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Speaker: Rahul Nair (left)
Learning Objectives: To understand which CSVD imaging markers are associated with Alzheimer’s disease and how these findings may influence our understanding of dementia pathophysiology.
About the speaker: Rahul Nair is a first-year Master's student in Neuroscience supervised by Dr. Aravind Ganesh. His research focuses on stroke, brain frailty, and cerebral small vessel disease, leveraging large clinical neuroimaging datasets and machine learning approaches to improve the assessment of neuroimaging markers and deepen our understanding of cerebrovascular disease.
Speaker: Matt Sargent (right)
About the presentation: White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are lesions visible as bright patches on T2 and FLAIR MRI images. WMH, which are often present in older adults, are associated with adverse cognitive outcomes and may reflect underlying vascular pathology including cerebral small-vessel disease. Manually identifying and quantifying WMH is time-consuming and requires significant specialized expertise. In recent years, a variety of methods have been proposed for automatic WMH detection and segmentation. This presentation focuses on UBO Detector, an automated software for identifying vascular WMH in older adults.
About the speaker: Matt is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary, supervised by Dr. Brandy Callahan. His current research focuses on the impact of white matter hyperintensities on cognition in older adults with ADHD.