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Monitoring diseases that affect the brain's structural integrity requires automated analysis of magnetic resonance (MR) images, e.g., for the evaluation of volumetric changes. However, many of the evaluation tools are optimized for…
The displacement distribution of a water molecular is characterized mathematically as Gaussianity without considering potential diffusion barriers and compartments. However, this is not true in real scenario: most biological tissues are…
Promising results have been reported in quantifying microstructural parameters (free diffusivity, cell size, and membrane permeability) in head and neck cancers (HNCs) using time-dependent diffusion MRI fitted to Random Walk with Barrier…
This paper demonstrates spherical convolutional neural networks (S-CNN) offer distinct advantages over conventional fully-connected networks (FCN) at estimating scalar parameters of tissue microstructure from diffusion MRI (dMRI). Such…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…
Purpose: Biophysical tissue models are increasingly used in the interpretation of diffusion MRI (dMRI) data, with the potential to provide specific biomarkers of brain microstructural changes. However, the general Standard Model has…
Magnetic Resonance Elastography allows noninvasive visualization of tissue mechanical properties by measuring the displacements resulting from applied stresses, and fitting a mechanical model. Poroelasticity naturally lends itself to…
Prior work on the Image Quality Transfer on Diffusion MRI (dMRI) has shown significant improvement over traditional interpolation methods. However, the difficulty in obtaining ultra-high resolution Diffusion MRI scans poses a problem in…
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive tool for detecting and characterizing abdominal lesions to facilitate early diagnosis, but respiratory motion during a scan reduces image quality and…
Radio-frequency dosimetry is an important process in human safety and for compliance of related products. Recently, computational human models generated from medical images have often been used for such assessment, especially to consider…
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Microstructure reconstruction has been an essential part of computational material engineering to reveal the relationship between microstructures and material properties. However, finding a general solution for microstructure…
Axonal damage is the primary pathological correlate of long-term impairment in multiple sclerosis (MS). Previous work has demonstrated a strong, quantitative relationship between decrease in axial diffusivity and axonal damage. In the…
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a widely used method for studying brain white matter development and degeneration. However, standard DTI estimation methods depend on a large number of high-quality measurements. This would require long…
The goal of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) is to infer the structural connectivity of an individual subject's brain in vivo. To statistically study the variability and differences between normal and abnormal brain…
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Quantitative information on tumor heterogeneity and cell load could assist in designing effective and refined personalized treatment strategies. It was recently shown by us that such information can be inferred from the diffusion parameter…
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive imaging technique that can indirectly infer the microstructure of tissues and provide metrics which are subject to normal variability across subjects. Potentially abnormal values or…
The use of supervised deep learning techniques to detect pathologies in brain MRI scans can be challenging due to the diversity of brain anatomy and the need for annotated data sets. An alternative approach is to use unsupervised anomaly…
Most existing MRI reconstruction methods perform tar-geted reconstruction of the entire MR image without tak-ing specific tissue regions into consideration. This may fail to emphasize the reconstruction accuracy on im-portant tissues for…