Imaging Platform

The Imaging Platform consists of professionals trained to perform high-quality studies in the field of automatic assessment of medical imaging and clinical data in combination. The team applies contemporary methods of image preprocessing and analysis: retrieving radiomical data, building diagnostic models that identify diseases and detect their severity with the help of conventional machine learning and deep learning. We also train models predicting disease outcomes.

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AIMS

Our Objectives

In research activities, we intend to provide physicians with computer-aided decision systems capable of quantifying structural changes in the studied organs. The goals of the VRI Imaging Platform are as follows:

to individualize diagnostics and patient management by considering medical findings in combination with personal and environmental risks

to address the patient needs by taking into account disease features and individual reserves

to raise the accuracy of disease detection and increase sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic models

to train students on the advances in precision medicine and, specifically, diagnostics

Projects

Patterns of structure-function association in normal aging and in Alzheimer’s disease

screening for mild cognitive impairment and dementia with ML regression and classification models

The combined analysis of imaging and functional modalities is supposed to improve diagnostics of neurodegenerative diseases with advanced data science techniques

To get an insight into normal and accelerated brain aging by developing the machine learning models that predict individual performance in neuropsychological and cognitive tests from brain MRI

With these models we endeavor to look for patterns of brain structure-function association (SFA) indicative of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s dementia

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Data WE use

Data

Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database (ADNI)
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The GENetic Frontotemporal dementia Initiative (GENFI)
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AMyloid imaging for Phenotyping LEwy body dementia (AMPLE)
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Neuroimaging of Inflammation in MemoRy and Other Disorders (NIMROD)
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Available resources

Workstations

Linux Ubuntu 18.04 workstation with 24 CPU cores and two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GPU with 11 GB GDDR5X memory each.

Programming
  • Programming language Python, and its libraries for Computer Vision, Data visualization, Data Processing, such as NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Matplotlib, PIL, Pillow, OpenCV, scikit-learn just namely the few.
  • Tensorflow-GPU container from TensorFlow-GPU docker image with NVIDIA R CUDA R Toolkit and cuDNN from NVidia-docker image.
  • An open-source software library for high-performance numerical computation TensorFlow with high-level API Keras.
Data Storages
  1. PACS server: for radiological findings (CT, CTA, MRI, perfusion).
  2. Electronic clinical histories: personal information and clinical data, such as age, gender, nationality, clinical diagnosis, neurological assessment, clinical cognitive tests.

Team

Platform Directors

Dr. Yauhen Statsenko

Platform Director, Imaging

Theme Members

Dr. Osama Abdullah

Spoke Co-Leader Brain Health & Imaging

Dr. Aidar Kashapov

Research Assistant

Mr. Aleksei Riabinin

Research Assistant

Mr. Roman Voitetskii

Research Assistant

Ms. Darya Smetanina

Research Assistant

Mr. Amr Shadid

Research Assistant

Gillian Lylian Simiyu

Research Assistant

Collaborators

Dr. Tetiana Habuza

coPI

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Have questions?

Feel free to contact us:

e.a.statsenko@uaeu.ac.ae