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most citedBrain age identification from diffusion MRI synergistically predicts neurodegenerative disease

3 citations · 8 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

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…

cs.AI2026

An Artifact-based Agent Framework for Adaptive and Reproducible Medical Image Processing

Lianrui Zuo, Yihao Liu, Gaurav Rudravaram +15

Medical imaging research is increasingly shifting from controlled benchmark evaluation toward real-world clinical deployment. In such settings, applying analytical methods extends…

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…

cs.CV2025

Self-supervised learning of imaging and clinical signatures using a multimodal joint-embedding predictive architecture

Thomas Z. Li, Aravind R. Krishnan, Lianrui Zuo +5

The development of multimodal models for pulmonary nodule diagnosis is limited by the scarcity of labeled data and the tendency for these models to overfit on the training distribu…

cs.CV2025

Lifespan Pancreas Morphology for Control vs Type 2 Diabetes using AI on Largescale Clinical Imaging

Lucas W. Remedios, Chloe Cho, Trent M. Schwartz +11

Purpose: Understanding how the pancreas changes is critical for detecting deviations in type 2 diabetes and other pancreatic disease. We measure pancreas size and shape using morph…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Data-Driven Abdominal Phenotypes of Type 2 Diabetes in Lean, Overweight, and Obese Cohorts

Lucas W. Remedios, Chloe Cho, Trent M. Schwartz +10

Purpose: Although elevated BMI is a well-known risk factor for type 2 diabetes, the disease's presence in some lean adults and absence in others with obesity suggests that detailed…

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.IV2025

Investigating the impact of kernel harmonization and deformable registration on inspiratory and expiratory chest CT images for people with COPD

Aravind R. Krishnan, Yihao Liu, Kaiwen Xu +9

Paired inspiratory-expiratory CT scans enable the quantification of gas trapping due to small airway disease and emphysema by analyzing lung tissue motion in COPD patients. Deforma…

cs.CV2025

Robust Body Composition Analysis by Generating 3D CT Volumes from Limited 2D Slices

Lianrui Zuo, Xin Yu, Dingjie Su +7

Body composition analysis provides valuable insights into aging, disease progression, and overall health conditions. Due to concerns of radiation exposure, two-dimensional (2D) sin…

cs.CV2025

Beyond the Lungs: Extending the Field of View in Chest CT with Latent Diffusion Models

Lianrui Zuo, Kaiwen Xu, Dingjie Su +8

The interconnection between the human lungs and other organs, such as the liver and kidneys, is crucial for understanding the underlying risks and effects of lung diseases and impr…

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,…

eess.IV2024★ 3 cited

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…

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…

q-bio.QM2024

No winners: Performance of lung cancer prediction models depends on screening-detected, incidental, and biopsied pulmonary nodule use cases

Thomas Z. Li, Kaiwen Xu, Aravind Krishnan +14

Statistical models for predicting lung cancer have the potential to facilitate earlier diagnosis of malignancy and avoid invasive workup of benign disease. Many models have been pu…

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…