Beyond the Patterns - Essam Rashed - Human head models with deep learning enabled dielectric

Dr. Essam Rashed has been working in many fields of medical image processing. Therefore, it’s a great pleasure to host him as a virtual guest in our lab! Abstract: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a commonly used clinical procedure for neurophysiological characterization. Personalized TMS requires a pipeline for individual head model generation to provide target-specific brain stimulation. This process includes intensive segmentation of several head tissues based on MRI data, which has significant potential for segmentation error, especially for low-contrast tissues. Uniform electrical dielectric properties are assigned to each tissue in the model, which is an unrealistic assumption based on conventional volume conductor modeling. In this talk, I will briefly highlight this problem and discuss new approaches for fast and automatic estimation of the dielectric properties in the human head models without anatomical segmentation. Short Bio: Essam Rashed received his . in Scientific Computing in 1