Anna Menacher

Anna Menacher

DPhil Student in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning at the University of Oxford

Conferences: OHBM and ISBA

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I’ve been making some progress within the last year on a scalable Bayesian lesion regression model which we have very originally named BLESS (= Bayesian Lesion Estimation with a Structured Spike-and-Slab) :) With BLESS, we hope to add to the methods development in the area of brain lesion mapping which aims to identify biomarkers associated with lesion incidence. Through that we hope to gain a better understanding of the aging brain and the neurodegenerative disease, multiple sclerosis.

I’m also very excited to present our work at two conferences this year. Once, to the neuroimaging community at OHBM, which stands for Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, where I am very proud to have received a merit abstract award for our contribution to methods development in the are of brain lesion mapping. Moreover, I am looking forward to being able to present our work at ISBA (= International Society for Bayesian Analysis) to a statistics audience!

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Almost a year of CDT, officially starting the PhD.

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Exactly a week ago I have finished my second mini-project of the StatML CDT. Now I am officially starting my PhD. However, nothing much will change. I am still supervised by Thomas Nichols, Habib Ganjgahi and Chris Holmes where I am part of the Statistical Neuroimaging Group at the Oxford Big Data Institue. I am very much looking forward to the research I will get to do in the field of neuroimaging, particularly regaring neurodegenerative diseases, such as multiple sclerosis. This website will document some of the milestones along the way of pursuing research in statistics and brain imaging.