Briley, P.M., Webster, L., Lankappa, S., Pszczolkowski, S., McAllister-Williams, H., Liddle, P.F., Auer, D.P., and Morriss, R., 2024. "Trajectories of improvement with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant major depression in the BRIGhTMIND trial" npj Mental Health Research, 3 (32)
CV
Education
- Ph.D in Medical Image Analysis, Imperial College London, 2015
- M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2007
- Computer Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2007
Work experience
- 2015-: Research Fellow
- The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
- 2014-2015: Research Assistant
- Imperial College London, London, UK
- Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Rueckert
- 2007-2010: Software Engineer and Project Manager
- Cursor, Santiago, Chile
Training
- Dec 2017: Preparing to Teach in Higher Education Certificate, University of Nottingham, UK
- Nov 2017: Small Group Teaching
- Jun 2017: Lecturing for Learning
- May 2017: Foundations of Teaching in Higher Education
- Apr 2017: Preparing to Teach in Higher Education
- May 2024: GCP (Good Clinical Practice) refresher, NIHR, UK
- Feb 2021: GCP (Good Clinical Practice) refresher, NIHR, UK
- Sep 2017: GCP (Good Clinical Practice) refresher, NIHR, UK
- Dec 2015: GCP (Good Clinical Practice), NIHR, UK
Grants and awards
- 2024: Guarantors of Brain partial Travel Fund to attend OHBM 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. (£1,000)
- 2023: University of Nottingham Precision Imaging Beacon Stroke Pump-Priming Fund (£4,010)
- 2023: University of Nottingham School of Medicine Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee Conference Fund to attend OHBM 2023 in Montreal, Canada (£700)
- 2022: Guarantors of Brain partial Travel Fund to attend SIPAIM 2022 in Valparaíso, Chile. (£800)
- 2019: University of Nottingham International Collaboration Fund Award to finance a one-month research visit to Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. (£3,086.88)
- 2012: Runner-up in the Google PhD Poster Competition (2nd year category), Imperial College London.
- 2009: CONICYT-Becas Chile scholarship for Doctoral studies, CONICYT.
Invited talks
- 24th Oct 2024: “Aplicaciones en medicina de la IA basada en imágenes” (In Spanish), Universidad Mayor, Chile (in-person)
- 28th Jun 2024: “Clinical applications of Medical Image Analysis in Intracerebral Haemorrhage”, Korea University, South Korea (in-person)
- 17th Oct 2023: “Clinical applications of Medical Image Analysis in Intracerebral Haemorrhage and Ataxia Telangiectasia”, iHealth, Chile (online)
- 20th Nov 2022: “Aplicaciones clínicas de la Ingeniería mediante el procesamiento de imágenes médicas” (In Spanish), Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (in-person)
Other
- Appointments
- Visiting Professor of the Doctoral Program in Science and Engineering for Health, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile (2022-)
- Grant reviews
- Projects for Initiation in Research 2019, FONDECYT, Chile
- MRC Research Grant, UKRI, United Kingdom
- Journal paper reviews
- Journal of Critical Care
- Journal of Digital Imaging
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- European Radiology
- Scientific Reports
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- Medical Physics
- Conference paper reviews
- MICCAI 2016
- CVPR 2013, 2012
- IPMI 2015, 2013
- DICTA 2012
- MMBIA 2012
- Program reviews
- International reviewer of new program “Bachelor in Computer Science”, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2022
- Member of the organising comitee and travel grants administrator
- Chile-Global Seminars UK.
Skills
- Operating Systems
- GNU/Linux
- MacOS
- Windows
- Programming Languages
- C/C++
- Java
- Matlab
- Python
- Bash
- R
- Databases
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Tools
- Eclipse
- Microsoft Office
- LaTEX
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal publications
Assimopoulos, S., Warrington, S., Bryant, K.L., Pszczolkowski, S., Jbabdi, S., Mars, R.B. and Sotiropoulos, S.N., 2024. "Generalising XTRACT tractography protocols across common macaque brain templates" Brain Structure and Function, pp.1-16.
Morriss, R., Briley, P.M., Webster, L., Abdelghani, M., Barber, S., Bates, Brookes, C., Hall, B., Ingram, L., Kurkar, M., C., Lankappa, S., Liddle, P., McAllister-Williams, H., O'Neil-Kerr, A., Pszczolkowski, S., Suazo Di Paola, A., Walters, Y., and Auer, D.P., 2024. "Connectivity-guided intermittent theta burst versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression: a randomized controlled trial" Nature Medicine, 30, pp.403-413
Drabek, M., Hodkinson, D., Horvath, S., Millar, B., Pszczolkowski Parraguez, S., Tench, C.R., Tanasescu, R., Lankappa, S., Morriss, R., Walsh, D. and Auer, D.P., 2023. "Brain connectivity-guided, optimised theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve central pain modulation in knee osteoarthritis pain (BoostCPM): Protocol of a pilot randomised clinical trial in a secondary care setting in the UK" BMJ open, 13(10), p.e073378
Kok, Y.E., Pszczolkowski, S., Law, Z.K., Ali, A., Krishnan, K., Bath, P.M., Sprigg, N., Dineen, R.A. and French, A.P., 2022. "Semantic segmentation of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, intraventricular hemorrhage, and associated edema on CT images using deep learning" Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, 4(6), e220096
Pszczolkowski, S., Sprigg, N., Woodhouse, L.J., Gallagher, R., Swienton, D., Law, Z.K., Casado, A.M., Roberts, I., Werring, D.J., Salman, R.A.S., England, T., Morgan, P.S., Bath, P.M. and Dineen, R.A., 2022. "Effect of Tranexamic Acid Administration on Remote Cerebral Ischemic Lesions in Acute Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Substudy of a Randomized Clinical Trial." JAMA Neurology, 79(5), pp.468-477
Pszczolkowski, S., Cottam, W.J., Briley, P.M., Iwabuchi, S.J., Kaylor-Hughes, C., Shalabi, A., Babourina-Brooks, B., Berrington, A., Barber, S., Suazo Di Paola, A., Blamire, A., McAllister-Williams, R.H., Parikh, J., Matthäus, L., Hauffe, R., Liddle, P., Auer, D.P., Morriss, R., 2022. "Connectivity Guided Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Versus Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Moderate to Severe Depression: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Protocol and SARS COVID-19 induced changes for a Randomized Double-blind Controlled Trial (BRIGhTMIND)" JMIR Research Protocols, 11(1), e31925
Pszczolkowski, S., Manzano-Patrón, J.P., Law, Z.K., Krishnan, K., Ali, A., Bath, P.M., Sprigg, N. and Dineen, R.A., 2021. "Quantitative CT radiomics-based models for prediction of haematoma expansion and poor functional outcome in primary intracerebral haemorrhage" European Radiology, 31, pp.7945–7959
Dineen, R.A., Blanchard, C.V., Pszczolkowski, S., Paine, S., Prasad, M., Chow, G., Whitehouse, W.P., Auer, D.P., 2021. "Accumulation of brain hypointense foci on susceptibility-weighted imaging in childhood ataxia telangiectasia" American Journal of Neuroradiology, 42(6), pp.1144-1150
Morriss, R., Webster, L., Abdelghani, M., Auer, D.P., Barber, S., Bates, P., Blamire, A., Briley, P.M., Brookes, C., Iwabuchi, S., James, M., Kaylor-Hughes, C., Lankappa, S., Liddle, P., McAllister-Williams, H., O'Neil-Kerr, A., Pszczolkowski, S., Suazo Di Paola, A., Thomson, L. and Walters, Y., 2020. "Connectivity guided theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation versus repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant moderate to severe depression: study protocol for a randomised double-blind controlled trial (BRIGhTMIND)" BMJ open, 10(7), p.e038430
Veloz, A., Weinstein, A., Pszczolkowski, S., Hernández-García, L., Olivares, R., Muñoz, R., Taramasco, C., 2019. "Ant colony clustering for ROI identification in functional magnetic resonance imaging" Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 5259643
Dineen, R.A., Raschke, F., McGlashan, H.L., Pszczolkowski, S., Hack, L., Cooper, A.D., Prasad, M., Chow, G., Whitehouse, W.P., Auer, D.P., 2020. "Multiparametric cerebellar imaging and clinical phenotype in childhood ataxia telangiectasia" NeuroImage: Clinical, 25, 102110
Law, Z.K., Ali, A., Krishnan, K., Bischoff, A., Appleton, J.P., Scutt, P., Woodhouse, L., Pszczolkowski, S., Cala, L.A., Dineen, R.A., England, T.J., Ozturk, S., Roffe, C., Bereczki, D., Ciccone, A., Christensen, H., Ovesen, C., Bath, P.M., and Sprigg, N., 2020. "Noncontrast Computed Tomography signs as predictors of hematoma expansion, clinical outcome, and response to tranexamic acid in acute intracerebral hemorrhage" Stroke, 51, pp.121-128
Pszczolkowski, S., Law, Z.K., Gallagher, R.G., Meng, D., Swienton, D.J., Morgan, P.S., Bath, P.M., Sprigg, N. and Dineen, R.A., 2019. "Automated segmentation of haematoma and perihaematoma oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage" Computers in Biology and Medicine, 106, pp.126-139
Dineen, R.A., Pszczolkowski, S., Flaherty, K., Law, Z.K., Morgan, P.S., Roberts, I., Werring, D.J., Salman, R.A.S., England, T., Bath, P.M. and Sprigg, N., 2018. "Does tranexamic acid lead to changes in MRI measures of brain tissue health in patients with spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage? Protocol for a MRI substudy nested within the double-blind randomised controlled TICH-2 trial." BMJ open, 8(2), p.e019930
Snape, P., Pszczolkowski, S., Zafeiriou, S., Tzimiropoulos, G., Ledig, C. and Rueckert, D., 2016. "A robust similarity measure for volumetric image registration with outliers" Image and Vision Computing, 52, pp.97-113
Caro, L., Correa, J., Espinace, P., Langdon, D., Maturana, D., Mitnik, R., Montabone, S., Pszczolkowski, S., Araneda, A., Mery, D., Torres, M. and Soto, A. 2012. "Indoor Mobile Robotics at Grima, PUC" Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 66(1-2), pp.151-165
Preprint publications
Peake, E.J., Chevasson, R., Pszczolkowski, S., Auer, D.P., Arthofer, C., 2020. "Ensemble learning for robust knee cartilage segmentation: data from the osteoarthritis initiative" bioRxiv
Commentaries
Pszczolkowski, S., Law, Z.K., 2023. "Editorial comment on ‘Development and validation of a novel radiomics‑clinical model for predicting post-stroke epilepsy after first-ever intracerebral haemorrhage’" European Radiology
Conference publications
Pszczolkowski, S., Hayat, T.T.A., Xing, Y., Evans, J., Morgan, P.S., Auer, D.P. and Tench, C., 2023, November. "A synthetic normative template for Parkinson’s disease studies using structural and neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging" In 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM) (Proc. SPIE 12567, 125670K) (Oral talk)
Pszczolkowski, S., Zafeiriou, S., Ledig, C. and Rueckert, D., 2014, April. "A robust similarity measure for nonrigid image registration with outliers" In 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (pp. 568-571). IEEE (Oral talk)
Pszczolkowski, S., Pizarro, L., O’Regan, D.P. and Rueckert, D., 2012, October. "Gradient projection learning for parametric nonrigid registration" In International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (pp. 226-233). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (Poster)
Pszczolkowski, S., Pizarro, L., Guerrero, R. and Rueckert, D., 2012, February. "Nonrigid free-form registration using landmark-based statistical deformation models" In Medical Imaging 2012: Image Processing (Vol. 8314, p. 831418). International Society for Optics and Photonics (Oral talk)
Pszczolkowski, S. and Soto, A., 2007, November. "Human detection in indoor environments using multiple visual cues and a mobile robot" In Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (pp. 350-359). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (Oral talk)
Conference abstracts
Assimopoulos, S., Warrington, S., Pszczolkowski, S., Bryant, K.L., Mars, R. and Sotiropoulos, S., 2023, July. "Generalising XTRACT tractography protocols across common macaque brain templates" In OHBM 2023 (Poster)
Pszczolkowski, S., Blanchard, C., Whitehouse, W., Auer, D.P. and Dineen, R.A., 2023, July. "Brain perfusion and diffusion patterns in childhood Ataxia Telangiectasia" In OHBM 2023 (Poster)
Hayat, T., Pszczolkowski, S., Xing, Y., Tench, C., Morgan, P., Evans, J. and Auer, D., 2022, September. "Optimization of a neuromelanin MRI protocol for use in a longitudinal study of substantia nigra depigmentation in early Parkinson’s Disease (the InsIght-PD study)" In MOVEMENT DISORDERS (Vol. 37, pp. S74-S75) (Poster)
Peake, E., Zedan, Y., Pszczolkowski, S., Kerslake, R., Scammell, B., and Auer, D., 2018, November. "Method for co-registration of high resolution 3T magnetic resonance imaging with standing 0.5T magnetic resonance imaging to investigate weight bearing joints" In World Congress on Osteoarthritis (Poster)
Dineen, R., Pszczolkowski, S., Flaherty, K., Law, Z., Gallagher, R., Swienton, D., Morgan, P., Roberts, I., Werring, D., Al-Shahi Salman, R., England, T., Bath, P., and Sprigg, N., 2018, February. "Does tranexamic acid lead to increased DWI hyperintense lesion prevalence in patients with spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage? Results of the TICH-2 MRI sub-study" In European Stroke Organization Conference (Oral)
Pszczolkowski, S., Bath, P.M., Sprigg, N. and Dineen, R.A., 2018, February. "Recruitment challenges in MRI studies of acute intracerebral haemorrhage: experience from the TICH-2 MRI sub-study" In European Stroke Organization Conference (Poster)
Pszczolkowski, S., Gallagher, R.G., Law, Z.K., Meng, D., Swienton, D.J., Morgan, P.S., Bath, P.M., Sprigg, N. and Dineen, R.A., 2017, April. "Automatic quantification of haematoma and surrounding oedema in MRI of acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage: Preliminary results for the TICH-2 MRI sub-study" In Proceedings of ISMRM 4725 (E-poster)
Dineen, R.A., Pszczolkowski, S., Raschke, F., McGlashan, H., Prasad, M., Chow, G., Whitehouse, W. and Auer, D.P., 2017, April. "Divergent trajectory of age-related cerebellar volume change in children with ataxia telangiectasia" In Proceedings of ISMRM 5077 (E-poster)
Thesis
Pszczolkowski, S., 2014. "Fast and robust methods for non-rigid registration of medical images" (Doctoral dissertation, Imperial College London, UK)
Other
Mohammadi-Nejad, A., Pszczolkowski, S., Auer, D.P., Sotiropoulos, S., 2020. "Multi-modal neuroimaging pipelines for data preprocessing." (BRC_Pipeline, University of Nottingham, UK)
Teaching
Databases (First semester 2010)
Databases (First semester 2009)
Databases (First semester 2008)
Languages
- Spanish
- Native
- English
- Professional working proficiency
- Score 8.0 IELTS (Academic), June 2014
- Polish
- Limited working proficiency