Publications by Juan Luis Villarreal Haro

Simulation-based Microstructure Imaging: Towards Realistic White Matter Modeling using Monte Carlo Methods in DW-MRI

Over the last two decades, Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DW-MRI) has been developed as a powerful MR imaging modality that allows estimating non-invasively the microscopic structure of biological tissues by exploiting the natural motion of ...

EPFL2025

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

Microstructure estimation from diffusion-MRI: Compartmentalized models in permeable cellular tissue

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

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is used to characterize brain tissue microstructure employing tissue-specific biophysical models. A current limitation, however, is that most of the proposed models are based on the assumption of negli ...

2022