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Separating mixtures of single-fiber orientation distributions for increased sensitivity to crossing white matter fibers
Adam M. Saunders, Gaurav Rudravaram, Michael E. Kim +10
Intro: Diffusion MRI allows for in vivo probing of brain tissue architecture via micron-level diffusion aggregated at the millimeter scale, but crossing white matter fibers decreas…
Large-Scale Deployment and Analytical Implications of Structured Quality Control in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao, Karthik Ramadass +17
Purpose: Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides a diverse set of quantitative measures and derived datatypes to assess white matter microstructure and macrostructure. Coupled with the incre…
Personalized White Matter Bundle Segmentation for Early Childhood
Elyssa M. McMaster, Michael E. Kim, Nancy R. Newlin +12
White matter segmentation methods from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging range from streamline clustering-based approaches to bundle mask delineation, but none have proposed a p…
Fully Differentiable dMRI Streamline Propagation in PyTorch
Jongyeon Yoon, Elyssa M. McMaster, Michael E. Kim +4
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides a distinctive means to probe the microstructural architecture of living tissue, facilitating applications such as brain connectivity analysis, modelin…
Robust Containerization of the High Angular Resolution Functional Imaging (HARFI) Pipeline
Zhiyuan Li, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman
Historically, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain has focused primarily on gray matter, particularly the cortical gray matter and associated nuclei. However,…
ECLARE: Efficient cross-planar learning for anisotropic resolution enhancement
Samuel W. Remedios, Shuwen Wei, Shuo Han +6
In clinical imaging, magnetic resonance (MR) image volumes are often acquired as stacks of 2D slices with decreased scan times, improved signal-to-noise ratio, and image contrasts…
Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM Diffusion Study Group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 3 -- Ex vivo imaging: data processing, comparisons with microscopy, and tractography
Kurt G Schilling, Amy FD Howard, Francesco Grussu +55
Preclinical diffusion MRI (dMRI) has proven value in methods development and validation, characterizing the biological basis of diffusion phenomena, and comparative anatomy. While…
Sensitivity of quantitative diffusion MRI tractography and microstructure to anisotropic spatial sampling
Elyssa M. McMaster, Nancy R. Newlin, Chloe Cho +10
Purpose: Diffusion weighted MRI (dMRI) and its models of neural structure provide insight into human brain organization and variations in white matter. A recent study by McMaster,…
Multi-Modality Conditioned Variational U-Net for Field-of-View Extension in Brain Diffusion MRI
Zhiyuan Li, Chenyu Gao, Praitayini Kanakaraj +13
An incomplete field-of-view (FOV) in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) can severely hinder the volumetric and bundle analyses of whole-brain white matter connectivity. Al…
Comparison and calibration of MP2RAGE quantitative T1 values to multi-TI inversion recovery T1 values
Adam M. Saunders, Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao +6
While typical qualitative T1-weighted magnetic resonance images reflect scanner and protocol differences, quantitative T1 mapping aims to measure T1 independent of these effects. C…
Scalable, reproducible, and cost-effective processing of large-scale medical imaging datasets
Michael E. Kim, Karthik Ramadass, Chenyu Gao +11
Curating, processing, and combining large-scale medical imaging datasets from national studies is a non-trivial task due to the intense computation and data throughput required, va…
Harmonized connectome resampling for variance in voxel sizes
Elyssa M. McMaster, Nancy R. Newlin, Gaurav Rudravaram +10
To date, there has been no comprehensive study characterizing the effect of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging voxel resolution on the resulting connectome for high reso…
Field-of-View Extension for Brain Diffusion MRI via Deep Generative Models
Chenyu Gao, Shunxing Bao, Michael Kim +13
Purpose: In diffusion MRI (dMRI), the volumetric and bundle analyses of whole-brain tissue microstructure and connectivity can be severely impeded by an incomplete field-of-view (F…
Tractography with T1-weighted MRI and associated anatomical constraints on clinical quality diffusion MRI
Tian Yu, Yunhe Li, Michael E. Kim +8
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) streamline tractography, the gold standard for in vivo estimation of brain white matter (WM) pathways, has long been considered indicative of macroscopic relat…
Predicting Age from White Matter Diffusivity with Residual Learning
Chenyu Gao, Michael E. Kim, Ho Hin Lee +17
Imaging findings inconsistent with those expected at specific chronological age ranges may serve as early indicators of neurological disorders and increased mortality risk. Estimat…
BundleSeg: A versatile, reliable and reproducible approach to white matter bundle segmentation
Etienne St-Onge, Kurt G Schilling, Francois Rheault
This work presents BundleSeg, a reliable, reproducible, and fast method for extracting white matter pathways. The proposed method combines an iterative registration procedure with…
Robust Fiber Orientation Distribution Function Estimation Using Deep Constrained Spherical Deconvolution for Diffusion MRI
Tianyuan Yao, Francois Rheault, Leon Y Cai +11
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a critical imaging method for capturing and modeling tissue microarchitecture at a millimeter scale. A common practice to…
A Unified Learning Model for Estimating Fiber Orientation Distribution Functions on Heterogeneous Multi-shell Diffusion-weighted MRI
Tianyuan Yao, Nancy Newlin, Praitayini Kanakaraj +6
Diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI measures the direction and scale of the local diffusion process in every voxel through its spectrum in q-space, typically acquired in one or more shells…
Biomedical image analysis competitions: The state of current participation practice
Matthias Eisenmann, Annika Reinke, Vivienn Weru +352
The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known abou…
Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM Diffusion Study Group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 2 -- Ex vivo imaging: added value and acquisition
Kurt G Schilling, Francesco Grussu, Andrada Ianus +54
The value of preclinical diffusion MRI (dMRI) is substantial. While dMRI enables in vivo non-invasive characterization of tissue, ex vivo dMRI is increasingly used to probe tissue…
Considerations and Recommendations from the ISMRM Diffusion Study Group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 1 -- In vivo small-animal imaging
Ileana O Jelescu, Francesco Grussu, Andrada Ianus +54
Small-animal diffusion MRI (dMRI) has been used for methodological development and validation, characterizing the biological basis of diffusion phenomena, and comparative anatomy.…
Joint analysis of structural connectivity and cortical surface features: correlates with mild traumatic brain injury
Cailey I. Kerley, Leon Y. Cai, Chang Yu +7
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a complex syndrome that affects up to 600 per 100,000 individuals, with a particular concentration among military personnel. About half of all…
Deep Learning Estimation of Multi-Tissue Constrained Spherical Deconvolution with Limited Single Shell DW-MRI
Vishwesh Nath, Sudhir K. Pathak, Kurt G. Schilling +2
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is the only non-invasive approach for estimation of intra-voxel tissue microarchitecture and reconstruction of in vivo neural…
MRI correlates of chronic symptoms in mild traumatic brain injury
Cailey I. Kerley, Kurt G. Schilling, Justin Blaber +5
Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) have reported auditory and visual dysfunction that persists beyond the acute incident. The etiology behind these symptoms is diffic…