Brain Imaging and Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry

• Activity Number: 623
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Thursday, August 13, 2015 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistical Graphics
• Author(s): R. Todd Ogden* and Adam Ciarleglio and Bei Jiang and Eva Petkova and Thaddeus Tarpey
• Companies: Columbia University and New York University and Columbia University/New York University and New York University School of Medicine and Wright State University
• Keywords: personalized medicine ; brain imaging ; functional data ; optimal treatment regime

Abstract

One key goal of personalized medicine is to use information gathered at the time that a patient presents for treatment to help clinicians choose, separately for each patient, the particular treatment that provides the best expected outcome. In the field of psychiatry it is thought that various brain imaging techniques may allow for the discovery of important information pertaining to response to treatment. We will present the general problem of using brain imaging data to guide patient-specific treatment decisions and illustrate some approaches using data from a randomized controlled clinical trial for subjects with depression.