Kolawole Babalola

Intro

Hello, I am Kola Babalola and you are welcome to my homepage.

I am a research associate at the department of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering of the University of Mancheter. I completed my PhD in this department in 2004. My PhD work was aimed at building a three dimensional point distribution model of the lateral ventricles for shape analysis using a control group and a schizophrenic group. You can download a copy of my thesis to find out more (unfortunately it is quite large 42MB and I haven't got round to trimming it so be warned)

My first post-doctoral position here was after my PhD. and involved research as part of the Integrated Brain Image Modelling (IBIM) project. This was a collaboration between the University of Manchester, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and University College London. The aim was to produce a system for analysing structural brain images which will aid segmentation of brain substructures and quantification of how different brain structures relate to each other, in relative size, position and shape.

I am on my second post-doc which is a continuation of working with Active Appearance Models and their application to automated segmentation in 3D. In particular we have already looked at automated initialisation, and post-processing to improve segmentation results. We also hope to look at improving the actual search mechanism of the AAMs.

Publications

Computing Accurate Correspondences Across Groups of Images. TF Cootes, CJ Twining, VS Petrovic, KO Babalola and CJ Taylor. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2010

Brain serotonin transporter occupancy by oral sibutramine dosed to steady state: a PET study using 11C-DASB in healthy humans. PS Talbot, S Bradley, CP Clarke, KO Babalola, AW Philipp, G Brown, AW McMahon, JC Matthews, Neuropsychopharmacology advance online publication, November 4, 2009; doi:10.1038/npp.2009.182

An evaluation of four automatic methods of segmenting the subcortical structures in the brain. KO Babalola, B Patenaude, P Aljabar, J Schnabel, D Kennedy, W Crum, S Smith, T Cootes, M Jenkinson, D Rueckert. Neuroimage, vol. 47, pp. 1435-1447, October 2009

AAM Segmentation of the Mandible and Brainstem. KO Babalola and TF CootesIn Proceedings of the 3^th Workshop on 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge at the 12^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), September 2009

Serotonin transporter (SERT) occupancy by oral sibutramine in the living human brain using 11C-DASB PET P Talbot, S Bradley, C Clarke, K Babalola, A Philipp, G Brown, A McMahon, J Matthews. J NUCL MED MEETING ABSTRACTS vol 50(supplement 2) p 487, May 2009

Renal perfusion and single-kidney GFR at 3.0 T using a 3-compartment filtration model with reabsorption correction DL Buckley, KO Babalola, C Chrysochou, LE Kershaw, CM Cheung, TF Cootes, and PA Kalra. Proceedings of the 17^th International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) p. 2034, April 2009

3D Brain Segmentation Using Active Appearance Models and Local Regressors.KO Babalola, TF Cootes, CJ Twining, V Petrovic and CJ Taylor. In Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5241, pp. 410-408, September 2008

Comparison and Evaluation of Segmentation Techniques for Subcortical Structures in Brain MRI. KO Babalola, B Patenaude, P Aljabar, J Schnabel, D Kennedy, W Crum, S Smith, TF Cootes, M Jenkinson, and D Rueckert. In Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5241, pp. 409-416, September 2008

Diffeomorphic statistical shape models. TF Cootes, CJ Twining, KO Babalola and CJ Taylor, Image and Vision Computing, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 326-332, March 2008

Automated segmentation of the caudate nuclei using Active Appearance ModelsKO Babalola, V Petrovic, TF Cootes, CJ Taylor, CJ Twining, TG Williams, and A Mills. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on 3D Segmentation in the Clinic: A Grand Challenge at the 10^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), pp. 57-64, November 2007

Comparing the Similarity of Statistical Shape Models using the Bhattacharya Metric. KO Babalola, TF Cootes, B Patenaude, A Rao, and M Jenkinson. In Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4190, pp. 142-150, October 2006

Cannonical Correlation Analysis of Sub-cortical Brain Structures Using Non-rigid Registration. A Rao, Kolawole Babalola, and Daniel Rueckert. In Proceedings of the 3^rd International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4057, pp. 66-74, July 2006

Groupwise Registration of Richly Labelled Images. KO Babalola, and TF Cootes. In Proceedings of the 10^th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA), pages 241-145. Manchester, UK, July 2006

Canonical Correlation Analysis of Sub-cortical Brain Structures Using Non-rigid Registration. Anil Rao, Kola Babalola, and Daniel Rueckert. In Proceedings of the 10^th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis pages 86-90. Manchester, UK, July 2006

Building 3D Statistical Shape Models using Groupwise Registration. KO Babalola, TF Cootes, CF Twining, V Petrovic, R Schestowitz and CJ Taylor. In Proceedings of the 12^th Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy, June 2006

Lateral Asymmetry in the Shape of Brain Ventricles in Control and Schizophrenia Groups. J Graham, KO Babalola, W Honer, D Lang, L Kopala and R Vandorpe. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biomedical Images, Washington, Virginia, USA, April 2006

Registering Richly Labelled 3D Images. KO Babalola and TF Cootes. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biomedical Images, Washington, Virginia, USA, April 2006

A Study of Lateral Ventricular Asymmetry in Schizophrenia K.O. Babalola, J Graham, W Honer, L Kopala, D Lang and R Vandorpe. In Proceedings of the 12^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Kyoto, Japan, May 2004

An Investigation of Morphometric Changes in the Lateral Ventricles of Schizophrenic Subjects. K.O. Babalola, J Graham, W Honer, L Kopala, D Lang, and R Vandorpe. In proceedings of the 6^th Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2879, pp. 521-529, Montreal, Canada, November 2003

Investigation of Shape Changes in the Lateral Ventricles Associated with Schizophrenia : A Morphometric Study Using a Three-Dimensional Point Distribution Model. K.O. Babalola, J Graham, L Kopala, and R Vandorpe. In Proceedings of the 7^th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, pages 97-100. Sheffield, UK, July 2003

Characterisation of Morphometric Changes in the Lateral Ventricles Due to Schizophrenia Using 3 Dimensional Point Distribution Models. K.O. Babalola and J Graham. In Proceedings of the 11^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, Canada, July 2003

Using the Transportation Algorithm to Improve Point Correspondences in the Construction of 3D PDMs. K.O. Babalola, J Graham, L Kopala, R Vandorpe. In proceedings of the 6^th Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, pages 141-144. Portsmouth, UK, July 2002

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Contact Details

Room 1.725
Division of Imaging Sciences,
Stopford Building,
University of Manchester, M13 9PT UK
Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 5114
Fax: +44 (0)161 275 5145
Email: kola.babalola@manchester.ac.uk