Computational Brain Imaging Group
There is a deluge of data across scientific disciplines. Future scientific breakthroughs will rely on algorithms to explore these massive data. Our group develops machine learning algorithms to automatically generate scientific discoveries from N-of-1000 population-level datasets with brain MRI, behavioral, genetic and other physiological measures.
We are particularly interested in mapping brain networks in individuals and using brain network features to predict individual-level behavioral traits, mental disorder symptoms and disease progression. Insights from N-of-1000 population-level studies are in turn used to develop N-of-1 mental disorder treatment in individuals.
News
9/2023: Thomas gave a talk at the Computational Psychiatry Course at Zurich
9/2023: We welcome Hongwei to the lab
8/2023: We welcome Shreya and Tian Fang to the lab
7/2023: Csaba organized a symposium at OHBM
7/2023: Shaoshi gave an educational talk at OHBM
7/2023: Shaoshi gave an invited talk at the Gradients Workshop in Montreal
7/2023: Csaba gave a talk at the University of Zurich
7/2023: New Imaging Neuroscience journal launched with MIT Press. The entire editorial team comprises past editors from NeuroImage and NeuroImage: Reports, who resigned due to high publication fees. Thomas remains as senior editor, while Ruby joins the editorial board of Imaging Neuroscience
7/2023: Thomas gave a talk at the 5th Chinese Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Conference
7/2023: Jianzhong's & Leon's paper on the relationship between prediction accuracy and feature importance reliabliity is out in NeuroImage. This will be our lab's last paper in Neuroimage
7/2023: Welcome Sina to the lab
6/2023: Xiaoxuan's homotopic parcellation paper is out in NeuroImage
6/2023: Ruby's paper comparing gradients and parcellations for functional connectivity prediction of behavior is out in NeuroImage
3/2023: Thomas gave a talk at the CNS meeting in San Francisco
3/2023: Thomas gave a talk at the Mormino lab at Stanford
2/2023: Ruby & Thomas gave talks at the Whistler workshop
12/2022: Congrats to Aihuiping for defending her thesis
11/2022: ex-CBIG member (Raphaël Liégeois) is selected to be an astronaut for the ESA!
11/2022: Leon's paper comparing the predictive utility of anatomical T1, diffusion and functional connectivity is out in NeuroImage
11/2022: Lijun's paper on goal constrained harmonization is out in NeuroImage
9/2022: Tim Laumann (Wash U) visited our lab
8/2022: Casey Paquola (Juelich) gave a talk at our center
8/2022: We welcome Yapei, Yanquan and Tianchu to the lab!
7/2022: James Cole (UCL) gave a talk at our center
7/2022: Sofie Valk (Max Planck) gave a talk at our center
6/2022: Leon, Xiaoxuan, Ruby, Shaoshi, Csaba, Lijun and Thomas presented their work at OHBM
6/2022: Thomas gave a talk at the Brain Connectivity Workshop
5/2022: Our study on translating predictive models from big to small data is out in Nature Neuroscience [pdf] [commentary]
4/2022: Our study about brain network features predicting behavior is out in Nature Communications [free download]
4/2022: Our study about brain charts across the lifespan is out in Nature [free download]
3/2022: Thomas gave a talk at the Innovators in Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series organized by Dartmouth College
3/2022: Thomas gave a talk at the DGKN Congress
3/2022: Our study on racial biases in MRI-based behavioral prediction is out in Science Advances [free download]
3/2022: Our study about BWAS sample sizes is out in Nature [pdf]
3/2022: Congrats to Xiaolu for defending his thesis
1/2022: Thomas gave a talk at the Collaborative Research Center 1451 on Motor Control
1/2022: Thomas is now Senior Editor at NeuroImage
12/2021: Congrats to Jianzhong for defending his thesis.
11/2021: Our paper on biophysical brain models is out in Nature Communications [free download]
11/2021: Thomas is listed as a Clarivate highly cited researcher for the third consecutive year
11/2021: Yan Chao-Gan (CAS) gave a talk to our center
11/2021: Welcome Heidi to our group!
10/2021: Mac Shine (U Sydney) gave a talk to our center
8/2021: Welcome Zhang Chen, Trevor and Siqi to our group!
8/2021: Andrew Zalesky (U Melbourne) gave a talk to our center
7/2021: Our paper on individual-specific areal-level parcellations is out [free download]
7/2021: Pierre Bellec (U Montreal) gave a talk to our center
7/2021: Christopher Chen (NUS) gave a talk to our center
6/2021: Emily Jacobs (UC Santa Barbara) gave a talk to our center
4/2021: Congrats to Valeria for being a finalist for the Somerfeld-Ziskind Research Award
3/2021: John Murray (Yale) gave a talk to our center
2/2021: Our paper on individual-level cerebellum organization is out [free download]
2/2021: Lucina Uddin (University of Miami) gave a talk to our center
1/2021: Welcome Naren and Yan Quan to our group!
11/2020: Congrats to Tong He for defending his PhD thesis
10/2020: Nico Dosenbach (Washington University at St. Louis) gave a talk to our center
9/2020: Jean Chen (U Toronto) gave a talk to our center
8/2020: Our paper on predicting Alzheimer's Disease progression is out in NeuroImage [free download] [code]
8/2020: Caterina Gratton (Northwestern) gave a talk to our center
8/2020: Welcome Pansheng, Terence, Frederick, Kang Wei, Nicholas Alexander and Xintong to our group!
6/2020: Our paper on reconciling dimensional and categorical models of autism heterogeneity is now out in Biological Psychiatry [free download]
5/2020: Simon Eickhoff (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf) gave a talk to our center
4/2020: Avram Holmes (Yale) gave a talk to our center
4/2020: Justin Baker (Harvard Medical School) gave a talk to our center
2/2020: Our paper on global signal amplitude decreasing with time of day is out in PLoS Biology [free download] [science daily]
2/2020: Our paper on DNN and kernel regression achieving similar RSFC behavioral prediction performance is out in NeuroImage [free download] [code]
12/2019: Congrats to Nanbo for successfully defending his thesis!
11/2019: Congrats to Jingwei for successfully defending her thesis!
11/2019: Our papers on multimodal AD heterogeneity and single-hemisphere intrinsic FC are out respectively on NeuroImage [paper] [code] and Cell Reports [free download]
9/2019: Our paper showing that deep neural networks and kernel regression achieve comparable RSFC-based behavioral prediction is in press in NeuroImage [preprint] [code]
8/2019: Our paper on somatosensory-motor dysconnectivity spannning multiple transdiagnostic dimensions of psychopathology is now in press at Biological Psychiatry [pdf]
8/2019: Danilo Bzdok (Aachen) visited our group
8/2019: Good luck to Nanbo Sun, Qing Yang, Nicole Kuek and Minh Nguyen in their future endeavor!
8/2019: Welcome Leon and Xiaoxuan to our group!
7/2019: John Murray (Yale) visited our group
6/2019: Congrats to Minh and other team members for placing 5th overall (out of 53 entries) in the TADPOLE competition
6/2019: Thomas is the recipient of OHBM2019 Early Career Investigator Award
6/2019: Ruby, Valeria, Csaba, Xiaolu, Jingwei & Thomas are presenting their work at OHBM2019
5/2019: Our paper showing resting dynamics at different timescales is out in Nature Communications [free download]
4/2019: Our paper showing that global signal regression improves RSFC-behavior associations is out in NeuroImage [pdf]
4/2019: Congrats to Minh for acceptance to UC Davis PhD program
4/2019: Thomas presented Alex's, Ruby's and Peng's work at Washington University, St Louis
3/2019: Valeria, Ruby and Jingwei gave oral presentations of their work at the Noosa-Whistler workshop
2/2019: Peter Fox and Jack Lancaster (UT San Antonio) visited our group
1/2019: Simon Eickhoff (Heinrich-Heine University & Research Center Juelich) visited our group
1/2019: Our neural mass model paper is out at Science Advances [free paper download] [physics world] [asian scientist]
1/2019: Thomas is now an editor at eLife
1/2019: Welcome Lijun An to our group!
11/2018: Our paper on default network sub-specialization is out at PNAS [pdf]
10/2018: Review with Simon Eickhoff & Sarah Genon on Imaging-Based Brain Parcellations is out at Nature Reviews Neuroscience [pdf]
09/2018: Thomas presented Ruby's work on individual-specific cortical parcellations at RSBC
09/2018: Thomas received the Singapore Neuroscience Association Young Neuroscientist Award
09/2018: Welcome Angela to our group.
09/2018: Our paper on connector hubs tuning modularity and optimizing behavioral performance is out at Nature Human Behavior [pdf]
08/2018: Welcome Aihuiping to our group.
06/2018: Welcome Shaoshi to the group.
06/2018: Lucina Uddin (University of Miami), Nathan Spreng (McGill), Danilo Bzdok (RWTH Aachen) visited our group.
06/2018: Congrats to He Tong for best paper award runner-up at PRNI
06/2018: Our paper on individual-specific cortical networks is out at Cerebral Cortex [free download]
06/2018: Thomas presented Alex's, Ruby's and Peng's work on brain parcellations and dynamics at PRNI
05/2018: Our paper on mapping between MNI152/Colin27 and fsaverage is now out in HBM [pdf]
05/2018: Welcome Yan Rui to our group
04/2018: Congrats to Siyi for admittance into Stanford EE PhD program
03/2018: Thomas presented Alex's and Ruby's work on brain parcellation at Whistler's workshop
02/2018: Thomas presented Xiuming's and Nanbo's work on Alzheimer's Disease subtypes at EUROPOND 2018
12/2017: Our paper on interpreting dynamic functional connectivity is out in NeuroImage [pdf]
12/2017: Michael Breakspear (QIMR Berghofer) visited our group
11/2017: Our paper on the diverse club is out in Nature Communications [pdf]
10/2017: CM Ting (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) visited our group
08/2017: JB Poline (McGill) and Russ Poldrack (Stanford) visited our group
08/2017: Welcome Valeria, Jianzhong, Xiaolu, Qing Yang, Jeremy and Alisia to our group
08/2017: Thomas started his NRF fellowship on mental disorder subtypes
07/2017: Our new local-global cortical parcellation is out in Cerebral Cortex [pdf]
07/2017: Welcome Nicole Kuek to our group
04/2017: Thomas received the NUS Young Researcher Award
03/2017: Our commentary on multiscale neuroscience is out in Neuron [pdf]
03/2017: Welcome Siyi Tang to our group
03/2017: Lucina Uddin (University of Miami) visited our group
02/2017: Congrats to Gia for admittance into Cornell ECE PhD program
02/2017: Our commentary on best practices in data analysis and sharing in neuroimaging using MRI is out in Nature Neuroscience [pdf]
02/2017: Tom Nichols (Warwick) visited our group
11/2016: Congrats to Xilin for Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford
11/2016: Itamar Kahn (Technion) visited our group
10/2016: Our paper on latent atrophy factors in Alzheimer's Disease is out in PNAS [free download] [NUS press release] [MGH press release] [science daily] [upi]
08/2016: Our paper on the collapsed variation Bayes inference of the author-topic model is out in PRNI [pdf]
08/2016: Welcome Wenyan Hu, Tong He, Chu-Ming Chang and Csaba Orban to our team
07/2016: Daniel Rueckert (Imperial College) visited our group
07/2016: Commentary with Simon Eickhoff (Heinrich-Heine) is out in Nature [commentary pdf] [scientific american, huffington post, vice, popular science, geekwire]
07/2016: Welcome Minh Binh Nguyen and Ke Wang to our team
06/2016: Congrats to Ruby for OHBM merit abstract award
06/2016: Welcome Rajan Kashyap to our team
05/2016: Congrats to Ruby and Xiuming for the ISMRM educational awards
05/2016: Daniel Alexander (UCL), Jonathan Polimeni (HMS), Steve Smith (Oxford) and Anastasia Yendiki (HMS) visited our group
05/2016: Welcome Peng Wang and Muhammad Anwar to our team
04/2016: Simon Eickhoff (Heinrich-Heine) visited our group
03/2016: Suzanne Haber (University of Rochester) visited our group
02/2016: Welcome Dragana Pavlovic to our team
01/2016: Thomas is now editor of NeuroImage
01/2016: Rodolphe Sepulchre (Cambridge) visited our group
01/2016: Our paper on the genetic architecture of cortical networks is out in PNAS [pdf] [medicalxpress news]
11/2015: Our paper on the modular and integrative structure of the human brain is out in PNAS [pdf] [Berkeley press release]
11/2015: Welcome Raphael Liegeois to our team
10/2015: Commentary with Avram Holmes (Yale) is out in Nature Neuroscience [commentary pdf] [Steve's awesome paper]
08/2015: Welcome Jingwei Li, Nanbo Sun, Rensheng Liu to our team
05/2015: Daniel Margulies (Max Planck) visited our group
05/2015: Welcome Jianxiao Wu, Binbin Tang and Yuanhao Gong to our team
03/2015: Tom Nichols (Warwick) visited our group
03/2015: Congrats to Alex for being awarded the German DAAD Postdoctoral Fellowship
03/2015: Our paper on predicting sleep deprivation vulnerability with functional connectivity is out in Neuroimage [pdf]
02/2015: New MOE Tier 2 grant for estimating brain networks from resting-state fMRI and meta-analytic fMRI
02/2015: Congrats to Xiuming for admittance into MIT EECS PhD program
01/2015: Welcome Buu Vinh Tang to our team
10/2014: Our meta-analysis of 10,449 imaging experiments is out in Cerebral Cortex [pdf] [interactive ontology]
09/2014: New NUS Strategic Research Grant for studying memory networks in rodents and primates
08/2014: Polina Golland (MIT) visited our group
08/2014: Welcome Ruby Ru, Xiuming Zhang and Ngo Hoang Gia to our team
07/2014: Welcome Alex Schaefer to our team