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PreQual: An automated pipeline for integrated preprocessing and quality assurance of diffusion weighted MRI images

Jun. 23, 2021—Leon Y. Cai, Qi Yang, Colin B. Hansen, Vishwesh Nath, Karthik Ramadass, Graham W. Johnson, Benjamin N. Conrad, Brian D. Boyd, John P. Begnoche, Lori L. Beason-Held, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, Warren D. Taylor, Gavin R. Price, Victoria L. Morgan, Baxter P. Rogers, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman. PreQual: An automated pipeline...

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Labeling Lateral Prefrontal Sulci using Spherical Data Augmentation and Context-aware Training

Apr. 1, 2021—Ilwoo Lyu, Shunxing Bao, Lingyan Hao, Jewelia Yao, Jacob Miller, Willa Voorhies, Warren Taylor, Silvia Bunge, Kevin Weiner, Bennett Landman. “Labeling Lateral Prefrontal Sulci using Spherical Data Augmentation and Context-aware Training”. NeuroImage, 229, 117758, 2021. [Full text][Code] Abstract The inference of cortical sulcal labels often focuses on deep (primary and secondary) sulcal regions, whereas shallow...

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Body Part Regression With Self-Supervision

Jan. 14, 2021—Y.Tang, R.Gao, S.Han, Y.Chen, D.Gao, V.Nath, C.Bermudez, M.R. Savona, R.G. Abramson, S.Bao,I.Lyu, Y.Huo and B.A. Landman,”Body Part Regression with Self-supervision”,IEEETransactions onMedicalImaging,2021 Full Text:  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9350603 Abstract Body part regression is a promising new technique that enables content navigation through selfsupervised learning. Using this technique, the global quantitative spatial location for each axial view slice is obtained...

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RAP-Net: Coarse-to-Fine Multi-Organ Segmentation with Single Random Anatomical Prior

Dec. 28, 2020—Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Shunxing Bao, Richard G. Abramson, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A. Landman. “RAP-Net: Coarse-to-Fine Multi-Organ Segmentation with Single Random Anatomical Prior.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12425 (2020). Full Text Abstract Performing coarse-to-fine abdominal multi-organ segmentation facilitates to extract high-resolution segmentation minimizing the lost of spatial contextual information. However, current coarse-to-refine approaches require a significant number of models...

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Multi-Contrast Computed Tomography Healthy Kidney Atlas

Dec. 28, 2020—Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Kaiwen Xu, Shunxing Bao, Agnes B. Fogo, Raymond Harris, Mark P. de Caestecker, Mattias Heinrich, Jeffery M. Spraggins, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A. Landman, “Multi-Contrast Computed Tomography Healthy Kidney Atlas.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.12432 (2020). Full Text Abstract The construction of three-dimensional multi-modal tissue maps provides an opportunity to spur interdisciplinary innovations across temporal and...

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Generalizing deep whole-brain segmentation for post-contrast MRI with transfer learning

Dec. 26, 2020—Bermudez, C., Remedios, S. W., Ramadass, K., McHugo, M., Heckers, S., Huo, Y., & Landman, B. A. (2020). Generalizing deep whole-brain segmentation for post-contrast MRI with transfer learning. Journal of Medical Imaging, 7(6), 064004. Full Text: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33381612/ Abstract Purpose: Generalizability is an important problem in deep neural networks, especially with variability of data acquisition in...

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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...

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Prediction of Type II Diabetes Onset with Computed Tomography and Electronic Medical Records

Dec. 7, 2020—Yucheng Tang, Riqiang Gao, Ho Hin Lee, Quinn Stanton Wells, Ashley Spann, James Gregory Terry, Jeff Carr, Yuankai Huo, Shunxing Bao and Bennett A. Landman, “Prediction of Type II Diabetes Onset with Computed Tomography and Electronic Medical Records”, MICCAI CLIP, 2020. Full Text: Abstract Type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a significant public health concern...

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Learning from dispersed manual annotations with an optimized data weighting policy

Dec. 7, 2020—Yucheng Tang, Riqiang Gao, Yunqiang Chen, Dashan Gao, Michael R. Savona, Richard G. Abramson, Shunxing Bao, Yuankai Huo and Bennett A. Landman, “Learning from Dispersed Manual Annotations with an Optimized Data Weighting Policy”, Journal of Medical Imaging, 2020. Full Text: Abstract https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32775501/ Purpose: Deep learning methods have become essential tools for quantitative interpretation of medical...

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Construction of a Multi-Phase Contrast Computed Tomography Kidney Atlas

Dec. 6, 2020—Ho Hin Lee, Yucheng Tang, Kaiwen Xu, Shunxing Bao, Agnes B. Fogo, Raymond Harris, Mark P. de Caestecker, Mattias Heinrich, Jeffrey Spraggins, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A, Landman, Construction of a Multi-Phase Contrast Computed Tomography Kidney Atlas, SPIE 2021 Medical Imaging Full Text Abstract The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP) seeks to create a molecular atlas at the cellular level of...

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