As part of the ANT Neuro Educational Webinar Series, Professor Micah Muray spoke about “Fundamentals of Topographic EEG Analyses” to an audience of 345 people whose feedback was unanimously postive: “I really liked the polling questions! Micah’s presentation was very … Read More
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Tutorial: Biomedical Image Reconstruction—From Foundations To Deep Neural Networks at ICASSP 2020
Initially planned to be in Barcelona, due to COVID-19, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2020, the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications, took place from May 4-8 … Read More
Talk: “A Multisensory Perspective on Primary Cortices” by Prof. Micah Murray at CNS 2020 Virtual Meeting
The 27th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society CNS 2020 Virtual meeting took place from May 2-5, 2020. During the Symposim Sessions part of the program, CIBM EEG CHUV-UNIL Section Head, Professor Micah Murray gave an informative and exciting talk on “A … Read More
Event: CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar 4 – April 28, 2020
Considering the COVID-19 circumstances, the fourth CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar took place through video conference and the program was a little different than usual. There was only one speaker, Vincent Taelman, a research staff scientist from the CIBM PET … Read More
Event: CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar 3 – March 31, 2020
Due to COVID-19, the third CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar took place through videoconference with an attendance of 52 members of the CIBM community including members from ETHZurich and industry partner Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH. Indeed these were special circumstances … Read More
Article: Diffusion MRI biomarkers of white matter microstructure vary nonmonotonically with increasing cerebral amyloid deposition
Patience and persistence, qualities research staff scientists have, pays off when a paper finally sees the light and is published. In this case, a project which was started at New York University School of Medicine during the postdoctoral work on … Read More
Article: Predicting antidepressant response by electroencephalography
During a sabbatical at Harvard Medical School in Boston, CIBM EEG HUG-UNIGE Section Head, Christoph M. Michel and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, both leading experts in neurotechnology were invited to give their views on the paper by Wu, W., Zhang, Y., Jiang, … Read More
Update: CIBM during COVID-19
In these challenging times, we are all mobilized to fight against COVID-19. As the CIBM is made up of five partner institutions and at different locations, CIBM staff shall be adopting the rules and regulations according to their physical place … Read More
Press release: A potential screening tool for learning difficulties in schoolchildren: As simple as pressing a button
How do you tell if a young child is on a good trajectory for their cognitive development? An estimated 17% of children have at least one developmental disorder that affects their global cognitive abilities. Early intervention strategies are widely recognized … Read More
Event: CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar 2 – February 25, 2020
The second Breakfast & Science Seminar from the CIBM was held at Campus Biotech in Geneva on February 25th 2020. Olivia Bejuy, Research Staff Scientist at the CIBM Molecular Imaging (HUG-UNIGE), Switzerland, was the first presenter to jumpstart the seminar … Read More
Spotlight: 2020 Journal of Neuroimaging Top Five Cited Articles
2020 started with the Journal for Neuroimaging’s recognition campaign of their well-received top five cited authors from the past two years. The article “Clinical Neuroimaging Using 7 T MRI: Challenges and Prospects” by Maria Isabel Vargas, Pascal Martelli, Lijing Xin, … Read More
Event: CIBM Breakfast & Science Seminar 1 – January 28, 2020
The highly anticipated Breakfast & Science Seminars from the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM) has resumed its monthly seminars. The CIBM Breakfast and Science Seminars aim to unite the scientific community on a regular basis (every last Tuesday of the … Read More
Spotlight: December 2019 Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Editor’s Pick
The paper “An automated approach to fully self-gated free-running cardiac and respiratory motion-resolved 5D whole-heart MRI” by Lorenzo Di Sopra, Davide Piccini, Simone Coppo, Matthias Stuber (CIBM), and Jérôme Yerly (CIBM) was selected as Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (MRM) Editor’s … Read More
Award: 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Receiving over 450 citations and 48000 full views, the paper entitled “Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Inverse Problems in Imaging”, appearing in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 26, No. 9, September 2017, by Kyong Hwan Jin, Michael T. McCann, … Read More
Event: Measuring metabolite diffusion with diffusion-weighted MR spectroscopy
The CIBM had the pleasure to host a seminar on the measurement of metabolite diffusion with diffusion-weighted MR spectroscopy by Dr. Julien Valette – from the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) in Paris – on Friday December 13th. Diffusion-weighted NMR … Read More
Event: Innovative Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis
On Thursday December 12th, Dr. Pascal Sati – Staff Scientist in the Translational Neuroradiology Section of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland – discussed innovative magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at … Read More
Award: Daniela Zöller receives the EDEE best Doctoral Thesis Award
This Friday November 29th, Daniela Zöller (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Doctoral School in Electrical Engineering. The PhD work was supervised by Prof. Dimitri Van De Ville – affiliated with the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale … Read More
Article: Brain regions in humans show behavioral specialization according to how much brain structure determines brain activity
The brain is constituted by an assembly of neuronal populations interconnected by structural pathways. Is it possible to quantify the relationship between this structure and brain functional activity that happens on top of it? Located at the Campus Biotech in … Read More
Event: CIBM 15th Anniversary
Wednesday, October 30th marked the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM)’s 15th Anniversary. We are proud to share that our celebration at the Forum Rolex Learning Center on the EPFL campus was a success with over 250 participants. The event brought … Read More
Press release: When a diseased liver disrupts the brain
The liver plays a vital role as a filter in the human body. But what happens when it malfunctions? Researchers from the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Lausanne (UNIL), the Vaud University Hospital Centre (CHUV), the Centre for Biomedical Imaging … Read More
CIBM renewed its identity
CIBM – GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE FOR AN ESTABLISHED PARTNERSHIP IN BIOMEDICAL IMAGING CIBM’s 15th year anniversary in October, 2019, marks a true ‘coming of age’ for the CIBM as it matures from a newcomer into an established partnership for biomedical imaging … Read More