Jan Valosek, PhD


🧠 I am a neuroscientist and biomedical engineer with a multidisciplinary research and clinical background. My main interests include spinal cord and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), deep learning, and open-source software development.


🧲 I am currently a postdoctoral researcher (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship; see Credits) at Palacký University Olomouc. My research focuses on developing automatic and reproducible analysis tools for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans using machine learning and deep learning methods. See this page for more details.


👨‍🔬 Previously, I spent 2.5 years as a postdoctoral researcher at the NeuroPoly Lab at Polytechnique Montréal and Mila – Quebec AI Institute in Canada, where I focused on spinal cord MRI segmentation using deep learning methods.


💻 As a member of the Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) team, I maintain and develop a free and open-source software tool dedicated to the processing and analysis of spinal cord MRI data.


🎓 During my PhD, I worked on the application of advanced diffusion MRI in patients with spinal cord compression and its relationship with electrophysiological findings; for details, see here.


🏥 In addition to my research, I worked for 6.5 years as a biomedical engineer at the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Neurology at University Hospital Olomouc. I processed presurgical examinations (functional MRI and tractography) of patients with brain tumours and provided technical support during brain and spine surgeries.


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