Imaging and the Brain Projects
A team of researchers associated with the Applied Machine Learning Lab in Duke’s ECE department will lead a team of students in developing novel machine learning techniques that will be used for improving brain computer interfaces (BCIs) using electroencephalography (EEG) data. Students will learn how to pre-process EEG data, extract...
Simi Bleznak (Math/AI), Max Brown (Math/Econ), and Julia Choi (Bio) spent ten weeks Exploring how visual, cognitive, and physical abilities relate to physical performance can provide insight into the development of athletes. Using two rich datasets provided by USA Baseball, the team used linear regression, logistic regression models, and longitudinal...
The sub-thalamic nucleus (STN) within the sub-cortical region of the Basal ganglia is a crucial targeting structure for Deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, in particular for alleviating Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms. Volumetric segmentation of such small and complex structure, which is elusive in clinical MRI protocols, is thereby a pre-requisite...
Volumetric segmentation of sub-cortical structures such as the basal ganglia and thalamus is necessary for non-invasive diagnosis and neurosurgery planning. This is a challenging problem due in part to limited boundary information between structures, similar intensity profiles across the different structures, and low contrast data. This work presents a semi-automatic...
A team of students led by researchers in the O-Lab for auditory neuroscience will determine whether the imagination of speech and nonspeech sounds can be distinguished using on a non-invasive measurement of activation in the brain, electroencephalography (EEG). Students will collect and analyze EEG data from human participants in response...
A team of students led by researchers in the Social Science Research Institute and Departments of Mathematics and Statistics will curate a unique video data set for studying how different aspects of social interactions relate to social and psychiatric variables, like trust, empathy, and scores on clinical social competence and...
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