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July, 2022

The influence of regions of interest on tractography virtual dissection protocols: general principles to learn and to follow

Jul. 26, 2022—Rheault, Francois, Kurt G. Schilling, Sami Obaid, John P. Begnoche, Laurie E. Cutting, Maxime Descoteaux, Bennett A. Landman, and Laurent Petit. “The influence of regions of interest on tractography virtual dissection protocols: general principles to learn and to follow.” Brain Structure and Function (2022): 1-17. Full Text Abstract Purpose: Efficient communication across fields of research is challenging, especially...

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Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Swin Transformers for 3D Medical Image Analysis

Jul. 25, 2022—Tang, Yucheng, Dong Yang, Wenqi Li, Holger R. Roth, Bennett Landman, Daguang Xu, Vishwesh Nath, and Ali Hatamizadeh. “Self-supervised pre-training of swin transformers for 3d medical image analysis.” In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 20730-20740. 2022. Full text:  Abstract Vision Transformers (ViT)s have shown great performance in self-supervised...

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Label efficient segmentation of single slice thigh CT with two-stage pseudo labels

Jul. 25, 2022—Qi Yang, Xin Yu, Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Shunxing Bao,Kristofer S. Gravenstein, Ann Zenobia Moore, Sokratis Makrogiannis, Luigi Ferrucci, and Bennett A. Landman. “Label efficient segmentation of single slice thigh CT with two-stage pseudo labels” Journal of Medical Imaging, 2022 Purpose: Muscle, bone, and fat segmentation from thigh images is essential for quantifying body...

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Reducing Positional Variance in Cross-sectional Abdominal CT Slices with Deep Conditional Generative Models

Jul. 25, 2022—Xin Yu*, Qi Yang*, Yucheng Tang, Riqiang Gao, Shunxing Bao, Leon Y. Cai, Ho Hin Lee, Ann Zenobia Moore, Luigi Ferrucci, Bennett A. Landman, “Reducing Positional Variance in Cross-sectional Abdominal CT Slices with Deep Conditional Generative Models”, MICCAI 2022   2D low-dose single-slice abdominal computed tomography (CT) slice enables direct measurements of body composition, which...

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Workflow Integration of Research AI Tools into a Hospital Radiology Rapid Prototyping Environment

Jul. 25, 2022—Praitayini Kanakaraj, Karthik Ramadas, Shunxing Bao, Melissa Basford, Laura M. Jones, Ho Hin Lee, Kurt G. Schilling, John Jeffery Carr, James Gregory Terry, Yuankai Huo, Kim Lori Sandler, Allen T. Netwon, Bennett A. Landman “Workflow Integration of Research AI Tools into a Hospital Radiology Rapid Prototyping Environment”. Journal of Digital Imaging (2022): 1-11. Full Text...

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Aging and white matter microstructure and macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants

Jul. 25, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Francois Rheault, Leon Cai, Colin Hansen, Qi Yang, Andrea Shafer, Susan Resnick, Kimberly R. Pechman, Katherine A. Gifford, Timothy J. Hohman, Angela Jefferson, Adam W Anderson, Hakmook Kang, Bennett A Landman, Aging and white matter microstructure and microstructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1,184 participants. Brain...

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Contrastive semi-supervised harmonization of single-shell to multi-shell diffusion MRI

Jul. 25, 2022—Colin B. Hansen, Kurt G. Schilling, Francois Rheault, Susan Resnick, Andrea T. Shafer, Lori L. Beason-Held, Bennett A. Landmƒan. “Contrastive semi-supervised harmonization of single-shell to multi-shell diffusion MRI.” Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2022). Full Text Abstract Diffusion weighted MRI (DW-MRI) harmonization is necessary for multi-site or multi-acquisition studies. Current statistical methods address the need to harmonize...

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Generalizing deep learning brain segmentation for skull removal and intracranial measurements

Jul. 25, 2022—Yue Liu, Yuankai Huo, Blake Dewey, Ying Wei, Ilwoo Lyu, Bennett A. Landman ,“Generalizing deep learning brain segmentation for skull removal and intracranial measurements.”Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Volume 88, May 2022, Pages 44-52 Full Text Abstract Total intracranial volume (TICV) and posterior fossa volume (PFV) are essential covariates for brain volumetric analyses with structural magnetic resonanceimaging...

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