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Hi, I'm VanessaSaurus, a Software Engineer.
Building tools, containers, and cloudy things, with a penchant for Python and parsnips. -- about me

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Neuroanatomy of Autism This article can be found at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18258309 sMRI Pathological / abnormal regions in ASD: frontal lobes, amygdala and cerebellum time course of brain development, not final product, is most disturbed in autism (so age is a salient factor, and we would... Read more

Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) Maximum Likelihood Estimation is a technique that we use to estimate the parameters for some statistical model.  For example, let’s say that we have a truckload of oatmeal raisin cookies, and we think that we can predict the number of... Read more

Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) Sometimes, things are exactly what they seem.  This is one of those cases  The signal to noise ratio (SNR) is a metric that is used in MRI to describe how much of a signal is noise, and how much is... Read more

Partial Volume Effect Partial Volume Effect in medical imaging speaks to the idea that we may not detect signal in small volumes or regions when our resolution is limited.  If you are a researcher that is totally crazy about the amygdala, for example,... Read more