Razvan Marinescu PhD

Razvan Valentin Marinescu, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from UCL. He currently develops generative models for natural images, Chest X-Rays, and brain images, which can be used as prior models for image reconstruction tasks, using bayesian posterior optimization.

During his PhD, he developed Bayesian statistical models for the prediction of Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative diseases. Such models were able not only to estimate the continuous evolution of Alzheimer’s disease but also to discover novel spatial patterns of brain pathology (e.g. DIVE) or transfer such “learned evolutions” in populations with different diseases (e.g. DKT). He further co-organized TADPOLE, an international competition that compared 92 algorithms from 33 teams at predicting the evolution of Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, together with UCL colleagues N. Firth and S. Primativo, he performed one of the first comprehensive clinical studies (Firth et al., Brain, 2019) on the evolution of Posterior Cortical Atrophy, rare dementia affecting the visual system. His research interests include Bioinformatics, Medical Imaging, Neuroimaging, Machine Learning, Alzheimer’s Diseases, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Brain Pathology, Computer Science, and Brain Images.