Martin Styner is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He is the director of the UNC Neuro Image Analysis Laboratory and co-director of the Neuroimaging core of the UNC Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center. His main field of research is in medical image processing and analysis. He has an extensive background in anatomical structure and tissue segmentation, morphometry using shape analysis, modeling and atlas building, diffusion tensor image analysis as well as intra and inter-modality registration. His current research focuses on structural and connectivity based brain analysis within the developing brain in humans, primates and rodents.
Specialties: brain development, morphometry, connectivity via diffusion tensor imaging, translational models, segmentation, atlas building