Brian B. Avants

Cell: 215-870-0787
Email: diffzero at gmail dot com, Web-CV, CV: (pdf)

I extract information from complex datasets that include imaging. I created open-source projects, ANTs and ANTsR (answer), that I use on a daily basis to manage, interpret and visualize multidimensional data. This WordCloud summarizes my topics of research. Some consider ANTs the leading medical image registration toolkit in the world. ANTsR is an emerging tool supporting standardized multimodality image analysis and was instrumental to a recent win in the BRATS 2013 brain tumor segmentation challenge. I am also a founder and lead developer of the Insight ToolKit (ITK), a medical image processing library used throughout academia and industry. My h-index is here.

Education

New College of Florida - Sarasota, FL

BA: Physics

University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

MS: Computer Science
PhD: Bioengineering

Skills

Executive Skills

Grantsmanship, management and motivation of software development teams, team leader for large research projects, experienceed presenter

Computer skills

C++, CMake, R, Bash, Rst, LaTeX, Git, Gerrit, others as needed

Industry Experience

Siemens Corporate ResearchDeveloper - Princeton, NJ, 1999

Quantified & visualized 3D vasculature from CT & MRI
Software led to clinical application
Developed proof-of-concept Graphical User Interface

Large-Scale Development Leadership

Insight ToolKit Version 4 Development Leader 2010 - present

Led image registration team: "registration is the most important part of ITK"
Redesigned for generality, automation, multi-core computation
Joined with Kitware, GE, Natl. Lib of Medicine & Academics to achieve goals

Academic Leadership

University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor, Radiology, 2012 - present

90+ peer-reviewed publications, 60+ in journals, ~1/3 first, 2nd or last author
Created Eigenanatomy for multivariate neuroimage analysis via PCA & CCA
ANTs finished in 1st rank in Klein 2009 intl. brain mapping competition
ANTs finished 1st overall in EMPIRE10 intl. lung mapping competition
ANTs is the standard registration for MICCAI-2013 segmentation competitions
Conducting R tutorial @ MICCAI-2013
Editing ITK-focused Frontiers in Neuroinformatics research topic here

Hobbies

Surfing, skateboarding, hiking, cycling, running, music-playing, gardening

Visualization: e.g. a gource of ANTs development

Presentations: e.g. a Prezi about ANTs (WIP)

Reproducible science as a teaching tool: e.g. compilable ANTs tutorial (WIP)