Projects
eXplainable Artificial Intelligence to embed new-generation Artificial Intelligence architectures for brain signal analysis in clinical scenarios KU Leuven
This research project aims to find new, effective, and trustable data-driven approaches to correctly classify human physiological signals, performing classification and outlier detection. The above can effectively support the medical diagnosis of cognitive and psychological disorders such as anxiety, autism, or depression in biomedical applications. Furthermore, the project aims to construct explainable methods to correctly identify and ...
Deep Learning approaches for mining wearable brain monitoring data in epilepsy(CSC-2019-18) KU Leuven
Automated seizure detection from the electroencephalograms (EEG) signals plays an important role in epilepsy diagnosis. Although many approaches have shown their abilities in detecting seizure with scalp EEG, they have to face the issue of data insufficiency since the clinical scalp EEG signals are expensive and inconvenient to collect. Recently, wearable devices provide a much easier and cheaper way to collect EEG and therefore make it ...
SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: The Social and Cognitive Brain Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Interconnections between visual experience, information processing, and the brain KU Leuven
This research program is focused on the study of visuo-perceptual (object) structure, its mediation by attention and expectation, and the brain processes that give rise to all this. Our approach focuses on macroscopic aspects of brain dynamics, such as whole-head traveling wave activity; structural and functional connectivity networks, and eye-movement-related brain activity. We are using mainly EEG recording, but also brain stimulation and ...
Deciphering Cellular Complexity of Brain Tumoroid by High Definition MEA Chip Biosensing KU Leuven
Brain tumors are among the most malignant tumors of human with a 5-year survival rate of only ~20%. This devastating disease imposes a serious health and social issue. The most common and malignant human primary brain tumor is Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), which is still largely incurable with a ~90% mortality rate and a mean survival rate of 12-15 months. Current clinical intervention of brain tumors is by surgical removal of the malignant ...
Oscillatory activity in large-scale brain networks and its relevance to behavior KU Leuven
Large part of cerebral processes associated with our actions and thoughts is implemented through synchronised oscillations of group of neurons in distant brain regions. So far, the understanding of oscillatory activity in large-scale brain networks is far from complete, concerning both the phenomena and biological function. Our main goal is to address this issue, and to better understand the link between long-range neuronal synchronisation ...
Functional connectivity in the brain during motor coordination with high-density electroencephalography KU Leuven
Perception, action, and cognition are achieved through concerted neural activity in large-scale brain networks. As such, understanding the basic mechanisms of long-range neuronal communication may permit to elucidate how the brain orchestrates when we perform a complex task. Motor coordination is a prototypical example of complex behaviour, and its study is very well suited for broader investigations about the architecture and functioning of ...
Shaping the social brain through early interaction - SAPIENS Ghent University
The first three years of life are critical for children’s long-term development, health and wellbeing, since core brain functions are formed during this period and the brain is much more vulnerable to adversity, which is key for the emergence of developmental disorders (autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder). Identifying the mechanisms that act during early childhood to shape individual long-term social development is essential for ...
Shaping the social brain through early interaction SAPIENS Ghent University
The first three years of life are critical for children’s long-term development, health and wellbeing, since core brain functions are formed during this period and the brain is much more vulnerable to adversity, which is key for the emergence of developmental disorders (autism, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder). Identifying the mechanisms that act during early childhood to shape individual long-term social development is essential for ...