Publications by Alia Lemkaddem

Contactless Respiration Monitoring in Real-Time via a Video Camera

Alia Lemkaddem, Martin Bertschinger, Olivier Grossenbacher

Until today, vital signs monitoring in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is based on wired sensors, known to cause discomfort and false alarms. In view of overcoming such issues we investigate a contactless method for respiration monitoring by means of ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD2018

Track Y. Smart Assistance Systems

Alia Lemkaddem, Fabian Braun, Olivier Grossenbacher, Virginie Moser

De Gruyter2016

Global tractography with embedded anatomical priors and microstructure information for quantitative connectomics

Alia Lemkaddem

Over the last decades new technologies have shed the light on an improved understanding of brain structure and function. Recently, an imaging modality referred to as diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) has emerged. By exploiting the natural motion ...

EPFL2015

COMMIT: Convex Optimization Modeling for Microstructure Informed Tractography

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Alia Lemkaddem

Tractography is a class of algorithms aiming at in vivo mapping the major neuronal pathways in the white matter from diffusion MRI data. These techniques offer a powerful tool to noninvasively investigate at the macroscopic scale the architecture of the ne ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Anatomical Priors to improve Global Tractography

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Alia Lemkaddem

The main assumption of fiber-tracking algorithms is that fiber trajectories are represented by paths of highest diffusion, which is usually accomplished by following the principal diffusion directions in every voxel. The state-of-the-art approaches known a ...

2014

Connectivity and tissue microstructural alterations in right and left temporal lobe epilepsy revealed by diffusion spectrum imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Nicolas Kunz, Alia Lemkaddem, François Lazeyras

Focal epilepsy is increasingly recognized as the result of an altered brain network, both on the structural and functional levels and the characterization of these widespread brain alterations is crucial for our understanding of the clinical manifestation ...

2014

Global tractography with embedded anatomical priors for quantitative connectivity analysis

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Alia Lemkaddem, Didrik Hans Malcolm Skiöldebrand

Tractography algorithms provide us with the ability to non-invasively reconstruct fiber pathways in the white matter (WM) by exploiting the directional information described with diffusion magnetic resonance. These methods could be divided into two major c ...

2014

Structural Graph Analysis of Left and Right Temporal Lobe Epilepsy using Diffusion Spectrum Imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Alia Lemkaddem, François Lazeyras

Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) suffer from widespread subtle white matter abnormalities and abnormal functional connectivity extending beyond the affected lobe, as revealed by volumetric and functional MRI studies. Diffusion Magnetic Resonance ...

2014

A convex optimization framework for global tractography

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandro Daducci, Alia Lemkaddem

In this article we present a novel approach for diffusion MRI global tractography. Our formulation models the signal in each voxel as a linear combination of fiber-tract basis func- tions, which consist of a comprehensive set of plausible fiber tracts that ...

2013

Altered structural connectivity in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy: A Diffusion Spectrum Imaging and Graph Analysis study

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Alessandra Griffa, Alessandro Daducci, Alia Lemkaddem

In this study we investigated the effect of medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) on the global characteristics of brain connectivity estimated by topological measures. We used DSI (Diffusion Spectrum Imaging) to construct a connectivity matrix where the no ...

2012