Research Associate

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

Research

  • July 2011 - Now: Research Associate Image Processing Lab, Brain Imaging Centre
    project : Structural volume analysis of longitudinal brain MRI data
    Growth trajectories of anatomical brain structures in children with multiple sclerosis
  • July 2007 - June 2010: Research Associate Image Processing Lab, Brain Imaging Centre
    project : the MRI Study of Normal Brain Development.
  • September 2004 - June 2006: Post-doc research Image Processing Lab, Brain Imaging Centre - Montreal Neurological Institute.
    project : Anatomical phantoms used for MRI and fMRI simulations.
  • March 2003- July 2004 Research ingenieur IDM lab in Rennes, France.
  • September 2000- February 2003 PhD research IDM lab in Rennes, France.
    project : Analysis of the brain inter-hemispheric asymmetries in single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) : method, validation, application in epilepsy

    • Publications

    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: 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
    Discipline: Biomedical Engineering, Signal and Image Processing
    Institution: Laboratoire IDM at Rennes 1 University (Department: Signals and Images in Biology and Medecine), FRANCE
  • September 2000 Master of Science
    Discipline: Biomedical Engineering, Signal and Image Processing
    Institution: Rennes 1 University (Department: Signals and Images in Biology and Medecine), FRANCE
  • June 2000 Diploma obtained from a French Engineering School (equivalent Bachelor of Science)
    Discipline: Signal processing and telecommunications
    Institution: ESEO, Angers, FRANCE
  • June 1995 Baccalaureat S (equivalent High School Diploma)
    Discipline: Physics and Mathematics