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Concurrent mapping of brain ontogeny and phylogeny within a common connectivity space (2022)
Working Paper
Warrington, S., Thompson, E., Bastiani, M., Dubois, J., Baxter, L., Slater, R., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. Concurrent mapping of brain ontogeny and phylogeny within a common connectivity space

Developmental and evolutionary effects on brain organisation are complex, yet linked, as evidenced by the striking correspondence in cortical expansion changes. However, it is still not possible to study concurrently the ontogeny and phylogeny of cor... Read More about Concurrent mapping of brain ontogeny and phylogeny within a common connectivity space.

Functional and diffusion MRI reveal the neurophysiological basis of neonates’ noxious-stimulus evoked brain activity (2021)
Journal Article
Baxter, L., Moultrie, F., Fitzgibbon, S., Aspbury, M., Mansfield, R., Bastiani, M., …Slater, R. (2021). Functional and diffusion MRI reveal the neurophysiological basis of neonates’ noxious-stimulus evoked brain activity. Nature Communications, 12, Article 2744. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22960-0

Understanding the neurophysiology underlying pain perception in infants is central to improving early life pain management. In this multimodal MRI study, we use resting-state functional and white matter diffusion MRI to investigate individual variabi... Read More about Functional and diffusion MRI reveal the neurophysiological basis of neonates’ noxious-stimulus evoked brain activity.

Multimodal imaging brain markers in early adolescence are linked with a physically active lifestyle (2021)
Journal Article
Salvan, P., Wassenaar, T., Wheatley, C., Beale, N., Cottaar, M., Papp, D., …Johansen-Berg, H. (2021). Multimodal imaging brain markers in early adolescence are linked with a physically active lifestyle. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(5), 1092-1104. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1260-20.2020

© 2021 Salvan et al. The World Health Organization promotes physical exercise and a healthy lifestyle as means to improve youth development. However, relationships between physical lifestyle and human brain development are not fully understood. Here,... Read More about Multimodal imaging brain markers in early adolescence are linked with a physically active lifestyle.

Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences (2021)
Journal Article
Emani, P. S., Warrell, J., Anticevic, A., Bekiranov, S., Gandal, M., McConnell, M. J., …Harrow, A. W. (2021). Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences. Nature Methods, 18, 701-709. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-01004-3

The search for meaningful structure in biological data has relied on cutting-edge advances in computational technology and data science methods. However, challenges arise as we push the limits of scale and complexity in biological problems. Innovatio... Read More about Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences.

Modelling white matter in gyral blades as a continuous vector field (2020)
Journal Article
Cottaar, M., Bastiani, M., Boddu, N., Glasser, M. F., Haber, S., van Essen, D. C., …Jbabdi, S. (2021). Modelling white matter in gyral blades as a continuous vector field. NeuroImage, 227, Article 117693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117693

© 2020 Many brain imaging studies aim to measure structural connectivity with diffusion tractography. However, biases in tractography data, particularly near the boundary between white matter and cortical grey matter can limit the accuracy of such st... Read More about Modelling white matter in gyral blades as a continuous vector field.

Non-negative data-driven mapping of structural connections with application to the neonatal brain (2020)
Journal Article
Thompson, . E., Mohammadi-Nejad, A. R., Robinson, E. C., Andersson, J. L., Jbabdi, S., Glasser, M. F., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2020). Non-negative data-driven mapping of structural connections with application to the neonatal brain. NeuroImage, 222, Article 117273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117273

© 2020 Mapping connections in the neonatal brain can provide insight into the crucial early stages of neurodevelopment that shape brain organisation and lay the foundations for cognition and behaviour. Diffusion MRI and tractography provide unique op... Read More about Non-negative data-driven mapping of structural connections with application to the neonatal brain.

A data-driven approach to optimising the encoding for multi-shell diffusion MRI with application to neonatal imaging (2020)
Journal Article
Tournier, J., Christiaens, D., Hutter, J., Price, A. N., Cordero-Grande, L., Hughes, E., …Hajnal, J. V. (2020). A data-driven approach to optimising the encoding for multi-shell diffusion MRI with application to neonatal imaging. NMR in Biomedicine, 33(9), Article e4348. https://doi.org/10.1101/661348

Diffusion MRI has the potential to provide important information about the connectivity and microstructure of the human brain during normal and abnormal development, non-invasively and in vivo. Recent developments in MRI hardware and reconstruction m... Read More about A data-driven approach to optimising the encoding for multi-shell diffusion MRI with application to neonatal imaging.

Confound modelling in UK Biobank brain imaging (2020)
Journal Article
Alfaro-Almagro, F., McCarthy, P., Afyouni, S., Andersson, J. L., Bastiani, M., Miller, K. L., …Smith, S. M. (2021). Confound modelling in UK Biobank brain imaging. NeuroImage, 224, Article 117002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117002

© 2020 Dealing with confounds is an essential step in large cohort studies to address problems such as unexplained variance and spurious correlations. UK Biobank is a powerful resource for studying associations between imaging and non-imaging measure... Read More about Confound modelling in UK Biobank brain imaging.

Improved fibre dispersion estimation using b-tensor encoding (2020)
Journal Article
Cottaar, M., Szczepankiewicz, F., Bastiani, M., Hernandez-Fernandez, M., Sotiropoulos, S. N., Nilsson, M., & Jbabdi, S. (2020). Improved fibre dispersion estimation using b-tensor encoding. NeuroImage, 215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116832

© 2020 The Authors Measuring fibre dispersion in white matter with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is limited by an inherent degeneracy between fibre dispersion and microscopic diffusion anisotropy (i.e., the diffusion anisotropy expected... Read More about Improved fibre dispersion estimation using b-tensor encoding.

Towards HCP-Style macaque connectomes: 24-Channel 3T multi-array coil, MRI sequences and preprocessing (2020)
Journal Article
Autio, J. A., Glasser, M. F., Ose, T., Donahue, C. J., Bastiani, M., Ohno, M., …Hayashi, T. (2020). Towards HCP-Style macaque connectomes: 24-Channel 3T multi-array coil, MRI sequences and preprocessing. NeuroImage, 215, Article 116800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116800

© 2020 The Author(s) Macaque monkeys are an important animal model where invasive investigations can lead to a better understanding of the cortical organization of primates including humans. However, the tools and methods for noninvasive image acquis... Read More about Towards HCP-Style macaque connectomes: 24-Channel 3T multi-array coil, MRI sequences and preprocessing.

Music enhances structural maturation of emotional processing neural pathways in very preterm infants (2019)
Journal Article
Sa de Almeida, J., Lordier, L., Zollinger, B., Kunz, N., Bastiani, M., Gui, L., …Hüppi, P. S. (2020). Music enhances structural maturation of emotional processing neural pathways in very preterm infants. NeuroImage, 207, Article 116391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116391

Prematurity disrupts brain maturation by exposing the developing brain to different noxious stimuli present in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and depriving it from meaningful sensory inputs during a critical period of brain development, lead... Read More about Music enhances structural maturation of emotional processing neural pathways in very preterm infants.

Joint modelling of diffusion MRI and microscopy (2019)
Journal Article
Howard, A. F., Mollink, J., Kleinnijenhuis, M., Pallebage-Gamarallage, M., Bastiani, M., Cottaar, M., …Jbabdi, S. (2019). Joint modelling of diffusion MRI and microscopy. NeuroImage, 201, Article 116014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116014

The combination of diffusion MRI (dMRI) with microscopy provides unique opportunities to study microstructural features of tissue, particularly when acquired in the same sample. Microscopy is frequently used to validate dMRI microstructure models, ad... Read More about Joint modelling of diffusion MRI and microscopy.

Automated quality control for within and between studies diffusion MRI data using a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction (2018)
Journal Article
Bastiani, M., Cottaar, M., Fitzgibbon, S. P., Suri, S., Alfaro-Almagro, F., Sotiropoulos, S. N., …Andersson, J. (2019). Automated quality control for within and between studies diffusion MRI data using a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction. NeuroImage, 184, 801-812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.073

Diffusion MRI data can be affected by hardware and subject-related artefacts that can adversely affect downstream analyses. Therefore, automated quality control (QC) is of great importance, especially in large population studies where visual QC is no... Read More about Automated quality control for within and between studies diffusion MRI data using a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction.

Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects (2018)
Journal Article
Harms, M. P., Somerville, L. H., Ances, B. M., Andersson, J., Barch, D. M., Bastiani, M., …Yacoub, E. (2018). Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects. NeuroImage, 183, 972-984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.060

The Human Connectome Projects in Development (HCP-D) and Aging (HCP-A) are two large-scale brain imaging studies that will extend the recently completed HCP Young-Adult (HCP-YA) project to nearly the full lifespan, collecting structural, resting-sta... Read More about Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects.

Automated processing pipeline for neonatal diffusion MRI in the developing Human Connectome Project (2018)
Journal Article
Bastiani, M., Andersson, J. L., Cordero-Grande, L., Murgasova, M., Hutter, J., Price, A. N., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2019). Automated processing pipeline for neonatal diffusion MRI in the developing Human Connectome Project. NeuroImage, 185, 750-763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.064

The developing Human Connectome Project is set to create and make available to the scientific community a 4-dimensional map of functional and structural cerebral connectivity from 20 to 44 weeks post-menstrual age, to allow exploration of the genetic... Read More about Automated processing pipeline for neonatal diffusion MRI in the developing Human Connectome Project.

A gyral coordinate system predictive of fibre orientations (2018)
Journal Article
Cottaar, M., Bastiani, M., Chen, C., Dikranian, K., Van Essen, D., Behrens, T. E., …Jbabdi, S. (2018). A gyral coordinate system predictive of fibre orientations. NeuroImage, 176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.040

When axonal fibres approach or leave the cortex, their trajectories tend to closely follow the cortical convolutions. To quantify this tendency, we propose a three-dimensional coordinate system based on the gyral geometry. For every voxel in the brai... Read More about A gyral coordinate system predictive of fibre orientations.

Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7?T and 3?T: The Impact of the Experimental Design (2018)
Journal Article
De Santis, S., Bastiani, M., Droby, A., Kolber, P., Zipp, F., Pracht, E., …Roebroeck, A. (2019). Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7 T and 3 T: The Impact of the Experimental Design. Neuroscience, 403, 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.03.048

© 2018 The Author(s) The recent introduction of advanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques to characterize focal and global degeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS), like the Composite Hindered and Restricted Model of Diffusion, or CHARMED, d... Read More about Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7?T and 3?T: The Impact of the Experimental Design.

The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction (2018)
Journal Article
Makropoulos, A., Robinson, E. C., Schuh, A., Wright, R., Fitzgibbon, S., Bozek, J., …Rueckert, D. (2018). The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction. NeuroImage, 173, 88-112. https://doi.org/10.1101/125526

The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) seeks to create the first 4-dimensional connectome of early life. Understanding this connectome in detail may provide insights into normal as well as abnormal patterns of brain development. Following est... Read More about The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction.

Improved tractography using asymmetric fibre orientation distributions (2017)
Journal Article
Bastiani, M., Cottaar, M., Dikranian, K., Ghosh, A., Zhang, H., Alexander, D. C., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2017). Improved tractography using asymmetric fibre orientation distributions. NeuroImage, 158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.050

Diffusion MRI allows us to make inferences on the structural organisation of the brain by mapping water diffusion to white matter microstructure. However, such a mapping is generally ill-defined; for instance, diffusion measurements are antipodally s... Read More about Improved tractography using asymmetric fibre orientation distributions.

Time-efficient and flexible design of optimized multishell HARDI diffusion (2017)
Journal Article
Hutter, J., Tournier, J. D., Price, A. N., Cordero-Grande, L., Hughes, E. J., Malik, S., …Hajnal, J. V. (2018). Time-efficient and flexible design of optimized multishell HARDI diffusion. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 79(3), 1276-1292. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26765

Purpose: Advanced diffusion magnetic resonance imaging benefits from collecting as much data as is feasible but is highly sensitive to subject motion and the risk of data loss increases with longer acquisition times. Our purpose was to create a maxim... Read More about Time-efficient and flexible design of optimized multishell HARDI diffusion.