Welcome to the Biomedical Research Imaging Center!

News, Events & Announcements

Upcoming Seminar speakers:

1. Tyrone Cannon, Ph.D. May 7th
2. Edward Herskovitz, MD, Ph.D. May 31st
3. Wei Chen, PhD. June 5th

• 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!
• We are very proud to announce that BRIC Faculty member Dr. Dinggang Shen has been elected to the MICCAI Board!  To learn more about the MICCAI Society, click here!
• Concussion researcher named MacArthur Fellow

Recent Publications

1. Shih YY, Chiang YC, Shyu BC, Jaw FS, Duong TQ and Chang C. "Endogenous opioid-dopamine neurotransmission underlie negative CBV fMRI signals." Exp Neurol, 2012, 234:2, 382-88.
2. Hongjun Jia, Guorong Wu, Qian Wang, Yaping Wang, Minjeong Kim, and Dinggang Shen. "Directed Graph Based Image Registration."Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 36:139–151, Mar. 2012.
3. Wei Gao, John H Gilmore, Dinggang Shen, J Keith Smith, Hongtu Zhu, Weili Lin. "The Synchronization within and Interaction between the Default and Dorsal Attention Networks in Early Infancy." Cerebral Cortex (2012)
4. Wei Li, Shu Liao, Qianjin Feng, Wufan Chen, Dinggang Shen. "Learning Image Context for Segmentation of Prostate in CT-Guided Radiotherapy." Physics in Medicine and Biology, 57:1283-1308, 2012.
5. Gang Li, Jingxin Nie, Guorong Wu, Yaping Wang, Dinggang Shen. "Consistent Reconstruction of Cortical Surfaces from Longitudinal Brain MR Images." Neuroimage, 59(4):3805–3820, Feb. 2012.
6. Chong-Yaw Wee, Pew-Thian Yap, Daoqiang Zhang, Kevin Denny, Jeffrey N Browndyke, Guy G Potter, Kathleen A Welsh-Bohmer, Lihong Wang, Dinggang Shen. "Identification of MCI Individuals Using Structural and Functional Connectivity Networks." Neuroimage, 59(3):2045–2056, Feb. 2012.
7. Guorong Wu, Qian Wang, Hongjun Jia, Dinggang Shen. "Feature-based Groupwise Registration by Hierarchical Anatomical Correspondence Detection." Human Brain Mapping, 33:253-271, February 2012.
8. Smith CT, Boettiger CA. "Age modulates the effect of COMT genotype on delay discounting behavior." Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2012 Feb 18. [Epub ahead of print]