Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
504-02-002 ISMRM Abstract

Lifespan Normative Modeling of Diffusion MRI in 54,583 Participants and Deployment on Local Data

Primary: Neuro - White Matter
Secondary: Diffusion - Microstructure
504-02-002 · Probing Brain Microstructure with Water: Applications · Wednesday, 13 May, 8:20 AM–10:10 AM · Ballroom East
Keywords: Lifespan Normative modeling Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Transfer learning
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Julio E Villalon Reina 1, Alyssa H Zhu2, Sebastian Benavidez3, Clara A Moreau4, Yixue Feng1, Tamoghna Chattopadhyay5,6, Leila Nabulsi1, Leila Kushan7, Carrie E Bearden7, John P John8, Himanshu Joshi8, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian8, Sophia Thomopoulos6, Katherine E Lawrence1, Talia M Nir1, Neda Jahanshad9, Seyed M Kia10, Andre Marquand11,12,13, Paul M Thompson6
1Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
2Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
3Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, United States of America
4University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
5USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, United States of America
6USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
7David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, United States of America
8Multimodal Brain Image Analysis Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry,, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, India
9University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
10Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
11Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
12Department for Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
13Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Julio E Villalon Reina

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