564-03-001 ISMRM Abstract

Bridging Continents: Building MRI Analysis Capacity Through LMIC–HIC Collaboration in Neurodevelopmental Research

Primary: Pediatrics - Neuro

Secondary: Analysis Methods - Segmentation and Detection

564-03-001 · fMRI: Development and Aging · Wednesday, 13 May, 1:40 PM–2:35 PM · Digital Posters Row E

Keywords: Neurodevelopment MRI Capacity building Low and middle-income country (LMICs) Global collaboration

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Sadia Parkar¹, Kulsoom Khan¹, Hira Manzoor¹, Nadia Mazhar¹, Hamna Ganny¹, Salman Osmani¹, Jeffrey Tanedo², Austin Tapp³, Rahimeh Rouhi², Krithika Iyer³, Kiran Hilal⁴, Zahra Hoodbhoy¹, Marius Linguraru^3,5, Natasha Lepore^2,6, Sean Deoni⁷, Sidra Kaleem ¹

¹Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan, Pakistan

²CIBORG Lab, Los Angeles, United States of America

³Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, United States of America

⁴Department of Radiology, Department of Radiology, Aga Khan Hospital, Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan

⁵Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences,, George Washington University, Washington, United States of America

⁶Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America

⁷Gates Foundation, Seattle, United States of America

Presenting Author: Sidra Kaleem

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References

1. F. Abate et al., “UNITY: A low-field magnetic resonance neuroimaging initiative to characterize neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings,” Dev Cogn Neurosci, vol. 69, p. 101397, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101397 [doi]

2. R. Rouhi et al., “LF_Deface: An Automated Tool for Defacing Pediatric Brain Low-Field MRI,” in 2024 20th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis (SIPAIM), Antigua, Guatemala: IEEE, Nov. 2024, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1109/SIPAIM62974.2024.10783510. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10783510/. [Accessed: Oct. 27, 2025] [doi]

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