Sylvain Baillet, PhD
Associate Dean, Research, Faculty of Medicine
Professor
Sylvain Baillet is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Computer Science at McGill University.
Sylvain Baillet graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in Applied Physics (France) and obtained his PhD summa cum laude in Physics from the University of Paris (Paris-XI), in 1998. Baillet has an international career profile, having held positions in France, the USA and Canada. He was a Research Associate at the Signal and Image Processing Institute of the University of Southern California before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) as a tenured Principal Investigator in 2000. He became the head of the Brain Imaging group at the Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging CNRS Laboratory in 2005, at La Salpetriere University Hospital in Paris. In 2008, he took a position as Associate Professor of Neurology & Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and became the founding Scientific Director of the MEG Program at Froedtert Hospital, in Milwaukee (USA). He joined the Montreal Neurological Institute in 2011 and founded the MNI’s MEG core program. Between 2013 and 2017, Baillet was the Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC), the MNI’s multimodal core platform and research center entirely dedicated to brain imaging science. Under his leadership, the BIC went through outstanding growth, with the recruitment of 6 new faculty members, 9 highly-qualified support staff, and more than $6.2M received in infrastructure grants; in addition, BIC Principal Investigators obtained transformative grants e.g., a $17.8-M project to install the first ultra-high field human MRI scanner in Quebec.
Overall, Baillet has produced 250 publications and shared concrete, practical solutions with the scientific community and transferred to the clinic and the biomedical industry. He also contributed 3 international patents. Dr. Baillet has published his research contributions in leading neuroscience, biomedical engineering, medical physics, computer science, and top-tier journals including PLoS Biology, PNAS, Nature Communications, Nature Neuroscience and Neuron. He has been invited to speak at 160 occasions (73 abroad), and co-organized 50 conferences and educational events worldwide. Baillet trained 63 graduate students and 13 post-docs, who obtained permanent academic or industry positions in Europe, Asia and North America.
Baillet was recognised with Young-Investigator and Mid-Career Achievement Awards, as “a scientist who has shown leadership and made significant contributions to brain imaging.”
Donhauser, P. W., Florin, E., & Baillet, S. (2018). Imaging of neural oscillations with embedded inferential and group prevalence statistics. PLoS Computational Biology, 14(2), e1005990. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005990
Samiee, S., Levesque, M., Avoli, M., & Baillet, S. (2018). Phase-amplitude coupling and epileptogenesis in an animal model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Neurobiology of Disease, 114, 111-119. S0969-9961(18)30040-8
Albouy, P., Weiss, A., Baillet, S., & Zatorre, R. J. (2017). Selective entrainment of theta oscillations in the dorsal stream causally enhances auditory working memory performance. Neuron, 94(1), 193-206.e5. S0896-6273(17)30198-8
Baillet, S. (2017). Magnetoencephalography for brain electrophysiology and imaging. Nature Neuroscience, 20(3), 327-339. 10.1038/nn.4504
Coffey, E. B. J., Chepesiuk, A. M. P., Herholz, S. C., Baillet, S., & Zatorre, R. J. (2017). Neural correlates of early sound encoding and their relationship to speech-in-noise perception. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 479. 10.3389/fnins.2017.00479
Das, S., Glatard, T., Rogers, C., Saigle, J., Paiva, S., MacIntyre, L., . . . Evans, A. C. (2017). Cyberinfrastructure for open science at the montreal neurological institute. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 10, 53. 10.3389/fninf.2016.00053
Florin, E., Vuvan, D., Peretz, I., & Baillet, S. (2017). Pre-target neural oscillations predict variability in the detection of small pitch changes. PloS One, 12(5), e0177836. 10.1371/journal.pone.0177836
Graves, W. W., Boukrina, O., Mattheiss, S. R., Alexander, E. J., & Baillet, S. (2017). Reversing the standard neural signature of the word-nonword distinction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(1), 79-94. 10.1162/jocn_a_01022
Hinault, T., Badier, J. M., Baillet, S., & Lemaire, P. (2017). The sources of sequential modulations of control processes in arithmetic strategies: A magnetoencephalography study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(6), 1033-1043. 10.1162/jocn_a_01102
Morillon, B., & Baillet, S. (2017). Motor origin of temporal predictions in auditory attention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(42), E8913-E8921. 10.1073/pnas.1705373114
Nasiotis, K., Clavagnier, S., Baillet, S., & Pack, C. C. (2017). High-resolution retinotopic maps estimated with magnetoencephalography. Neuroimage, 145(Pt A), 107-117. S1053-8119(16)30571-7
Samiee, S., & Baillet, S. (2017). Time-resolved phase-amplitude coupling in neural oscillations. Neuroimage, 159, 270-279. S1053-8119(17)30619-5
Coffey, E. B., Herholz, S. C., Chepesiuk, A. M., Baillet, S., & Zatorre, R. J. (2016). Cortical contributions to the auditory frequency-following response revealed by MEG. Nature Communications, 7, 11070. 10.1038/ncomms11070
Niso, G., Rogers, C., Moreau, J. T., Chen, L. Y., Madjar, C., Das, S., . . . Baillet, S. (2016). OMEGA: The open MEG archive. Neuroimage, 124(Pt B), 1182-1187. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.028
Pathak, Y., Salami, O., Baillet, S., Li, Z., & Butson, C. R. (2016). Longitudinal changes in depressive circuitry in response to neuromodulation therapy. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 10, 50. 10.3389/fncir.2016.00050
Soto, J. L., Lachaux, J. P., Baillet, S., & Jerbi, K. (2016). A multivariate method for estimating cross-frequency neuronal interactions and correcting linear mixing in MEG data, using canonical correlations. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 271, 169-181. 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.07.017
Cheng, C. H., Baillet, S., Hsiao, F. J., & Lin, Y. Y. (2015). Effects of aging on the neuromagnetic mismatch detection to speech sounds. Biological Psychology, 104, 48-55. 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.11.003
Cheng, C. H., Baillet, S., & Lin, Y. Y. (2015). Region-specific reduction of auditory sensory gating in older adults. Brain and Cognition, 101, 64-72. 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.10.004
Cheng, C. H., Chan, P. Y., Baillet, S., & Lin, Y. Y. (2015). Age-related reduced somatosensory gating is associated with altered alpha frequency desynchronization. Neural Plasticity, 2015, 302878. 10.1155/2015/302878
Florin, E., & Baillet, S. (2015). The brain's resting-state activity is shaped by synchronized cross-frequency coupling of neural oscillations. Neuroimage, 111, 26-35. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.054
Hui-Ling, C., Yong-Sheng, C., Li-Fen, C., & Baillet, S. (2015). Beamformer-based imaging of phase-amplitude coupling using electromagnetic brain activity. Conference Proceedings : ...Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.Annual Conference, 2015, 7558-7561. 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7320141
Balderston, N. L., Schultz, D. H., Baillet, S., & Helmstetter, F. J. (2014). Rapid amygdala responses during trace fear conditioning without awareness. PloS One, 9(5), e96803. 10.1371/journal.pone.0096803
Florin, E., Bock, E., & Baillet, S. (2014). Targeted reinforcement of neural oscillatory activity with real-time neuroimaging feedback. Neuroimage, 88, 54-60. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.028
Khan, S., Lefevre, J., Baillet, S., Michmizos, K. P., Ganesan, S., Kitzbichler, M. G., . . . Kenet, T. (2014). Encoding cortical dynamics in sparse features. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 338. 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00338
Ossadtchi, A., Pronko, P., Baillet, S., Pflieger, M. E., & Stroganova, T. (2014). Mutual information spectrum for selection of event-related spatial components. application to eloquent motor cortex mapping. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 7, 53. 10.3389/fninf.2013.00053
Balderston, N. L., Schultz, D. H., Baillet, S., & Helmstetter, F. J. (2013). How to detect amygdala activity with magnetoencephalography using source imaging. Journal of Visualized Experiments : JoVE, (76). doi(76), 10.3791/50212. 10.3791/50212
Bonnefond, M., Noveck, I., Baillet, S., Cheylus, A., Delpuech, C., Bertrand, O., . . . Van der Henst, J. B. (2013). What MEG can reveal about inference making: The case of if...then sentences. Human Brain Mapping, 34(3), 684-697.
Cheng, C. H., Baillet, S., Hsiao, F. J., & Lin, Y. Y. (2013). Effects of aging on neuromagnetic mismatch responses to pitch changes. Neuroscience Letters, 544, 20-24. 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.02.063
Gross, J., Baillet, S., Barnes, G. R., Henson, R. N., Hillebrand, A., Jensen, O., . . . Schoffelen, J. M. (2013). Good practice for conducting and reporting MEG research. Neuroimage, 65, 349-363. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.001
Evans, A. C., Janke, A. L., Collins, D. L., & Baillet, S. (2012). Brain templates and atlases. Neuroimage, 62(2), 911-922. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.024
Auzias, G., Colliot, O., Glaunes, J. A., Perrot, M., Mangin, J. F., Trouve, A., & Baillet, S. (2011). Diffeomorphic brain registration under exhaustive sulcal constraints. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 30(6), 1214-1227. 10.1109/TMI.2011.2108665
Baillet, S., Friston, K., & Oostenveld, R. (2011). Academic software applications for electromagnetic brain mapping using MEG and EEG. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2011, 972050. 10.1155/2011/972050
Cottereau, B., Lorenceau, J., Gramfort, A., Clerc, M., Thirion, B., & Baillet, S. (2011). Phase delays within visual cortex shape the response to steady-state visual stimulation. Neuroimage, 54(3), 1919-1929. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.10.004
Gramfort, A., Papadopoulo, T., Baillet, S., & Clerc, M. (2011). Tracking cortical activity from M/EEG using graph cuts with spatiotemporal constraints. Neuroimage, 54(3), 1930-1941. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.087
Ramirez, R. R., Kopell, B. H., Butson, C. R., Hiner, B. C., & Baillet, S. (2011). Spectral signal space projection algorithm for frequency domain MEG and EEG denoising, whitening, and source imaging. Neuroimage, 56(1), 78-92. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.002
Sudre, G., Parkkonen, L., Bock, E., Baillet, S., Wang, W., & Weber, D. J. (2011). rtMEG: A real-time software interface for magnetoencephalography. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2011, 327953. 10.1155/2011/327953
Tadel, F., Baillet, S., Mosher, J. C., Pantazis, D., & Leahy, R. M. (2011). Brainstorm: A user-friendly application for MEG/EEG analysis. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, 2011, 879716. 10.1155/2011/879716
Amor, F., Baillet, S., Navarro, V., Adam, C., Martinerie, J., & Quyen Mle, V. (2009). Cortical local and long-range synchronization interplay in human absence seizure initiation. Neuroimage, 45(3), 950-962. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.011
Auzias, G., Glaunes, J., Colliot, O., Perrot, M., Mangin, J. F., Trouve, A., & Baillet, S. (2009). DISCO: A coherent diffeomorphic framework for brain registration under exhaustive sulcal constraints. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention : MICCAI ...International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 12(Pt 1), 730-738.
Bristow, D., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., Mattout, J., Soares, C., Gliga, T., Baillet, S., & Mangin, J. F. (2009). Hearing faces: How the infant brain matches the face it sees with the speech it hears. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(5), 905-921. 10.1162/jocn.2009.21076
Dalal, S. S., Baillet, S., Adam, C., Ducorps, A., Schwartz, D., Jerbi, K., . . . Lachaux, J. P. (2009). Simultaneous MEG and intracranial EEG recordings during attentive reading. Neuroimage, 45(4), 1289-1304. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.01.017
Lefevre, J., & Baillet, S. (2009). Optical flow approaches to the identification of brain dynamics. Human Brain Mapping, 30(6), 1887-1897. 10.1002/hbm.20781
Lefevre, J., Leroy, F., Khan, S., Dubois, J., Huppi, P. S., Baillet, S., & Mangin, J. F. (2009). Identification of growth seeds in the neonate brain through surfacic helmholtz decomposition. Information Processing in Medical Imaging : Proceedings of the ...Conference, 21, 252-263.
Ramirez, R. R., Kopell, B. H., Butson, C. R., Gaggl, W., Friedland, D. R., & Baillet, S. (2009). Neuromagnetic source imaging of abnormal spontaneous activity in tinnitus patient modulated by electrical cortical stimulation. Conference Proceedings : ...Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.Annual Conference, 2009, 1940-1944. 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333457
Rosso, C., Hevia-Montiel, N., Deltour, S., Bardinet, E., Dormont, D., Crozier, S., . . . Samson, Y. (2009). Prediction of infarct growth based on apparent diffusion coefficients: Penumbral assessment without intravenous contrast material. Radiology, 250(1), 184-192. 10.1148/radiol.2493080107
Rudrauf, D., Lachaux, J. P., Damasio, A., Baillet, S., Hugueville, L., Martinerie, J., . . . Renault, B. (2009). Enter feelings: Somatosensory responses following early stages of visual induction of emotion. International Journal of Psychophysiology : Official Journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology, 72(1), 13-23. 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.03.015
Salmelin, R., & Baillet, S. (2009). Electromagnetic brain imaging. Human Brain Mapping, 30(6), 1753-1757. 10.1002/hbm.20795
Lefevre, J., & Baillet, S. (2008). Optical flow and advection on 2-riemannian manifolds: A common framework. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 30(6), 1081-1092. 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.51
Montiel, N. H., Rosso, C., Chupin, N., Deltour, S., Bardinet, E., Dormont, D., . . . Baillet, S. (2008). Automatic prediction of infarct growth in acute ischemic stroke from MR apparent diffusion coefficient maps. Academic Radiology, 15(1), 77-83. S1076-6332(07)00397-2
Senot, P., Baillet, S., Renault, B., & Berthoz, A. (2008). Cortical dynamics of anticipatory mechanisms in interception: A neuromagnetic study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(10), 1827-1838. 10.1162/jocn.2008.20129
Attal, Y., Bhattacharjee, M., Yelnik, J., Cottereau, B., Lefevre, J., Okada, Y., . . . Baillet, S. (2007). Modeling and detecting deep brain activity with MEG & EEG. Conference Proceedings : ...Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.Annual Conference, 2007, 4937-4940. 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353448
Besserve, M., Jerbi, K., Laurent, F., Baillet, S., Martinerie, J., & Garnero, L. (2007). Classification methods for ongoing EEG and MEG signals. Biological Research, 40(4), 415-437. /S0716-97602007000500005
Chupin, M., Mukuna-Bantumbakulu, A. R., Hasboun, D., Bardinet, E., Baillet, S., Kinkingnehun, S., . . . Garnero, L. (2007). Anatomically constrained region deformation for the automated segmentation of the hippocampus and the amygdala: Method and validation on controls and patients with alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage, 34(3), 996-1019. S1053-8119(06)01076-7
Cottereau, B., Jerbi, K., & Baillet, S. (2007). Multiresolution imaging of MEG cortical sources using an explicit piecewise model. Neuroimage, 38(3), 439-451. S1053-8119(07)00659-3
Del Cul, A., Baillet, S., & Dehaene, S. (2007). Brain dynamics underlying the nonlinear threshold for access to consciousness. PLoS Biology, 5(10), e260. 07-PLBI-RA-0389
Gramfort, A., Cottereau, B., Clerc, M., Thirion, B., & Baillet, S. (2007). Challenging the estimation of cortical activity from MEG with simulated fMRI-constrained retinotopic maps. Conference Proceedings : ...Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.Annual Conference, 2007, 4945-4948. 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353450
Hevia-Montiel, N., Jimenez-Alaniz, J. R., Medina-Banuelos, V., Yanez-Suarez, O., Rosso, C., Samson, Y., & Baillet, S. (2007). Robust nonparametric segmentation of infarct lesion from diffusion-weighted MR images. Conference Proceedings : ...Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.Annual Conference, 2007, 2102-2105. 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352736
Jerbi, K., Lachaux, J. P., N'Diaye, K., Pantazis, D., Leahy, R. M., Garnero, L., & Baillet, S. (2007). Coherent neural representation of hand speed in humans revealed by MEG imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(18), 7676-7681. 0609632104
Lefevre, J., Obozinski, G., & Baillet, S. (2007). Imaging brain activation streams from optical flow computation on 2-riemannian manifolds. Information Processing in Medical Imaging : Proceedings of the ...Conference, 20, 470-481.
Pantazis, D., Nichols, T. E., Baillet, S., & Leahy, R. M. (2005). A comparison of random field theory and permutation methods for the statistical analysis of MEG data. Neuroimage, 25(2), 383-394. S1053-8119(04)00567-1
Sergent, C., Baillet, S., & Dehaene, S. (2005). Timing of the brain events underlying access to consciousness during the attentional blink. Nature Neuroscience, 8(10), 1391-1400. nn1549
Pantazis, D., Nichols, T. E., Baillet, S., & Leahy, R. M. (2003). Spatiotemporal localization of significant activation in MEG using permutation tests. Information Processing in Medical Imaging : Proceedings of the ...Conference, 18, 512-523.