registration (HAMMER), deformable segmentation (AFDM), and multivariate pattern classification algorithms. These methods have been applied to various studies on brain diseases and development (including MCI, AD, Schizophrenia, and Neonate Development Study), heart, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. The image analysis core in BRIC supports the image storage and analysis needs of scientists in UNC. It also provides services for brain structural and functional analysis, small animal imaging analysis, visualization, and others.

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New Papers:

1. "Predicting Future Clinical Changes of MCI Patients Using Longitudinal and Multimodal Biomarkers", accepted for PLOS One. [Daoqiang Zhang, Dinggang Shen]
2. "Learning Image Context for Segmentation of Prostate in CT-Guided Radiotherapy", accepted for Physics in Medicine and Biology. [Wei Li, Shu Liao, Qianjin Feng, Wufan Chen, Dinggang Shen]
3. "Ensemble Sparse Classification of Alzheimer's Disease", accepted for Neuroimage, 2012. [Manhua Liu, Daoqiang Zhang, Dinggang Shen]
4. "Application of Neuroanatomical Features to Tractography Clustering", accepted for Human Brain Mapping. [Qian Wang, Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Dinggang Shen]
5. “Axonal Fiber Terminations Concentrate on Gyri”, accepted for Cerebral Cortex. [Jingxin Nie, Lei Guo, Kaiming Li, Yonghua Wang, Guojun Chen, Longchuan Li, Hanbo Chen, Fan Deng, Xi Jiang, Tuo Zhang, Ling Huang, Carlos Faraco, Degang Zhang, Cong Guo, Pew-Thian Yap, Xintao Hu, Gang Li, Jinglei Lv, Yixuan Yuan, Dajiang Zhu, Junwei Han, Dean Sabatinelli, Qun Zhao, L Stephen Miller, Bingqian Xu, Ping Shen, Simon Platt, Dinggang Shen, Xiaoping Hu, Tianming Liu]
6. “Hierarchical Alignment of Breast DCE-MR Images by Groupwise Registration and Robust Feature Matching", accepted for Medical Physics. [Minjeong Kim, Guorong Wu, Dinggang Shen]
7. “Consistent Reconstruction of Cortical Surfaces from Longitudinal Brain MR Images”, accepted for Neuroimage. [Gang Li, Jingxin Nie, Guorong Wu, Yaping Wang, Dinggang Shen]