A Window on the Brain: Computational Neuroimaging to Explore and Shape Human Brain Activity
Event details
| Date | 07.07.2016 |
| Hour | 17:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Dimitri Van de Ville, Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
INAUGURAL LECTURE
Abstract:
Observing and analyzing human brain function is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor combining engineering, neurosciences, and medicine. State-of-the-art technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allow to non-invasively acquire a sequence of whole-brain snapshots that indirectly measure neuronal activity. However, these datasets are large and reflect the complex structure of human brain activity.
By developing and applying advanced computational techniques that combine signal processing, network modeling, and dynamical systems, we are able to decipher the important role of spontaneous activity and how it characterizes human personality and cognition, as well as how it can be used to extract powerful markers of neurological disease and disorder, contributing to the emerging field of precision medicine.
In addition, better understanding of brain networks opens new avenues for improved neurostimulation using invasive and non-invasive methods. For instance, in "soft neuroprosthetics" based on real-time fMRI neurofeedback, subjects are put at the center of the experiment as they learn to self-regulate and therefore shape their brain activity in specific regions or networks.
Program:
- Introduction by Prof. Michael Unser, Director of the Biomedical Imaging Group
- Inaugural lecture of Prof. Dimitri Van De Ville, "A Window on the Brain: Computational Neuroimaging to Explore and Shape Human Brain Activity"
Please register here : http://go.epfl.ch/vandeville
Bio:
Prof. Van De Ville received his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from University of Ghent, Belgium, in 2002. He then continued his scientific career at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the laboratory of Prof. Michael Unser. In 2005, he became junior group leader of the Signal Processing Core of the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM) at the University of Geneva (UniGE). In 2009, his activities led to a tenuretrack assistant professorship at the EPFL and UniGE financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
His laboratory specializes in data science for understanding human brain function and dysfunction based on neuroimaging. He was the recipient of the Pfizer Award (2012), NeuroImage Editors¹ Choice Award (2013), NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (2014), and Leenaards Award (2016). In 2015, Dr. Van De Ville was promoted to Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the EPFL, jointly affiliated with the UniGE. His laboratory is located at the Campus Biotech in Geneva and is part of the Institute for Bioengineering and the Center for Neuroprosthetics.
Abstract:
Observing and analyzing human brain function is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor combining engineering, neurosciences, and medicine. State-of-the-art technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allow to non-invasively acquire a sequence of whole-brain snapshots that indirectly measure neuronal activity. However, these datasets are large and reflect the complex structure of human brain activity.
By developing and applying advanced computational techniques that combine signal processing, network modeling, and dynamical systems, we are able to decipher the important role of spontaneous activity and how it characterizes human personality and cognition, as well as how it can be used to extract powerful markers of neurological disease and disorder, contributing to the emerging field of precision medicine.
In addition, better understanding of brain networks opens new avenues for improved neurostimulation using invasive and non-invasive methods. For instance, in "soft neuroprosthetics" based on real-time fMRI neurofeedback, subjects are put at the center of the experiment as they learn to self-regulate and therefore shape their brain activity in specific regions or networks.
Program:
- Introduction by Prof. Michael Unser, Director of the Biomedical Imaging Group
- Inaugural lecture of Prof. Dimitri Van De Ville, "A Window on the Brain: Computational Neuroimaging to Explore and Shape Human Brain Activity"
Please register here : http://go.epfl.ch/vandeville
Bio:
Prof. Van De Ville received his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from University of Ghent, Belgium, in 2002. He then continued his scientific career at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the laboratory of Prof. Michael Unser. In 2005, he became junior group leader of the Signal Processing Core of the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM) at the University of Geneva (UniGE). In 2009, his activities led to a tenuretrack assistant professorship at the EPFL and UniGE financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
His laboratory specializes in data science for understanding human brain function and dysfunction based on neuroimaging. He was the recipient of the Pfizer Award (2012), NeuroImage Editors¹ Choice Award (2013), NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (2014), and Leenaards Award (2016). In 2015, Dr. Van De Ville was promoted to Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the EPFL, jointly affiliated with the UniGE. His laboratory is located at the Campus Biotech in Geneva and is part of the Institute for Bioengineering and the Center for Neuroprosthetics.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Sylvie Deschamps