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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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Implementation considerations for deep learning with diffusion MRI streamline tractography

May. 29, 2023—Leon Y. Cai, Ho Hin Lee, Nancy R. Newlin, Michael E. Kim, Daniel Moyer, Francois Rheault, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.03.535465v1 Code: https://github.com/MASILab/STrUDeL Abstract One area of medical imaging that has recently experienced innovative deep learning advances is diffusion MRI (dMRI) streamline tractography with recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Unlike traditional imaging studies which...

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

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Francois Rheault, Leon Cai, Colin Hansen, Qi Yang, Karthik Ramdass, 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 macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants.” Brain...

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Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single diffusion MRI voxel orientation: the bottleneck issue in tractography

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G. Schilling, Chantal M.W. Tax, Francois Rheault, Bennett Landman, Adam Anderson, Maxime Descoteaux*, Laurent Petit*. “Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single diffusion MRI voxel orientation: the bottleneck issue in tractography”. Human Brain Mapping 43(4), 1196-1213. (2022) Full Text Abstract Characterizing and understanding the limitations of diffusion MRI fiber tractography is a...

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Tractography dissection variability: what happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Francois Rheault, Laurent Petit, Colin B Hansen, Vishwesh Nath, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Gabriel Girard, Muhamed Barakovic, Jonathan Rafael-Patino, Thomas Yu, Elda Fischi-Gomez, Marco Pizzolato, Riccardo Galbusera, Mario Ocampo-Pineda, Simona Schiavi, Erick J Canales-Rodriguez, Alessandro Daducci, Cristina Granziera, Giorgio Innocenti, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Laura Mancini, Stephen Wastling, Sirio Cocozza, Maria Petracca, Giuseppe Pontillo, Matteo Mancini,...

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SynBOLD-DisCo: Synthetic BOLD images for distortion correction of fMRI without additional calibration scans

Nov. 13, 2022—Tian Yu*, Leon Y. Cai*, Victoria L. Morgan, Sarah E. Goodale, Dario J. Englot, Catherine E. Chang, Bennett A. Landman, and Kurt G. Schilling * Equal first authorship https://github.com/MASILab/SynBOLD-DisCo Abstract The blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a noninvasive technique that has been widely used in research to...

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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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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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Joint independent component analysis for hypothesizing spatiotemporal relationships between longitudinal gray and white matter changes in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

Dec. 10, 2021—Leon Y. Cai, Francois Rheault, Cailey I. Kerley, Katherine S. Aboud, Lori L. Beason-Held, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, Lori C. Jordan, Adam W. Anderson, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman Abstract Characterizing relationships between gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) in early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) would improve understanding of how and...

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Multimodal neuroimaging in pediatric type 1 diabetes: a pilot multisite feasibility study of acquisition quality, motion, and variability

Dec. 10, 2021—Leon Y. Cai, Costin Tanase, Adam W. Anderson, Karthik Ramadass, Francois Rheault, Chelsea A. Lee, Niral J. Patel, Sky Jones, Lauren M. LeStourgeon, Alix Mahon, Sumit Pruthi, Kriti Gwal, Arzu Ozturk, Hakmook Kang, Nicole Glaser, Simona Ghetti, Sarah S. Jaser, Lori C. Jordan, and Bennett A. Landman Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects over 200,000...

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