Maxime Descoteaux

Prix et distinctions

• (2014) Video and images National Geographics. (Distinction).
• (2012) Cover image of Nature Reviews in Neurology journal. (Distinction).
• (2008) PhD scholarship. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (Prize / Award).
• (2004) MSc scholarship. Conseil de la science et tech. du Québec. (Prize / Award).
• (2002) Entrance Scholarship. McGill University. (Prize / Award).
• (2001) Summer research scholarship award. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (Prize / Award).
• Best paper award. (Prize / Award).
• Best poster award. (Prize / Award).
• Best scientific project of the 63rd session of the France-Quebec cooperation (CPCFQ) - Samuel de Champlain program. (Distinction).
• Chercheur étoile, ''Ça mérite d'être reconnu''. (Prize / Award).
• Diplôme d'Étude Collégial (DEC) Honorifique. (Honor).
• Erbsmann prize. (Prize / Award).
• Honorable mention and public award for the best scientific image. (Prize / Award).
• Les 10 découvertes de l'année 2009. (Distinction).
• Mérite Estrien. (Honor).
• Paul Harris Award. (Prize / Award).
• Philips Brain Connectivity Award. (Prize / Award).
• Preuve par l'Image award. (Prize / Award).
• Prix de la recherche et de la création. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
• Prix de thèse "recherche appliquée innovante" ASTI. (Prize / Award).
• Public EUREKA award. (Prize / Award).

Publications

Articles de revue

• Deslauriers S, Marzialiano P, Paquette M, Descoteaux M. (2015). The application of a new sampling theorem for non-bandlimitedsignals on the sphere: Improving the recovery of crossing fibers forlow b-value acquisitions. Medical Image Analysis (Accepted).
• Ning L, Deslauriers S, Paquette M, St-Jean S, Zucchelli M, Fick R, Deriche R, et al, Descoteaux M, Rathi Y. (2015). Sparse Reconstruction Challenge for diffusion MRI: Validation on a physical phantom to determine what acquisition scheme and analysis method to use?. Medical Image Analysis (Accepted).
• Neher P, Houde J-C, Stieltjes B, Descoteaux M, Fritzsche K H. (2015). Assessment of local fiber plausibility – a new evaluation modality for Tractometer. Medical Image Analysis (Accepted).
• Paquette M, Gilbert G, Descoteaux M. (2015). Optimal DSI reconstruction parameter recommendations: betterODFs and better connectivity. NeuroImage (Accepted).
• Chamberland M, Bernier M, Fortin D, Whittingstall K, Descoteaux M. (2015). 3D interactive tractography-informed resting-state fMRI connectivity. Frontiers in Neuroscience: Brain Imaging Methods (Published).
• Garyfallidis E, Ocegueda O, Wassermann D, Descoteaux M. (2015). Robust and efficient linear registration of white-matter fascicles in the space of streamlines. NeuroImage 117 124-140. (Published).
• Presseau C, Jodoin P-M, Houde J-C, Descoteaux M. (2015). A New Compression Format for Fiber Tracking Datasets. NeuroImage 109 (1), 73-83. (Published).
• Paquette M, Gilbert G, Descoteaux M. (2014). DSI revisited: Better ODF and Better Connectivity for Free. NeuroImage (Submitted).
• Girard G , Whittingstall K , Deriche R , Descoteaux M. (2014). Towards quantitative connectivity analysis: reducing tractography biases. NeuroImage 98 266-78. (Published).
• Bernier M, Chamberland M, Houde J-C, Descoteaux M, Whittingstall K. (2014). Using fMRI non-local means denoising to uncover activation in sub-cortical structures at 1.5 T for guided HARDI tractography. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 (715), 1-11. (Accepted).
• Brandão P , Jovem C , Brasil-Neto JP , Tomaz C , Descoteaux M , Allam N. (2014). Congenital mirror movements: lack of decussation of pyramids. Brain : a journal of neurology 137 (Pt 8), e292. (Published).
• Vigneau-Roy N, Bernier M, Descoteaux M, Whittingstall K. (2014). Regional variations in vascular density correlate with resting-state and task-evoked BOLD signal amplitude. Human Brain Mapping 35 (5), 1906-1920. (Published).
• Paquette M , Merlet S , Gilbert G , Deriche R , Descoteaux M. (2014). Comparison of sampling strategies and sparsifying transforms to improve compressed sensing diffusion spectrum imaging. Magnetic resonance in medicine : official journal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine / Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (In Press).
• Garyfallidis E, Brett M, Amirbekian B, Rokem A, Van Der Walt S, Descoteaux M, Nimmo-Smith I. (2014). Dipy, a library for the analysis of diffusion MRI data. Frontiers in NeuroInformatics 1-18. (Published).
• Daducci A , Canales-Rodriguez E , Descoteaux M , Gur Y , Mani M , Merlet S , Ramirez-Manzanares A , Rodrigues P , Reisert M , Sepehrband F. (2014). Quantitative comparison of reconstruction methods for intra-voxel fiber recovery from diffusion MRI. IEEE transactions on medical imaging 33 (2), 384-399. (Published).
• Chamberland M , Whittingstall K , Fortin D , Mathieu D , Descoteaux M. (2014). Real-time multi-peak tractography for instantaneous connectivity display. Frontiers in neuroinformatics 8 59. (Published).
• Coupé P, Manjón JV, Chamberland M, Descoteaux M, Hiba B. (2013). Collaborative patch-based super-resolution for diffusion-weighted images. NeuroImage 83 245–261. (Published).
• Laforce R, Roy M, Descoteaux M, Berthelot C, Bouchard J-P. (2013). Neurocognitive deficits and diffusion MR imaging abnormalities in a case of adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy. Translational Neuroscience 4 (4), 513-515. (Published).
• Côté M-A, Girard G, Boré A, Garyfallidis E, Houde J-C, Descoteaux M. (2013). Tractometer: Towards Validation of Tractography Pipelines. Medical Image Analysis 17 (7), 844-857. (Published).
• A. Gramfort, C. Poupon, M. Descoteaux. (2013). Denoising and fast diffusion imaging with physically constrained sparse dictionary learning. Medical image analysis 18 (1), 36-49. (Published).
• Roy M, Nugent S, Tremblay S, Descoteaux M, Beaudeau J-F, Tremblay L, Lecomte R, Cunnane S. (2013). A dual tracer PET-MRI protocol for the quantitative measure of regional brain energy substrates uptake in the rat. Journal of Visualized Experiments 28 (82), 50761. (Published).
• Whittingstall K, Bernier M, Houde J-C, Fortin D, Descoteaux M. (2013). Structural network underlying visuospatial imagery in humans. Cortex 56 85-98. (Published).
• Roy M, Nugent S, Tremblay-Mercier J, Tremblay S, Courchesne-Loyer A, Beaudoin J-F, Tremblay L, Descoteaux M, Lecomte R, Cunnane S C. (2012). The ketogenic diet increases brain glucose and ketone uptake in aged rats: A dual tracer PET and volumetric MRI study. Brain Research 1488 14-23. (Published).
• Fortin David, Aubin-Lemay Camille, Boré Arnaud, Girard Gabriel, Houde Jean-Christophe, Whittingstall Kevin, Descoteaux Maxime. (2012). Tractography in the study of the human brain : a neurosurgical perspective. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences 39 (6), 747-756. (Published).
• Descoteaux Maxime. (2012). De l’estimation locale par imagerie q-ball à la tractographie des croisements de fibres. Technique et science informatiques (TSI) 31 (3), 375-396. (Published).
• Sharman Mike A, Cohen-Adad Julien, Descoteaux Maxime, Messé Arnaud, Benali Habib, Lehéricy Stéphane. (2011). Impact of Outliers in DTI and QBI - Clinical implications and correction strategies. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 33 (6), 1491-1502. (Published).
• Cohen-Adad Julien, Descoteaux Maxime, Wald Larry L. (2011). Bootstrap Assessment of HARDI data for Q-ball reconstruction. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 33 (5), 1194-1208. (Published).
• Guevara Pamela, Poupon Cyril, Riviére Denis, Cointepas Yann, Descoteaux Maxime, Thirion Bertrand, Mangin Jean-François. (2011). Robust Clustering of Massive Tractography Datasets. NeuroImage 54 (3), 1975-1993. (Published).
• Descoteaux Maxime, Deriche Rachid, Le Bihan Denis, Mangin Jean-François, Poupon Cyril. (2011). Multiple q-Shell Imaging to Reconstruct the Ensemble Average Propagator. Medical Image Analysis 15 603-621. (Published).
• Fillard Pierre, Descoteaux Maxime, et al. (2011). Quantitative Evaluation of 10 Tractography Algorithms on a Realistic Diffusion MR Phantom. NeuroImage 56 (1), 220-234. (Published).

Chapitres de livre

• Maxime Descoteaux. (2015). High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI). Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (1-24). Wiley. (Submitted).
• Prckovska V, Andorra M, Martinez-Heras E, Villoslada P, Duits R, Fortin D, Rodrigues P, Descoteaux M. (2015). Contextual diffusion image post-processing aids clinical applications. Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data (1-22). Springer. (Published).
• O Vaillancourt, J-C Houde, M Descoteaux. (2015). Diffusion Propagator Visualization and Multiple q/b-value/time Diffusion Signal Visualization. Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data (1-22). Springer. (Published).
• Descoteaux Maxime, Deriche Rachid. (2014). From Local Q-Ball Estimation to Fibre Crossing Tractography. Biomedical Image Analysis (1-21). Springer. (In Press).
• Prckovska Vesna, Descoteaux Maxime, Poupon Cyril, Haar Romeny Bart M ter, Vilanova Anna. (2012). Classification study of DTI and HARDI anisotropy measures for HARDI data simplification. New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields Mathematics and Visualization (Part V, 229-251). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. (Published).
• Descoteaux Maxime, Poupon Cyril. (2012). Diffusion-Weighted MRI. Comprehensive Biomedical Physics (1-40). Elsevier. (In Press).

Rapports

• Aubin-Lemay Camille, Fortin David, Whittingstall Kevin, Boré Arnaud, Girard Gabriel, Côté Marc-Alexandre, Houde Jean-Christophe, Descoteaux Maxime. (2012). White matter fascicles study using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and Brodmann areas. Université de Sherbrooke. 40 p.
• Saint-Amant E, Descoteaux Maxime. (2011). Sparsity Characterization of the Diffusion Propagator. Université de Sherbrooke. 40 p.
• Côté Marc-Alexandre, Girard Gabriel, Wang Shengrui, Descoteaux Maxime. (2010). Fiber tract clustering using wavelet zero-crossings and sequence aligning. Université de Sherbrooke. 40 p.

Articles de conférence

• Girard G, Fick R, Descoteaux M, Deriche R, Wassermann D. (2015). AxTract: Microstructure-Driven Tractography Based on the Ensemble Average Propagator. Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI). (Published).
• Tremblay P, Meunier N, Tessier M-H, Tremblay A, Descoteaux M, Dick A. (2015). Behavioural and neural correlates of age-related speech perception deficits. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Girard G, Whittingstall K, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2015). Structural connectivity reproducibility through multiple acquisitions. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Chamberland M, Bernier M, Descoteaux M, Fortin D, Whittingstall K. (2015). Tractography-driven resting-state fMRI for investigating inter-subject variability. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Ocegueda O, Garyfallidis E, Descoteaux M, Rivera M. (2015). An algorithm and quantitative evaluation framework for registration of multi-modal brain MRI. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Cote M-A, Garyfallidis E, Larochelle H, Descoteaux M. (2015). Cleaning up the mess: tractography outlier removal using hierarchical QuickBundles clustering. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• St-Jean S, Gilbert G, Descoteaux M. (2015). Connectome-like quality diffusion MRI in 13 minutes - Improving diffusion MRI spatial resolution with denoising. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Houde J-C, Côté M-A, Descoteaux M. (2015). How to avoid biased streamlines-based metrics for streamlines with variable step sizes. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Fick R, Zucchelli M, Girard G, Menegaz G, Descoteaux M, Deriche R. (2015). How to get more out of a clinically feasible 64 Gradient dMRI Acquisition: Multi-Shell versus Single-Shell. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Zucchelli M, Descoteaux M, Menegaz G. (2015). Human brain tissue microstructure characterization using 3D-SHORE on the HCP data. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Chamberland M, Bernier M, Fortin D, Whittingstall K, Descoteaux M. (2015). Interactively computing and visualizing functional and structural brain connectivity in real-time. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Tax C, Novikov D, Garyfallidis E, Viergever M, Descoteaux M. (2015). Localizing and characterizing single fiber populations throughout the brain. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Rheault F, Houde J-C, Descoteaux M. (2015). Real time interaction with millions of streamlines. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Garyfallidis E, Côté M-A, Hau J, Perchey G, Petit L, Cunnane S, Descoteaux M. (2015). Recognition of bundles in healthy and severely diseased brains. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (Accepted).
• Girard G, Whittingstall K, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2015). Studying white matter tractography reproducibility through connectivity matrices. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• St-Onge E, Girard G, Whittingstall K, Descoteaux M. (2015). Surface tracking from the cortical mesh complements diffusion MRI fiber tracking near the cortex. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Deslauriers-Gauthier S, Marziliano P, Paquette M, Descoteaux M. (2015). The impact of a new sampling theorem for non-bandlimited functions on the sphere: HARDI at the price of DTI?. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Renauld E, Descoteaux M, Whittingstall K. (2014). An EEG/MRI-dMRI Study: Structural properties of the thalamus and its influence on human alpha waves. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Girard G, Whittingstall K, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2014). Connectivity directionally-encoded color map: a streamline-based color mapping. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Ghaziri J, Tucholka A, Houde J-C, Girard G, Descoteaux M, Rainville P, Nguyen D. (2014). The cortico-cortical structural connectivity of the human insula. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Garyfallidis E, Rokem A, Amirbekian B, van der Walt S, Zucchelli M, Ocegueda-Gonzalez O, St-Jean S, Girard G, Paquette M, Nimmo-Smith I, Brett M, Descoteaux M. (2014). The new methods available in Dipy 0.7.0+ that you should know about. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Chamberland M, Descoteaux M, Bernier M, Fortin D, Whittingstall K. (2014). Uncovering a visuospatial network at rest. Human Brain Mapping (HBM). (Published).
• Girard G, Whittingstall K, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2014). Choosing Tractography Parameters to Improve Connectivity Mapping. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Zucchelli M, Garyfallidis E, Paquette M, Merlet S, Menegaz G, Descoteaux M. (2014). Comparison between discrete and continuous propagator indices from Cartesian q-space DSI sampling. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Paquette M, Merlet S, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2014). DSI 101: Better ODFs for free!. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Garyfallidis E, Wassermann D, Descoteaux M. (2014). Direct native-space fiber bundle alignment for group comparisons. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Houde J-C, Caruyer E, Daducci A, Descoteaux M. (2014). How should tractography go forward? A Tractometer evaluation of local reconstruction and tracking. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Garyfallidis E, Zuchelli M, Houde J-C, Descoteaux M. (2014). How to perform best ODF reconstruction from the Human Connectome Project sampling scheme?. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• St-Jean S, Coupé P, Descoteaux M. (2014). Non Local Spatial and Angular Matching : a new denoising technique for diffusion MRI. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Caruyer E, Daducci A, Descoteaux M, Houde J-C, Thiran J-P, Verma R. (2014). Phantomas: a flexible software library to simulate diffusion MR phantoms. International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). (Published).
• Nolze Charron G, Presseau C, Descoteaux M, Lorrain D, Fulop T, Bocti C. (2013). White matter hyperintensities in the cholinergic tracts and cognition: a HARDI tractography study. Congress of the International Society of Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders. (Accepted).
• Laforce R, Roy M, Bouchard J-P, Descoteaux M, Berthelot C, Brisson M, Bouchard R. (2013). A case of young-onset dementia with confluent white matter changes: adult-onset autosomal dominant leukodystrophy due to chromosome 5Q23. 8th International Congress on Vascular Dementia - ICVD. (Accepted).
• Paquette M, Descoteaux M. (2013). A Separable Approximation to DSI Deconvolution. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Accepted).
• Merlet S, Paquette M, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2013). Compressive Sensing DSI. HARDI reconstruction workshop held at ISBI. (Published).
• Garyfallidis E, St-Jean S, Paquette M, Coupé P, Descoteaux M. (2013). Constrained spherical deconvolution on signal and ODF values. HARDI reconstruction workshop held at ISBI. (Published).
• Garyfallidis E, St-Jean S, Paquette M, Coupé P, Descoteaux M. (2013). Deconvolution enhanced Generalized Q-Sampling 2 and DSI deconvolution. HARDI reconstruction workshop held at ISBI. (Published).
• Chamberland M, Descoteaux M. (2013). Explore the brain white matter networks in real-time: Multi-sticks fiber tracking. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Girard G, Descoteaux M. (2013). Online Filtering Tractography: Tracking with anatomical priors. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Paquette M, Garyfallidis E, St-Jean S, Coupé P, Descoteaux M. (2013). Particle Swarm Optimization in Multi-Tensor Imaging. HARDI reconstruction workshop held at ISBI. (Published).
• Giot R, Charrier C, Descoteaux M. (2012). Local Water Diffusion Phenomenon Clustering From High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI). ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition). (Published).
• Girard G, Descoteaux M. (2012). Anatomical Tissue Probability Priors for Tractography. Computational Diffusion MRI workshop held at MICCAI. (Published).
• Girard G, Chamberland M, Houde J-C, Fortin D, Descoteaux M. (2012). Neurosurgical tracking at the Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab (SCIL). DTI Tractography Challenge held at MICCAI. (Published).
• Gramfort A, Poupon C, Descoteaux M. (2012). Sparse DSI : Learning DSI structure for denoising and fast imaging. MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention). (Published).
• Merlet S, Philippe A-C, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2012). Tractography via the Ensemble Average Propagator in diffusion MRI. MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention). (Published).
• Côté M-A, Boré A, Girard G, Houde J-C, Descoteaux M. (2012). Tractometer : Online evaluation system for tractography. MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention). (Published).
• Vigneau-Roy N, Bernier M, Descoteaux M, Whittingstall K. (2012). Link between function and structure in the resting-state brain : an fMRI and VBM study. HBM (Human Brain Mapping). (Published).
• Chamberland M, Fortin D, Descoteaux M. (2012). Real-time fiber tractography : Interactive parameter tuning for neurosurgical interventions. HBM (Human Brain Mapping). (Published).
• Merlet S, Deriche R, Whittingstall K, Descoteaux M. (2012). Diffusion and multiple orientations from 1.5 MR systems with limited gradient tables. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Merlet S, Paquette M, Deriche R, Descoteaux M. (2012). Ensemble average propagator reconstruction via compressed sensing : Discrete or continuous bases?. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Paquette M, Descoteaux M. (2012). Sparse l1-l1 Multi-Tensor Imaging at the price of DTI. HARDI reconstruction workshop held at ISBI. (Published).
• Brion V, Riff O, Descoteaux M, Mangin J-F, Le Bihan D, Poupon C, Poupon F. (2012). The Parallel Kalman Filter : an efficient tool to deal with real-time non central Chi noise correction. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Brion V, Riff O, Descoteaux M, Mangin J-F., Le Bihan D, Poupon C, Poupon F. (2012). The parallel Kalman Filter : An efficient tool to deal with real-time non central Chi noise of HARDI data. ISBI (International Symposium in Biomedical Imaging). (Published).
• Descoteaux M, Fortin D, Whittingstall K. (2011). DTI/fMRI fusion at 1.5T confirms robust relationship between structural and functional connectivity in a glioma patient. ISMRM workshop On Mapping Functional Networks For Brain Surgery. (Published).
• Vaillancourt O, Boré A, Girard G, Descoteaux M. (2011). A Fiber Navigator for Neurosurgical Planning. HBM (Human Brain Mapping). (Published).
• Tucholka A, Nguyen D K, Descoteaux M, Lippé S. (2011). White matter connectivity of the human insula. HBM (Human Brain Mapping). (Published).
• Bernier M, Lepage M, Lecomte R, Tremblay L, Doré-Savard L, Descoteaux M. (2011). Combining parallel multiresolution and PCA initialization for a fully automatic PET-MRI registration. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Brion V, Riff O, Kezele I, Descoteaux M, Le Bihan D, Mangin J-F, Poupon C, Poupon F. (2011). Real-time Rician noise correction applied to real-time HARDI and HYDI. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Saint-Amant E, Descoteaux M. (2011). Sparsity Characterisation of the Diffusion Propagator. ISMRM (International Conference of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Vilanova A, Prckovska V, Poupon C, Haar Romeny B M ter, Descoteaux M. (2010). Classification of non- Gaussian diffusion profiles for HARDI data simplification. Benelux ISMRM Chapter. (Published).
• Prckovska V, Vilanova A, Poupon C, Haar Romeny B M ter, Descoteaux M. (2010). Fast Classification Scheme for HARDI Data Simplification. ICT Innovations. (Published).
• Vaillancourt O, Boré A, Girard G, Descoteaux M. (2010). A Fiber Navigator for Neurosurgical Planning (NeuroPlanningNavigator). IEEE Visualization. (Published).
• Brun C, Descoteaux M, Lepore N. (2010). A Multivariate Group-wise Genetic Analysis of White Matter Integrity using Orientation Distribution Functions. Computational Diffusion MRI workshop held at MICCAI. (Published).
• Guevara P, Poupon C, Rivière D, Cointepas Y, Marrakchi L, Descoteaux M, Fillard P, Thirion B, Mangin J-F. (2010). Inference of a HARDI Fiber Bundle Atlas Using a Two-Level Clustering Strategy. MICCAI (Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention). (Published).
• Brion V, Kezele I, Riff O, Descoteaux M, Mangin J-F, Poupon C, Poupon F. (2010). Real-time Rician noise correction applied to real-time HARDI and HYDI. Computational Diffusion MRI workshop held at MICCAI. (Published).
• Poupon C, Laribière L, Tournier G, Bernard J, Fournier D, Fillard P, Descoteaux M, Mangin J-F. (2010). A Diffusion Hardware Phantom Looking Like a Coronal Brain Slice. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Descoteaux M, Koay C G, Basser P J, Deriche R. (2010). Analytical Q-Ball Imaging with Optimal Regularization. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Prckovska V, Vilanova A, Poupon C, Haar Romeny B M ter, Descoteaux M. (2010). Classification of non-Gaussian diffusion profiles for HARDI data simplification. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Sharman M, Cohen-Adad J, Descoteaux M, Messé A, Benali H, Lehericy S. (2010). Impact of Outliers in DTI and Q-Ball Imaging - Clinical Implications and Correction Strategies. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).
• Cohen-Adad J, McNab J A, Benner T, Descoteaux M, Mareyam A, Wedeen V J, Wald L L. (2010). Improving high-resolution Q-Ball imaging with a head insert gradient : Bootstrap and SNR analysis. ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medecine). (Published).

Propriétés intellectuelles

Licenses

• MICA (medical imaging clinical assistant). (2012). (Granted).

Autres contributions

Gestion d'évènements

• Organizer. Do's and Dont's of Diffusion MRI. (Workshop).
• Co-organizer. FiberCup workshop organized in conjunction to the 2009 MICCAI conference. (Workshop).
• Co-organizer. HARDI Reconstruction Challenge at the ISBI conference, San Francisco, USA. (Workshop).
• Program chair. MICCAI (Medical Image Computing & Computer-Assisted Intervention). (Conference).
• Organizer. McGill University CREATE - Summer School on Diffusion MRI processing. (Seminar).
• Co-organizer. Verona Diffusion Workshop. (Workshop).

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Researcher. France-Québec collaboration between Poitiers University, team of Christophe Charrier, and my team at Université de Sherbrooke.
• Researcher. Collaboration with Guan Koay and Peter Basser of the National Institute of Health on optimal regularization for spherical harmonics estimation.
• Diffusion MRI acquisition and processing. Collaboration on state-of-the-art diffusion image acquisition for multiple b-values and very high b-values on the Human Connectome Project scanner with 300 mT/m gradients.
• Researcher. Collaboration with Bassem Hiba and Pierrick Coupé at CNRS Bordeaux on high-resolution acquisition and denoising techniques.
• Researcher. Collaboration with Rachid Deriche and the Athena project team of the INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerrannée. We have an associated team financed by INRIA.
• Researcher. Collaboration with the Laboratory of Mathematical Imaging (LMI) and the group of C.F Westin, Harvard Medical School.
• Researcher. Collarobation with Alessandro Daducci and Jean-Philippe Thiran's team on optimal reconstruction techniques and tractography.
• Researcher. Research collaboration with T. Knoesche and A. Anwander of the Max Planck Institute, Human cognition and brain sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

Présentations

• (2015). Diffusion MRI tractography, tractometry & connectomics: problems and challenges. Invited speaker in the group of Marco Catani at King's College London. London
• (2015). Diffusion MRI Tractography and Connectomics: problems and challenges. Program on Challenges in Computational Neuroscience (CCNS) - Statistical Applied Mathematics Sciences Institute (SAMSI). Rayleigh
• (2015). Towards optimal tractography: from raw data to connectivity analysis 
& tractometry. Invited speaker at UBordeaux. Bordeaux
• (2014). Mapping the brain structural connectivity. 10th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM). Cartagena
• (2014). Diffusion MRI & Fiber Tractography in Parkinson's disease - data from PPMI. Translational Imaging in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases Symposium. Montreal
• (2014). Diffusion MRI: imaging the wiring of the brain. International Narcotics Research Conference. Montreal
• (2014). Diffusion MRI: Get your measures right. Human Brain Mapping (HBM) workshop. Hamburg
• (2014). Connectiomics: Is it worth the money?. ISMRM Diffusion MRI Study Group Debate. Milan
• (2013). Crossing Fibers: Can We Also Get Microstructural Measures?. Diffusion as a Probe of Neural Tissue Microstructure. Podstrana
• (2013). Diffusion tractography for visualization, augmented reality and neurosurgical planning. Québec-Bavière workshop. Munich
• (2013). High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI). International Symposium on Magnetic Resonance in Medecine (ISMRM) : Emerging clinical practice sunrise course. Salt Lake City
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