The human placenta project: Funded studies, imaging technologies, and future directions

CL Herrera, MJ Kim, QN Do, DM Owen, B Fei… - Placenta, 2023 - Elsevier
The placenta plays a critical role in fetal development. It serves as a multi-functional organ
that protects and nurtures the fetus during pregnancy. However, despite its importance, the …

Advances in fetal brain imaging

C Calixto, A Taymourtash, D Karimi… - Magnetic …, 2024 - mri.theclinics.com
Sonography has been widely used to assess fetal growth and identify fetal anomalies, 1 and
although fetal neurosonography can analyze brain surface anatomy and maturation, 2 it has …

Deepflash: An efficient network for learning-based medical image registration

J Wang, M Zhang - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper presents DeepFLASH, a novel network with efficient training and inference for
learning-based medical image registration. In contrast to existing approaches that learn …

Multi‐modal functional MRI to explore placental function over gestation

J Hutter, PJ Slator, L Jackson… - Magnetic resonance …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To investigate, visualize and quantify the physiology of the human placenta in
several dimensions‐functional, temporal over gestation, and spatial over the whole organ …

Frequency diffeomorphisms for efficient image registration

M Zhang, R Liao, AV Dalca, EA Turk, J Luo… - … Processing in Medical …, 2017 - Springer
This paper presents an efficient algorithm for large deformation diffeomorphic metric
mapping (LDDMM) with geodesic shooting for image registration. We introduce a novel finite …

TLRN: Temporal Latent Residual Networks for Large Deformation Image Registration

N Wu, J Xing, M Zhang - … Conference on Medical Image Computing and …, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents a novel approach, termed Temporal Latent Residual Network (TLRN),
to predict a sequence of deformation fields in time-series image registration. The challenge …

Deformable slice-to-volume registration for reconstruction of quantitative T2* placental and fetal MRI

A Uus, JK Steinweg, A Ho, LH Jackson… - Medical Ultrasound, and …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract In 4D T2* placental MRI studies, motion correction is generally considered a
prerequisite for quantitative analysis. However, the existing approaches use only global …

SpaER: Learning Spatio-temporal Equivariant Representations for Fetal Brain Motion Tracking

J Wang, R Faghihpirayesh, P Golland… - … Workshop on Preterm …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, we introduce SpaER, a pioneering method for fetal motion tracking that
leverages equivariant filters and self-attention mechanisms to effectively learn spatio …

HARP-I: a harmonic phase interpolation method for the estimation of motion from tagged MR images

H Mella, J Mura, H Wang, MD Taylor… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We proposed a novel method called HARP-I, which enhances the estimation of motion from
tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The harmonic phase of the images is …

Real-time assessment of the development and function of the placenta across gestation to support therapeutics in pregnancy

DH Weinberg - Clinical Therapeutics, 2021 - Elsevier
The placenta is vital to the health and development of the fetus, serving to deliver oxygen
and nutrients, facilitate the removal of waste products, and provide a barrier to pathogens …