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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
Lizz Moody awarded 3-year NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Lizz was selected to receive a 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship.

Posters presented at WFU Graduate Research Day.
The following posters were presented at the Wake Forest University Graduate Research Day held on March 29, 2012:
  • “A Machine Learning Based Novel Technique for Automatic WMH Grading System” by Baidya Saha, Gopi Kota, Elizabeth Moody, Christopher Whitlow, Joseph Maldjian, Sriraam Natarajan.
  • “Cerebral Blood Flow Quantification in Swine Model using Pseudo-Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling” by Megan Johnston, Zhenlin Zheng, Joseph Maldjian, Christopher T. Whitlow, Michael J. Morykwas, Youngkyoo Jung
  • “A Method to Investigate the Size and Shape Variation of the Lateral Ventricles with Age” by Urban JE, Maldjian JA, Whitlow CT, Stitzel JD.
  • “Graph Theoretical Analysis Applied to Structural MRI Data Reveals Disease-Specific Gray-Matter Changes in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus” by Elizabeth A. Moody, Christopher T. Whitlow, Donald W. Bowden, Joseph A. Maldjian

Greg Westcott wins best poster award at ASFNR.
Greg’s poster titled, “Accounting for Gray-Matter Atrophy Affects Positron Emission Tomography Measures of Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Hypometabolism in the Brain” by Gregory Westcott, B.S., Christopher T. Whitlow, M.D., Ph.D., Joseph A. Maldjian, M.D. was awarded the best poster at the sixth annual meeting of the ASFNR held at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Chris Whitlow gives invited talk on Graph theory at ASFNR March 8, 2012
Chris will give the talk entitled, “Connectomics” at the ASFNR. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Sriraam Natarajan gives invited talk on Machine Learning at ASFNR March 8, 2012
Sriraam will give the talk entitled, “Clinical Applications of Machine Learning: Neuroradiology in Jeopardy?” at the ASFNR. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Chris Whitlow presents structural ADNI networks paper at the ASFNR March 8, 2012
Chris will present the paper, " Network Metrics Computed from Voxel-Wise Structural MRI Data Reveal Alzheimer’s Disease-Specific Changes in Cerebral Gray Matter " by CT Whitlow and JA Maldjian. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Lizz Moody presents structural Diabetes networks paper at the ASFNR March 8, 2012
Lizz will present the paper, " Disease-Specific Gray-Matter Changes in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Revealed by Graph Theoretical Analysis Applied to Structural MRI Data " by EA Moody, CT Whitlow, DW Bowden, and JA Maldjian. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Jillian Urban presents Brain shape change paper at the ASFNR March 8, 2012
Jillian will present the paper, “Quantifying Age-Related Shape Change of Brain Structures Using a Semi- Automated Landmark Identification Method” by Jillian E. Urban, Joseph A. Maldjian, Christopher T. Whitlow, Joel D. Stitzel. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Jennifer Soun presents Brain Tumor ASL paper at the ASFNR March 8, 2012
Jennifer will present the paper, Glioblastoma Multiforme and Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesions Can be Differentiated Using Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion MRI by Jennifer E. Soun, A.B., Jeffery M. Pollock, M.D., Joseph A. Maldjian, M.D., Christopher T. Whitlow, M.D., Ph.D. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Greg Westcott’s poster on Alzheimer’s hypometabolism at the ASFNR March 8, 2012
Greg’s poster titled, “Accounting for Gray-Matter Atrophy Affects Positron Emission Tomography Measures of Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Hypometabolism in the Brain” by Gregory Westcott, B.S., Christopher T. Whitlow, M.D., Ph.D., Joseph A. Maldjian, M.D. will be presented. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Jillian Urban’s poster on crash-related subdurals at the ASFNR March 8, 2012
Jillian’s poster titled, “Combining Clinical Neuroimaging and Engineering to Investigate Motor Vehicle Crash-Related Subdural Hematoma Volume by Jillian E. Urban, Christopher T. Whitlow, Joseph A. Maldjian, Joel D. Stitzel will be presented. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Joe Maldjian, ASFNR president, opens ASFNR annual meeting March 7, 2012
Joe Maldjian, 2011-2012 president of the ASFNR will be opening the annual meeting of the ASFNR. The meeting takes place at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida on March 7-9, 2012.

Chris Whitlow featured on WXII for KIDS TBI study, Feb 22, 2012
Chris Whitlow appeared on a news segment on WXII TV for the new KIDS TBI study being performed in youth football players. The study is being performed in conjunction with Virginia Tech and Wake Forest BME department.

KIDS youth football study, Feb 22, 2012
The recently announced Kinematics of Impact Data Set (KIDS) was study featured in http://www.news- medical.net/news/20120222/First-ever-publication-with-data-on-head-impacts-from-youth-football- players.aspx

Alzheimer’s Hippocampal Metabolism paper to appear in AJNR, Feb 20, 2012
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.