Low‐field MRI: clinical promise and challenges

TC Arnold, CW Freeman, B Litt… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern MRI scanners have trended toward higher field strengths to maximize signal and
resolution while minimizing scan time. However, high‐field devices remain expensive to …

[HTML][HTML] SynthStrip: skull-stripping for any brain image

A Hoopes, JS Mora, AV Dalca, B Fischl, M Hoffmann - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The removal of non-brain signal from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, known as
skull-stripping, is an integral component of many neuroimage analysis streams. Despite their …

[HTML][HTML] TorchIO: a Python library for efficient loading, preprocessing, augmentation and patch-based sampling of medical images in deep learning

F Pérez-García, R Sparks, S Ourselin - Computer methods and programs in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and ObjectiveProcessing of medical images such as MRI or CT presents
different challenges compared to RGB images typically used in computer vision. These …

SynthSR: A public AI tool to turn heterogeneous clinical brain scans into high-resolution T1-weighted images for 3D morphometry

JE Iglesias, B Billot, Y Balbastre, C Magdamo… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Every year, millions of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are acquired in
hospitals across the world. These have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] SynthSeg: Segmentation of brain MRI scans of any contrast and resolution without retraining

B Billot, DN Greve, O Puonti, A Thielscher… - Medical image …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite advances in data augmentation and transfer learning, convolutional neural
networks (CNNs) difficultly generalise to unseen domains. When segmenting brain scans …

How machine learning is powering neuroimaging to improve brain health

NM Singh, JB Harrod, S Subramanian, M Robinson… - Neuroinformatics, 2022 - Springer
This report presents an overview of how machine learning is rapidly advancing clinical
translational imaging in ways that will aid in the early detection, prediction, and treatment of …

Quantitative brain morphometry of portable low-field-strength MRI using super-resolution machine learning

JE Iglesias, R Schleicher, S Laguna, B Billot… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Portable, low-field-strength (0.064-T) MRI has the potential to transform
neuroimaging but is limited by low spatial resolution and low signal-to-noise ratio. Purpose …

Measuring consciousness in the intensive care unit

BL Edlow, M Fecchio, YG Bodien, A Comanducci… - Neurocritical Care, 2023 - Springer
Early reemergence of consciousness predicts long-term functional recovery for patients with
severe brain injury. However, tools to reliably detect consciousness in the intensive care unit …

A ready-to-use machine learning tool for symmetric multi-modality registration of brain MRI

JE Iglesias - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Volumetric registration of brain MRI is routinely used in human neuroimaging, eg, to align
different MRI modalities, to measure change in longitudinal analysis, to map an individual to …

Automated hippocampal unfolding for morphometry and subfield segmentation with HippUnfold

J DeKraker, RAM Haast, MD Yousif, B Karat, JC Lau… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Like neocortical structures, the archicortical hippocampus differs in its folding patterns
across individuals. Here, we present an automated and robust BIDS-App, HippUnfold, for …