Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Creation of the Pixyl startup (http://pixyl.io ). Pixyl is a startup created in March 2015 by F. Forbes with M. Dojat (INSERM), a former post-doctoral fellow S. Doyle (CEO) and IT Translation. F. Forbes is a co-founder and a scientific advisor. Pixyl specializes in automatic pathological brain MRI segmentation. Pixyl delivers precise neuroimaging biomarker extraction for improved insight and decision-making in clinical studies. Our automatic neuroimaging solutions are designed for seamless integration into both web-based and locally deployed CRO platforms. Advanced algorithms are available for multiple sclerosis, chronic stroke, brain tumor and traumatic brain injury applications The technology transferred is based on the P-LOCUS software.

• Xerox Foundation University Affairs Committee (UAC) collaborative grant. F. Forbes was co-laureate (with R. Horaud) of this grant (90 k$) for a three year project (2014-2017) on Advanced and Scalable Graph Signal Processing Techniques. It was awarded in collaboration with Arijit Biswas and Anirban Mondal, research scientists at Xerox Research Center India (XRCI), Bangalore.