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most citedSensitivity of quantitative diffusion MRI tractography and microstructure to anisotropic spatial sampling

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eess.IV2026

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…

cs.AI2026

Generalizable field of view extension for diffusion MRI via conditional flow matching

Gaurav Rudravaram, Lianrui Zuo, Ema Topolnjak +22

Incomplete field-of-view (FOV) diffusion MRI (dMRI) acquisitions compromise whole-brain white matter analysis by excluding brain regions from tractography and connectivity studies.…

eess.IV2026

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…

cs.LG2026

Unsupervised learning of acquisition variability in structural connectomes via hybrid latent space modeling

Gaurav Rudravaram, Lianrui Zuo, Karthik Ramadass +17

Acquisition differences across sites, scanners, and protocols in dMRI introduce variability that complicates structural connectome analysis. This motivates deep learning models tha…

eess.IV2026

Evaluation of neuroCombat and deep learning harmonization for multi-site magnetic resonance neuroimaging in youth with prenatal alcohol exposure

Chloe Scholten, Elyssa M. McMaster, Adam M. Saunders +8

In cases of prevalent diseases and disorders, such as Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (PAE), multi-site data collection allows for increased study samples. However, multi-site studies in…

eess.IV2026

Harmonization mitigates diffusion MRI scanner effects in infancy: insights from the HEALthy Brain and Childhood Development (HBCD) study

Elyssa M. McMaster, Gaurav Rudravaram, Michael E. Kim +17

The HEALthy Brain and Childhood Development (HBCD) Study is an ongoing longitudinal initiative to understand population-level brain maturation; however, large-scale studies must ov…

eess.IV2026

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…

eess.IV2025

Quality assurance of the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) database for multi-site MRI analysis

Adam M. Saunders, Michael E. Kim, Gaurav Rudravaram +8

The Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research (FITBIR) database is a centralized data repository for traumatic brain injury (TBI) research. It includes over 45,529 magnet…

q-bio.NC2025

Characterizing Continuous and Discrete Hybrid Latent Spaces for Structural Connectomes

Gaurav Rudravaram, Lianrui Zuo, Adam M. Saunders +12

Structural connectomes are detailed graphs that map how different brain regions are physically connected, offering critical insight into aging, cognition, and neurodegenerative dis…

eess.IV2025

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…

eess.IV2025

DeepFixel: Crossing white matter fiber identification through spherical convolutional neural networks

Adam M. Saunders, Lucas W. Remedios, Elyssa M. McMaster +6

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging allows for reconstruction of models for structural connectivity in the brain, such as fiber orientation distribution functions (ODFs)…

q-bio.QM2025

Phenotype discovery of traumatic brain injury segmentations from heterogeneous multi-site data

Adam M. Saunders, Michael E. Kim, Gaurav Rudravaram +8

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is intrinsically heterogeneous, and typical clinical outcome measures like the Glasgow Coma Scale complicate this diversity. The large variability in s…

eess.IV2025

Multipath cycleGAN for harmonization of paired and unpaired low-dose lung computed tomography reconstruction kernels

Aravind R. Krishnan, Thomas Z. Li, Lucas W. Remedios +12

Reconstruction kernels in computed tomography (CT) affect spatial resolution and noise characteristics, introducing systematic variability in quantitative imaging measurements such…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

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,…

physics.med-ph2024

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…