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Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) is an important imaging technology used to evaluate the microstructure of brain tissue, which is of great significance for the discovery and treatment of various neurological…
When data is transmitted by encoding it in the amplitude of the transmitted signal, such as in Amplitude Shift Keying, the receiver makes a decision on the transmitted data by observing the amplitude of the received signal. Depending on the…
Connectivity information derived from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images~(DW-MRIs) plays an important role in studying human subcortical gray matter structures. However, due to the $O(N^2)$ complexity of computing the connectivity…
Functional connectivity (FC) refers to the investigation of interactions between brain regions to understand integration of neural activity in several regions. FC is often estimated using functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI). There…
Previous simulation studies by Menzel et al. [Phys. Rev. X 10, 021002 (2020)] have shown that scattering patterns of light transmitted through artificial nerve fiber constellations contain valuable information about the tissue substructure…
The growing use of neuroimaging technologies generates a massive amount of biomedical data that exhibit high dimensionality. Tensor-based analysis of brain imaging data has been proved quite effective in exploiting their multiway nature.…
Diffusion MRI offers a unique probe into neural microstructure and connectivity in the developing brain. However, analysis of neonatal brain imaging data is complicated by inevitable subject motion, leading to a series of scattered slices…
In this paper, we implement an optical fiber communication system as an end-to-end deep neural network, including the complete chain of transmitter, channel model, and receiver. This approach enables the optimization of the transceiver in a…
Purpose: To estimate fiber-specific $T_1$ values, i.e. proxies for myelin content, in heterogeneous brain tissue. Methods: A diffusion-$T_1$ correlation experiment was carried out on an in vivo human brain using tensor-valued diffusion…
In natural vision, feedback connections support versatile visual inference capabilities such as making sense of the occluded or noisy bottom-up sensory information or mediating pure top-down processes such as imagination. However, the…
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DMRI) is the only non-invasive imaging technique which is able to detect the principal directions of water diffusion as well as neurites density in the human brain. Exploiting the ability of Spherical…
Constellation shaping is a practical and effective technique to improve the performance and the rate adaptivity of optical communication systems. In principle, it could also be used to mitigate the impact of nonlinear effects, possibly…
Diffusion MRI tractography is an advanced imaging technique for quantitative mapping of the brain's structural connectivity. Whole brain tractography (WBT) data contains over hundreds of thousands of individual fiber streamlines (estimated…
Fiber tractography on diffusion imaging data offers rich potential for describing white matter pathways in the human brain, but characterizing the spatial organization in these large and complex data sets remains a challenge. We show that…
Coherent fading has been regarded as a critical issue in phase-sensitive optical frequency domain reflectometry ({\phi}-OFDR) based distributed fiber-optic sensing. Here, we report on an approach for fading noise suppression in {\phi}-OFDR…
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is the only non-invasive approach for estimation of intra-voxel tissue microarchitecture and reconstruction of in vivo neural pathways for the human brain. With improvement in…
When handling real-world data modeled by a complex network dynamical system, the number of the parameters is always even much more than the size of the data. Therefore, in many cases, it is impossible to estimate these parameters and…
The widespread adoption of machine learning and other matrix intensive computing algorithms has inspired renewed interest in analog optical computing, which has the potential to perform large-scale matrix multiplications with superior…
The individual course of white matter fiber tracts is an important key for analysis of white matter characteristics in healthy and diseased brains. Uniquely, diffusion-weighted MRI tractography in combination with region-based or…
Beam alignment enables efficient, stable transmission and control of optical energy and information, which critically depend on precise monitoring and regulation of the three-dimensional (3D) relative positioning between fibers. This study…