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Bérengère Aubert-Broche

Research associate
Image Processing Lab
McConnell Brain Imaging Center
Montreal Neurological Institute
3801 University St.
Montreal, Quebec CANADA, H3A 2B4
E-mail: <broche at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>

Research

• July 2007 - Now: Research Associate, Image Processing Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute

• September 2004 - June 2006: Post-doc student, Image Processing Lab, McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute

• March 2003- July 2004 Research engineer, IDM lab in Rennes, France.
• September 2000- February 2003 PhD research IDM lab in Rennes, France.

Peer-reviewed Publications

• 2014
  • Bérengère Aubert-Broche, Vladimir Fonov, Katrin Weier, Sridar Narayanan, Douglas L Arnold, Brenda Banwell, and D Louis Collins. it possible to differentiate the impact of pediatric monophasic demyelinating disorders and multiple sclerosis after a first episode of demyelination? STIA 2012 LNCS Series Springer Verlag 34–45
  • Berengere Aubert-Broche, Vladimir S Fonov, Sridar Narayanan, Doug A Arnold, David Araujo, Dumitru Fetco, Christine Till, John G. Sled, Brenda L. Banwell, and D. Louis Collins. Onset of multiple sclerosis before adulthood leads to failure of age-expected brain growth. Neurology (accepted)
• 2013
  • Aubert-Broche B, Fonov VS, García-Lorenzo D, Mouiha A, Guizard N, Coupé P, Eskildsen SF, Collins DL. A new method for structural volume analysis of longitudinal brain MRI data and its application in studying the growth trajectories of anatomical brain structures in childhood. Neuroimage. 2013 Nov 15;82:393–402.
  • Till C, Racine N, Araujo D, Narayanan S, Collins DL, Aubert-Broche B, Arnold DL, Banwell B. Changes in cognitive performance over a 1-year period in children and adolescents with multiple sclerosis. Neuropsychology. 2013 Mar;27(2):210–9.
• 2012
  • Kerbrat A, Aubert-Broche B, Fonov V, Narayanan S, Sled JG, Arnold DA, Banwell B, Collins DL. Reduced head and brain size for age and disproportionately smaller thalami in child-onset MS. Neurology. 2012 Jan 17;78(3):194–201.
  • Nicolas Guizard, Vladimir Fonov, Daniel García-Lorenzo, Bérengère Aubert-Broche, Simon F. Eskildsen, D. Louis Collins Spatio-temporal Regularization for Longitudinal Registration to an Unbiased 3D Individual Template. STIA 2012: 1–12
  • Bérengère Aubert-Broche, Vladimir Fonov, Daniel García-Lorenzo, Abderazzak Mouiha, Nicolas Guizard, Pierrick Coupé, Simon F. Eskildsen, D. Louis Collins. A New Framework for Analyzing Structural Volume Changes of Longitudinal Brain MRI Data. STIA 2012 LNCS Series Springer Verlag 50–62
• 2011
  • Till C, Ghassemi R, Aubert-Broche B, Kerbrat A, Collins DL, Narayanan S, Arnold DL, Desrocher M, Sled JG, Banwell BL. MRI correlates of cognitive impairment in childhood-onset multiple sclerosis. Neuropsychology. 2011 May;25(3):319–32.
  • Aubert-Broche B, Fonov V, Ghassemi R, Narayanan S, Arnold DL, Banwell B, Sled JG, Collins DL. Regional brain atrophy in children with multiple sclerosis. Neuroimage. 2011 Sep 15;58(2):409–15.
• 2009
  • Aubert-Broche B, Grova C, Pike GB, Collins DL. Clustering of atlas-defined cortical regions based on relaxation times and proton density. Neuroimage. 2009 Aug 15;47(2):523–32.
• 2008
  • Aubert-Broche B, Fonov V, Leppert I, Pike GB, Collins DL. Human brain myelination from birth to 4.5 years. MICCAI. 2008;11(Pt 2):180–7. PubMed PMID: 18982604.
• 2006
  • Aubert-Broche B, Grova C, Reilhac A, Evans AC, Collins DL. Realistic simulated MRI and SPECT databases. Application to SPECT/MRI registration evaluation. MICCAI. 2006;9(Pt 1):330–7. PubMed PMID: 17354907.
  • Aubert-Broche B, Griffin M, Pike GB, Evans AC, Collins DL. Twenty new digital brain phantoms for creation of validation image data bases. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2006 Nov;25(11):1410–6. PubMed PMID: 17117770.
  • Aubert-Broche B, Evans AC, Collins L. A new improved version of the realistic digital brain phantom. Neuroimage. 2006 Aug 1;32(1):138–45. Epub 2006 Jun 5. PubMed PMID: 16750398.
• 2005
  • Aubert-Broche B, Jannin P, Biraben A, Bernard AM, Haegelen C, Le Jeune FP, Gibaud B. Evaluation of methods to detect interhemispheric asymmetry on cerebral perfusion SPECT: application to epilepsy. J Nucl Med. 2005 Apr;46(4):707–13. PubMed PMID: 15809495.
  • Haegelen C, Verin M, Broche BA, Prigent F, Jannin P, Gibaud B, Morandi X. Does subthalamic nucleus stimulation affect the frontal limbic areas? A single-photon emission computed tomography study using a manual anatomical segmentation method. Surg Radiol Anat. 2005 Dec;27(5):389–94. Epub 2005 Sep 14.
• 2003
  • Aubert-Broche B, Grova C, Jannin P, Buvat I, Benali H, Gibaud B. Detection of inter-hemispheric asymmetries of brain perfusion in SPECT. Phys Med Biol. 2003 Jun 7;48(11):1505–17. PubMed PMID: 12817934.
• 2002
  • Bérengère Aubert-Broche, Christophe Grova, Pierre Jannin, Irène Buvat, Habib Benali, Bernard Gibaud. Detection of Inter-hemispheric Asymmetries of Brain Perfusion in SPECT. MICCAI (1) 2002: 500–507

Education

• February 2004 Ph.D Thesis

• September 2000 Master of Science

• June 2000 Diploma obtained from a French Engineering School (equivalent Bachelor of Science)

• June 1995 Baccalaureat S (equivalent High School Diploma)