Andres Acevedo

My research this summer will involve verifying whether the new probabilistic methods developed in Prof. Arbel’s lab are meeting specific goals regarding identifying healthy and diseased tissues when applied to MRI data dealing with Multiple Sclerosis. To this end I will work providing statistics as to the robustness of the techniques when trained on one trial and tested on another trial. Additionally, I will be exploring various pre-processing techniques, including normalization and registration techniques, to determine which will lead to maximal increase in the robustness of the methods. Lastly, I will also work testing various statistical validation techniques in order to determine which are most appropriate for the regarding theoretical, clinical, and corporate objectives.