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Diffusion Weighted MRI Category

White matter micro- and macrostructure brain charts for the human lifespan

May. 21, 2026—Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao, Karthik Ramadass, Nancy R. Newlin, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Sam Bogdanov, Gaurav Rudravaram, Derek Archer, Timothy J. Hohman, Angela L. Jefferson, Victoria L. Morgan, Alexandra Roche, Dario J. Englot, Susan M. Resnick, Lori L. Beason Held, Laurie E. Cutting, Laura A. Barquero, Micah A. D’archangel, Tin Q. Nguyen, Kathryn L. Humphreys, Yanbin...

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Analytic Bounds on GAMLSS Model Variability of Normative White Matter Brain Charts

May. 6, 2026—Michael E. Kim, Gaurav Rudravaram, Adam Saunders, Chenyu Gao, Karthik Ramadass, Nancy R. Newlin, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Sam Bogdanov, Derek Archer, Timothy J. Hohman, Angela L. Jefferson, Victoria L. Morgan, Alexandra Roche, Dario J. Englot, Susan M. Resnick, Lori L. Beason Held, Murat Bilgel, Laurie E. Cutting, Laura A. Barquero, Micah A. D’Archangel, Tin Q. Nguyen,...

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Brain age identification from diffusion MRI synergistically predicts neurodegenerative disease

Dec. 8, 2025—Chenyu Gao, Michael E Kim, Karthik Ramadass, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Aravind R Krishnan, Adam M Saunders, Nancy R Newlin, Ho Hin Lee, Qi Yang, Warren D Taylor, Brian D Boyd, Lori L Beason-Held, Susan M Resnick, Lisa L Barnes, David A Bennett, Marilyn S Albert, Katherine D Van Schaik, Derek B Archer, Timothy J Hohman, Angela...

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

Dec. 2, 2025—Adam M. Saunders, Lucas W. Remedios, Elyssa M. McMaster, Jongyeon Yoon, Gaurav Rudravaram, Adam Sadriddinov, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Bennett A. Landman, and Adam W. Anderson. DeepFixel: Crossing white matter fiber identification through spherical convolutional neural networks. Accepted to SPIE Medical Imaging: Clinical and Biomedical Imaging, February 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03893   Abstract Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging allows for...

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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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Field-of-view extension for brain diffusion MRI via deep generative models

Jul. 1, 2024—Chenyu Gao, Shunxing Bao, Michael E Kim, Nancy R Newlin, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Tianyuan Yao, Gaurav Rudravaram, Yuankai Huo, Daniel Moyer, Kurt Schilling, Walter A Kukull, Arthur W Toga, Derek B Archer, Timothy J Hohman, Bennett A Landman, Zhiyuan Li. “Field-of-view extension for brain diffusion MRI via deep generative models”. Journal of Medical Imaging 11 (4),...

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Characterizing patterns of diffusion tensor imaging variance in aging brains

Jul. 1, 2024—Chenyu Gao, Qi Yang, Michael E Kim, Nazirah Mohd Khairi, Leon Y Cai, Nancy R Newlin, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Lucas W Remedios, Aravind R Krishnan, Xin Yu, Tianyuan Yao, Panpan Zhang, Kurt G Schilling, Daniel Moyer, Derek B Archer, Susan M Resnick, Bennett A Landman, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the BIOCARD Study team. “Characterizing...

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Assessment of subject head motion in diffusion MRI

Apr. 2, 2024—Ema Topolnjak, Chenyu Gao, Lori L Beason-Held, Susan M Resnick, Kurt G Schilling, Bennett A Landman. “Assessment of subject head motion in diffusion MRI”. Medical Imaging 2024: Image Processing 12926, 327-334, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3006633 Abstract Subject head motion during the acquisition of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of the brain induces artifacts and affects image quality. Information about the...

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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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