Publications by Gabriel Girard

A Riemannian framework for incorporating white matter bundle prior in orientation distribution function based tractography algorithms

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is a powerful approach to study brain structural connectivity. However, its reliability in a clinical context is still highly debated. Recent studies have shown that most classical algorithms achieve ...

2025

Neurotransmitter-informed connectivity maps and their application for outcome inference after stroke

Gabriel Girard

Neuroscience has evolved by framing numerous neuropsychiatric conditions as network diseases. Alterations within neurotransmitter (NT) systems are central to the development of these diseases. Recently, normative data on whole-brain NT fingerprints derived ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2025

Probabilistic tractography

Gabriel Girard

Tractography techniques map white matter bundles in the brain using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data. These techniques use models to calculate paths where water molecule diffusion is least hindered, assuming these paths approximate the unde ...

Elsevier2025

White adipose tissue distribution and amount are associated with increased white matter connectivity

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gabriel Girard, Elda Fischi Gomez, Philipp Johannes Koch, Liana Okudzhava

Obesity represents a significant public health concern and is linked to various comorbidities and cognitive impairments. Previous research indicates that elevated body mass index (BMI) is associated with structural changes in white matter (WM). However, a ...

Wiley2024

The interplay between white adipose tissue, adipokines, and structural gray matter changes

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gabriel Girard, Elda Fischi Gomez, Liana Okudzhava

The growing global obesity issue emphasizes the importance of understanding its health implications. Previous research has identified consistent alterations in gray matter (GM) volume in connection with obesity. Given the various implications of distinct f ...

Wiley2024

Spatial Prior Informed Constrained Spherical Deconvolution in Super Resolution Variation

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gabriel Girard, Juan Luis Villarreal Haro

Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD) is a state-of-the-art technique for unraveling complex fiber configurations of white matter from diffusion MRI data. Despite its ability to identify multiple fiber orientations, it faces difficulties in resolving f ...

Springer Nature2024

Comparing Steam and PGSE Diffusion MRI Signal of RAT Lymph Nodes Using In-Silico Simulations

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gabriel Girard, Elda Fischi Gomez, Juan Luis Villarreal Haro, Rémy Marc M Gardier

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) has demonstrated great capabilities to quantify tissue microstructure using biophysical diffusion models. Over the years, various gradient sequences have been proposed to provide sensitivity and specificity to va ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Tractography passes the test: Results from the diffusion-simulated connectivity (disco) challenge

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gabriel Girard, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Juan Luis Villarreal Haro, Alessandro Daducci, Alonso Ramirez Manzanares, Marco Pizzolato, Ying-Chia Lin, Sara Sedlar, Caio Seguin

Estimating structural connectivity from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging is a challenging task, partly due to the presence of false-positive connections and the misestimation of connection weights. Building on previous efforts, the MICCAI-CDMR ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Cellular EXchange Imaging (CEXI): Evaluation of a diffusion model including water exchange in cells using numerical phantoms of permeable spheres

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gabriel Girard, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Juan Luis Villarreal Haro, Rémy Marc M Gardier

Purpose Biophysical models of diffusion MRI have been developed to characterize microstructure in various tissues, but existing models are not suitable for tissue composed of permeable spherical cells. In this study we introduce Cellular Exchange Imaging ( ...

Wiley2023

Differential Impact of Brain Network Efficiency on Poststroke Motor and Attentional Deficits

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Gabriel Girard, Takuya Morishita, Elena Beanato, Lisa Aïcha Mireille Julie Fleury, Nathalie Heidi Meyer, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philip Egger, Philipp Johannes Koch

Background:Most studies on stroke have been designed to examine one deficit in isolation; yet, survivors often have multiple deficits in different domains. While the mechanisms underlying multiple-domain deficits remain poorly understood, network-theoretic ...

2023