Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
406-01-010 ISMRM Abstract

Deep Contrastive Variational Autoencoder for Physiological Noise Removal of Echo-Planar Time-Resolved (EPTI) fMRI

Primary: Brain Function and fMRI - fMRI Analysis
Secondary: Brain Function and fMRI - fMRI Acquisition
406-01-010 · fMRI: Acquisition and Preprocessing · Tuesday, 12 May, 8:20 AM–10:10 AM · Auditorium 2
Keywords: Analysis/Processing Brain Connectivity fMRI (resting state) Multi-echo fMRI Precision functional mapping
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Daniel Haenelt 1,2, Louisa Dahmani1,2, Jian Wu1,2, Hesheng Liu3,4, Jonathan R Polimeni5,6, Zijing Dong1,2, Fuyixue Wang1,2
1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
2Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
3Changping Laboratory, Beijing, China
4Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, Peking University, Beijing, China
5Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
6Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
Presenting Author: Daniel Haenelt

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