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Short superficial white matter and aging: a longitudinal multi-site study of 1293 subjects and 2711 sessions

Aug. 31, 2023—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Francois Rheault, Ilwoo Lyu, Yuankai Huo, Leon Y Cai, Silvia A Bunge, Kevin S Weiner, John C Gore, Adam W Anderson, Bennett A Landman Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36817413/ Abstract It is estimated that short association fibers running immediately beneath the cortex may make up as much as 60% of the total white matter...

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Superficial white matter across development, young adulthood, and aging: volume, thickness, and relationship with cortical features

Aug. 31, 2023—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Francois Rheault, Ilwoo Lyu, Yuankai Huo, Leon Y Cai, Silvia A Bunge, Kevin S Weiner, John C Gore, Adam W Anderson, Bennett A Landman Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37074446 Abstract Superficial white matter (SWM) represents a significantly understudied part of the human brain, despite comprising a large portion of brain volume and making up...

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Exploratory multi-site magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging shows white matter neuroaxonal loss associated with complications of type 1 diabetes in children

Aug. 31, 2023—Cai LY, Tanase C, Anderson AW, Patel NJ, Lee CA, Jones RS, LeStourgeon LM, Mahon A, Taki I, Juvera J, Pruthi S, Gwal K, Ozturk A, Kang H, Rewers A, Rewers MJ, Alonso GT, Glaser N, Ghetti S, Jaser SS, Landman BA, Jordan LC Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37263786/ Abstract Background and purpose: Type 1 diabetes affects over 200,000...

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Body Composition Assessment with Limited Field-of-view Computed Tomography: A Semantic Image Extension Perspective. Medical Image Analysis

Aug. 31, 2023—Kaiwen Xu, Thomas Li, Mirza S. Khan, Riqiang Gao, Sanja L. Antic, Yuankai Huo, Kim L. Sandler, Fabien Maldonado, Bennett A. Landman Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841523001123 Code: https://github.com/MASILab/S-EFOV Abstract Field-of-view (FOV) tissue truncation beyond the lungs is common in routine lung screening computed tomography (CT). This poses limitations for opportunistic CT-based body composition (BC) assessment as key anatomical structures...

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AI Body Composition in Lung Cancer Screening: Added Value Beyond Lung Cancer Detection

Aug. 31, 2023—Kaiwen Xu, Mirza S. Khan, Thomas Z. Li, Riqiang Gao, James G. Terry, Yuankai Huo, Thomas A. Lasko, John Jeffrey Carr, Fabien Maldonado, Bennett A. Landman, Kim L. Sandler Paper: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/epdf/10.1148/radiol.222937 Abstract Background An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm has been developed for fully automated body composition assessment of lung cancer screening noncontrast low-dose CT of the...

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Semantic-Aware Contrastive Learning for Multi-object Medical Image Segmentation

Aug. 31, 2023—Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Qi Yang, Xin Yu, Leon Y. Cai, Lucas W. Remedios, Shunxing Bao, Bennett A. Landman, Yuankai Huo Paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10149329 Code: https://github.com/MASILab/DCC_CL Abstract Medical image segmentation, or computing voxel-wise semantic masks, is a fundamental yet challenging task in medical imaging domain. To increase the ability of encoder-decoder neural networks to perform this task...

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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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UNesT: Local Spatial Representation Learning with Hierarchical Transformer for Efficient Medical Segmentation

Aug. 31, 2023—Xin Yu, Qi Yang, Yinchi Zhou, Leon Y. Cai , Riqiang Gao, Ho Hin Lee, Thomas Li, Shunxing Bao, Zhoubing Xu, Thomas A. Lasko, Richard G. Abramson, Zizhao Zhang, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A. Landman, Yucheng Tang Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14378 Code: https://github.com/Project-MONAI/model-zoo/tree/dev/models Abstract Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional repre- sentation learning capabilities...

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Functional alterations in bipartite network of white and grey matters during aging

Aug. 31, 2023—Yurui Gao, Yu Zhao, Muwei Li, Richard D Lawless, Kurt G Schilling, Lyuan Xu, Andrea T Shafer, Lori L Beason-Held, Susan M Resnick, Baxter P Rogers, Zhaohua Ding, Adam W Anderson, Bennett A Landman, John C Gore. Paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37473978/ Abstract The effects of normal aging on functional connectivity (FC) within various brain networks of gray matter...

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Efficient approximate signal reconstruction for correction of gradient nonlinearities in diffusion-weighted imaging

Aug. 31, 2023—Praitayini Kanakaraj, Leon Y. Cai, Tianyuan Yao, Francois Rheault, Baxter P. Rogers, Adam Anderson, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman. Magn Reson Imaging. 2023 Oct Full Text Abstract In diffusion weighted MRI (DW-MRI), hardware nonlinearities lead to spatial variations in the orientation and magnitude of diffusion weighting. While the correction of these spatial distortions has...

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