Multimodal Neuroimaging Computing for the Characterization of Neurodegenerative Disorders

Sidong Liu received his Bachelor Degree in Bioinformatics from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2007. He then obtained a Master of Applied Science with a major in Bioinformatics in 2009, and a Master of IT with a major in Computer Science at the University of Sydney. He conducted his PhD study with a focus on medical image computing in the Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology(BMIT) Research Group at the School of Information Technologies, the University of Sydney. During his PhD study, supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), Australia Alzheimer’s Disease Research Foundation (AADRF) Top-up Scholarship and Australia Sydney University Graduates Union North America (SUGUNA) Travel Grant, he spent one year at the Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL), Harvard Medical School, as a visiting scholar in 2014. He was awarded a PhD Degree in Dec 2015, and his PhD thesis has received the Springer Thesis Award. He is currently a postdoctoral researchfellow with School of Information Technologies, the University of Sydney. His research interests include neuroimage computing, computational neuroscience, biomedical and health informatics, machine learning and big data analytics and its applications in biomedicine.

Introduction.- Background.- Datasets and Pre-processing.- Neurodegenerative Feature Modeling and Learning.- Neurodegenerative Pattern Analysis.- Alzheimer’s Disease Staging and Prediction.- Neuroimaging Content-Based Retrieval.- Conclusions and Future Directions.