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News, Events, & Announcements

Congratulations to BRIC faculty Pew-Thian Yap ("Yap") who has been appointed as a Senior Member of IEEE! Senior Member is the highest professional grade of IEEE, reflecting his outstanding professional accomplishments. Only 8% of ~420,000 IEEE members have achieved this level. Well done, Yap!
Please join us on Thursday, March 21st for our annual BRIC-Radiology Research Day! For details, click here.
We are very happy to announce that BRIC Professor Shawn D. Hingtgen, Ph.D. has received the UCRF Innovation Award!
"Our previous work has demonstrated that neural stem cell (NSC)-based therapies could effectively treat Glioblastoma, however limitations in clinically relevant sources NSCs has prevented the advancement of this approach. We proposed to use cutting-edge technology in cellular reprogramming to develop and assess a novel type of NSC derived from fibroblasts. The ultimate goal is to eventually allow the generation of personalized patient-specific NSC-based therapies for treatment of aggressive and deadly Glioblastoma."
Exciting announcement! The BRIC is offering a Pilot Grant for research using the PET-MR scanner. Please click here for more information.
We'd like to recognize BRIC faculty member Dr. Yen-Yu Shih for being awarded the Summa Cum Laude Merit Award for the 20th Annual ISMRM meeting! For his abstract entitled "Deep brain stimulation fMRI of the rat ventral posterior medial thalamus."
The director of the BRIC, Dr. Weili Lin, has been elected to be a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering! This is a big achievement for the BRIC. For more information about AIMBE, click here!

Recent Publications

Giovanello KS and Schacter DL. "Reduced specificity of hippocampal and posterior ventrolateral prefrontal activity during relational retrieval in normal aging." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(1):159-70 2012

Giovanello KS, De Brigard F, Ford JH, Kaufer DI, Burke JR, Browndyke JN, and Welsh-Bohmer KA. "Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging changes during relational retrieval in normal aging and amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 18, 1–12 2012

Skup, M., Zhu, H.T., and Zhang HP. "Multiscale adaptive marginal analysis of longitudinal neuroimaging data with time-varying covariates." Biometrics In press, 2012

Yuan, Y., Zhu, H.T., Styner, M., J. H. Gilmore., and Marron, J. S. "Varying coefficient model for modeling diffusion tensors along white matter bundles." Annals of Applied Statistics In press, 2012

Li, YM, John Gilmore, JP Wang, M. Styner, Weili Lin, and Zhu, HT. "Two-stage spatial adaptive analysis of twin neuroimaging data." IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging In press, 2012

G. R. Wilkins, O. M. Houghton and A. L. Oldenburg. "Automated Segmentation of Intraretinal Cystoid Fluid in Optical Coherence Tomography." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 54(4):1109-1114, 2012

Yu Zhang, Guorong Wu, Pew-Thian Yap, Qianjin Feng, Jun Lian, Wufan Chen, Dinggang Shen. "Hierarchical Patch-Based Sparse Representation - A new approach for resolution enhancement of 4D-CT lung data." Accepted for IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging 2012

Feng Shi, Li Wang, Yakang Dai, John H Gilmore, Weili Lin, Dinggang Shen. "Pediatric Brain Extraction Using Learning-based Meta-algorithm." Accepted for Neuroimage 2012