Portrait de Danilo Bzdok

Danilo Bzdok

Membre académique principal
Chaire en IA Canada-CIFAR
Professeur agrégé, McGill University, Département de génie biomédicale
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage profond
Biologie computationnelle
Grands modèles de langage (LLM)
Traitement du langage naturel

Biographie

Danilo Bzdok est informaticien et médecin de formation. Il possède une double formation unique en neurosciences systémiques et en algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique. Après une formation à l'Université d'Aix-la-Chapelle (RWTH) (Allemagne), à l'Université de Lausanne (Suisse) et à la Harvard Medical School (États-Unis), il a obtenu un doctorat en neurosciences du Centre de recherche de Jülich (Allemagne) et un doctorat en informatique dans le domaine des statistiques d'apprentissage automatique à l'INRIA Saclay et à NeuroSpin (Paris, France). Il est actuellement professeur agrégé à la Faculté de médecine de l'Université McGill et titulaire d’une chaire en IA Canada-CIFAR à Mila – Institut québécois d'intelligence artificielle. Son activité de recherche interdisciplinaire est centrée sur la réduction des lacunes dans la connaissance des bases cérébrales des types de pensée qui définissent l'être humain, afin de découvrir les principes clés de conception computationnelle qui sous-tendent l'intelligence humaine.

Étudiants actuels

Maîtrise recherche - McGill
Postdoctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Maîtrise recherche - McGill
Visiteur de recherche indépendant - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill
Doctorat - McGill

Publications

Endorsing Complexity Through Diversity: Computational Psychiatry Meets Big Data Analytics
Jakub Kopal
A parsimonious description of global functional brain organization in three spatiotemporal patterns
Taylor Bolt
Jason S. Nomi
Jorge A. Salas
Catie Chang
B.T. Thomas Yeo
Lucina Q. Uddin
Shella Keilholz
Explanatory latent representation of heterogeneous spatial maps of task-fMRI in large-scale datasets
Mariam Zabihi
Seyed Mostafa Kia
Thomas Wolfers
Stijn de Boer
C. Fraza
Sourena Soheili‐nezhad
Richard Dinga
Alberto Llera
Christian Beckmann
Andre Marquand
Global fMRI signal topography differs systematically across the lifespan
Jason S. Nomi
Jingwei Li
Taylor Bolt
Catie Chang
Salome Kornfeld
Zachary T. Goodman
B.T. Thomas Yeo
R. Nathan Spreng
Lucina Q. Uddin
From Precision Medicine to Precision Convergence for Multilevel Resilience—The Aging Brain and Its Social Isolation
Laurette Dubé
Patricia P. Silveira
Daiva E. Nielsen
Spencer Moore
Catherine Paquet
J. Miguel Cisneros-Franco
Gina Kemp
Bärbel Knauper
Yu Ma
Mehmood Khan
Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant
Alan C. Evans
Lesley K. Fellows
Jorge L. Armony
R. Nathan Spreng
Jian-Yun Nie
Shawn T. Brown
Georg Northoff
Citation: Dubé L, Silveira PP, Nielsen DE, Moore S, Paquet C, Cisneros-Franco JM, Kemp G, Knauper B, Ma Y, Khan M, Bartlett-Esquilant G, Ev… (voir plus)ans AC, Fellows LK, Armony JL, Spreng RN, Nie J-Y, Brown ST, Northoff G and Bzdok D (2022) From Precision Medicine to Precision Convergence for Multilevel Resilience—The Aging Brain and Its Social Isolation. Front. Public Health 10:720117. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.720117 From Precision Medicine to Precision Convergence for Multilevel Resilience—The Aging Brain and Its Social Isolation
A guided multiverse study of neuroimaging analyses
Jessica Dafflon
Pedro F. Da Costa
František Váša
Ricardo Pio Monti
Peter J. Hellyer
Federico Turkheimer
Jonathan Smallwood
Emily J. H. Jones
Robert Leech
Interacting brains revisited: A cross‐brain network neuroscience perspective
Christian Gerloff
Kerstin Konrad
Christina Büsing
Vanessa Reindl
Pattern learning reveals brain asymmetry to be linked to socioeconomic status
Timm B Poeppl
Emile Dimas
Katrin Sakreida
Julius M Kernbach
Ross D Markello
Oliver Schöffski
Alain Dagher
Philipp Koellinger
Gideon Nave
Martha J Farah
Bratislav Mišić
Abstract Socioeconomic status (SES) anchors individuals in their social network layers. Our embedding in the societal fabric resonates with … (voir plus)habitus, world view, opportunity, and health disparity. It remains obscure how distinct facets of SES are reflected in the architecture of the central nervous system. Here, we capitalized on multivariate multi-output learning algorithms to explore possible imprints of SES in gray and white matter structure in the wider population (n ≈ 10,000 UK Biobank participants). Individuals with higher SES, compared with those with lower SES, showed a pattern of increased region volumes in the left brain and decreased region volumes in the right brain. The analogous lateralization pattern emerged for the fiber structure of anatomical white matter tracts. Our multimodal findings suggest hemispheric asymmetry as an SES-related brain signature, which was consistent across six different indicators of SES: degree, education, income, job, neighborhood and vehicle count. Hence, hemispheric specialization may have evolved in human primates in a way that reveals crucial links to SES.
Human brain anatomy reflects separable genetic and environmental components of socioeconomic status
Hyeokmoon Kweon
Gökhan Aydogan
Alain Dagher
Christian C. Ruff
Gideon Nave
Martha J Farah
Philipp Koellinger
Recent studies report that socioeconomic status (SES) correlates with brain structure. Yet, such findings are variable and little is known a… (voir plus)bout underlying causes. We present a well-powered voxel-based analysis of grey matter volume (GMV) across levels of SES, finding many small SES effects widely distributed across the brain, including cortical, subcortical and cerebellar regions. We also construct a polygenic index of SES to control for the additive effects of common genetic variation related to SES, which attenuates observed SES-GMV relations, to different degrees in different areas. Remaining variance, which may be attributable to environmental factors, is substantially accounted for by body mass index, a marker for lifestyle related to SES. In sum, SES affects multiple brain regions through measurable genetic and environmental effects. One-sentence Summary Socioeconomic status is linked with brain anatomy through a varying balance of genetic and environmental influences.
Multi-tract multi-symptom relationships in pediatric concussion
Guido I Guberman
Sonja Stojanovski
Eman Nishat
Alain Ptito
Anne L Wheeler
Maxime Descoteaux
The heterogeneity of white matter damage and symptoms in concussions has been identified as a major obstacle to therapeutic innovation. In c… (voir plus)ontrast, the vast majority of diffusion MRI studies on concussion have traditionally employed group-comparison approaches. Such studies do not consider heterogeneity of damage and symptoms in concussion. To parse concussion heterogeneity, the present study combines diffusion MRI (dMRI) and multivariate statistics to investigate multi-tract multi-symptom relationships. Using dMRI data from a sample of 306 children ages 9 and 10 with a history of concussion from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD study), we built connectomes weighted by classical and emerging diffusion measures. These measures were combined into two informative indices, the first capturing a mixture of patterns suggestive of microstructural complexity, the second representing almost exclusively axonal density. We deployed pattern-learning algorithms to jointly decompose these connectivity features and 19 behavioural measures that capture well-known symptoms of concussions. We found idiosyncratic symptom-specific multi-tract connectivity features, which would not be captured in traditional univariate analyses. Multivariable connectome-symptom correspondences were stronger than all single-tract/single-symptom associations. Multi-tract connectivity features were also expressed equally across different sociodemographic strata and their expression was not accounted for by injury-related variables. In a replication dataset, the expression of multi-tract connectivity features predicted adverse psychiatric outcomes after accounting for other psychopathology-related variables. By defining cross-demographic multi-tract multi-symptom relationships to parse concussion heterogeneity, the present study can pave the way for the development of improved stratification strategies that may contribute to the success of future clinical trials and the improvement of concussion management.
Meta-matching as a simple framework to translate phenotypic predictive models from big to small data
Tong He
Lijun An
Pansheng Chen
Jianzhong Chen
Jiashi Feng
Avram J. Holmes
Simon B. Eickhoff
B.T. Thomas Yeo
Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity
Nathania Suryoputri
Hannah Kiesow