It's well known that in diffusion MRI (dMRI), fibre crossing is an important problem for most existing diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based tractography algorithms. To overcome these limitations, High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) based tractography has been proposed with a particular emphasis on the the Orientation Distribution Function (ODF). In this paper, we advocate the use ...

Recent advances in diffusion MRI have allowed for improved understanding of the white matter connectivity. Models like the Diffusion Tensor, diffusion Orientation Distribution Function (ODF) with a monoexponential signal decay have shown good fiber reconstruction accuracies. More complex radial signal decay models, like the bi-exponential model, have been shown to better approximate the in-vivo...

We studied outlier document filtering (ODF) for extractive sentence summarization. Our results are superior compared to the average of the participant systems’ using DUC 2006. Furthermore, we add extractive paragraph summarization to the same system. It is surprising that the results are nearly the same for ROUGE metrics. Although extractive paragraph summarization has a better performance for ...

In this paper we study the impact of denoising the raw high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data with the Non-Local Means filter adapted to Rician noise (NLMr). We first show that NLMr filtering improves robustness of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and orientation distribution function (ODF) reconstructions from synthetic HARDI datasets. Our results suggest that the NLMr filt...

In diffusion MRI (dMRI) domain, many High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI) methods were proposed to estimate Ensemble Average Propagator (EAP) and Orientation Distribution Function (ODF). They normally need many samples, which limits their applications. Some Compressive Sensing (CS) based methods were proposed to estimate ODF in Q-Ball Imaging (QBI) from limited samples. However EAP...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is an important problem in patients treated with long-term dialysis, and most dialysis patients have lower dietary energy and protein intake. This study was undertaken to examine whether orally administered Otsuka Nutrition Pharmaceutical (ONCE) dialyze formula (ODF) supplement would improve energy intake without mineral and electrolyte disturbances in patients with cont...

In this paper we extract the geometric characteristics from an antipodally symmetric spherical function (ASSF), which can be described equivalently in the spherical harmonic (SH) basis, in the symmetric tensor (ST) basis constrained to the sphere, and in the homogeneous polynomial (HP) basis constrained to the sphere. All three bases span the same vector space and are bijective when the rank of...

The task of reconstruction of microstructures from their limited description is posed as a maximum entropy (MaxEnt) problem. Microstructural descriptors are taken in the form of volume fractions, correlation functions and grain sizes. Morphological and size quantifications are used as features of microstructure and samples consistent with these features are reconstructed. The nonuniqueness of t...