Anastasia Yendiki, PhD

Professional Information

Experience: 

Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital

Education: 

PhD Electrical Engineering: Systems, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005

Position: 
Martinos Faculty

Contact

Mailing Address

Building 149, Room 2301
149 13th St.
Charlestown, MA 02129 USA

General Contact Information

Phone: 
617-726-9434
Location: 
CNY62-110.10

Additional Information

Biosketch


My research focuses on methods for mapping the circuitry of the human brain in health and disease. I have developed TRACULA (TRActs Constrained By UnderLying Anatomy), a software tool for reconstructing white-matter pathways from diffusion MRI data based on prior anatomical knowledge. Instead of enforcing hard constraints on the trajectories of the pathways, this approach includes a detailed probabilistic model of the anatomical regions that a pathway traverses at every point along its trajectory. This allows the same pathway to be reconstructed automatically in a novel subject, even if its shape and integrity differs from those of the subjects that were used to train the algorithm. Some of my current research projects include: algorithms for labeling and group analysis of white-matter bundles from diffusion MRI; validation and optimization of diffusion MRI; and applications in psychiatric disease.