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Overview

Carl-Fredrik Westin is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work is concentrated on topics such as Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, MRI in cancer diagnosis, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, NMR spectroscopy and applications, Medical Image Segmentation Techniques, and Bone and Joint Diseases.

Westin has contributed to multiple recent research papers. Notable publications include:

  • Combined diffusion-relaxometry microstructure imaging: Current status and future prospects, 2021, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • SlicerDMRI: Diffusion MRI and Tractography Research Software for Brain Cancer Surgery Planning and Visualization, 2020, JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
  • Deep learning based segmentation of brain tissue from diffusion MRI, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Deep Brain Stimulation: Emerging Tools for Simulation, Data Analysis, and Visualization, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Promoting the use of the PI-QUAL score for prostate MRI quality: results from the ESOR Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis teaching fellowship, 2022, European Radiology

Frequent collaborators include Yogesh Rathi, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Lipeng Ning, Fan Zhang, and Borjan Gagoski. Westin's research outputs have appeared in a variety of scientific venues, among them:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • The challenge of mapping the human connectome based on diffusion tractography

    Klaus H. Maier-Hein;Peter F. Neher;Jean-Christophe Houde;Marc-Alexandre Cote

  • Processing and visualization for diffusion tensor MRI.

    Carl-Fredrik Westin;Stephan E. Maier;Hatsuho Mamata;Arya Nabavi

  • A review of diffusion tensor imaging studies in schizophrenia.

    Marek R. Kubicki;Robert William McCarley;Carl-Fredrik Westin;H Park;H Park;H Park

  • Serial intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging of brain shift.

    Arya Nabavi;Peter McL. Black;David T. Gering;Carl-Fredrik Westin

  • An introduction to diffusion tensor image analysis.

    Lauren J. O’Donnell;Carl-Fredrik Westin

  • Representing local structure using tensors II

    Hans Knutsson;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Mats Andersson

  • DTI and MTR abnormalities in schizophrenia: analysis of white matter integrity.

    Marek R. Kubicki;H. Park;H. Park;H. Park;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Paul Gerard Nestor

  • Tissue classification based on 3D local intensity structures for volume rendering

    Y. Sato;C. Westin;A. Bhalerao;S. Nakajima

  • Multi-component apparent diffusion coefficients in human brain.

    Robert V. Mulkern;Hakon Gudbjartsson;Carl Fredrik Westin;Hale Pinar Zengingonul

  • Oriented Speckle Reducing Anisotropic Diffusion

    K. Krissian;C.-F. Westin;R. Kikinis;K.G. Vosburgh

  • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2004

    Anders Brun;Hans Knutsson;Hae-Jeong Park;Martha Elizabeth Shenton

  • CURVES: Curve evolution for vessel segmentation

    L.M. Lorigo;O.D. Faugeras;O.D. Faugeras;W.E.L. Grimson;R. Keriven

  • Normalized and differential convolution

    H. Knutsson;C.-F. Westin

  • Automatic Tractography Segmentation Using a High-Dimensional White Matter Atlas

    L.J. O'Donnell;C.-F. Westin

  • Noise and Signal Estimation in Magnitude MRI and Rician Distributed Images: A LMMSE Approach

    S. Aja-Fernandez;C. Alberola-Lopez;C.-F. Westin

  • q-space trajectory imaging for multidimensional diffusion MRI of the human brain.

    Carl-Fredrik Westin;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Hans Knutsson;Ofer Pasternak;Filip Szczepankiewicz

  • A Bayesian approach for stochastic white matter tractography

    O. Friman;G. Farneback;C.-F. Westin

  • White matter hemisphere asymmetries in healthy subjects and in schizophrenia: a diffusion tensor MRI study

    Hae-Jeong Park;Carl-Fredrik Westin;Marek R. Kubicki;Marek R. Kubicki;Stephan Ernst Maier

  • Normalized and Differential Convolution : Methods for Interpolation and Filtering of Incomplete and Uncertain Data

    Hans Knutsson;Carl-Fredrik Westin

  • Comparison of fiber tracts derived from in-vivo DTI tractography with 3D histological neural tract tracer reconstruction on a macaque brain.

    Julien Dauguet;Sharon Peled;Vladimir Berezovskii;Thierry Delzescaux

  • Quantification of microscopic diffusion anisotropy disentangles effects of orientation dispersion from microstructure: applications in healthy volunteers and in brain tumors

    Filip Szczepankiewicz;Samo Lasič;Danielle van Westen;Pia C. Sundgren

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Marek Kubicki
Marek Kubicki Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ron Kikinis
Ron Kikinis Brigham and Women's Hospital
Hans Knutsson
Hans Knutsson Linköping University
Yogesh Rathi
Yogesh Rathi Brigham and Women's Hospital
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Sylvain Bouix
Sylvain Bouix Harvard Medical School
Ofer Pasternak
Ofer Pasternak Brigham and Women's Hospital
Hae-Jeong Park
Hae-Jeong Park Yonsei University
Alexandra J. Golby
Alexandra J. Golby Brigham and Women's Hospital

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