Christos Davatzikos
Professor of Radiology and
Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)
Research Expertise: Medical Imaging and Imaging Instrumentation | Imaging Theory and Analysis | Theoretical and Computational Bioengineering
As Director of the Section of Biomedical Image Analysis, Christos is interested in many areas related to medical image analysis and computing, including image segmentation and registration, multiparametric image analysis, as well as the use of machine learning and pattern recognition in medical imaging. His group is affiliated with many clinical studies employing imaging as a biomarker of diseases such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, diabetes, and cancer.
Education:
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering 1994 - Johns Hopkins University
Recent Publications 
- Analytic estimation of statistical significance maps for support vector machine based multi-variate image analysis and classification, Gaonkar, B. | Davatzikos, C., NeuroImage, 2013
- Neuroanatomical pattern classification in a population-based sample of first-episode schizophrenia, Zanetti, M.V. | Schaufelberger, M.S. | Doshi, J. | Ou, Y. | Ferreira, L.K. | Menezes, P.R. | Scazufca, M. | Davatzikos, C. | Busatto, G.F., Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 2013
- Cognitive and functional resilience despite molecular evidence of Alzheimer's disease pathology, Negash, S. | Xie, S. | Davatzikos, C. | Clark, C.M. | Trojanowski, J.Q. | Shaw, L.M. | Wolk, D.A. | Arnold, S.E., Alzheimer's and Dementia, 2013
- Relationship between Plasma Analytes and SPARE-AD Defined Brain Atrophy Patterns in ADNI, Toledo, J.B. | Da, X. | Bhatt, P. | Wolk, D.A. | Arnold, S.E. | Shaw, L.M. | Trojanowski, J.Q. | Davatzikos, C., PLoS ONE, 2013
- Combining outlier detection with random walker for automatic brain tumor segmentation, Kanas, V.G. | Zacharaki, E.I. | Dermatas, E. | Bezerianos, A. | Sgarbas, K. | Davatzikos, C., IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2012