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Maxime Descoteaux

Maxime Descoteaux

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Computer Science

D-Index
60
Citations
15750
World Ranking
3215
National Ranking
124

Overview

Maxime Descoteaux is affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Additional subfields in which they have contributed include cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, neurology, and physiology.

Their work extensively covers advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and functional brain connectivity studies. Other research topics include MRI in cancer diagnosis, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, bone and joint diseases, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Maxime Descoteaux has contributed to various scholarly venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 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
  • Human Brain Mapping

Their recent published papers include:

  • Mapping Structural Connectivity Using Diffusion MRI: Challenges and Opportunities, 2020, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • TractoFlow: A robust, efficient and reproducible diffusion MRI pipeline leveraging Nextflow & Singularity, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord, 2021, Nature Protocols
  • Common misconceptions, hidden biases and modern challenges of dMRI tractography, 2020, Journal of Neural Engineering
  • A new method for accurate in vivo mapping of human brain connections using microstructural and anatomical information, 2020, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • François Rheault
  • Guillaume Theaud
  • Laurent Petit
  • Manon Edde
  • Pierre-Marc Jodoin

Best Publications

  • Dipy, a library for the analysis of diffusion MRI data

    Eleftherios Garyfallidis;Eleftherios Garyfallidis;Matthew Brett;Bagrat Amirbekian;Ariel Rokem

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

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

  • Regularized, fast, and robust analytical Q-ball imaging

    Maxime Descoteaux;Elaine Angelino;Shaun Fitzgibbons;Rachid Deriche

  • Deterministic and Probabilistic Tractography Based on Complex Fibre Orientation Distributions

    M. Descoteaux;R. Deriche;T.R. Knosche;A. Anwander

  • Diffusion MRI fiber tractography of the brain

    Ben Jeurissen;Maxime Descoteaux;Susumu Mori;Susumu Mori;Alexander Leemans

  • Quantitative evaluation of 10 tractography algorithms on a realistic diffusion MR phantom.

    Pierre Fillard;Maxime Descoteaux;Alvina Goh;Sylvain Gouttard

  • Towards quantitative connectivity analysis: reducing tractography biases.

    Gabriel Girard;Gabriel Girard;Kevin Whittingstall;Rachid Deriche;Maxime Descoteaux

  • Apparent diffusion coefficients from high angular resolution diffusion imaging: estimation and applications.

    Maxime Descoteaux;Elaine Angelino;Shaun Fitzgibbons;Rachid Deriche

  • Recognition of white matter bundles using local and global streamline-based registration and clustering.

    Eleftherios Garyfallidis;Marc-Alexandre Côté;Francois Rheault;Jasmeen Sidhu

  • Tractometer: towards validation of tractography pipelines.

    Marc-Alexandre Côté;Gabriel Girard;Arnaud Boré;Eleftherios Garyfallidis

  • Limits to anatomical accuracy of diffusion tractography using modern approaches.

    Kurt G. Schilling;Vishwesh Nath;Colin Hansen;Prasanna Parvathaneni

  • Multiple q-shell diffusion propagator imaging☆

    Maxime Descoteaux;Rachid Deriche;Denis Le Bihan;Jean-François Mangin

  • Quantitative Comparison of Reconstruction Methods for Intra-Voxel Fiber Recovery From Diffusion MRI

    Alessandro Daducci;Erick Jorge Canales-Rodriguez;Maxime Descoteaux;Eleftherios Garyfallidis

  • Mapping Structural Connectivity Using Diffusion MRI: Challenges and Opportunities.

    Chun-Hung Yeh;Derek K. Jones;Derek K. Jones;Xiaoyun Liang;Xiaoyun Liang;Xiaoyun Liang;Maxime Descoteaux

  • TractoFlow: A robust, efficient and reproducible diffusion MRI pipeline leveraging Nextflow & Singularity.

    Guillaume Theaud;Jean-Christophe Houde;Arnaud Boré;François Rheault

  • Robust clustering of massive tractography datasets.

    Pamela Guevara;Cyril Poupon;Denis Rivière;Yann Cointepas

  • Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?

    Kurt G. Schilling;François Rheault;Laurent Petit;Colin B. Hansen

  • A test-retest study on Parkinson's PPMI dataset yields statistically significant white matter fascicles.

    Martin Cousineau;Pierre-Marc Jodoin;Eleftherios Garyfallidis;Marc-Alexandre Côté

  • Microstructure Informed Tractography: Pitfalls and Open Challenges.

    Alessandro Daducci;Alessandro Daducci;Alessandro Dal Palú;Maxime Descoteaux;Jean Philippe Thiran

  • Challenges in diffusion MRI tractography - Lessons learned from international benchmark competitions.

    Kurt G. Schilling;Alessandro Daducci;Klaus Maier-Hein;Cyril Poupon

  • Impact of Rician Adapted Non-Local Means Filtering on HARDI

    Maxime Descoteaux;Nicolas Wiest-Daesslé;Sylvain Prima;Christian Barillot

  • High angular resolution diffusion MRI : from local estimation to segmentation and tractography

    Maxime Descoteaux

  • Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention − MICCAI 2017

    Maxime Descoteaux;Lena Maier-Hein;Alfred Franz;Pierre Jannin

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachid Deriche
Rachid Deriche French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Jean-Philippe Thiran
Jean-Philippe Thiran École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laurent Petit
Laurent Petit University of Bordeaux
Kaleem Siddiqi
Kaleem Siddiqi McGill University
Klaus H. Maier-Hein
Klaus H. Maier-Hein German Cancer Research Center
Pierre-Marc Jodoin
Pierre-Marc Jodoin Université de Sherbrooke
Julien Cohen-Adad
Julien Cohen-Adad Polytechnique Montréal
Cyril Poupon
Cyril Poupon University of Paris-Saclay
Bennett A. Landman
Bennett A. Landman Vanderbilt University
Derek K. Jones
Derek K. Jones Cardiff University

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