Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria Associate Teams Not Involved in an Inria International Labs

GeomStats

• Title: Geometric Statistics in Computational Anatomy: Non-linear Subspace Learning Beyond the Riemannian Structure

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • Stanford (United States) - Department of Statistics - Susan Holmes

• Start year: 2015

• See also: http://www-sop.inria.fr/asclepios/projects/GeomStats/

• The scientific goal of the associated team is to develop the field of geometric statistics with key applications in computational anatomy.

  Computational anatomy is an emerging discipline at the interface of geometry, statistics, image analysis and medicine that aims at analyzing and modeling the biological variability of the organs shapes at the population level. An important application in neuroimaging is the spatial normalization of subjects which is necessary to compare anatomies and functions through images in populations with different clinical conditions.

  The research directions have been broken into three axes, the first two being methodologically driven and the last one being application driven. The first axis aims at generalizing the statistical framework from Riemannian to more general geometric structures and even non-manifold spaces (e.g. stratified spaces). The goal is to understand what is gained or lost using each geometric structure. The second axis aims at developing subspace learning methods in non-linear manifolds. This objective contrasts with most manifold learning methods which assumes that subspaces are embedded in a large enough Euclidean space. The third scientific direction is application driven with cross-sectional and longitudinal brain neuroimaging studies. The goal will be to extract reduced models of the brain anatomy that best describe and discriminate the populations under study. One intend for instance to show where is impact of a treatment for traumatic brain injuries.

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, United Kingdom

Maxime Sermesant is a visiting lecturer in the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College London lead by Pr Reza Razavi. The XMR facility within this hospital is a unique opportunity to validate and exploit the cardiovascular modelling work.

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

A collaboration with Dr Jan Unklebach, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and Dr Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, radiology instructor was initiated in 2013 around the topics of tumor growth modeling, radiotherapy planning and edema characterization from MRI.

University College London (UCL), London, UK

Marco Lorenzi holds an honorary position with the Translational Imaging Group of UCL, led by Prof. Sebastien Ourselin. His collaboration is around the topic of spatio-temporal analysis of medical images, with special focus on brain imaging analysis and biomarker development in Alzheim disease. He is also collaborating with the “Progression Over Neurodegenerative Disorders” (POND) group (Prof. Daniel Alexander) for developing new computational models and techniques for learning characteristic patterns of disease progression using large longitudinal clinical data sets, with special focus on dementias.

Imaging Genetics Center (IGC), University of Southern California (USC), CA, USA

Marco Lorenzi is currently collaborator with the IGC for the investigation of the very complex relationship between brain atrophy and genetics in Alzheimer's disease, in particular for demonstrating the effectiveness of multivariate statistical models in providing a meaningful description of the relationship between genotype and brain phenotype.

Other International Hospitals

Collaborations with several other European hospitals have been established through the European projects VP2HF and MD PAEDIGREE.