February 6, 2025
11:00am – 12:00pm PST
Summary
The CentileBrain platform (centilebrain.org) provides a tool for pinpointing meaningful deviations in brain structure by offering normative models analogous to growth charts in medicine. This initiative involved extensive benchmarking to optimize algorithms, select covariates, and validate longitudinal stability. The CentileBrain team has empirically demonstrated the broad applicability of these sex-specific models, ensuring that brain morphometry assessments are accurate and reliable across diverse populations. In this webinar, Dr. Ruiyang Ge will provide an introduction to normative modeling and the CentileBrain models’ applications in neuroimaging and psychiatry research. The session will include a hands-on demonstration of how to implement CentileBrain models in your research.
Speaker
Dr. Ruiyang Ge
Research Associate, UBC Department of Psychiatry and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
Director, Translational Neuroimaging Education Program
Dr. Ruiyang Ge is a Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on developing and applying advanced computational methods to address key challenges in psychiatry and brain disorders. Dr. Ge has authored numerous papers published in leading journals, including The Lancet Digital Health, American Journal of Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, and NeuroImage. He also serves as an editor for several psychiatry research journals, such as Mental Health Science and NPJ Mental Health Research. He is the lead Data Scientist of the CentileBrain Initiative and founding director of the Translational Neuroimaging Educational Program (www.translational-neuro.org).