Academic and Research Communication with Dinggang Shen

On July 6th, 2018, Prof. Dinggang Shen from Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) visited the faculty of psychology of Southwest University. Prof. Shen introduced some research work in neuroimaging analysis of early detection of autism. Prof Shen has developed an automatic brain measurement method for the first-year brain images with the goal of early detection of autism such as before 1-year-old.

Dinggang Shen is Jeffrey Houpt Distinguished Investigator, and a Professor in the Department of Radiology and BRIC at UNC-Chapel Hill. Before joining UNC as an associate professor in April 2008, he was a tenure-track assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania since July 2002, and a faculty member in Johns Hopkins University in 2001 and 2002.

Dr. Shen is on the Advisory Board of Physics in Medicine & Biology (PMB) and Cognitive Computation (Springer Neuroscience, USA), and also the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (2016-2017), Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI), Pattern Recognition, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, International Journal of Image and Graphics, CMBBE: Imaging & Visualization, and Brain Informatics. He also has served as a reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences.