Department of Electrical Engineering
Research interests and affiliations
My lab is developing advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) techniques for quantitative assessment of the brain and spinal cord structure. These developments include hardware (coils), MRI sequences (relaxometry, diffusion tensor imaging, magnetization transfer, functional MRI) and software (multimodal registration, segmentation, motion correction, distortion correction). There is a strong focus on translating research developments into clinics, aiming to improve the diagnosis and prognosis in patients suffering from neurological diseases and traumas.
The environment is highly multi-disciplinary. We interact with biomedical engineers, physicists, radiologists, neurologists and neurophysiologists. Plus, our lab collaborates with the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Harvard, therefore some projects will involve travelling to Boston. Projects include:
- Developing methods for spinal cord MRI in multiple sclerosis (collaboration with Harvard),
- Studying features of the brain using ultra-high field MRI (collaboration with Harvard),
- Development of deep learning methods for analysis of medical images (collaboration with Mila),
- Development of open source software for medical imaging applications,
- Building of MRI antenna
- Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Chairholder
- Functional Neuroimaging Unit (UNF), Co-director
- Laboratoire de Recherche en Neuroimagerie (NeuroPoly), Co-director
- Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (CRIUGM), Researcher
- Department of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Adjunct Professor
- Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), Member
- Biomedical Science and Technologies Research Centre (GRSTB), Member
- Institut de génie biomédical, Member
- Quebec Bio-Imaging Network (QBIN), Member
- Advanced Research Centre in Microwaves and Space Electronics (POLY-GRAMES), Member
- Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada, Associate member
- 1900 BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
- 1901 Biomedical technology
- 3102 Nuclear physics
- 6400 LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH RELATED TO HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE
- 9000 MEDICAL SCIENCES
Publications
Biography
Prof. Cohen-Adad is an MR physicist and software developer with over 15 years of experience in advanced MRI methods for quantitative assessment of the brain and spinal cord structure and function. He is an associate professor at Polytechnique Montreal, adjunct professor of neuroscience at the University of Montreal, associate director of the Neuroimaging Functional Unit (Univ. Montreal), member of Mila (Univ. Montreal) and he holds the Canada Research Chair in Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Along with his colleague Prof. Nikola Stikov, he is directing the NeuroPoly Lab (www.neuro.polymtl.ca), which includes about 20 graduate students and research associates. Prof. Cohen-Adad's research is highly cited (Google Scholar). As a leader in the field, he organized multiple workshops at international conferences (https://spinalcordmri.org/workshops.html). He is a frequent guest lecturer on advanced MRI methods and he regularly serves as consultant for various companies (e.g. Biospective Inc., NeuroRx, IMEKA) and academic (Harvard, U. Toronto, UCL, UCSF, etc.) for setting up MRI acquisition and image processing protocols.
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Teaching
- GBM6125
- GBM6904/7904
- GBM8378
Supervision at Polytechnique
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Ph.D. Thesis (6)
- Enguix Chiral, V. (2022). Neonatal Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Optimization of Data Acquisition and Democratization of Data Preprocessing [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Mangeat, G. (2021). Development of in-Vivo Histology with Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Resolve Fine Neurodegenerative Features [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Topfer, R. (2021). Local Coils and Prospective Shimming for MRI of the Spinal Cord [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- De Leener, B. (2017). Development of an MRI Template and Analysis Pipeline for the Spinal Cord and Application in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury [Ph.D. thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Duval, T. (2017). Quantification de la microstructure de la moelle épinière humaine par IRM et application chez des patients avec sclérose en plaques [Ph.D. thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Lopez Rios, N. (2017). Development of a New Multi-Channel MRI Coil Optimized for Brain Studies in Human Neonates [Ph.D. thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
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Master's Thesis (17)
- Bourget, M.-H. (2022). Écosystème logiciel de segmentation de neurones sur des images microscopiques par apprentissage profond [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Cereza, G. (2022). Development of an Innovative Solution Minimizing RF Field Inhomogeneity and Energy Deposition in Ultra-High Field MRI Applications [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- D'Astous, A. (2022). Shimming Toolbox: An Open-Source Software Package for Shimming the B0 and B1 Field in Magnetic Resonance Imaging [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Lemay, A. (2022). Impact of Soft Segmentation Training on Medical Image Segmentation and Uncertainty Representation [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Vincent, O. (2021). Impact of Rater Style on Deep Learning Segmentation in Medical Imaging [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Rouhier, L. (2020). Prognosis for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: A Computer Learning Approach on the AOspine Database [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Nami, H. (2019). Clustering of the White Matter Tracts in the Rat Spinal Cord Based on Quantitative Histology [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Samuel Perone, C. (2019). Deep Learning Methods for MRI Spinal Cord Gray Matter Segmentation [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Gros, C. (2018). Automatic Segmentation of Intramedullary Multiple Sclerosis Lesions [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Zaimi, A. (2018). Automatic Axon and Myelin Segmentation of Microscopy Images and Morphometrics Extraction [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Germain, G. (2017). Une antenne hybride RF/shimming pour l'IRM de la moelle épinière [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Saliani, A. (2017). Construction d'un atlas de la microstructure de la matière blanche de la moelle épinière chez le rat à partir d'acquisitions histologiques [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Vuong, M. T. (2017). Comparison of Myelin Imaging Techniques in Ex Vivo Spinal Cord [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Lévy, S. (2016). Caractérisation de la microstructure des voies spinales humaines par IRM multiparamétrique [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Mangeat, G. (2016). Study of Human Cortical Microstructure Using Magnetization Transfer and T2* Mapping with Application in Multiple Sclerosis [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- Foias, A. (2015). Design and Construction of a Highly Sensitive Coil for MRI of the Spinal Cord [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
- De Leener, B. (2014). Segmentation automatique de la moelle épinière sur des images de résonance magnétique par propagation de modèles déformables [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
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