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Quantifying muscle tissue properties is crucial for understanding pathophysiological changes occurring in skeletal muscle (SM). In particular, T2 relaxation and diffusion MRI (dMRI) are promising techniques. However, typical methods measure…
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The eigenvalue statistics for complex $N \times N$ Wishart matrices $X_{r,s}^\dagger X_{r,s}$, where $ X_{r,s}$ is equal to the product of $r$ complex Gaussian matrices, and the inverse of $s$ complex Gaussian matrices, are considered. In…
Diffusion tensor imaging provides increased sensitivity to microstructural tissue changes compared to conventional anatomical imaging but also presents limited specificity. To tackle this problem, the DIAMOND model subdivides the voxel…
Mild traumatic brain injury is a growing public health problem with an estimated incidence of over 1.7 million people annually in US. Diagnosis is based on clinical history and symptoms, and accurate, concrete measures of injury are…
Incoherent Diffraction Imaging - IDI - is a diffraction-based imaging technique that has been recently proposed to exploit the partial coherence of incoherently scattered light to retrieve structural information from the scattering centers.…
Tract-specific diffusion measures, as derived from brain diffusion MRI, have been linked to white matter tract structural integrity and neurodegeneration. As a consequence, there is a large interest in the automatic segmentation of white…
Speech-driven 3D facial animation has been an attractive task in both academia and industry. Traditional methods mostly focus on learning a deterministic mapping from speech to animation. Recent approaches start to consider the…
The correlated Wishart model provides the standard benchmark when analyzing time series of any kind. Unfortunately, the real case, which is the most relevant one in applications, poses serious challenges for analytical calculations. Often…
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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are a powerful yet underexplored class of generative models compared to U-Net-based diffusion architectures. We propose TIDE-Temporal-aware sparse autoencoders for Interpretable Diffusion transformErs-a…
Expansion of diffusion MRI (dMRI) both into the realm of strong gradients, and into accessible imaging with portable low-field devices, brings about the challenge of gradient nonlinearities. Spatial variations of the diffusion gradients…
We compute the asymptotic empirical eigenvalue distribution of the matrix $M = \bigodot_{i=1}^k \frac{1}{d_i}X^{(i)}{X^{(i)}}^\top$ where $X^{(i)}\in\mathbb{R}^{n\times d_i}$ are independent matrices with independent rows but general…
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Learning-based Text-to-Image (TTI) models like Stable Diffusion have revolutionized the way visual content is generated in various domains. However, recent research has shown that nonnegligible social bias exists in current state-of-the-art…
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in the female breast is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, which may potentially replace or effectively complement both x-ray mammography and contrast-enhanced MR mammography. To further improve…