My lab develops novel computational methods for processing and analyzing neuroimaging data, and uses the methods to elucidate the biological course of late-life cognitive decline.

Publications:

5 representative publications:

P. Harris, D. A. Alcantara, N. Amenta, O. L. Lopez, G. Eiriksdottir, S. Sigurdsson, V. Gudnason, S. Madsen, P. M. Thompson, L. J. Launer, O. T. Carmichael. Localized Measures of Callosal Atrophy Are Associated with Late-Life Hypertension: AGES-Reykjavik Study. Neuroimage 43 (2008), pp. 489-496.

O. T. Carmichael, L. H. Kuller, O. L. Lopez, P. M. Thompson, R. A. Dutton, A. Lu, S. E. Lee, J. Y. Lee, H. J. Aizenstein, C. C. Meltzer, Y. Liu, A. W. Toga, J. T. Becker. Acceleration of cerebral ventricular expansion in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Neurobiology of Aging, September 2007; 28 (9): pp. 1316-1321.

O. T. Carmichael, H. J. Aizenstein, S. W. Davis, J. T. Becker, P. M. Thompson, C. C. Meltzer, Y. Liu. Atlas-Based Hippocampus Segmentation In Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. NeuroImage, 27 (4), October 2005, pp 979-990.

W. T. Freeman, E.C. Pasztor, O. T. Carmichael. Learning Low-Level Vision. International Journal Of Computer Vision, V. 40 (1), October 2000, pp 25-47.

J. Xie, D. A. Alcantara, N. Amenta, E. Fletcher, O. Martinez, M. Persianinova, C. DeCarli, and O. T. Carmichael. Spatially-Localized Hippocampal Shape Analysis in Late-Life Cognitive Decline. Proceedings MICCAI Workshop on Computational Anatomy and Physiology of the Hippocampus (CAPH), September 6, 2008.