Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
661-03-002 ISMRM Abstract

Graph2Self: Fast Self-Supervised Denoising of Diffusion MRI via Graph-Based Collaborative Filtering

Primary: Diffusion - DWI/DTI/DKI
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Data Processing
661-03-002 · Noise and Artifact Mitigation in MRI · Thursday, 14 May, 1:40 PM–2:35 PM · Digital Posters Row B
Keywords: Diffusion Denoising Tractography Graph theory analysis Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Collaborative graph filtering
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Kamyar Rajabalifardi1,2, Onat Dalmaz 2,3,4,5, Akshay Chaudhari5,6
1Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
2Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
3Department of Radiology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
4Electrical Engineering, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
5Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
6Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
Presenting Author: Onat Dalmaz

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