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Founders talk

Timothy Johnson
University of Michigan
Title: A Bayesian semi-parametric model for functional near-infrared spectroscopy data

Keynote Speakers

Tom Nichols
Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford
Title: Neuroimaging Statistics for Population Scale Data

Vince Calhoun
Director, Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science
Title: Swimming in a sea of under-explored dynamics: A survey of approaches for capturing time-varying connectivity

Short Course

Hui Lin
Quant Reseacher at Google
Title: Introduction to Deep Learning

Statistical Software for Imaging Analysis

John Muschelli, Johns Hopkins University
Neuroconductor: An R Platform for Medical Imaging Analysis

Stathis D. Gennatas, University of California, San Francisco
Efficient and accessible Machine Learning with rtemis

Joshua Lukemire, Emory University
HINT – A Matlab toolbox for hierarchical covariate-adjusted independent component analysis of fMRI data

Hernando Ombao, KAUST
Toolbox for Exploring Interactions in Multivariate Time Series

Marina Vannucci, Rice University
User-friendly MATLAB GUIs for Bayesian Multi-Subject Modeling of fMRI Data

Speakers in Invited Oral Sessions and Collaborative Case-Studies

Jesus Arroyo, University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Inference for multiple heterogeneous networks with a common invariant subspace

Joanne Beer, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Extensions of ComBat for harmonization of multi-scanner neuroimaging data in an Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset

Brian Caffo, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Covariance regression for connectome outcomes

Guanqun Cao, Auburn University
Title: Estimation of the Mean Function of Functional Data via Deep Neural Networks

Gang Chen, NIMH
Title: Improving reproducibility in network modeling

Shuo Chen, University of Maryland
Title: l_0 shrinkage in graph space for brain network inference

Adam Ciarleglio, George Washington University
Title: Multiple imputation in functional regression with applications to EEG data in a depression study

Ciprian Crainiceanu, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Longitudinal Image Analysis and Inference

Leo Duan, University of Florida
Title: Bayesian Vector Autoregression using the Tree Rank Prior with an Application to fMRI Data Analysis

Ani Eloyan, Brown University
Title: Analysis of structural imaging data in cancer

Candace Fleischer, Emory University and Georgia Tech
Title: In vivo metabolic imaging with magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Susan Gauthier, Weill Cornell Medicine
Title: The clinical translation of QSM as a new imaging biomarker for disease progression and treatment response in Multiple Sclerosis

Sharmistha Guha, Duke University
Title: Bayesian Regression with Undirected Network Predictors with an Application to Brain Connectome Data

Michele Guindani, University of California, Irvine
Title: A Bayesian Nonparametric approach for the analysis of functional data in neuroimaging

Jaroslaw Harezlak, Indiana University, Bloomington
Title: Regularized regression for multi-modal brain imaging

Emily Hector, North Carolina State University
Title: Integrative fused mean structure learning with application to image-on-scalar regression

Chao Huang, Florida State University
Title: Shape-on-Vector Geodesic Regression Model and Its Applications in Image Data Analysis

Jian Kang, University of Michigan
Title: Bayesian Inferences in EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface via the Split-and-Merge Gaussian Process

John Kornak, University of California, San Francisco
Title: Bayesian image analysis in transformed spaces (BITS)­ and the BIFS/BIWS packages

Robert T. Krafty, Emory University
Title: Adaptive Spectral Analysis of High-Dimensional EEG with Application to Monitoring Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation during Psychosis

Sebastian Kurtek, Ohio State University
Title: Visualization and Outlier Detection for Shape Data

Nicole Lazar, Penn State University
Title: Topological Data Analysis for the Study of Brain Networks

Lexin Li, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Testing Mediation Effects Using Logic of Boolean Matrices with Applications in Neuroimaging Mediation Analysis

Kristin Linn, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Inter-modal Coupling for Multi-modal Image Analysis

Carolyn Lou, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Towards an Automatic Detection Method of Chronic Active Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis

Xi Luo, The University of Texas
Title: Covariate Assisted Principal Regression for Covariance Matrix Outcomes with an Application to fMRI

Amanda Mejia, Indiana University
Title: Leveraging shared population and spatial information for accurate estimation of subject-level brain networks

Michelle F. Miranda, University of Victoria
Title: Composite-hybrid basis approach incorporating residual connectivity in task fMRI data

Shariq Mohammed, University of Michigan
Title: RADIOHEAD: Radiogenomic Analysis incorporating tumor heterogeneity in imaging through densities

Jeff Morris, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Connectivity Regression

Todd Ogden, Columbia University
Title: Constrained functional additive models for interaction effects between a treatment and functional covariates

Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Title: Exploring Non-Linear Spectral Interactions in Multivariate Time Series

Deqiang Qiu, Emory University and Georgia Tech
Title: Inverse Problems in Magnetic Resonance Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping

Annie Qu, University of California, Irvine
Title: Correlation Tensor Decomposition and Its Application in Spatial Imaging Data

David Reiter, Emory University
Title: Advances in Quantitative MRI Signal Modeling in Musculoskeletal Research

Sandra Hurtado Rúa, Cleveland State University
Title: Statistical challenges in the analysis of QSM maps

Russell Shinohara, University of Pennsylvania
Title: A statistical revisiting of multiple sclerosis lesions based on MRI

Haochang Shou, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Correcting Site Differences in the Covariance Structures of Neuroimaging Data

Sean L. Simpson, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Title: Mixed modeling frameworks for analyzing whole-brain network data

Elizabeth Sweeney, Weill Cornell Medicine
Title: QSM Image Analysis: Automated Lesion Type Identification and Lesion Age Estimation

Dana Tudorascu, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Methods for MRI and PET neuroimaging data harmonization across different scanners in Alzheimer Disease.

Marina Vannucci, Rice University
Title: Bayesian Inference for Stationary Points in Gaussian Process Regression Models with Applications to ERP Analysis

Julia Wrobel, University of Colorado, Denver
Title: Intensity warping for multisite MRI harmonization

Zhengwu Zhang, UNC
Title: Surface-Based Connectivity Integration

Xin “Henry” Zhang, Florida State University
Title: Generalizing liquid association for multimodal neuroimaging

Fengqing (Zoe) Zhang, Drexel University
Title: Penalized multi-state models for examining multimodal imaging signatures of Alzheimer’s disease.

Yize Zhao, Yale University
Title: Imaging Genetics Analysis under Brain Connectivity with Application on Human Connectome Project

Yi Zhao, Indiana University-Purdue University
Title: Multimodal Neuroimaging Data Integration and Pathway Analysis.

Jingyi Zheng, Auburn University
Title: Time-frequency Spectral Analysis of Scalp EEG signals using Empirical Mode Decomposition