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20202025
most citedSuperficial White Matter Analysis: An Efficient Point-cloud-based Deep Learning Framework with Supervised Contrastive Learning for Consistent Tractography Parcellation across Populations and dMRI Acquisitions

58 citations · 167 across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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38 papers

cs.NE2025

Cross-Population White Matter Atlas Creation for Concurrent Mapping of Brain Connections in Neonates and Adults with Diffusion MRI Tractography

Wei Zhang, Yijie Li, Ruixi Zheng +9

Comparing white matter (WM) connections between adults and neonates using diffusion MRI (dMRI) can advance our understanding of typical brain development and potential biomarkers f…

eess.IV2025

DMVFC: Deep Learning Based Functionally Consistent Tractography Fiber Clustering Using Multimodal Diffusion MRI and Functional MRI

Bocheng Guo, Jin Wang, Yijie Li +9

Tractography fiber clustering using diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a crucial method for white matter (WM) parcellation to enable analysis of brains structural connectivity in health and d…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

DDTracking: A Deep Generative Framework for Diffusion MRI Tractography with Streamline Local-Global Spatiotemporal Modeling

Yijie Li, Wei Zhang, Xi Zhu +4

This paper presents DDTracking, a novel deep generative framework for diffusion MRI tractography that formulates streamline propagation as a conditional denoising diffusion process…

q-bio.QM2025

AGFS-Tractometry: A Novel Atlas-Guided Fine-Scale Tractometry Approach for Enhanced Along-Tract Group Statistical Comparison Using Diffusion MRI Tractography

Ruixi Zheng, Wei Zhang, Yijie Li +7

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is currently the only method for in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter (WM) connections. Tractometry is an advanced tractography analysis te…

eess.IV2025★ 2 cited

A Multimodal Deep Learning Approach for White Matter Shape Prediction in Diffusion MRI Tractography

Yui Lo, Yuqian Chen, Dongnan Liu +8

Shape measures have emerged as promising descriptors of white matter tractography, offering complementary insights into anatomical variability and associations with cognitive and c…

cs.CV2025

TractCloud-FOV: Deep Learning-based Robust Tractography Parcellation in Diffusion MRI with Incomplete Field of View

Yuqian Chen, Leo Zekelman, Yui Lo +7

Tractography parcellation classifies streamlines reconstructed from diffusion MRI into anatomically defined fiber tracts for clinical and research applications. However, clinical s…

eess.IV2025

DeepNuParc: A Novel Deep Clustering Framework for Fine-scale Parcellation of Brain Nuclei Using Diffusion MRI Tractography

Haolin He, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang +9

Brain nuclei are clusters of anatomically distinct neurons that serve as important hubs for processing and relaying information in various neural circuits. Fine-scale parcellation…

eess.IV2024

A Novel Deep Learning Tractography Fiber Clustering Framework for Functionally Consistent White Matter Parcellation Using Multimodal Diffusion MRI and Functional MRI

Jin Wang, Bocheng Guo, Yijie Li +7

Tractography fiber clustering using diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a crucial strategy for white matter (WM) parcellation. Current methods primarily use the geometric information of fibers…

physics.med-ph2024★ 2 cited

MICCAI-CDMRI 2023 QuantConn Challenge Findings on Achieving Robust Quantitative Connectivity through Harmonized Preprocessing of Diffusion MRI

Nancy R. Newlin, Kurt Schilling, Serge Koudoro +33

White matter alterations are increasingly implicated in neurological diseases and their progression. International-scale studies use diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (…

cs.CV2024

TractShapeNet: Efficient Multi-Shape Learning with 3D Tractography Point Clouds

Yui Lo, Yuqian Chen, Dongnan Liu +9

Brain imaging studies have demonstrated that diffusion MRI tractography geometric shape descriptors can inform the study of the brain's white matter pathways and their relationship…

q-bio.NC2024★ 14 cited

The shape of the brain's connections is predictive of cognitive performance: an explainable machine learning study

Yui Lo, Yuqian Chen, Dongnan Liu +9

The shape of the brain's white matter connections is relatively unexplored in diffusion MRI tractography analysis. While it is known that tract shape varies in populations and acro…

eess.IV2024

DDEvENet: Evidence-based Ensemble Learning for Uncertainty-aware Brain Parcellation Using Diffusion MRI

Chenjun Li, Dian Yang, Shun Yao +14

In this study, we developed an Evidence-based Ensemble Neural Network, namely EVENet, for anatomical brain parcellation using diffusion MRI. The key innovation of EVENet is the des…

q-bio.NC2024

Deep multimodal saliency parcellation of cerebellar pathways: linking microstructure and individual function through explainable multitask learning

Ari Tchetchenian, Leo Zekelman, Yuqian Chen +8

Parcellation of human cerebellar pathways is essential for advancing our understanding of the human brain. Existing diffusion MRI tractography parcellation methods have been succes…

cs.CV2024

White Matter Geometry-Guided Score-Based Diffusion Model for Tissue Microstructure Imputation in Tractography Imaging

Yui Lo, Yuqian Chen, Fan Zhang +6

Parcellation of white matter tractography provides anatomical features for disease prediction, anatomical tract segmentation, surgical brain mapping, and non-imaging phenotype clas…

cs.CV2024★ 13 cited

TractGraphFormer: Anatomically Informed Hybrid Graph CNN-Transformer Network for Interpretable Sex and Age Prediction from Diffusion MRI Tractography

Yuqian Chen, Fan Zhang, Meng Wang +10

The relationship between brain connections and non-imaging phenotypes is increasingly studied using deep neural networks. However, the local and global properties of brain white ma…

q-bio.NC2024★ 15 cited

A diffusion MRI tractography atlas for concurrent white matter mapping across Eastern and Western populations

Yijie Li, Wei Zhang, Ye Wu +11

The study of brain differences across Eastern and Western populations provides vital insights for understanding potential cultural and genetic influences on cognition and mental he…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Cross-domain Fiber Cluster Shape Analysis for Language Performance Cognitive Score Prediction

Yui Lo, Yuqian Chen, Dongnan Liu +8

Shape plays an important role in computer graphics, offering informative features to convey an object's morphology and functionality. Shape analysis in brain imaging can help inter…

q-bio.QM2024

A Deep Network for Explainable Prediction of Non-Imaging Phenotypes using Anatomical Multi-View Data

Yuxiang Wei, Yuqian Chen, Tengfei Xue +6

Large datasets often contain multiple distinct feature sets, or views, that offer complementary information that can be exploited by multi-view learning methods to improve results.…

eess.IV2023

A Novel Deep Clustering Framework for Fine-Scale Parcellation of Amygdala Using dMRI Tractography

Haolin He, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang +9

The amygdala plays a vital role in emotional processing and exhibits structural diversity that necessitates fine-scale parcellation for a comprehensive understanding of its anatomi…

cs.CV2023

TractCloud: Registration-free tractography parcellation with a novel local-global streamline point cloud representation

Tengfei Xue, Yuqian Chen, Chaoyi Zhang +6

Diffusion MRI tractography parcellation classifies streamlines into anatomical fiber tracts to enable quantification and visualization for clinical and scientific applications. Cur…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

TractGeoNet: A geometric deep learning framework for pointwise analysis of tract microstructure to predict language assessment performance

Yuqian Chen, Leo R. Zekelman, Chaoyi Zhang +8

We propose a geometric deep-learning-based framework, TractGeoNet, for performing regression using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography and associated pointwise…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Reconstructing the somatotopic organization of the corticospinal tract remains a challenge for modern tractography methods

Jianzhong He, Fan Zhang, Yiang Pan +8

The corticospinal tract (CST) is a critically important white matter fiber tract in the human brain that enables control of voluntary movements of the body. Diffusion MRI tractogra…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Fiber Tract Shape Measures Inform Prediction of Non-Imaging Phenotypes

Wan Liu, Yuqian Chen, Chuyang Ye +5

Neuroimaging measures of the brain's white matter connections can enable the prediction of non-imaging phenotypes, such as demographic and cognitive measures. Existing works have i…

eess.IV2023

TractGraphCNN: anatomically informed graph CNN for classification using diffusion MRI tractography

Yuqian Chen, Fan Zhang, Leo R. Zekelman +7

The structure and variability of the brain's connections can be investigated via prediction of non-imaging phenotypes using neural networks. However, known neuroanatomical relation…