The immersive experience provided by our approach empowers researchers with an intuitive exploration of brain structures. Within the brain's central nervous system, encompassing both white and gray matter, symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) often manifest through gray matter decline. The manual identification of these changes proves to be a time-intensive endeavor. Although learning-based systems can detect such changes, their implementation requires substantial computational resources and extensive datasets. To surmount these challenges, we present a tailored framework designed for the categorization of distinct AD stages through brain image tissue segmentation. Our innovative approach seamlessly integrates transfer learning and fine-tuning of frozen layers and employs models such as VGG16, VGG19, AlexNet, and ResNet50. This comprehensive strategy significantly amplifies simulation outcomes across five AD categories, contributing to an overall enhancement in model efficacy. In the initial stages, our model undergoes fine-tuning to predict various AD stages, and the integration of data augmentation techniques further refines its performance. Our study culminates with the assertion that a pre-trained model, characterized by deep connectivity of dense layers, additional layers, and frozen blocks, adeptly addresses the challenges intrinsic to the proposed multiclass classification. Experimental results conclusively endorse the superior accuracy achieved through the implementation of our proposed strategy.
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Elife
March 2025
Department of Complex Systems, Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Longitudinal neuroimaging studies offer valuable insight into brain development, ageing, and disease progression over time. However, prevailing analytical approaches rooted in our understanding of population variation are primarily tailored for cross-sectional studies. To fully leverage the potential of longitudinal neuroimaging, we need methodologies that account for the complex interplay between population variation and individual dynamics.
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March 2025
Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Clínica i Psicobiologia, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
Repetitive drug use results in enduring structural and functional changes in the brain. Addiction research has consistently revealed significant modifications in key brain networks related to reward, habit, salience, executive function, memory and self-regulation. Techniques like Voxel-based Morphometry have highlighted large-scale structural differences in grey matter across distinct groups.
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March 2025
Koç University Research Center for Translational Medicine (KUTTAM), Koç University, İstanbul, Türkiye.
Central nervous system (CNS) pericytes play crucial roles in vascular development and blood-brain barrier maturation during prenatal development, as well as in regulating cerebral blood flow in adults. They have also been implicated in the pathogenesis of numerous neurological disorders. However, the behavior of pericytes in the adult brain after injury remains poorly understood, partly due to limitations in existing pericyte ablation models.
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March 2025
Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Purpose: To achieve high-resolution, three-dimensional (3D) quantitative diffusion-weighted MR spectroscopic imaging (DW-MRSI) for molecule-specific microstructural imaging of the brain.
Methods: We introduced and integrated several innovative acquisition and processing strategies for DW-MRSI: (a) a new double-spin-echo sequence combining selective excitation, bipolar diffusion encoding, rapid spatiospectral sampling, interleaved water spectroscopic imaging data, and a special sparsely sampled echo-volume-imaging (EVI)-based navigator, (b) a rank-constrained time-resolved reconstruction from the EVI data to capture spatially varying phases, (c) a model-based phase correction for DW-MRSI data, and (d) a multi-b-value subspace-based method for water/lipids removal and spatiospectral reconstruction using learned metabolite subspaces, and e) a hybrid subspace and parametric model-based parameter estimation strategy. Phantom and in vivo experiments were performed to validate the proposed method and demonstrate its ability to map metabolite-specific diffusion parameters in 3D.
Neuroscience
March 2025
Ophthalmology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital, Jiangxi Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006 Jiangxi Province, China. Electronic address:
Background: Previous studies have documented abnormal functional changes in the visual pathways and gray matter regions related to vision in Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) patients. However, the extent of alterations in the functional and structural characteristics of white matter (WM) in these patients remains insufficiently understood.
Methods: In this study, we employed functional clustering networks and TractSeg methodologies to investigate the alterations in WM function and structure among patients with RRD.
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