Yael Balbastre

I work on various aspects of medical image computing, with a focus on neuroimaging. I am particularly interested in generative probabilistic models, and how they can be integrated with machine learning techniques. I have worked, among other things, on Bayesian shape modelling, image segmentation and registration, and quantitative MRI. Recently, I have focused on multimodal image registration and vasculature segmentation, with the aim of building cellular-resolution atlases of the human brain.

Before (re)joining University College London (UCL), I was a faculty member at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow with Bruce Fischl at MGH/HMS, and with John Ashburner and Martina Callaghan at UCL. I completed my PhD at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), in the MIRCen and NeuroSpin laboratories, advised by Thierry Delzescaux and Jean-François Mangin.