Belgium

•  Dept. of Electrical Engineering,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

•  Sleep Laboratory - Psychiatry - Erasme Hospital - U.L.B.

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General Information :

• Location: Leuven, Belgium
• Personnel: BioMed group:
         - 2 promotors: Sabine Van Huffel and Lieven De Lathauwer
         - 2 affiliated researchers: Bart Vanrumste and Lieveke Ameye
         - 15 PhD students and 1 postdoc
• Contact: Prof. Sabine Van Huffel
• http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/members/biomed/
  

The main research lines :

• Linear algebra (2 co-workers)
         - Total Least Squares, errors-in-variables, lower rank matrix approximation,
         - SVD, ICA, CCA, displacement rank, tensors
• Biomedical data processing (15 co-workers)
  Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, functional MR imaging, neonatal and (inter)ictal EEG, ERP, ECG, Near-Infrared spectroscopy, EMG, cancer diagnosis, polysomnography, cardiovascular dynamics, data fusion

What to offer to the other NEUROMATH partners :

•  Expertise in data driven approaches:
        - Canonical correlation analysis (removal of muscle artifacts in EEG)
        - Tensor decompositions (e.g. PARAFAC, Tucker, …) applied to EEG
        - Independent component analysis (removal of eye blink artifacts in EEG)
• Expertise in source localization with EEG
• Expertise in neonatal EEG
        - Seizure detection, localization and analysis
        - Burst detection and analysis
• Help apply these methods in new areas

What we are looking for from the other NEUROMATH partners :

•  Database to perform benchmarking of algorithms
        - BCG and gradient artifacts in simultaneous EEG-fMRI
        - Neonatal and epileptic seizures
• New application areas for algorithms:
        - Canonical Correlation Analysis
        - Tensor-based decomposition algorithms
• Sharing know-how about integrated EEG-fMRI measurements and analysis

 Sleep Laboratory - Psychiatry
Erasme Hospital - U.L.B.

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General Information :

•  Location: Bruxelles, Belgium
• Personnel: 1 professor, 3 researchers, 2 physicists
• Equipment: 19-EEG Alice5 recording, MEG, fMRI at Erasme hospita
• Contact: Prof. Paul Linkowski
• Email: Paul.Linkowski@ulb.ac.be

The main research lines :

• Linear and nonlinear analysis of the link between ECG and sleep EEG
• Synchronisation likelihood & DFA analysis in sleep EEG of depressed - normative subjects
• Nonlinear analysis on EEG/ECG of depressed-normative subjects
• Causality analysis in multivariate sleep EEG
  in depressed-normative subjects
• MEG analysis of slow wave sleep in depression
  

What is offered to the other NEUROMATH partners :

• Sleep recordings of psychiatric patients
• Multivariate EEG of depressed - normative subjects
• Application of the developed programs to data of other groups

What we are looking for in the other NEUROMATH partners :

•  Different algorithms for the analysis of multivariate EEG data on depressed-normative subjects
• Multivariate EEG of psychiatric subjects
• Development of new EEG analysis tools