Ramon Casanova Luis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Biostatistical Sciences

Ramon Casanova Luis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biostatistical Sciences
Translational Science Institute
Sticht Center on Aging
Translational Science Institute

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-7193 | Department: 336-716-2011

Email: casanova@wakehealth.edu

Additional Languages

Russian, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Education & Training

Ph.D., Portugal-Aveiro University , 2004
M.E.E., Non Medical School-Russia , 2002

Memberships

Int'L Soc.Of Magnetic Resonanc
Org for Human Brain Map
Eastern North American Region(
Am Statistical Assoc

Ramon Casanova Luis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biostatistical Sciences Translational Science Institute
Sticht Center on Aging
Translational Science Institute

Research Interests

aging, engineering/bioengineering, fitness/physical, immunology/allergy/inflammatio, nutrition, radiology/imaging, statistics/mathematics

Contact Information

Academic: 336-716-7193 | Department: 336-716-2011

Email: casanova@wakehealth.edu

Recent Publications

Espeland MA, Bryan RN, Goveas JS, Robinson JG, Siddiqui MS, Liu S, Hogan PE, Casanova R, Coker LH, Yaffe K, Masaki K, Rossom R, Resnick SM. Influence of type 2 diabetes on brain volumes and changes in brain volumes: results from the Women's Health Initiative magnetic resonance imaging studies. Diabetes Care. 2013;36(1):90-97.

Casanova R, Whitlow CT, Wagner B, Espeland MA, Maldjian JA. Combining graph and machine learning methods to analyze differences in functional connectivity across sex. Open Neuroimag J. 2012;6():1-9.

Haan M, Espeland MA, Klein BE, Casanova R, Gaussoin SA, Jackson RD, Millen AE, Resnick SM, Rossouw JE, Shumaker SA, Wallace R, Yaffe K. Cognitive function and retinal and ischemic brain changes: the Women's Health Initiative. Neurology. 2012;78(13):942-949.

Casanova R, Hsu F-C, Espeland MA. Classification of structural MRI images in Alzheimer's disease from the perspective of ill-posed problems. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e44877.

Whitlow CT, Casanova R, Maldjian JA. Effect of resting-state functional MR imaging duration on stability of graph theory metrics of brain network connectivity. Radiology. 2011;259(2):516-524.

Casanova R, Espeland MA, Goveas JS, Davatzikos C, Gaussoin SA, Maldjian JA, Brunner RL, Kuller LH, Johnson KC, Wagner B, et al. Application of machine learning methods to describe the effects of conjugated equine estrogens therapy on region-specific brain volumes. Magn Reson Imaging. 2011;29(4):546-553.

Casanova R, Whitlow CT, Wagner B, Williamson J, Shumaker SA, Maldjian JA, Espeland MA. High dimensional classification of structural MRI Alzheimer's disease data based on large scale regularization. Front Neuroinform. 2011;5():article 22.

Casanova R, Maldjian JA, Espeland MA. Evaluating the impact of different factors on Voxel-based classification methods of ADNI structural MRI brain images. Int J Biomed Data Mining. 2011;1():B110102.

Casanova R, Espeland MA, Goveas J, Davatzikos C, Gaussoin SA, Wagner B, Maldjian JA, Resnick SM. Application of machine learning methods to describe the effects of conjugated equine estrogens therapy on region-specific brain volumes [abstract]. Gerontologist. 2010;50(Suppl 1):308-309.

Peiffer AM, Hugenschmidt CE, Maldjian JA, Casavona R, Srikanth R, Hayasaka S, Burdette JH, Kraft RA, Laurienti PJ. Aging and the interaction of sensory cortical function and structure. Hum Brain Mapp. 2009;30(1):228-240.

Casanova R, Yang L, Hairston WD, Laurienti PJ, Maldjian JA. Evaluating the impact of spatio-temporal smoothness constraints on the BOLD hemodynamic response function estimation: an analysis based on Tikhonov regularization. Physiol Meas. 2009;30(5):N37-N51.

Hairston WD, Hodges DA, Casanova R, Hayasaka S, Kraft R, Maldjian JA, Burdette JH. Closing the mind's eye: deactivation of visual cortex related to auditory task difficulty. Neuroreport. 2008;19(2):151-154.

Hugenschmidt CE, Peiffer AM, Kraft RA, Casanova R, Deibler AR, Burdette JH, Maldjian JA, Laurienti PJ. Relating imaging indices of white matter integrity and volume in healthy older adults. Cereb Cortex. 2008;18(2):433-442.

Casanova R, Ryali S, Serences J, Yang L, Kraft R, Laurienti PJ, Maldjian JA. The impact of temporal regularization on estimates of the BOLD hemodynamic response function: a comparative analysis. Neuroimage. 2008;40(4):1606-1618.

Casanova R, Srikanth R, Baer A, Laurienti PJ, Burdette JH, Hayasaka S, Flowers L, Wood F, Maldjian JA. Biological parametric mapping: a statistical toolbox for multimodality brain image analysis. Neuroimage. 2007;34(1):137-143.

Srikanth R, Casanova R, Laurienti PJ, Peiffer AM, Maldjian JA. Estimation of false discovery rates for wavelet-denoised statistical parametric maps. Neuroimage. 2006;33(1):72-84.