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20232026
most citedPredicting Age from White Matter Diffusivity with Residual Learning

5 citations · 25 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

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

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…

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…

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★ 3 cited

Brain age identification from diffusion MRI synergistically predicts neurodegenerative disease

Chenyu Gao, Michael E. Kim, Karthik Ramadass +27

Estimated brain age from magnetic resonance image (MRI) and its deviation from chronological age can provide early insights into potential neurodegenerative diseases, supporting ea…

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,…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

Scalable quality control on processing of large diffusion-weighted and structural magnetic resonance imaging datasets

Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao, Karthik Ramadass +16

Proper quality control (QC) is time consuming when working with large-scale medical imaging datasets, yet necessary, as poor-quality data can lead to erroneous conclusions or poorl…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.DC2024★ 1 cited

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…

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…

eess.IV2024★ 1 cited

Data-driven Nucleus Subclassification on Colon H&E using Style-transferred Digital Pathology

Lucas W. Remedios, Shunxing Bao, Samuel W. Remedios +16

Understanding the way cells communicate, co-locate, and interrelate is essential to furthering our understanding of how the body functions. H&E is widely available, however, cell s…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

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…

q-bio.NC2024

Evaluation of Mean Shift, ComBat, and CycleGAN for Harmonizing Brain Connectivity Matrices Across Sites

Hanliang Xu, Nancy R. Newlin, Michael E. Kim +15

Connectivity matrices derived from diffusion MRI (dMRI) provide an interpretable and generalizable way of understanding the human brain connectome. However, dMRI suffers from inter…

eess.IV2023★ 5 cited

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…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

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…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

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…