no code implementations • 6 Apr 2024 • Yijie Li, Wei zhang, Ye Wu, Li Yin, Ce Zhu, Yuqian Chen, Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak, Kang Ik K Cho, Leo R. Zekelman, Jarrett Rushmore, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Fan Zhang
However, a comprehensive investigation into WM fiber tracts between Eastern and Western populations is challenged due to the lack of a cross-population WM atlas and the large site-specific variability of dMRI data.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2024 • Yui Lo, Yuqian Chen, Dongnan Liu, Wan Liu, Leo Zekelman, Fan Zhang, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Alexandra J. Golby, Weidong Cai, Lauren J. O'Donnell
Overall, our results indicate that the shape of the brain's connections is predictive of human language function.
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2023 • Haolin He, Ce Zhu, Le Zhang, Yipeng Liu, Xiao Xu, Yuqian Chen, Leo Zekelman, Jarrett Rushmore, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Fan Zhang
The amygdala plays a vital role in emotional processing and exhibits structural diversity that necessitates fine-scale parcellation for a comprehensive understanding of its anatomico-functional correlations.
no code implementations • 18 Jul 2023 • Tengfei Xue, Yuqian Chen, Chaoyi Zhang, Alexandra J. Golby, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
TractCloud achieves efficient and consistent whole-brain white matter parcellation across the lifespan (from neonates to elderly subjects, including brain tumor patients) without the need for registration.
no code implementations • 8 Jul 2023 • Yuqian Chen, Leo R. Zekelman, Chaoyi Zhang, Tengfei Xue, Yang song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Alexandra J. Golby, Weidong Cai, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
We evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method by predicting individual performance on two neuropsychological assessments of language using a dataset of 20 association white matter fiber tracts from 806 subjects from the Human Connectome Project.
no code implementations • 9 Jun 2023 • Jianzhong He, Fan Zhang, Yiang Pan, Yuanjing Feng, Jarrett Rushmore, Erickson Torio, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Ron Kikinis, Alexandra J. Golby, Lauren J. O'Donnell
The corticospinal tract (CST) is a critically important white matter fiber tract in the human brain that enables control of voluntary movements of the body.
1 code implementation • 25 Mar 2023 • Hao Xu, Tengfei Xue, Dongnan Liu, Fan Zhang, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ron Kikinis, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Weidong Cai
Our method is constructed by proposed registration-based peak augmentation (RPA) and uncertainty-based refining (URe) modules.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2023 • Wan Liu, Yuqian Chen, Chuyang Ye, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
In this paper, we investigate the potential of fiber tract shape features for predicting non-imaging phenotypes, both individually and in combination with traditional features.
1 code implementation • 2 Mar 2023 • Nabil Vindas, Nicole Labra Avila, Fan Zhang, Tengfei Xue, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Jean-François Mangin
Superficial white matter (SWM) has been less studied than long-range connections despite being of interest to clinical research, andfew tractography parcellation methods have been adapted to SWM.
no code implementations • 5 Jan 2023 • Yuqian Chen, Fan Zhang, Leo R. Zekelman, Tengfei Xue, Chaoyi Zhang, Yang song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Lauren J. O'Donnell
This work shows the potential of incorporating anatomical information, especially known anatomical similarities between input features, to guide convolutions in neural networks.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2022 • Xiao Xu, Yuqian Chen, Leo Zekelman, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
In this paper, we investigate a deep nonnegative matrix factorization clustering method (DNMFC) for parcellation of the human DN based on its structural connectivity using diffusion MRI tractography.
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2022 • Yuxiang Wei, Tengfei Xue, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
The brain's white matter (WM) undergoes developmental and degenerative processes during the human lifespan.
no code implementations • 13 Oct 2022 • Tengfei Xue, Fan Zhang, Leo R. Zekelman, Chaoyi Zhang, Yuqian Chen, Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak, Steve Pieper, William M. Wells, Yogesh Rathi, Nikos Makris, Weidong Cai, Lauren J. O'Donnell
We propose a novel deep regression method, namely TractoSCR, that allows full supervision for contrastive learning in regression tasks using diffusion MRI tractography.
1 code implementation • 18 Jul 2022 • Tengfei Xue, Fan Zhang, Chaoyi Zhang, Yuqian Chen, Yang song, Alexandra J. Golby, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Lauren J. O'Donnell
We propose a novel two-stage deep-learning-based framework, Superficial White Matter Analysis (SupWMA), that performs an efficient and consistent parcellation of 198 SWM clusters from whole-brain tractography.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2022 • Yuqian Chen, Fan Zhang, Chaoyi Zhang, Tengfei Xue, Leo R. Zekelman, Jianzhong He, Yang song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Alexandra J. Golby, Weidong Cai, Lauren J. O'Donnell
In this paper, we propose a deep-learning-based framework for neuropsychological score prediction using microstructure measurements estimated from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography, focusing on predicting performance on a receptive vocabulary assessment task based on a critical fiber tract for language, the arcuate fasciculus (AF).
1 code implementation • 2 May 2022 • Yuqian Chen, Chaoyi Zhang, Tengfei Xue, Yang song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
In this work, we propose a novel deep learning framework for white matter fiber clustering, Deep Fiber Clustering (DFC), which solves the unsupervised clustering problem as a self-supervised learning task with a domain-specific pretext task to predict pairwise fiber distances.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2022 • Hao He, Fan Zhang, Steve Pieper, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, William Wells III, Lauren J. O'Donnell
The human brain's white matter (WM) structure is of immense interest to the scientific community.
1 code implementation • 29 Jan 2022 • Tengfei Xue, Fan Zhang, Chaoyi Zhang, Yuqian Chen, Yang song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Lauren J. O'Donnell
Most parcellation methods focus on the deep white matter (DWM), while fewer methods address the superficial white matter (SWM) due to its complexity.
no code implementations • 11 Jul 2021 • Yuqian Chen, Chaoyi Zhang, Yang song, Nikos Makris, Yogesh Rathi, Weidong Cai, Fan Zhang, Lauren J. O'Donnell
White matter fiber clustering (WMFC) enables parcellation of white matter tractography for applications such as disease classification and anatomical tract segmentation.
no code implementations • 23 Apr 2021 • Fan Zhang, Alessandro Daducci, Yong He, Simona Schiavi, Caio Seguin, Robert Smith, Chun-Hung Yeh, Tengda Zhao, Lauren J. O'Donnell
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is an advanced imaging technique that enables in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter connections at macro scale.
1 code implementation • 16 May 2020 • Loraine Franke, Daniel Karl I. Weidele, Fan Zhang, Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak, Steve Pieper, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Yogesh Rathi, Daniel Haehn
Tractography from high-dimensional diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data allows brain's structural connectivity analysis.
no code implementations • ICCV 2017 • Yang Song, Fan Zhang, Qing Li, Heng Huang, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Weidong Cai
Texture classification has been extensively studied in computer vision.