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Research Projects

My goal in research is to take advantage of the unique environment at the Montreal Neurological Institute to combine cutting-edge research in image processing methods with real medical applications. Over the next five years, our research programme will be focussed on the following major themes:

• Basic image processing research in linear and non-linear medical image registration, structure segmentation and shape analysis
  • Linear Stereotaxic Registration
  • Non-linear registration
  • ANIMAL segmentation (automatic non-linear image matching and anatomical labelling)
• Application of these methods to understand morphological changes
  • in the normal population such as
    • brain growth in young children
    • the aging brain
  • and in patient populations with neurological diseases such as:
    • Multiple Sclerosis
    • Alzheimer’s dementia
    • Epilepsy
    • Schizophrenia
• Application of these methods for the development of new image-guided neurosurgery tools to improve patient care.
  • Surgical outcome prediction in temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Stereotaxic surgery for movement disorders
  • Tumour surgery
  • Spinal surgery
• Other projects are described in our collaborations