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eess.IV2025

Causal Attribution of Model Performance Gaps in Medical Imaging Under Distribution Shifts

Pedro M. Gordaliza, Nataliia Molchanova, Jaume Banus +2

Deep learning models for medical image segmentation suffer significant performance drops due to distribution shifts, but the causal mechanisms behind these drops remain poorly unde…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

Fetpype: An Open-Source Pipeline for Reproducible Fetal Brain MRI Analysis

Thomas Sanchez, Gerard Martí-Juan, David Meunier +6

Fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for assessing neurodevelopment in utero. However, fetal MRI analysis remains technically challenging due to fetal motion, lo…

eess.IV2025

Segmenting infant brains across magnetic fields: Domain randomization and annotation curation in ultra-low field MRI

Vladyslav Zalevskyi, Dondu-Busra Bulut, Thomas Sanchez +1

Early identification of neurodevelopmental disorders relies on accurate segmentation of brain structures in infancy, a task complicated by rapid brain growth, poor tissue contrast,…

eess.IV2025

ConfLUNet: Multiple sclerosis lesion instance segmentation in presence of confluent lesions

Maxence Wynen, Pedro M. Gordaliza, Maxime Istasse +4

Accurate lesion-level segmentation on MRI is critical for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, prognosis, and disease monitoring. However, current evaluation practices largely rely o…

eess.IV2025

Meta-learning Slice-to-Volume Reconstruction in Fetal Brain MRI using Implicit Neural Representations

Maik Dannecker, Thomas Sanchez, Meritxell Bach Cuadra +6

High-resolution slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) from multiple motion-corrupted low-resolution 2D slices constitutes a critical step in image-based diagnostics of moving subjec…

eess.IV2025★ 3 cited

Towards contrast- and pathology-agnostic clinical fetal brain MRI segmentation using SynthSeg

Ziyao Shang, Misha Kaandorp, Kelly Payette +9

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has played a crucial role in fetal neurodevelopmental research. Structural annotations of MR images are an important step for quantitative analysis…

eess.IV2025

Assessing workflow impact and clinical utility of AI-assisted brain aneurysm detection: a multi-reader study

Tommaso Di Noto, Sofyan Jankowski, Francesco Puccinelli +9

Despite the plethora of AI-based algorithms developed for anomaly detection in radiology, subsequent integration into clinical setting is rarely evaluated. In this work, we assess…

eess.IV2025★ 3 cited

Automatic quality control in multi-centric fetal brain MRI super-resolution reconstruction

Thomas Sanchez, Vladyslav Zalevskyi, Angeline Mihailov +7

Quality control (QC) has long been considered essential to guarantee the reliability of neuroimaging studies. It is particularly important for fetal brain MRI, where acquisitions a…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Evaluating Synthetic Data Generation for Domain Generalization in Fetal Brain MRI Segmentation

Vladyslav Zalevskyi, Thomas Sanchez, Margaux Roulet +10

Fetal brain tissue segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for studying neurodevelopment, but remains challenging due to data heterogeneity and limited annota…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Ground-truth effects in learning-based fiber orientation distribution estimation in neonatal brains

Rizhong Lin, Hamza Kebiri, Ali Gholipour +4

Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) is a non-invasive method for depicting brain microstructure in vivo. Fiber orientation distributions (FODs) are mathematical representat…

eess.IV2024★ 3 cited

Interpretability of Uncertainty: Exploring Cortical Lesion Segmentation in Multiple Sclerosis

Nataliia Molchanova, Alessandro Cagol, Pedro M. Gordaliza +8

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) has become critical for evaluating the reliability of artificial intelligence systems, especially in medical image segmentation. This study addresse…

eess.IV2024★ 3 cited

Instance-level quantitative saliency in multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation

Federico Spagnolo, Nataliia Molchanova, Meritxell Bach Cuadra +5

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have been proposed to interpret model decisions in classification and, more recently, in semantic segmentation. However, instance-…

eess.IV2024★ 7 cited

Improving cross-domain brain tissue segmentation in fetal MRI with synthetic data

Vladyslav Zalevskyi, Thomas Sanchez, Margaux Roulet +4

Segmentation of fetal brain tissue from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in the study of in utero neurodevelopment. However, automated tools face substantial d…

eess.IV2024★ 23 cited

Multi-Center Fetal Brain Tissue Annotation (FeTA) Challenge 2022 Results

Kelly Payette, Céline Steger, Roxane Licandro +64

Segmentation is a critical step in analyzing the developing human fetal brain. There have been vast improvements in automatic segmentation methods in the past several years, and th…

eess.IV2023★ 8 cited

Cross-Age and Cross-Site Domain Shift Impacts on Deep Learning-Based White Matter Fiber Estimation in Newborn and Baby Brains

Rizhong Lin, Ali Gholipour, Jean-Philippe Thiran +3

Deep learning models have shown great promise in estimating tissue microstructure from limited diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data. However, these models face domain shift ch…

eess.IV2023★ 15 cited

FetMRQC: a robust quality control system for multi-centric fetal brain MRI

Thomas Sanchez, Oscar Esteban, Yvan Gomez +8

Fetal brain MRI is becoming an increasingly relevant complement to neurosonography for perinatal diagnosis, allowing fundamental insights into fetal brain development throughout ge…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Direct segmentation of brain white matter tracts in diffusion MRI

Hamza Kebiri, Ali Gholipour, Meritxell Bach Cuadra +1

The brain white matter consists of a set of tracts that connect distinct regions of the brain. Segmentation of these tracts is often needed for clinical and research studies. Diffu…

eess.IV2023★ 3 cited

Fast refacing of MR images with a generative neural network lowers re-identification risk and preserves volumetric consistency

Nataliia Molchanova, Bénédicte Maréchal, Jean-Philippe Thiran +3

With the rise of open data, identifiability of individuals based on 3D renderings obtained from routine structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the head has become a g…

eess.IV2023★ 8 cited

FetMRQC: Automated Quality Control for fetal brain MRI

Thomas Sanchez, Oscar Esteban, Yvan Gomez +2

Quality control (QC) has long been considered essential to guarantee the reliability of neuroimaging studies. It is particularly important for fetal brain MRI, where large and unpr…

eess.IV2023★ 2 cited

Tackling Bias in the Dice Similarity Coefficient: Introducing nDSC for White Matter Lesion Segmentation

Vatsal Raina, Nataliia Molchanova, Mara Graziani +4

The development of automatic segmentation techniques for medical imaging tasks requires assessment metrics to fairly judge and rank such approaches on benchmarks. The Dice Similari…

eess.IV2022

Self-Supervised Isotropic Superresolution Fetal Brain MRI

Kay Lächler, Hélène Lajous, Michael Unser +2

Superresolution T2-weighted fetal-brain magnetic-resonance imaging (FBMRI) traditionally relies on the availability of several orthogonal low-resolution series of 2-dimensional thi…

eess.IV2022★ 6 cited

Novel structural-scale uncertainty measures and error retention curves: application to multiple sclerosis

Nataliia Molchanova, Vatsal Raina, Andrey Malinin +6

This paper focuses on the uncertainty estimation for white matter lesions (WML) segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). On one side, voxel-scale segmentation errors cause…

eess.IV2022★ 1 cited

Simulation-based parameter optimization for fetal brain MRI super-resolution reconstruction

Priscille de Dumast, Thomas Sanchez, Hélène Lajous +1

Tuning the regularization hyperparameter in inverse problems has been a longstanding problem. This is particularly true in the case of fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging, w…

eess.IV2022★ 8 cited

Spatio-temporal motion correction and iterative reconstruction of in-utero fetal fMRI

Athena Taymourtash, Hamza Kebiri, Ernst Schwartz +6

Resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful imaging technique for studying functional development of the brain in utero. However, unpredictable and exc…