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Causal structure discovery from observations can be improved by integrating background knowledge provided by an expert to reduce the hypothesis space. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have begun to be considered as sources of prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Jakob Wasserthal , Peter Neher , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in natural language understanding and reasoning, while recent extensions that incorporate visual inputs enable them to process multimodal information. Despite these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pengcheng Zheng , Chaoning Zhang , Ya Wen , Wang Liu , Qigan Sun , Jiarong Mo , Jiaquan Zhang , Jewon Lee , Tae-Ho Kim , Kuien Liu , Tianyu Li , Caiyan Qin , Yang Yang

We propose a novel and efficient algorithm to model high-level topological structures of neuronal fibers. Tractography constructs complex neuronal fibers in three dimensions that exhibit the geometry of white matter pathways in the brain.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 S. Shailja , Angela Zhang , B. S. Manjunath

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across diverse tasks but continue to struggle with learning transitive relations, a cornerstone for complex planning. To address this issue, we investigate the Multi-Token…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qimin Zhong , Hao Liao , Siwei Wang , Mingyang Zhou , Xiaoqun Wu , Rui Mao , Wei Chen

Brain imaging studies have demonstrated that diffusion MRI tractography geometric shape descriptors can inform the study of the brain's white matter pathways and their relationship to brain function. In this work, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yui Lo , Yuqian Chen , Dongnan Liu , Jon Haitz Legarreta , Leo Zekelman , Fan Zhang , Jarrett Rushmore , Yogesh Rathi , Nikos Makris , Alexandra J. Golby , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disrupts thalamocortical connectivity, contributing to cognitive impairment and post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE). This study presents a novel tractography-based framework that leverages diffusion maps to capture…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-21 Akul Sharma , Anand A. Joshi , Richard M. Leahy

This paper introduces PhyloLM, a method adapting phylogenetic algorithms to Large Language Models (LLMs) to explore whether and how they relate to each other and to predict their performance characteristics. Our method calculates a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Nicolas Yax , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer , Stefano Palminteri

Recent advances in molecular and genetic research have identified a diverse range of brain tumor sub-types, shedding light on differences in their molecular mechanisms, heterogeneity, and origins. The present study performs whole-brain…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-26 Debanjali Bhattacharya , Ninad Aithal , Manish Jayswal , Neelam Sinha

Ontologies play a crucial role in organizing and representing knowledge. However, even current ontologies do not encompass all relevant concepts and relationships. Here, we explore the potential of large language models (LLM) to expand an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Antonio Zaitoun , Tomer Sagi , Szymon Wilk , Mor Peleg

Tractography algorithms are used extensively to delineate white matter structures, by operating on the voxel-wise information generated through the application of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) or other models to diffusion weighted (DW)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-05 Richard G. Carson , Alexander Leemans

Diffusion MRI tractography is an advanced imaging technique that enables in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter connections. White matter parcellation classifies tractography streamlines into clusters or anatomically meaningful tracts.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Tengfei Xue , Fan Zhang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yuqian Chen , Yang Song , Alexandra J. Golby , Nikos Makris , Yogesh Rathi , Weidong Cai , Lauren J. O'Donnell

While the major white matter tracts are of great interest to numerous studies in neuroscience and medicine, their manual dissection in larger cohorts from diffusion MRI tractograms is time-consuming, requires expert knowledge and is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Jakob Wasserthal , Peter Neher , Dusan Hirjak , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results on various language and vision tasks. Recently, there has been growing interest in applying LLMs to graph-based tasks, particularly on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs). However, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zhongmou He , Jing Zhu , Shengyi Qian , Joyce Chai , Danai Koutra

Objective: Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a debilitating neurological disorder that develops after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Early prediction of PTE remains challenging due to heterogeneous clinical data, limited positive cases, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Wenhui Cui , Nicholas Swingle , Anand A. Joshi , Dileep Nair , Richard M. Leahy

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) and tractography provide means to study the anatomical structures within the white matter of the brain. When studying tractography data across subjects, it is usually necessary to align, i.e. to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-01 Thien Bao Nguyen , Emanuele Olivetti , Paolo Avesani

Predicting the evolution of the brain network, also called connectome, by foreseeing changes in the connectivity weights linking pairs of anatomical regions makes it possible to spot connectivity-related neurological disorders in earlier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Şeymanur Aktı , Doğay Kamar , Özgür Anıl Özlü , Ihsan Soydemir , Muhammet Akcan , Abdullah Kul , Islem Rekik

Interrogation of biological pathways is an integral part of omics data analysis. Large language models (LLMs) enable the generation of custom pathways and gene sets tailored to specific scientific questions. These targeted sets are…

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models is becoming ubiquitous in many fields. Though progress continues to be made, general purpose large language AI models (LLM) show a tendency to deliver creative answers, often called…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-08 Pranta Saha , Joyce Reimer , Brook Byrns , Connor Burbridge , Neeraj Dhar , Jeffrey Chen , Steven Rayan , Gordon Broderick

High-throughput methods for yielding the set of connections in a neural system, the connectome, are now being developed. This tutorial describes ways to analyze the topological and spatial organization of the connectome at the macroscopic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-12-23 Marcus Kaiser