New neuroimaging methods for clinical neuroscience and neurological disorders

  1. Diez Palacio, Ibai
Supervised by:
  1. Jesús María Cortés Díaz Director

Defence university: Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Fecha de defensa: 27 October 2015

Committee:
  1. Juan José Zarranz Imirizaldu Chair
  2. Iñigo Pomposo Gastelu Secretary
  3. Lara Zuriñe Diaz de Guereñu Ballestero Committee member
  4. Ernesto Jose Sanz Arigita Committee member
  5. Daniele Marinazzo Committee member

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 120397 DIALNET lock_openADDI editor

Abstract

Clinical neuroscience today makes use of state-of-the-art neuroimaging to study structural and functional brain data to improve diagnosis and prognosis in different neurological disorders.In this thesis dissertation, I focused on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), a non-invasive neuroimaging modality to study brain functional and structural data. Different new methods for brain connectivity analysis are described and applied to three pathologies: Disorder of Consciousness, Alzheimer's Disease and Traumatic Axonal Injury. This work is at the frontiers between two fields, the Biomedical Engineering of Image Processing and the Clinical Neuroscience.