Philip Cho
Program: Unspecified
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Undergraduate university: Duke University
Research summary
Recent studies have identified the SCAN — a network in motor cortex (M1) thought to be involved in integrating goals, physiology, and whole-body movements — yet no fully automated tools exist to localize this network in the individual brain. In this project, a template-matching approach was developed to automatically identify the SCAN and its functionally connected regions (e.g., centromedian nucleus in the thalamus) in individuals, from densely-sampled resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scans. Among other applications, the tool has potential clinical utility for targeting these brain structures for deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with neurological disorders such as chronic pain and epilepsy
Graduate publications