Nicha Dvornek
Assistant Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging & Biomedical Engineering
Office Address:
300 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT
06520
Email: nicha.chitphakdithai@yale.edu
Degrees:
- B.S., Johns Hopkins University
- Ph.D., Yale University
Interests:
My research is on the development and application of machine learning algorithms for medical image analysis and processing. My current work focuses on deep learning methods for learning from functional magnetic resonance imaging data with application to autism spectrum disorders. I am driven by the ultimate goal of better understanding neurological disorders and diseases to achieve more personalized medicine.
Selected Awards & Honors:
- Best Paper Award, 10th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI 2019)
- Best Challenger Award, Connectomics in Neuroimaging - Transfer Learning Challenge (2019)
- James Hudson Brown – Alexander Brown Coxe Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine (2014)
Selected Publications:
- Dvornek NC, Ventola P, Pelphrey KA, Duncan JS. Identifying Autism from Resting-State fMRI Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks. Machine Learning In Medical Imaging. MLMI (Workshop) 2017, 10541:362-370.
- Yang D, Pelphrey KA, Sukhodolsky DG, Crowley MJ, Dayan E, Dvornek NC, Venkataraman A, Duncan J, Staib L, Ventola P. Brain responses to biological motion predict treatment outcome in young children with autism. Translational Psychiatry 2016, 6:e948.
- Dvornek, N.C., Yang, D., Venkataraman, A., Ventola, P., Staib, L.H., Pelphrey, K.A., Duncan, J.S., “Prediction of Autism Treatment Response from Baseline fMRI using Random Forests and Tree Bagging,” In: Sixth International Workshop on Multimodal Learning for Clinical Decision Support, 2016.
- Venkataraman A, Yang DY, Dvornek N, Staib LH, Duncan JS, Pelphrey KA, Ventola P. Pivotal response treatment prompts a functional rewiring of the brain among individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Neuroreport 2016, 27:1081-5.
- Dvornek NC, Sigworth FJ, Tagare HD. SubspaceEM: A fast maximum-a-posteriori algorithm for cryo-EM single particle reconstruction. Journal Of Structural Biology 2015, 190:200-14.