ANSIR Laboratory

Advanced Neuroscience Imaging Research Laboratory

The Advanced Neuroscience Imaging Research (ANSIR) Laboratory is a research group based in the Department of Radiology of Wake Forest University School of Medicine. We are located on the 3rd floor of the MRI building at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
In The News
Joe Maldjian to speak on ASL at ASFNR 2013
Joe will give a talk on Arterial Spin Label MRI at the 7th annual meeting of the ASFNR in Charleston, SC March 11-13, 2013.
Event Date: 2013-03-11

Chris Whitlow to speak on advanced resting state analysis methods at ASFNR 2013
Chris will give the talk, “Advanced Resting State Analysis and Research Applications: PCA, ICA, Graph Theory” at the 7th annual meeting of the ASFNR in Charleston, SC March 11-13, 2013.
Event Date: 2013-03-11

Megan’s paper on pig PCASL accepted to JMRI
Megan Johnston’s paper entitled: Cerebral Blood Flow Quantification in Swine using Pseudo-Continuous Areterial Spin Labeling, by Johnston ME, Zhang Z, Maldjian JA, Whitlow CT, Morykwas MJ, Jung Y. was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Announcement Date: 2013-01-11

Sriraam’s and Baidya’s paper on machine learning in AD accepted to IJMLC
Sriraam Natarajan’s and Baidya Saha’s paper entitled: Can Relational Learning help in Three-way Classification of Alzheimer Patients from Structural Magnetic Resonance Images of the Brain?, by Natarajan S., Saha B.N., Joshi S., Edwards A., Khot T., Moody E., Kersting K.,. Whitlow C.T., Maldjian JA., was recently accepted to the International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing.
Announcement Date: 2013-01-11

Baidya Saha presents paper on machine learning classification in Alzheimer’s disease at IEEE ICMLA 2012
Baidya presented the paper entitled, “ A Machine Learning Pipeline for 3-way Classification of Alzheimer Patients from Structural MRI of the Brain” by S. Natarajan, S. Joshi, B. Saha, A. Edwards, T. Khot, E. Moody, K. Kersting, C. Whitlow and J. Maldjian at the IEEE 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMAL 2012) held in Boca Raton, Florida, Dec 12 – 15.
Event Date: 2012-12-12

Baidya Saha presents paper on a novel machine learning White Matter Lesion Segmentation algorithm at IEEE ICMLA 2012
Baidya presented the paper entitled, “ A Novel Hierarchical Level Set with AR-Boost for White Matter Lesion Segmentation in Diabetes” by B. Baha, S. Natarajan, G. Kota, C. Whitlow, D. Bowden, C. Divers, B. Freedman, and J. Maldjian at the IEEE 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMAL 2012) held in Boca Raton, Florida, Dec 12 – 15.
Event Date: 2012-12-12

Joe Maldjian delivers UCSF Annual Newton Lecture
Joe will give a talk on ASL for the annual Newton Lecture in the Department of Radiology at UCSF on October 17, 2012.
Event Date: 2012-10-17

Joe Maldjian presents resting state fMRI At ISMRM-ASNR Workshop 2012
Joe will lead a break-out session on “Resting State fMRI in pre-operative Planning” at the ISMRM-ASNR workshop: Advanced Brain Imaging: Beyond State-of-the-art, in Mclean, VA on September 27 - 29, 2012.
Event Date: 2012-09-27

Alzheimer’s Hippocampal Metabolism paper appears in AJNR
Joe Maldjian’s and Chris Whitlow’s article, "Whither the Hippocampus? FDG PET Hippocampal Hypometabolism in Alzheimer’s Disease Reivsited" has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Neuroradiology. This article addresses long-standing discrepancies in voxel-wise and ROI- based analyses of PET data in Alzheimer’s Disease.
Announcement Date: 2012-06-11

Diabetes and white matter paper published in The Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases
Joe Maldjian’s and Chris Whitlow’s article, " Cerebral White Matter Hyperintensity in African Americans and European Americans with Type 2 Diabetes." by, Divers J, Hugenschmidt C, Sink KM, Williamson JD, Ge Y, Smith SC, Bowden DW, Whitlow CT, L yders E, Maldjian JA, Freedman BI.
Publication Date: 2012-05-16

Joe Maldjian gives invited talk on Machine Learning at ISMRM 2012
Joe will give the talk entitled, “Machine Learning Applications in Neuroradiology” at the 20th annual meeting of the ISMRM. The meeting takes place at the Convention Center in Melbourne, Australia on May 1-5, 2012.
Event Date: 2012-05-05

Joe Maldjian gives invited talk on ASL at ISMRM 2012
Joe will give the talk entitled, “ASL in Neuroradiology” at the 20th annual meeting of the ISMRM. The meeting takes place at the Convention Center in Melbourne, Australia on May 1-5, 2012.
Event Date: 2012-05-05