[NFS-02] Neuroscience Frontier Symposium 02 Frontiers of neuroscience and medicine accelerated by big data and AI

[NFS-02-5] Deep learning of medical imaging data for early prediction of Alzheimer's disease dementia

^○Yong Fan (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)

Dr. Yong Fan is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Fan was trained as a mathematician and later received a PhD in pattern recognition and medical image analysis. He has a broad background in medical image analysis and pattern recognition, with specific training in applied mathematics, statistics, and machine learning. His research focuses on the general field of artificial intelligence, with emphasis on machine learning methods applied to complex and large imaging and clinical data. He is developing image analytic methods of functional connectomics, radiomics and radiogenomics, image registration and segmentation, and personalized neuromodulatory therapies, with applications in clinical neuroscience, cancer, and chronic kidney disease, aiming to develop precision diagnostic tools using machine learning and pattern analysis.