Journal ArticleNeuro Oncol · May 15, 2025
BACKGROUND: Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive adult primary brain cancer, characterized by significant heterogeneity, posing challenges for patient management, treatment planning, and clinical trial stratification. METHODS: We developed a highly re ...
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Journal ArticleAJNR Am J Neuroradiol · May 2, 2025
This project aimed to develop and evaluate an automated, AI-based, volumetric brain tumor MRI response assessment algorithm on a large cohort of patients treated at a high-volume brain tumor center. We retrospectively analyzed data from 634 patients treate ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Artif Intell · May 2025
Purpose To develop and evaluate an automated system for extracting structured clinical information from unstructured radiology and pathology reports using open-weight language models (LMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and to assess the effects ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Cancer Inst · February 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Meningioma risk factors include older age, female sex, and being Black/African American. Limited data explore how meningioma risk in individuals who are Black varies across the lifespan, interacts with sex, and differs by tumor grade. METHODS: ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neuroradiol · February 2025
PURPOSE: Timely identification of intracranial blood products is clinically impactful, however the detection of subdural hematoma (SDH) on non-contrast CT scans of the head (NCCTH) is challenging given interference from the adjacent calvarium. This work ex ...
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Journal ArticleNeurooncol Pract · February 2025
Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)-mutant gliomas, comprising both astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas, represent a distinct group of tumors that pose an interdisciplinary challenge. Addressing the needs of affected patients requires close collaboration among ...
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Journal ArticleFront Oncol · 2025
PURPOSE: This work investigates the use of a spherical projection-based U-Net (SPU-Net) segmentation model to improve meningioma segmentation performance and allow for uncertainty quantification. METHODS: A total of 76 supratentorial meningioma patients tr ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Oncol · November 2024
Technological advancements have enabled the extended investigation, development, and application of computational approaches in various domains, including health care. A burgeoning number of diagnostic, predictive, prognostic, and monitoring biomarkers are ...
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Journal ArticleLancet Oncol · November 2024
The development, application, and benchmarking of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve diagnosis, prognostication, and therapy in neuro-oncology are increasing at a rapid pace. This Policy Review provides an overview and critical assessment of the ...
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Journal ArticleJ Magn Reson Imaging · September 2024
Gadolinium contrast is an important agent in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly in neuroimaging where it can help identify blood-brain barrier breakdown from an inflammatory, infectious, or neoplastic process. However, gadolinium contrast has s ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Artif Intell · September 2024
Purpose To develop a deep learning algorithm to predict 2-year neurodevelopmental outcomes in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy using MRI and basic clinical data. Materials and Methods In this study, MRI data of term neonates with encephalopath ...
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Journal ArticleNeuro Oncol · June 3, 2024
BACKGROUND: Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) of intracranial tumors or radiation necrosis enables tissue diagnosis, cytoreduction, and rapid return to systemic therapies. Ablated tissue remains in situ, resulting in characteristic post-LITT edema ...
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Journal ArticleSci Data · May 15, 2024
Meningiomas are the most common primary intracranial tumors and can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Radiologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists, and radiation oncologists rely on brain MRI for diagnosis, treatment planning, and l ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · February 26, 2024
Brain extraction, or skull-stripping, is an essential data preprocessing step for machine learning approaches to brain MRI analysis. Currently, there are limited extraction algorithms for the neonatal brain. We aim to adapt an established deep learning alg ...
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ConferenceIS and T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology · January 1, 2024
We introduce an efficient distributed sequence parallel approach for training transformer-based deep learning image segmentation models. The neural network models are comprised of a combination of a Vision Transformer encoder with a convolutional decoder t ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroradiology · September 2023
PURPOSE: While the T2-FLAIR mismatch sign is highly specific for isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH)-mutant, 1p/19q-noncodeleted astrocytomas among lower-grade gliomas, its utility in WHO grade 4 gliomas is not well-studied. We derived the partial T2-FLAIR mism ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · September 2023
Background Multiple qualitative scoring systems have been created to capture the imaging severity of hypoxic ischemic brain injury. Purpose To evaluate quantitative volumes of acute brain injury at MRI in neonates with hypoxic ischemic brain injury and cor ...
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Journal ArticleJ Digit Imaging · June 2023
Advanced visualization techniques such as maximum intensity projection (MIP) and volume rendering (VR) are useful for evaluating neurovascular anatomy on CT angiography (CTA) of the brain; however, interference from surrounding osseous anatomy is common. E ...
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Journal ArticleRadiology · March 2023
Background There is increasing interest in noncontrast breast MRI alternatives for tumor visualization to increase the accessibility of breast MRI. Purpose To evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of generating simulated contrast-enhanced T1-weighted breas ...
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Journal ArticleAJNR Am J Neuroradiol · March 2023
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MR imaging of the brain provides unbiased neuroanatomic evaluation of brain injury and is useful for neurologic prognostication following cardiac arrest. Regional analysis of diffusion imaging may provide additional prognostic value ...
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Journal ArticleNat Commun · December 5, 2022
Although machine learning (ML) has shown promise across disciplines, out-of-sample generalizability is concerning. This is currently addressed by sharing multi-site data, but such centralization is challenging/infeasible to scale due to various limitations ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Artif Intell · September 2022
Neural networks were trained for segmentation and longitudinal assessment of posttreatment diffuse glioma. A retrospective cohort (from January 2018 to December 2019) of 298 patients with diffuse glioma (mean age, 52 years ± 14 [SD]; 177 men; 152 patients ...
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Journal ArticleFront Neurosci · 2022
Inferior colliculus (IC) is an obligatory station along the ascending auditory pathway that also has a high degree of top-down convergence via efferent pathways, making it a major computational hub. Animal models have attributed critical roles for the IC i ...
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Journal ArticleNeurooncol Adv · 2022
BACKGROUND: Glioblastoma is the most common primary brain malignancy, yet treatment options are limited, and prognosis remains guarded. Individualized tumor genetic assessment has become important for accurate prognosis and for guiding emerging targeted th ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Artif Intell · January 2022
PURPOSE: To assess how well a brain MRI lesion segmentation algorithm trained at one institution performed at another institution, and to assess the effect of multi-institutional training datasets for mitigating performance loss. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In ...
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Journal ArticleeNeuro · 2022
The protease caspase-3 is a key mediator of apoptotic programmed cell death. But weak or transient caspase activity can contribute to neuronal differentiation, axonal pathfinding, and synaptic long-term depression. Despite the importance of sublethal, or n ...
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Journal ArticleRadiol Artif Intell · September 2021
PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of simulated postcontrast T1-weighted brain MR images generated by using precontrast MR images in patients with brain glioma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective study, a three-dimensional deep con ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · August 15, 2021
Conventional atlases of the human brainstem are limited by the inflexible, sparsely-sampled, two-dimensional nature of histology, or the low spatial resolution of conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Postmortem high-resolution MRI circumvents the ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neurovirol · October 2020
The purpose of this study was to assess whole brain and regional patterns of cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) abnormalities in HIV-infected women using quantitative whole brain arterial spin labeling (ASL). We hypothesized that HIV-infected women would dem ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · July 16, 2020
Glioblastoma is the most common malignant brain parenchymal tumor yet remains challenging to treat. The current standard of care-resection and chemoradiation-is limited in part due to the genetic heterogeneity of glioblastoma. Previous studies have identif ...
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Journal ArticleFront Phys · April 2020
Network approaches provide sensitive biomarkers for neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Mouse models can help advance our understanding of underlying pathologies, by dissecting vulnerable circuits. While the mouse brain contains less ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Coll Radiol · February 2020
OBJECTIVE: Differentiate high- versus low-volume radiologists who interpret neurological (Neuro) MRI or musculoskeletal (MSK) MRI and measure the proportion of Neuro and MSK MRIs read by low-volume radiologists. METHODS: We queried the 2015 Medicare Physic ...
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Journal ArticleFront Neuroanat · 2020
The brainstem, a structure of vital importance in mammals, is currently becoming a principal focus in cognitive, affective, and clinical neuroscience. Midbrain, pontine and medullary structures serve as the conduit for signals between the forebrain and spi ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · August 1, 2019
Human spinal white matter tract anatomy has been mapped using post mortem histological information with the help of molecular tracing studies in animal models. This study used 7 Tesla diffusion MR tractography on a human cadaver that was harvested 24 hours ...
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Journal ArticleElife · August 1, 2019
Studying the human subcortical auditory system non-invasively is challenging due to its small, densely packed structures deep within the brain. Additionally, the elaborate three-dimensional (3-D) structure of the system can be difficult to understand based ...
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Journal ArticleIEEE Trans Med Imaging · June 2019
In brain imaging and connectomics, the study of brain networks, estimating the mean of a population of graphs based on a sample is a core problem. Often, this problem is especially difficult because the sample or cohort size is relatively small, sometimes ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · April 13, 2018
Gray matter (GM) tissue changes have been associated with a wide range of neurological disorders and were recently found relevant as a biomarker for disability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The ability to automatically segment the GM is, therefore, an ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage Clin · 2018
A history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), particularly repeated mTBI (rmTBI), has been identified as a risk factor for late-onset neurodegenerative conditions. The mild and transient nature of early symptoms often impedes diagnosis in young adults w ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage Clin · 2018
The human spinal cord is a central nervous system structure that plays an important role in normal motor and sensory function, and can be affected by many debilitating neurologic diseases. Due to its clinical importance, the spinal cord is frequently the s ...
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Journal ArticleMed Image Anal · July 2017
The hypothesis that brain pathways form 2D sheet-like structures layered in 3D as "pages of a book" has been a topic of debate in the recent literature. This hypothesis was mainly supported by a qualitative evaluation of "path neighborhoods" reconstructed ...
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Journal ArticleBMJ Case Rep · May 30, 2017
Pneumatosis intestinalis (PI), or the presence of air in the bowel wall, is a rare disorder that is associated with a variety of underlying diseases, including connective tissue disorders. PI presents on a spectrum from asymptomatic to bowel obstruction an ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroradiol J · February 2016
The goal of this study was to apply image registration-based automated segmentation methods to measure diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics within the canine brain. Specifically, we hypothesized that this method could measure DTI metrics within the canin ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Neuroanatomy · January 1, 2016
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is believed to exert its therapeutic effects through modulation of brain circuitry, yet conventional preoperative planning does not allow direct targeting or visualization of white matter pathways. Diffusion MRI tractography (D ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroradiol J · December 2015
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the effect of mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) type 1 on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics in the canine brain. We hypothesized 1) white matter regions in the MPS brain would show decreased fractional anisotropy (FA) and incr ...
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Journal ArticleCereb Cortex · November 2015
Interest in structural brain connectivity has grown with the understanding that abnormal neural connections may play a role in neurologic and psychiatric diseases. Small animal connectivity mapping techniques are particularly important for identifying aber ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · August 15, 2015
The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is the most widely used nonhuman primate for modeling the structure and function of the brain. Brain atlases, and particularly those based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have become important tools for understandin ...
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Journal ArticleHum Brain Mapp · August 2015
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established surgical therapy for medically refractory tremor disorders including essential tremor (ET) and is currently under investigation for use in a variety of other neurologic and psychiatric disorders. There is grow ...
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Book · May 28, 2015
MRI/DTI Atlas of the Rat Brain offers two major enhancements when compared with earlier attempts to make MRI/DTI rat brain atlases. First, the spatial resolution at 25μm is considerably higher than previous data published. Secondly, the comprehensive set o ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroradiol J · February 2015
The goal of this study was to determine the degree to which ex vivo diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters correlate to one another in white matter regions on very high resolution MR scans. Specifically, we hypothesized that radial diffusivity (RD) and ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · January 15, 2015
The main focus of our original article was to describe the anatomical delineations constituting the first version of the WHS Sprague Dawley atlas, apply the Waxholm Space coordinate system, and publish the associated MRI/DTI template and segmentation volum ...
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Journal ArticleHum Brain Mapp · November 2014
Interest in mapping white matter pathways in the brain has peaked with the recognition that altered brain connectivity may contribute to a variety of neurologic and psychiatric diseases. Diffusion tractography has emerged as a popular method for postmortem ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Magn Reson · October 16, 2014
BACKGROUND: The complex cardiac fiber structural organization and spatial arrangement of cardiomyocytes in laminar sheetlets contributes greatly to cardiac functional and contractile ejection patterns. This study presents the first comprehensive, ultra-hig ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · August 15, 2014
Three-dimensional digital brain atlases represent an important new generation of neuroinformatics tools for understanding complex brain anatomy, assigning location to experimental data, and planning of experiments. We have acquired a microscopic resolution ...
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Journal ArticleJ Neurotrauma · May 15, 2014
Blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI) is one of the most common combat-related injuries seen in U.S. military personnel, yet relatively little is known about the underlying mechanisms of injury. In particular, the effects of the primary blast pressur ...
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Journal ArticleNeurotoxicology · May 2014
The growing exposure to chemicals in our environment and the increasing concern over their impact on health have elevated the need for new methods for surveying the detrimental effects of these compounds. Today's gold standard for assessing the effects of ...
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Journal ArticleBrain Struct Funct · March 2014
Researchers working with rodent models of neurological disease often require an accurate map of the anatomical organization of the white matter of the rodent brain. With the increasing popularity of small animal MRI techniques, including diffusion tensor i ...
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Journal ArticleAJR Am J Roentgenol · January 2014
OBJECTIVE: We set out to determine functional white matter (WM) connections passing through the canine corpus callosum; these WM connections would be useful for subsequent studies of canine brains that serve as models for human WM pathway disease. Based on ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroradiol J · October 2013
This study examined the relationship between histological variables and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) values in a normal canine brain. We hypothesized that radial diffusivity (RD) would correlate with myelin density and fractional anisotropy (FA) would co ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · October 1, 2013
The postnatal period is a remarkably dynamic phase of brain growth and development characterized by large-scale macrostructural changes, as well as dramatic microstructural changes, including myelination and cortical layering. This crucial period of neurod ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · May 1, 2013
There has been growing interest in the role of postnatal brain development in the etiology of several neurologic diseases. The rat has long been recognized as a powerful model system for studying neuropathology and the safety of pharmacologic treatments. H ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · February 15, 2013
The postnatal period of neurodevelopment has been implicated in a number of brain disorders including autism and schizophrenia. Rodent models have proven to be invaluable in advancing our understanding of the human brain, and will almost certainly play a p ...
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Journal ArticleNeuroimage · September 2012
We have produced a multidimensional atlas of the adult Wistar rat brain based on magnetic resonance histology (MRH). This MR atlas has been carefully aligned with the widely used Paxinos-Watson atlas based on optical sections to allow comparisons between h ...
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