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Microstructural characterization of short association fibers related to long-range white matter tracts in normative development

Nov. 26, 2025—Chloe Cho, Maxime Chamberland, Francois Rheault, Daniel Moyer, Bennett A. Landman, Kurt G. Schilling. Microstructural characterization of short association fibers related to long-range white matter tracts in normative development. Human Brain Mapping. 2025;46(8):e70255. doi:10.1002/hbm.70255. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.70255   Abstract Short association fibers (SAFs) in the superficial white matter play a key role in mediating local cortical connections...

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Harmonized Connectome Resampling for Variance in Voxel Sizes

Nov. 24, 2025—Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), fiber orientation distributions (FODs), tractography, and connectomics present exciting opportunities to deepen our knowledge of human brain connectivity and discover novel alterations in white matter. To date, there has been no comprehensive study characterizing the effect of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) voxel resolution on the resulting connectome for high resolution...

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Sensitivity of Quantitative Diffusion MRI Tractography and Microstructure to Anisotropic Spatial Sampling

Nov. 24, 2025—Elyssa M. McMaster, Nancy R. Newlin, Chloe Cho, Gaurav Rudravaram, Adam M. Saunders, Aravind R. Krishnan, Lucas W. Remedios, Michael E. Kim, Hanliang Xu, Kurt G. Schilling, Francois Rheault, Laurie E. Cutting, and Bennett A. Landman. “Sensitivity of Quantitative Diffusion MRI Tractography and Microstructure to Anisotropic Spatial Sampling.” Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Volume 124 (December 2025)...

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Scalable quality control on processing of large diffusion-weighted and structural magnetic resonance imaging datasets

Aug. 28, 2025—Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao, Nancy R. Newlin, Gaurav Rudravaram, Aravind R. Krishnan, Karthik Ramadass, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Kurt G. Schilling, Blake E. Dewey, David A. Bennett, Sid O’Bryant, Robert C. Barber, Derek Archer, Timothy J. Hohman, Shunxing Bao, Zhiyuan Li, Bennett A. Landman, Nazirah Mohd Khairi, The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, The HABS-HD Study Team....

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MICCAI-CDMRI 2023 QuantConn Challenge Findings on Achieving Robust Quantitative Connectivity through Harmonized Preprocessing of Diffusion MRI

Sep. 3, 2024—Newlin, N. R., Schilling, K., Koudoro, S., Chandio, B. Q., Kanakaraj, P., Moyer, D., Kelly, C. E., Genc, S., Chen, J., Yang, J. Y.-M., Wu, Y., He, Y., Zhang, J., Zeng, Q., Zhang, F., Adluru, N., Nath, V., Pathak, S., Schneider, W., … Landman, B. A. (2024). MICCAI-CDMRI 2023 QuantConn Challenge Findings on Achieving Robust...

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Empirical Assessment of the Assumptions of ComBat with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

May. 24, 2024—Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao, Leon Y. Cai, Qi Yang, Nancy R. Newlin, Karthik Ramadass, Angela Jefferson, Derek Archer, Niranjana Shashikumar, Kimberly R. Pechman, Katherine A. Gifford, Timothy J. Hohman, Lori L. Beason-Held, Susan M. Resnick, Stefan Winzeck, Kurt G. Schilling, Panpan Zhang, Daniel Moyer, Bennett A. Landman, Empirical assessment of the assumptions of ComBat...

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Nonlinear Gradient Field Estimation in Diffusion MRI Tensor Simulation

Dec. 8, 2023—Praitayini Kanakaraj, Tianyuan Yao, Nancy R. Newlin, Leon Y. Cai, Kurt G. Schilling, Baxter P. Rogers, Adam Anderson, Daniel Moyer, Bennett A. Landman. “Nonlinear Gradient Field Estimation in Diffusion MRI Tensor Simulation”. Physics of Medical Imaging SPIE 2024. Accepted Abstract Gradient nonlinearities not only induce spatial distortion in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but also introduce...

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Characterizing Streamline Count Invariant Graph Measures of Structural Connectomes

Sep. 6, 2023—Nancy R. Newlin, Francois Rheault, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman. “Characterizing Streamline Count Invariant Graph Measures of Structural Connectomes” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. January 2023. Full Text Background While graph measures are used increasingly to characterize human connectomes, uncertainty remains in how to use these metrics in a quantitative and reproducible manner. Specifically, there is...

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Quantifying emphysema in lung screening computed tomography with robust automated lobe segmentation

Sep. 1, 2023—Thomas Z. Li, Ho Hin Lee, Kaiwen Xu, Riqiang Gao, Benoit M. Dawant, Fabien Maldonado, Kim L. Sandler, Bennett A. Landman. Journal of Medical Imaging 10(4), 044002 (2023), doi: 10.1117/1.JMI.10.4.044002. Full Text Abstract Introduction: Anatomy-based quantification of emphysema in a lung screening cohort has the potential to improve lung cancer risk stratification and risk communication....

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Distortion correction of functional MRI without reverse phase encoding scans or field maps

Aug. 31, 2023—Tian Yu, Leon Y. Cai, Salvatore Torrisi, An Thanh Vu, Victoria L. Morgan, Sarah E. Goodale, Karthik Ramadass, Steven L. Meisler, Jinglei Lv, Aaron E.L. Warren, Dario J. Englot, Laurie Cutting, Catie Chang, John C. Gore, Bennett A. Landman, Kurt G. Schilling Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0730725X23001121 Code: https://github.com/MASILab/SynBOLD-DisCo Abstract Functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) acquired using echo planar sequences...

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