Dingna Duan, Ph.D., Postdoc Fellow

E-mail: dingnaduan#bnu.edu.cn

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Computational methods for human cortical morphology analysis

  • Cortical morphology-based early brain development and cognitive prediction

  • Development of human connectomics for normal and abnormal brains

EDUCATION

  • 2013.09-2019.09: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University

  • 2016.07-2019.01: Visiting Research Scholar in Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill

  • 2009.09-2013.06: B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, Shandong University

FUNDING

  • 2021.01-2023.12: Infant brain development and cognitive prediction using cortical morphology-based structural covariance network analysis, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 82001908, Role on project: PI

  • 2019.11-2022.10: Early brain development and individual variability study of cortical morphological structural covariance networks based on structural MRI images, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, No. 2021T140065, Role on project: PI

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Duan D, Xia S, Rekik I, Meng Y, Wu Z, Wang L, Lin W, Gilmore JH, Shen D, Li G (2018) Exploring folding patterns of infant cerebral cortex based on multi-view curvature features: methods and applications. NeuroImage 185:575-592.

  • Duan D, Xia S, Rekik I, Wu Z, Wang L, Lin W, Gilmore JH, Shen D, Li G (2020) Cortical folding-based individual identification and individual variability study during dynamic early brain development. Human Brain Mapping 41(8):1985-2003.

  • Wei J#, Duan D#, Wu K, Chen Y, Wang L, Zheng Y, Chen K, Kang Y, Si C, Wang H, Shen D, Li G, Ji W, Niu Y. Abnormal brain development precedes in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease in α-synuclein transgenic monkeys. (Under Review)

  • Duan D, Xia S, Meng Y, Wang L, Lin W, Gilmore JH, Shen D, Li G (2017) Exploring gyral patterns of infant cortical folding based on multi-view curvature information. MICCAI, Springer, Cham, 12-20.

  • Duan D, Xia S,  Wu Z, Wang F, Wang L, Lin W, Gilmore JH, Shen D, Li G (2019) Cortical foldingprints for infant identification. IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 396-399.

  • Duan D, Rekik I, Xia S, Wang L, Lin W, Gilmore JH, Shen D, Li G (2017) Longitudinal multi-scale mapping of infant cortical folding using spherical wavelets. IEEE 14th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 93-96.