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  1. Article ; Online: Perivascular space diffusivity and brain microstructural measures are associated with circadian time and sleep quality.

    Brendstrup-Brix, Kristoffer / Ulv Larsen, Sara Marie / Lee, Hong-Hsi / Knudsen, Gitte Moos

    Journal of sleep research

    2024  , Page(s) e14226

    Abstract: The glymphatic system is centred around brain cerebrospinal fluid flow and is enhanced during sleep, and the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis proposes that sleep acts on brain microstructure by selective synaptic downscaling. While so far primarily ... ...

    Abstract The glymphatic system is centred around brain cerebrospinal fluid flow and is enhanced during sleep, and the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis proposes that sleep acts on brain microstructure by selective synaptic downscaling. While so far primarily studied in animals, we here examine in humans if brain diffusivity and microstructure is related to time of day, sleep quality and cognitive performance. We use diffusion weighted images from 916 young healthy individuals, aged between 22 and 37 years, collected as part of the Human Connectome Project to assess diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space index, white matter fractional anisotropy, intra-neurite volume fraction and extra-neurite mean diffusivity. Next, we examine if these measures are associated with circadian time of acquisition, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (high scores correspond to low sleep quality) and age-adjusted cognitive function total composite score. Consistent with expectations, we find that diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space index and orbitofrontal grey matter extra-neurite mean diffusivity are negatively and white matter fractional anisotropy positively correlated with circadian time. Further, we find that grey matter intra-neurite volume fraction correlates positively with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and that this correlation is driven by sleep duration. Finally, we find positive correlations between grey matter intra-neurite volume fraction and cognitive function total composite score, as well as negative interaction effects between cognitive function total composite score and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index on grey matter intra-neurite volume fraction. Our findings propose that perivascular flow is under circadian control and that sleep downregulates the intra-neurite volume in healthy adults with positive impact on cognitive function.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1122722-9
    ISSN 1365-2869 ; 0962-1105
    ISSN (online) 1365-2869
    ISSN 0962-1105
    DOI 10.1111/jsr.14226
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  2. Article ; Online: Effects of COVID-19 Prevention Measures on Other Common Infections, Taiwan.

    Lee, Hong-Hsi / Lin, Sheng-Hsuan

    Emerging infectious diseases

    2020  Volume 26, Issue 10, Page(s) 2509–2511

    Abstract: To determine whether policies to limit transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hinder spread of other infectious diseases, we analyzed the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan. Rates of other infections were ... ...

    Abstract To determine whether policies to limit transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hinder spread of other infectious diseases, we analyzed the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan. Rates of other infections were significantly lower after SARS-CoV-2 prevention measures were announced. This finding can be applied to cost-effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 prevention.
    MeSH term(s) Ambulatory Care/statistics & numerical data ; Betacoronavirus ; COVID-19 ; Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control ; Databases, Factual ; Enterovirus Infections/epidemiology ; Health Policy ; Humans ; Influenza, Human/epidemiology ; Pandemics/prevention & control ; Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Scarlet Fever/epidemiology ; Taiwan/epidemiology
    Keywords covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 1380686-5
    ISSN 1080-6059 ; 1080-6040
    ISSN (online) 1080-6059
    ISSN 1080-6040
    DOI 10.3201/eid2610.203193
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  3. Article ; Online: DIMOND: DIffusion Model OptimizatioN with Deep Learning.

    Li, Zihan / Li, Ziyu / Bilgic, Berkin / Lee, Hong-Hsi / Ying, Kui / Huang, Susie Y / Liao, Hongen / Tian, Qiyuan

    Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)

    2024  , Page(s) e2307965

    Abstract: Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is an important tool for mapping tissue microstructure and structural connectivity non-invasively in the in vivo human brain. Numerous diffusion signal models are proposed to quantify microstructural properties. ... ...

    Abstract Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is an important tool for mapping tissue microstructure and structural connectivity non-invasively in the in vivo human brain. Numerous diffusion signal models are proposed to quantify microstructural properties. Nonetheless, accurate estimation of model parameters is computationally expensive and impeded by image noise. Supervised deep learning-based estimation approaches exhibit efficiency and superior performance but require additional training data and may be not generalizable. A new DIffusion Model OptimizatioN framework using physics-informed and self-supervised Deep learning entitled "DIMOND" is proposed to address this problem. DIMOND employs a neural network to map input image data to model parameters and optimizes the network by minimizing the difference between the input acquired data and synthetic data generated via the diffusion model parametrized by network outputs. DIMOND produces accurate diffusion tensor imaging results and is generalizable across subjects and datasets. Moreover, DIMOND outperforms conventional methods for fitting sophisticated microstructural models including the kurtosis and NODDI model. Importantly, DIMOND reduces NODDI model fitting time from hours to minutes, or seconds by leveraging transfer learning. In summary, the self-supervised manner, high efficacy, and efficiency of DIMOND increase the practical feasibility and adoption of microstructure and connectivity mapping in clinical and neuroscientific applications.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-18
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2808093-2
    ISSN 2198-3844 ; 2198-3844
    ISSN (online) 2198-3844
    ISSN 2198-3844
    DOI 10.1002/advs.202307965
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  4. Article: Romer-EPTI: rotating-view motion-robust super-resolution EPTI for SNR-efficient distortion-free in-vivo mesoscale dMRI and microstructure imaging.

    Dong, Zijing / Reese, Timothy G / Lee, Hong-Hsi / Huang, Susie Y / Polimeni, Jonathan R / Wald, Lawrence L / Wang, Fuyixue

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2024  

    Abstract: Purpose: To overcome the major challenges in dMRI acquisition, including low SNR, distortion/blurring, and motion vulnerability.: Methods: A novel Romer-EPTI technique is developed to provide distortion-free dMRI with significant SNR gain, high ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: To overcome the major challenges in dMRI acquisition, including low SNR, distortion/blurring, and motion vulnerability.
    Methods: A novel Romer-EPTI technique is developed to provide distortion-free dMRI with significant SNR gain, high motion-robustness, sharp spatial resolution, and simultaneous multi-TE imaging. It introduces a ROtating-view Motion-robust supEr-Resolution technique (Romer) combined with a distortion/blurring-free EPTI encoding. Romer enhances SNR by a simultaneous multi-thick-slice acquisition with rotating-view encoding, while providing high motion-robustness through a motion-aware super-resolution reconstruction, which also incorporates slice-profile and real-value diffusion, to resolve high-isotropic-resolution volumes. The in-plane encoding is performed using distortion/blurring-free EPTI, which further improves effective spatial resolution and motion robustness by preventing not only T
    Results: Using Romer-EPTI, we demonstrate distortion-free whole-brain mesoscale in-vivo dMRI at both 3T (500-μm-iso) and 7T (485-μm-iso) for the first time, with high SNR efficiency (e.g.,
    Conclusion: Romer-EPTI significantly improves SNR, motion-robustness, and image quality, providing a highly efficient acquisition for high-resolution dMRI and microstructure imaging.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2024.01.26.577343
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  5. Article ; Online: Optimization and Validation of the DESIGNER dMRI preprocessing pipeline in white matter aging.

    Chen, Jenny / Ades-Aron, Benjamin / Lee, Hong-Hsi / Mehrin, Subah / Pang, Michelle / Novikov, Dmitry S / Veraart, Jelle / Fieremans, Els

    ArXiv

    2024  

    Abstract: Various diffusion MRI (dMRI) preprocessing pipelines are currently available to yield more accurate diffusion parameters. Here, we evaluated accuracy and robustness of the optimized Diffusion parameter EStImation with Gibbs and NoisE Removal (DESIGNER) ... ...

    Abstract Various diffusion MRI (dMRI) preprocessing pipelines are currently available to yield more accurate diffusion parameters. Here, we evaluated accuracy and robustness of the optimized Diffusion parameter EStImation with Gibbs and NoisE Removal (DESIGNER) pipeline in a large clinical dMRI dataset and using ground truth phantoms. DESIGNER has been modified to improve denoising and target Gibbs ringing for partial Fourier acquisitions. We compared the revisited DESIGNER (Dv2) (including denoising, Gibbs removal, correction for motion, EPI distortion, and eddy currents) against the original DESIGNER (Dv1) pipeline, minimal preprocessing (including correction for motion, EPI distortion, and eddy currents only), and no preprocessing on a large clinical dMRI dataset of 524 control subjects with ages between 25 and 75 years old. We evaluated the effect of specific processing steps on age correlations in white matter with DTI and DKI metrics. We also evaluated the added effect of minimal Gaussian smoothing to deal with noise and to reduce outliers in parameter maps compared to DESIGNER (Dv2)'s noise removal method. Moreover, DESIGNER (Dv2)'s updated noise and Gibbs removal methods were assessed using ground truth dMRI phantom to evaluate accuracy. Results show age correlation in white matter with DTI and DKI metrics were affected by the preprocessing pipeline, causing systematic differences in absolute parameter values and loss or gain of statistical significance. Both in clinical dMRI and ground truth phantoms, DESIGNER (Dv2) pipeline resulted in the smallest number of outlier voxels and improved accuracy in DTI and DKI metrics as noise was reduced and Gibbs removal was improved. Thus, DESIGNER (Dv2) provides more accurate and robust DTI and DKI parameter maps as compared to no preprocessing or minimal preprocessing.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    ISSN 2331-8422
    ISSN (online) 2331-8422
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  6. Article ; Online: Universal Sampling Denoising (USD) for noise mapping and noise removal of non-Cartesian MRI.

    Lee, Hong-Hsi / Keerthivasan, Mahesh Bharath / Lemberskiy, Gregory / Zhang, Jiangyang / Fieremans, Els / Novikov, Dmitry S

    ArXiv

    2023  

    Abstract: Random matrix theory (RMT) combined with principal component analysis has resulted in a widely used MPPCA noise mapping and denoising algorithm, that utilizes the redundancy in multiple acquisitions and in local image patches. RMT-based denoising relies ... ...

    Abstract Random matrix theory (RMT) combined with principal component analysis has resulted in a widely used MPPCA noise mapping and denoising algorithm, that utilizes the redundancy in multiple acquisitions and in local image patches. RMT-based denoising relies on the uncorrelated identically distributed noise. This assumption breaks down after regridding of non-Cartesian sampling. Here we propose a Universal Sampling Denoising (USD) pipeline to homogenize the noise level and decorrelate the noise in non-Cartesian sampled k-space data after resampling to a Cartesian grid. In this way, the RMT approaches become applicable to MRI of any non-Cartesian k-space sampling. We demonstrate the denoising pipeline on MRI data acquired using radial trajectories, including diffusion MRI of a numerical phantom and ex vivo mouse brains, as well as in vivo $T_2$ MRI of a healthy subject. The proposed pipeline robustly estimates noise level, performs noise removal, and corrects bias in parametric maps, such as diffusivity and kurtosis metrics, and $T_2$ relaxation time. USD stabilizes the variance, decorrelates the noise, and thereby enables the application of RMT-based denoising approaches to MR images reconstructed from any non-Cartesian data. In addition to MRI, USD may also apply to other medical imaging techniques involving non-Cartesian acquisition, such as PET, CT, and SPECT.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-27
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    ISSN 2331-8422
    ISSN (online) 2331-8422
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  7. Article ; Online: Removal of partial Fourier-induced Gibbs (RPG) ringing artifacts in MRI.

    Lee, Hong-Hsi / Novikov, Dmitry S / Fieremans, Els

    Magnetic resonance in medicine

    2021  Volume 86, Issue 5, Page(s) 2733–2750

    Abstract: Purpose: To investigate and remove Gibbs-ringing artifacts caused by partial Fourier (PF) acquisition and zero filling interpolation in MRI data.: Theory and methods: Gibbs ringing of fully sampled data, leading to oscillations around tissue ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: To investigate and remove Gibbs-ringing artifacts caused by partial Fourier (PF) acquisition and zero filling interpolation in MRI data.
    Theory and methods: Gibbs ringing of fully sampled data, leading to oscillations around tissue boundaries, is caused by the symmetric truncation of k-space. Such ringing can be removed by conventional methods, with the local subvoxel shifts method being the state-of-the-art. However, the asymmetric truncation of k-space in routinely used PF acquisitions leads to additional ringings of wider intervals in the PF sampling dimension that cannot be corrected solely based on magnitude images reconstructed via zero filling. Here, we develop a pipeline for the Removal of PF-induced Gibbs ringing (RPG) to remove ringing patterns of different periods by applying the conventional method twice. The proposed pipeline is validated on numerical phantoms, demonstrated on in vivo diffusion MRI measurements, and compared with the conventional method and neural network-based approach.
    Results: For PF = 7/8 and 6/8, Gibbs-ringings and subsequent bias in diffusion metrics induced by PF acquisition and zero filling are robustly removed by using the proposed RPG pipeline. For PF = 5/8, however, ringing removal via RPG leads to excessive image blurring due to the interplay of image phase and convolution kernel.
    Conclusions: RPG corrects Gibbs-ringing artifacts in magnitude images of PF acquired data and reduces the bias in quantitative MR metrics. Considering the benefit of PF acquisition and the feasibility of ringing removal, we suggest applying PF = 6/8 when PF acquisition is necessary.
    MeSH term(s) Algorithms ; Artifacts ; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Phantoms, Imaging
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-07-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 605774-3
    ISSN 1522-2594 ; 0740-3194
    ISSN (online) 1522-2594
    ISSN 0740-3194
    DOI 10.1002/mrm.28830
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  8. Article ; Online: Effects of COVID-19 Prevention Measures on Other Common Infections, Taiwan

    Hong-Hsi Lee / Sheng-Hsuan Lin

    Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 26, Iss 10, Pp 2509-

    2020  Volume 2511

    Abstract: To determine whether policies to limit transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hinder spread of other infectious diseases, we analyzed the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan. Rates of other infections were ... ...

    Abstract To determine whether policies to limit transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hinder spread of other infectious diseases, we analyzed the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan. Rates of other infections were significantly lower after SARS-CoV-2 prevention measures were announced. This finding can be applied to cost-effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 prevention.
    Keywords 2019 novel coronavirus disease ; coronavirus disease ; COVID-19 ; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ; SARS-CoV-2 ; viruses ; Medicine ; R ; Infectious and parasitic diseases ; RC109-216 ; covid19
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Document type Article ; Online
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  9. Article: Effects of COVID-19 Prevention Measures on Other Common Infections, Taiwan

    Lee, Hong-Hsi / Lin, Sheng-Hsuan

    Emerg Infect Dis

    Abstract: To determine whether policies to limit transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hinder spread of other infectious diseases, we analyzed the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan. Rates of other infections were ... ...

    Abstract To determine whether policies to limit transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) hinder spread of other infectious diseases, we analyzed the National Health Insurance database in Taiwan. Rates of other infections were significantly lower after SARS-CoV-2 prevention measures were announced. This finding can be applied to cost-effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 prevention.
    Keywords covid19
    Publisher WHO
    Document type Article
    Note WHO #Covidence: #690723
    Database COVID19

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  10. Article ; Online: Physical and numerical phantoms for the validation of brain microstructural MRI: A cookbook.

    Fieremans, Els / Lee, Hong-Hsi

    NeuroImage

    2018  Volume 182, Page(s) 39–61

    Abstract: Phantoms, both numerical (software) and physical (hardware), can serve as a gold standard for the validation of MRI methods probing the brain microstructure. This review aims to provide guidelines on how to build, implement, or choose the right phantom ... ...

    Abstract Phantoms, both numerical (software) and physical (hardware), can serve as a gold standard for the validation of MRI methods probing the brain microstructure. This review aims to provide guidelines on how to build, implement, or choose the right phantom for a particular application, along with an overview of the current state-of-the-art of phantoms dedicated to study brain microstructure with MRI. For physical phantoms, we discuss the essential requirements and relevant characteristics of both the (NMR visible) liquid and (NMR invisible) phantom materials that induce relevant microstructural features detectable via MRI, based on diffusion, intra-voxel incoherent motion, magnetization transfer or magnetic susceptibility weighted contrast. In particular, for diffusion MRI, many useful phantoms have been proposed, ranging from simple liquids to advanced biomimetic phantoms consisting of hollow or plain microfibers and capillaries. For numerical phantoms, the focus is on Monte Carlo simulations of random walk, for which the basic principles, along with useful criteria to check and potential pitfalls are reviewed, in addition to a literature overview highlighting recent advances. While many phantoms exist already, the current review aims to stimulate further research in the field and to address remaining needs.
    MeSH term(s) Brain/anatomy & histology ; Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging/standards ; Neuroimaging/methods ; Neuroimaging/standards ; Phantoms, Imaging/standards
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-06-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1147767-2
    ISSN 1095-9572 ; 1053-8119
    ISSN (online) 1095-9572
    ISSN 1053-8119
    DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.046
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