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Diffusion Weighted MRI Category

A 4D atlas of diffusion-informed spatial smoothing windows for BOLD signal in white matter

Apr. 18, 2025—Adam M. Saunders, Gaurav Rudravaram, Nancy R. Newlin, Michael E. Kim, John C. Gore, Bennett A. Landman, and Yurui Gao. A 4D atlas of diffusion–informed spatial smoothing windows for BOLD signal in white matter. SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing, 2025, February, San Diego, California. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3047240 Abstract Typical methods for preprocessing functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI)...

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Scalable, reproducible, and cost-effective processing of large-scale medical imaging datasets

Apr. 13, 2025—Michael E. Kim, Karthik Ramadass, Chenyu Gao, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Nancy R. Newlin, Gaurav Rudravaram, Kurt G. Schilling, Blake E. Dewey, Derek Archer, Timothy J. Hohman, Zhiyuan Li, Shunxing Bao, Bennett A. Landman, and Nazirah Mohd Khairi. Scalable, reproducible, and cost-effective processing of large-scale medical imaging datasets. SPIE Medical Imaging: Imaging Informatics, 2025, February, San Diego,...

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Predicting Age from White Matter Diffusivity with Residual Learning

Dec. 1, 2023—Chenyu Gao, Michael E. Kim, Ho Hin Lee, Qi Yang, Nazirah Mohd Khairi, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Nancy R. Newlin, Derek B. Archer, Angela L. Jefferson, Warren D. Taylor, Brian D. Boyd, Lori L. Beason-Held, Susan M. Resnick, The BIOCARD Study Team, Yuankai Huo, Katherine D. Van Schaik, Kurt G. Schilling, Daniel Moyer, Ivana Išgum, Bennett A....

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Learning site-invariant features of connectomes to harmonize complex network measures

Dec. 1, 2023—Figure 1. Previous research elucidated that connectomes suffer from confounding site effects. In this work we propose a data-driven model to learn disjoint site (𝑐 = {1,2}) and biological features (siteless z) for BIOCARD (orange) and VMAP (blue) (left). We then inject a prescribed site, c’, to the learned representations to compute harmonized connectome modularity,...

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Short superficial white matter and aging: a longitudinal multi-site study of 1293 subjects and 2711 sessions

Aug. 31, 2023—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Francois Rheault, Ilwoo Lyu, Yuankai Huo, Leon Y Cai, Silvia A Bunge, Kevin S Weiner, John C Gore, Adam W Anderson, Bennett A Landman Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36817413/ Abstract It is estimated that short association fibers running immediately beneath the cortex may make up as much as 60% of the total white matter...

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Superficial white matter across development, young adulthood, and aging: volume, thickness, and relationship with cortical features

Aug. 31, 2023—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Francois Rheault, Ilwoo Lyu, Yuankai Huo, Leon Y Cai, Silvia A Bunge, Kevin S Weiner, John C Gore, Adam W Anderson, Bennett A Landman Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37074446 Abstract Superficial white matter (SWM) represents a significantly understudied part of the human brain, despite comprising a large portion of brain volume and making up...

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Efficient approximate signal reconstruction for correction of gradient nonlinearities in diffusion-weighted imaging

Aug. 31, 2023—Praitayini Kanakaraj, Leon Y. Cai, Tianyuan Yao, Francois Rheault, Baxter P. Rogers, Adam Anderson, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman. Magn Reson Imaging. 2023 Oct Full Text Abstract In diffusion weighted MRI (DW-MRI), hardware nonlinearities lead to spatial variations in the orientation and magnitude of diffusion weighting. While the correction of these spatial distortions has...

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Mapping the impact of nonlinear gradient fields with noise on diffusion MRI

Aug. 31, 2023—Praitayini Kanakaraj, Leon Y. Cai, Francois Rheault, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Baxter P. Rogers, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman (2023). Mapping the impact of nonlinear gradient fields with noise on diffusion MRI. Magn Reson Imaging. 2023 May Full Text Abstract In diffusion MRI, gradient nonlinearities cause spatial variations in the magnitude and direction of diffusion gradients. Studies...

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Denoising of diffusion MRI in the cervical spinal cord – effects of denoising strategy and acquisition on intra-cord contrast, signal modeling, and feature conspicuity

Aug. 31, 2023—Kurt Schilling, Shreyas Fadnavis, Joshua Batson, Mereze Visagie, Anna JE Combes, Colin D Mcknight, Francesca Bagnato, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Bennett A Landman, Seth A Smith, Kristin P O’Grady Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36543265/ Abstract Quantitative diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a promising technique for evaluating the spinal cord in health and disease. However, low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can impede interpretation and...

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Convolutional-recurrent neural networks approximate diffusion tractography from T1-weighted MRI and associated anatomical context

May. 29, 2023—Leon Y. Cai, Ho Hin Lee, Nancy R. Newlin, Cailey I. Kerley, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Qi Yang, Graham W. Johnson, Daniel Moyer, Kurt G. Schilling, François Rheault, and Bennett A. Landman Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.25.530046v2 Code: https://github.com/MASILab/cornn_tractography Abstract Diffusion MRI (dMRI) streamline tractography is the gold-standard for in vivo estimation of white matter (WM) pathways in the brain. However, the...

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