User:Eve LoCastro

Eve LoCastro joined the IDEAL group in November 2011 after "coming back to Earth", having previously completed a master's degree in astrophysics at Rutgers University and BA from Barnard College. She applies her programming background to the processing and analysis of large multi-modal MR data sets; the development of image-processing algorithms and reports employed by research projects in the department; and server-construction and management. Present efforts include tractography in Parkinson's patients for network diffusion analysis; multi-modal longitudinal ADNI atrophy studies; murine brain tractography and automated analysis of cine-phase sequences of Sylvian aqueduct flow imaging. She also is a key provider of "fancy graphics" for the group, having developed a software package called "Brainography" for rendering of structural and functional neural networks, highlighted in a recent volume of "Neuroinformatics." (http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/brainography) and featured in College publicity images. The software is freely available via the IDEAL webpage (http://ideal-cornell.com/index.php/research/brainography) and Github (http://github.com/evl2001/brainography).

Publications:

LoCastro E, Kucyeski A, Raj A. Brainography: An Atlas-Independent Surface and Network Rendering Tool for Neural Connectivity Visualization. Neuroinformatics, 2013, v11(4),10.1007/s12021-013-9206-1 Preview Publication

LoCastro, E., Pandya, S., Shen, X., Nguyen, T., Gauthier, S., Raj, A., 2013. Automated

volumetric pipeline for T2 Relaxometry, in: Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 21. p. 3620.