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Accelerating 2D Abdominal Organ Segmentation with Active Learning

Dec. 10, 2021—Xin Yu, Yucheng Tang, Qi Yang, Ho Hin Lee, Shunxing Bao, Ann Zenobia Moore, Luigi Ferrucci, Bennett A. Landman   Abdominal computed tomography CT imaging enables assessment of body habitus and organ health. Quantification of these health factors necessitates semantic segmentation of key structures. Deep learning efforts have shown remarkable success in automating segmentation of...

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Quantification of muscle, bones and fat on single slice thigh CT

Dec. 10, 2021—Qi Yang, Xin Yu, Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Shunxing Bao, Kristofer S Gravenstein, Ann Zenobia Moore, Sokratis Makrogiannis ,Luigi Ferrucci , Bennett A Landman Abstract Muscle, bone, and fat segmentation of CT thigh slice is essential for body composition research. Voxel-wise image segmentation enables quantification of tissue properties including area, intensity and texture. Deep learning...

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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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Efficient Quality Control with Mixed CT and CTA Datasets

Dec. 10, 2021—Lucas W. Remedios, Leon Y. Cai, Colin B. Hansen, Samuel W. Remedios, Bennett A. Landman (2022). Efficient Quality Control with Mixed CT and CTA Datasets. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2022. Abstract Deep learning promises the extraction of valuable information from traumatic brain injury (TBI) datasets and depends on efficient navigation when using large-scale mixed computed tomography (CT) datasets from...

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Cancer Risk Estimation Combining Lung Screening CT with Clinical Data Elements

Dec. 9, 2021—Riqiang Gao, Yucheng Tang, Mirza S. Khan, Kaiwen Xu, Alexis B. Paulson, Shelbi Sullivan, Yuankai Huo, Stephen Deppen, Pierre P. Massion, Kim L. Sandler, Bennett A. Landman, Cancer Risk Estimation Combining Lung Screening CT with Clinical Data Elements, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence (2021). Full Text: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ryai.2021210032 Abstract Purpose: To develop a model to estimate lung cancer risk using lung...

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TractEM: Evaluation of protocols for deterministic tractography white matter atlas

Dec. 3, 2021—Rheault, Francois, Roza G. Bayrak, Xuan Wang, Kurt G. Schilling, Jasmine M. Greer, Colin B. Hansen, Cailey Kerley et al. “TractEM: Evaluation of protocols for deterministic tractography white matter atlas.” Magnetic Resonance Imaging 85 (2022): 44-56. Full Text Abstract   Purpose: One of the key challenges of the manual delineation of white matter pathways is human-rater’s subjectivity in labeling....

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MASiVar: Multisite, Multiscanner, and Multisubject Acquisitions for Studying Variability in Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Aug. 30, 2021—Leon Y. Cai, Qi Yang, Praitayini Kanakaraj, Vishwesh Nath, Allen T. Newton, Heidi A. Edmonson, Jeffrey Luci, Benjamin N. Conrad, Gavin R. Price, Colin B. Hansen, Cailey I. Kerley, Karthik Ramadass, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Hakmook Kang, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Maxime Descoteaux, Francois Rheault, Kurt G. Schilling, and Bennett A. Landman. MASiVar: Multisite, Multiscanner, and Multisubject Acquisitions for...

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Automated, open-source segmentation of the Hippocampus and amygdala with the open Vanderbilt archive of the temporal lobe

Aug. 28, 2021—Plassard, Andrew J., Shunxing Bao*, Maureen McHugo, Lori Beason-Held, Jennifer U. Blackford, Stephan Heckers, and Bennett A. Landman. “Automated, open-source segmentation of the Hippocampus and amygdala with the open Vanderbilt archive of the temporal lobe.” Magnetic Resonance Imaging 81 (2021): 17-23. Full text: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0730725X21000692 Abstract Examining volumetric differences of the amygdala and anterior-posterior regions of the...

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Technical Report: Quality Assessment Tool for Machine Learning with Clinical CT

Aug. 28, 2021—Riqiang Gao, Mirza S. Khan, Yucheng Tang, Kaiwen Xu, Steve Deppen, Yuankai Huo, Kim L. Sandler, Pierre P. Massion, Bennett A. Landman, Technical Report: Quality Assessment Tool for Machine Learning with Clinical CT, Technical report, 2021. Full text: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12842 Abstract Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is important for scientific inquiry, especially in medical imaging and machine learning....

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