Exciting life update! This week, I began my research stay at AIMLabTUM, TU München. Looking forward to new collaborations and an adventure in the historical region of Bavaria! 🇩🇪🥨

Delighted to share that our follow-up work with Jan Valosek on a universal tool for lesion segmentation in spinal cord injury (SCIsegV2) got accepted at the MICCAI workshop on Applications of Medical AI! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.17265 📝 Test it out on Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) v6.4

We are happy to announce that a new version of SCT (v6.4) has been released! 🎉 Check out our announcement on INCF's NeuroStars.org Q&A forum: neurostars.org/t/spinal-cord-…

Interested in 7T imaging of the spinal cord? Check out this article by Daniel Papp and collaborators at Neuropoly The Neuro. We compared various RF shimming methods using ShimmingToolbox. Reproducible preprint available in @NeuroLibre 🚀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mr…

Consider attending this tutorial if you want to learn more about implicit functions and their cool applications!

I am presenting SCIsegV2 along with my co-author Jan Valosek at the #MICCAI2024 (MICCAI Society) AMAI workshop. Check out our poster at the Cristal Room, Palmeraie Palace between 1:30-6 pm to learn more about our latest updates in spinal cord injury trauma!

Thank you Daniel Rueckert for organizing it! Great choice of the location! :)

At Chandar Lab, we are happy to announce the second edition of our assistance program to provide feedback for members of communities underrepresented in AI who want to apply to high-profile graduate programs. Want feedback? Details: chandar-lab.github.io/grad-app-help/. Deadline: Nov 15!

Check out the exciting findings of our newest collaborative multicentric study with Jan Valosek, Naga Karthik, Andrew C. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD, Ken Weber, DC, PhD, and Julien Cohen-Adad on automatic lesion segmentation and quantification in spinal cord injury using Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) #SCIseg

Check out our recent work on segmenting lesions in MRI scans of patients with spinal cord injury! This is one of the earliest projects in my PhD, glad to see it finally published!

📢 We are happy to announce that we will be hosting a free virtual Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) Course on December 9-10, 2024. 🎉 Check out our announcement on INCF's NeuroStars.org Q&A forum: neurostars.org/t/spinal-cord-… Course details can be found here: spinalcordmri.org/2024/12/09/sct…

Kudos to the authors for acknowledging the bar in their paper. These bars/restaurants/cafés deserve more credit for stimulating a good chunk of ideas that end up turning into a paper!

📢New preprint and data alert! 1/ EPISeg: Automated segmentation of the spinal cord on echo planar images using open-access multi-center data Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… Dataset: openneuro.org/datasets/ds005… More in the thread 🧵

Are you interested in imaging the spinal cord at 7T? Not sure what coil to use? Check out this recent work led by Eva Alonso-Ortiz and collaborators where we compare different coil designs: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39868333/

Consider applying! CRL is a great place to do both fundamental and applied research in ML. And, you will have access to lots of GPUs at Mila!

Applying RL to a real system? Having insightful experience, new methods, reviews, analysis to share?We are excited to announce the RL_Conference 2025 workshop on Practical Insights into RL for Real Systems! rl4rs.github.io/RL4RS

Are you tired of getting signal dropout in your gradient echo EPI for spinal cord fMRI applications? Check out this new shimming study by Bréheret, D'Astous from NeuroPoly and Ma, Jason Stockmann from MGH Martinos Center 👉 doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30…

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