Radiology Grand Rounds – April 11 – Ravi Bansal, MD

“CAR T-Cell Therapy for B-Cell ALL: Focus on ICANS”,
with Ravi Bansal, MD

Thursday, April 11, 2024, 12pm PST

HC4, 3rd Floor Multipurpose Conference Room.

Ravi Bansal, PhD, is an expert in signal and medical image processing, including anatomical MRI, Diffusion Tensor Images, functional MRI, and Arterial Spin Labeling. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers in the development and application of cutting-edge imaging processing technologies to the study of normal brain maturation and developmental psychopathologies. These methodological include mathematical and statistical methods for making computer-based neuropsychiatric diagnoses using MR images of the brain, improving tissue definition while accounting for variations in tissue contrast that are caused by variation in tissue water content, automating shape analyses of brain regions delineated on high-resolution anatomical MR images, and applying these analytic tools to defining the biological bases for neuropsychiatric disorders. He has developed machine learning algorithms for diagnosing an individual as having one or the other neuropsychiatric disorder, or has having illness or not using MRI data of the brain. These algorithms used brain measures defined as the scaling coefficients computed by spherical wavelet analyses and applied a method for hierarchical clustering for learning the classification rule and for diagnosing a new individual. Bansal and his team rigorously evaluated the performance of the machine learning algorithms using split half cross validation. Additionally, he has applied the mathematical and statistical methods that he developed to study the brain-based effects of environmental neurotoxicants.

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