I am super excited to announce I am joining the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology. At the new Open minds in Machine learning, INformatics and Data Science (MINDS) lab (follow us at @OpenMindsLab), we aim to solve high-impact biomedical challenges leveraging our expertise in medical image analysis, signal …
Academic Exit Plan: rough guide towards non-traditional careers beyond and within academia #AltAc #postphdlife
update: video of panel discussion hereDo not miss many useful references and resources listed at the end of this blogpost Based on my personal experience and difficulties in planning my career, as well as talking to a number of my friends and mentees in STEM, I believe there is a great need for proper career …
Fun merchandise to promote quality control and quality assurance in neuroscience [niQC]
In order to raise awareness and importance of QC and QA in neuroimaging analyses, we've designed some cool merchandise that you can wear or share with others. They are featuring slogans like Just QC It, Quality Matters, I'm a Quality Champion and the like. They will be a perfect match for the Quality Conversations webinar …
Quality Conversations webinar series [on niQC, open science etc]
Note: all events will be posted on this calendar you can subscribe to, or you can also subscribe to this newsletter to receive routine (roughly monthly) announcementsall events will happen on this zoom room (see end of this page for other ways to join via phone call etc)all of them will be video recorded, and …
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Video recordings of talks and tutorials from Pitt BrainHack DeBurghing 2020
The video recordings of keynotes, talks and tutorials from DeBurghing 2020 are now posted on youtube via the Open MINDS Lab channel in this playlist below (or you can use this direct URL). Apologies for the delay in posting them, and I thank you for your patience. Many thanks to all the speakers and participants …
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The inaugural Pitt Brain Hack: DeBurghing 2020 [hackathon]
I am super excited to announce the inaugural Pitt BrainHack The @DeBurghing 2020 on Dec 9-11 with a ton of exciting talks and projects on machine learning, handling confounds in predictive analysis, multi-site data harmonization, data science, high-performance computing (HPC) and the like. It's completely free and open to everyone in the world. Join us …
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My goals to further Diversity and Inclusion in Science
Being a visible minority and often underrepresented, I know the importance of improving diversity and inclusivity, in all the important dimensions including but not limited to gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, culture, geography and school of thought. My lived experience in this domain taught me a lot of things, and provided me an important perspective …
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Evaluating Visual QC protocols for Freesurfer Parcellations: error detection rate, inter-rater reliability and site differences
This page will host the study and results from systematically evaluating the visual QC protocols for Freesurfer parcellations. A preprint is available here. A poster summarizing the results presented at OHBM 2020, titled "Site-differences and inter-rater reliability for visual quality control (QC) for Freesurfer Parcellations" is shown below. The VisualQC tool is available at here. You …
Unambiguous terminology for data-splits in nested cross-validation (CV): training, tuning and reporting sets
A particularly frustrating confusion exists when referring to the different dataset splits when performing nested CV: whether the split in [the really] outer CV loop is to be called test set or validation set, and whether the "test set" in the inner-CV loop is to be called validation set or test set. There are different …
cross invalidation 