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  1. Article

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    Brain age as a biomarker for pathological versus healthy ageing – a REMEMBER study

    This study aimed to evaluate the potential clinical value of a new brain age prediction model as a single interpretable variable representing the condition of our brain. Among many clinical use cases, brain ag...

    Mandy M.J. Wittens, Stijn Denissen, Diana M. Sima in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy (2024)

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    A deep learning model for brain segmentation across pediatric and adult populations

    Automated quantification of brain tissues on MR images has greatly contributed to the diagnosis and follow-up of neurological pathologies across various life stages. However, existing solutions are specificall...

    Jaime Simarro, Maria Ines Meyer, Simon Van Eyndhoven, Thanh Vân Phan in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Towards validation in clinical routine: a comparative analysis of visual MTA ratings versus the automated ratio between inferior lateral ventricle and hippocampal volumes in Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis

    To assess the performance of the inferior lateral ventricle (ILV) to hippocampal (Hip) volume ratio on brain MRI, for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) diagnostics, comparing it to individual automated ILV and hippocam...

    Mandy M. J. Wittens, Gert-Jan Allemeersch, Diana M. Sima in Neuroradiology (2024)

  4. Chapter and Conference Paper

    Correction to: Knowledge-Guided Segmentation of Isointense Infant Brain

    Jana Vujadinovic, Jaime Simarro Viana in Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image An… (2022)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Knowledge-Guided Segmentation of Isointense Infant Brain

    Tissue segmentation of infants could lead to early diagnosis of neurological disorders, potentially enabling early interventions. However, the challenge of tissue quantification is increased due to the very dy...

    Jana Vujadinovic, Jaime Simarro Viana in Perinatal, Preterm and Paediatric Image An… (2022)

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    Unsupervised 3D Brain Anomaly Detection

    Anomaly detection (AD) is the identification of data samples that do not fit a learned data distribution. As such, AD systems can help physicians to determine the presence, severity, and extension of a patholo...

    Jaime Simarro Viana, Ezequiel de la Rosa in Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, S… (2021)

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    Improved Inter-scanner MS Lesion Segmentation by Adversarial Training on Longitudinal Data

    The evaluation of white matter lesion progression is an important biomarker in the follow-up of MS patients and plays a crucial role when deciding the course of treatment. Current automated lesion segmentation...

    Mattias Billast, Maria Ines Meyer in Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, S… (2020)

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    Differentiable Deconvolution for Improved Stroke Perfusion Analysis

    Perfusion imaging is the current gold standard for acute ischemic stroke analysis. It allows quantification of the salvageable and non-salvageable tissue regions (penumbra and core areas respectively). In clin...

    Ezequiel de la Rosa, David Robben in Medical Image Computing and Computer Assis… (2020)

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    Relevance Vector Machines for Harmonization of MRI Brain Volumes Using Image Descriptors

    With the increased need for multi-center magnetic resonance imaging studies, problems arise related to differences in hardware and software between centers. Namely, current algorithms for brain volume quantifi...

    Maria Ines Meyer, Ezequiel de la Rosa in OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters an… (2019)

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    Semi-automated brain tumor segmentation on multi-parametric MRI using regularized non-negative matrix factorization

    Segmentation of gliomas in multi-parametric (MP-)MR images is challenging due to their heterogeneous nature in terms of size, appearance and location. Manual tumor segmentation is a time-consuming task and cli...

    Nicolas Sauwen, Marjan Acou, Diana M. Sima, Jelle Veraart in BMC Medical Imaging (2017)

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    A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Multiple Sclerosis Courses Using MRSI and Brain Segmentations

    The objective of this paper is to classify Multiple Sclerosis courses using features extracted from Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) combined with brain tissue segmentations of gray matter, whit...

    Adrian Ion-Mărgineanu, Gabriel Kocevar in Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Lea… (2017)

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    Unsupervised Framework for Consistent Longitudinal MS Lesion Segmentation

    Quantification of white matter lesion changes on brain magnetic resonance (MR) images is of major importance for the follow-up of patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Many automated segmentation methods have...

    Saurabh Jain, Annemie Ribbens, Diana M. Sima in Medical Computer Vision and Bayesian and G… (2017)

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    Use Case I: Imaging Biomarkers in Neurological Disease. Focus on Multiple Sclerosis

    Imaging is widely used for diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases. CT scans are routinely acquired in emergency units in patients with traumatic injuries or stroke. PET imaging has gained a strong f...

    Diana M. Sima, Dirk Loeckx, Dirk Smeets, Saurabh Jain in Imaging Biomarkers (2017)

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    Adaptive Alternating Minimization for Fitting Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Signals

    In this paper we discuss the problem of modeling Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI) signals, in the aim of estimating metabolite concentration over a region of the brain. To this end, we formulate...

    Diana M. Sima, Anca Croitor Sava in Recent Advances in Optimization and its Ap… (2010)

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    Regularized Total Least Squares Based on Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem Solvers

    This paper presents a new computational approach for solving the Regularized Total Least Squares problem. The problem is formulated by adding a quadratic constraint to the Total Least Square minimization prob...

    Diana M. Sima, Sabine Van Huffel, Gene H. Golub in BIT Numerical Mathematics (2004)