561-01-016 ISMRM Abstract

Neuro GPT | A tool for scientific discovery

Primary: Analysis Methods - Multi-Modal Learning with LLMs/VLMs

Secondary: Analysis Methods - Software Tools

561-01-016 · Generative Models for Image Synthesis · Wednesday, 13 May, 8:20 AM–9:15 AM · Digital Posters Row B

Keywords: Pediatric Software Tools Neurodevelopment Ultra-Low-Field MRI LLM

Accepted

Niall J Bourke¹, Hajer Karoui¹, Kenneth A Ae-Ngibise², Firehiwot W Abate³, Kwaku P Asante², Florence AWEYO⁴, Victor Akelo^4,5, Muriel Bruchhage^6,7, Chiara Casella^8,9, Vanessa Cavallera¹⁰, Kirsten A Donald^11,12, Tarun Dua¹⁰, Laurel Gabard-Durnam¹³, Bethany Freeman¹⁴, Emmanuela Gakidou¹⁵, Zahra Hoodbhoy¹⁶, Margaret Kasaro¹⁴, Sidra Kaleem¹⁶, AMNA KHAN¹⁶, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo¹⁷, Beena Koshy¹⁸, Anne C Lee¹⁹, Aksel Leknes²⁰, Natasha Lepore^21,22, Marius Linguraru^23,24, Russell Macleod⁹, Yaw Mensah²⁵, Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh^8,9,26, Hans-Georg Müller²⁷, Victoria Namazzi²⁸, Margaret Nampijja¹⁷, Gloria Nandudu²⁸, Victoria Nankabirwa²⁸, Krysten A North¹⁹, Solomon Nyame², Dickens Onyango⁴, Samuel A Oppong²⁹, Salman Osmani¹⁶, Harun Owuour⁴, Sadia Parkar¹⁶, Marc Seal³⁰, Emily R Smith³¹, Jamie Steinmetz¹⁵, Austin Tapp²³, Jeffrey Tanedo³², Maclean Vokhiwa³³, Ayo Zahra^34,35,36, Steven C Williams¹, Sean Deoni³⁷, Joshua Proctor ³⁷

¹Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

²Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo, Ghana

³Training Division, Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

⁴Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

⁵Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

⁶Stavanger Medical Imaging Laboratory (SMIL), Department of Radiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway

⁷Institute of Psychology, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway

⁸Research Department of Early Life Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

⁹Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

¹⁰World Health Organization, Switzerland

¹¹Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹²Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

¹³Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health, Northeastern University, Boston, United States of America

¹⁴University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America

¹⁵Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America

¹⁶Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan, Pakistan

¹⁷African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya

¹⁸Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

¹⁹Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America

²⁰Department of Radiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway

²¹CIBORG Lab, Los Angeles, United States of America

²²Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America

²³Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, United States of America

²⁴Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences,, George Washington University, Washington, United States of America

²⁵Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

²⁶Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London, United Kingdom, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

²⁷University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America

²⁸Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Makerere University and Vilirana Hospital, Uganda, Uganda

²⁹University of Ghana Medical Center, Accra, Ghana

³⁰Developmental Imaging, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Australia

³¹George Washington University, Washington, United States of America

³²CIBORG Lab, Radiology Research Department, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America

³³Paediatrics, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

³⁴Psychology, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway

³⁵Institute of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway

³⁶Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway

³⁷Gates Foundation, Seattle, United States of America

Presenting Author: Joshua Proctor

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