Diffusion Weighted MRI Category

Roadmap of the challenges of microstructure biophysical modeling. The main objective of this review is to propose a roadmap for development of a reliable biophysical model of diffusion in a given tissue. Discrete steps along this course are shown above, although the entire process is very much a continuous and iterative process of validation, adaptation, and application

Challenges for biophysical modeling of microstructure

Dec. 9, 2020—Ileana O. Jelescu, Marco Palombo, Francesca Bagnato, Kurt G. Schilling. “Challenges for biophysical modeling of microstructure”. (2020) Journal of Neuroscience Methods 108861. Full text: https: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165027020302843 Abstract The biophysical modeling efforts in diffusion MRI have grown considerably over the past 25 years. In this review, we dwell on the various challenges along the journey of...

Experimental workflow and generation of Pandora atlases. Data from three repositories (HCP, BLSA, and VU) were curated. Subject-level
processing includes tractography and registration to MNI space. Volumetric atlases for each set of bundle definitions is created by population-averaging
in standard space. Point clouds are displayed which allow qualitative visualization of probability densities of a number of fiber pathways. Finally, surface
atlases are created by assigning indices to the vertices of the MNI template white matter/gray matter boundary.

Pandora: 4-D White Matter Bundle Population-Based Atlases Derived from Diffusion MRI Fiber Tractography

Nov. 29, 2020—Colin B. Hansen, Qi Yang, Ilwoo Lyu, Francois Rheault, Cailey Kerley, Bramsh Qamar Chandio, Shreyas Fadnavis, Owen Williams, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, David H. Zald, Laurie E. Cutting, Warren D. Taylor, Brian Boyd, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Adam W. Anderson, Maxime Descoteaux, Bennett A. Landman, Kurt G. Schilling. Pandora: 4-D White Matter Bundle Population-Based Atlases Derived from Diffusion MRI Fiber Tractography. Neuroinform (2020). Full Text Abstract Brain atlases have proven to be valuable neuroscience tools for...

Figure 6. The absolute percent error (APE) in MD is shown for the human subject with one session acquired at isocenter on scanner A and another acquired 6cm superior from isocenter on scanner B. The top plot shows the sagittal and coronal view of the b0 from each session to demonstrate the shift within the scanner. The bottom plots show the APE for nine saggital slices before correction, after correction using the estimated fields, and after correction using the manufacturer specifications. The error before correction is most prominent in the superior regions of the phantom as those were the furthest from isocenter during the second acquisition.

Empirical field mapping for gradient nonlinearity correction of multi-site diffusion weighted MRI

Nov. 25, 2020—Colin B. Hansen, Baxter P. Rogers, Kurt G. Schilling, Vishwesh Nath, Justin A. Blaber, Okan Irfanoglu, Alan Barnett, Carlo Pierpaoli, Adam W. Anderson, Bennett A. Landman. “Empirical field mapping for gradient nonlinearity correction of multi-site diffusion weighted MRI.” Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2020. Full Text Abstract Background: Achieving inter-site / inter-scanner reproducibility of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance...

Joint cortical surface and structural connectivity analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease

Nov. 20, 2020—Leon Y. Cai, Cailey I. Kerley, Chang Yu, Katherine S. Aboud, Lori L. Beason-Held, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, Lori C. Jordan, Adam W. Anderson, Kurt G. Schilling, Ilwoo Lyu, Bennett A. Landman. Joint cortical surface and structural connectivity analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2021. Full Text: NIHMSID Abstract Joint independent component...

Joint analysis of structural connectivity and cortical surface features: correlates with mild traumatic brain injury

Nov. 18, 2020—Cailey I. Kerley, Leon Y. Cai, Chang Yu, Logan M. Crawford, Jason M. Elenberger, Eden S. Singh, Kurt G. Schilling, Katherine S. Aboud, Bennett A. Landman, Tonia S. Rex, “Joint analysis of connectivity and cortical surface features: correlates with mild traumatic brain injury.” (2021, Feb) SPIE Medical Imaging. San Diego, CA. (Accepted) Full text: NIHMSID, arXiv...

Figure 4. The response function varies across brain regions. Three locations in the same monkey brain (monkey #2) are shown, along with the histological fiber orientation distribution, signal, and derived response function for all 9 voxels. In addition, the average response function for each z-stack is shown in two views.

Histologically derived fiber response functions for diffusion MRI vary across white matter fibers – an ex vivo validation study in the squirrel monkey brain

Aug. 25, 2020—Kurt G Schilling, Yurui Gao, Iwona Stepniewska, Vaibhav Janve, Bennett A. Landman, Adam W. Anderson. “Histologically derived fiber response functions for diffusion MRI vary across white matter fibers – an ex vivo validation study in the squirrel monkey brain”. NMR in Biomedicine. 2019 Jun;32(6):e4090. doi: 10.1002/nbm.4090. Epub 2019 Mar 25. Full text: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30908803/ Abstract Understanding the...

Fig 8. External dataset validation.
External validation of corrected b0’s after applying the synthesized b0 distortion correction pipeline with data from open-sourced studies. The distorted (“D”) and undistorted (“U”) b0 images are shown alongside T1 images. In all cases, effective distortion correction is visually apparent (distortions indicated by arrows).

Distortion correction of diffusion weighted MRI without reverse phase-encoding scans or field-maps

Aug. 25, 2020—Kurt G Schilling*, Justin Blaber*, Colin Hansen, Leon Cai, Baxter Rogers, Adam W Anderson, Seth A Smith, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Tonia Rex, Susan M. Resnick, Andrea T. Shafer, Laurie Cutting, Neil Woodward, David Zald, Bennett A Landman.“ Distortion correction of diffusion weighted MRI without reverse phase-encoding scans or field-maps ”. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0236418. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236418 Full text: https:...

Different classes of methods have been used to infer tissue microstructure from single shell and multi shell DW-MRI data. The gap addressed herein is in data-driven machine learning models for multi-shell DW-MRI data.

Enabling Multi-shell b-Value Generalizability of Data-Driven Diffusion Models with Deep SHORE

Jan. 17, 2020—Nath V, Lyu I, Schilling KG, Parvathaneni P, Hansen CB, Huo Y, Janve VA, Gao Y, Stepniewska I, Anderson AW, Landman BA. Enabling Multi-shell b-Value Generalizability of Data-Driven Diffusion Models with Deep SHORE. In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 2019 Oct 13 (pp. 573-581). Springer, Cham. Full text: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1907/1907.06319.pdf Abstract Intra-voxel...

The base regression neural network is depicted in the center which describes the parameters of the fullyconnected dense layers with respective activation functions. The plot at left: Depicts three inputs where the center input
comes from corresponding DW-MRI with histology. The other two are pairwise inputs from corresponding voxels of
scanner 1.5T and 3T. The plot at right: Depicts the loss function which uses the hypothesis that the outcome/prediction
should be same irrespective of the scanner gradient strength.

Harmonizing 1.5 T/3T diffusion weighted MRI through development of deep learning stabilized microarchitecture estimators

Jan. 17, 2020—Nath V, Remedios S, Parvathaneni P, Hansen CB, Bayrak RG, Bermudez C, Blaber JA, Schilling KG, Janve VA, Gao Y, Huo Y. Harmonizing 1.5 T/3T diffusion weighted MRI through development of deep learning stabilized microarchitecture estimators. In Medical Imaging 2019: Image Processing 2019 Mar 15 (Vol. 10949, p. 109490O). International Society for Optics and Photonics....

Violin plots of intrasession submissions across both the scanners per tract. (A) Dice similarity coefficients, (B) intraclass correlation coefficients. The top row depicts the median of the top five intrasession submissions. The tracts are in the following order (L/R): a) Uncinate, b) Fornix, c) Fminor & Fmajor, d) Cingulum, e) Corticospinal tract, f) Inferior longitudinal fasciculus, g) Superior longitudinal fasciculus, h) Inferior fronto‐occipital tract.

Tractography reproducibility challenge with empirical data (TRAceD): The 2017 ISMRM diffusion study group challenge

Jan. 17, 2020—Nath V, Schilling KG, Parvathaneni P, Huo Y, Blaber JA, Hainline AE, Barakovic M, Romascano D, Rafael‐Patino J, Frigo M, Girard G. Tractography reproducibility challenge with empirical data (traced): The 2017 ISMRM diffusion study group challenge. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2020 Jan;51(1):234-49. Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31179595 Abstract BACKGROUND: Fiber tracking with diffusion-weighted MRI has become an...

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