9 DAILY MICCAI Wednesday these cortical thickness differences? Indeed, it does. In fact, it is even slightly more sensitive.” Did he get the chance to talk to Filip Rusak about his work? “Yes, a little bit,” he reveals. “After this paper was published, I was invited to be the examiner of his PhD thesis, which was very nice.” In terms of the next steps for this work, Richard says there are three key directions he hopes to pursue. First and foremost is validation and determining whether this method offers a similar or even superior ability to distinguish between different diseases compared to existing methods. Christian Rummell, the other author on this paper, has a currently funded project with the Swiss National Science Foundation to build an open-source suite of neuroimaging tools, allowing people to apply methods like CortexMorph in their own studies in their own hospitals. “We want to integrate these tools into this platform so people can use this method for free and, most importantly, easily,” he adds. “Before we do that, we need to validate Richard McKinley
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