@article {994, title = {Increased MRI-based Brain Age in chronic migraine patients}, journal = {The Journal of Headache and Pain}, volume = {24}, year = {2023}, pages = {133}, abstract = {

Neuroimaging has revealed that migraine is linked to alterations in both the structure and function of the brain. However, the relationship of these changes with aging has not been studied in detail. Here we employ the Brain Age framework to analyze migraine, by building a machine-learning model that predicts age from neuroimaging data. We hypothesize that migraine patients will exhibit an increased Brain Age Gap (the difference between the predicted age and the chronological age) compared to healthy participants.

}, keywords = {Biomarkers, Brain age, machine learning, migraine disorders, neuroimaging}, issn = {1129-2377}, doi = {10.1186/s10194-023-01670-6}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s10194-023-01670-6}, author = {Navarro-Gonz{\'a}lez, Rafael and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Guerrero-Peral, {\'A}ngel L. and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez, Santiago and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo} } @proceedings {986, title = {Increased T1w MRI-based brain age in chronic migraine patients}, volume = {5327}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, abstract = {

Brain-age is an emerging neuroimaging biomarker that represents the aging status of the brain using machine learning techniques from MRI data. It has been successfully applied to the study of different neurological and psychiatric conditions. We hypothesize that patients with migraine may show an increased brain age gap (difference between the age estimated from the MRI data and the chronological age). After building a brain age model from 2,781 healthy subjects, we tested this hypothesis on a dataset with 210 healthy controls and migraine patients. Results showed an increased brain age in chronic migraine patients with respect to healthy controls.

}, author = {Navarro-Gonz{\'a}lez, Rafael and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Guerrero, {\'A}ngel L and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez, Santiago and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo} } @article {973, title = {Structural brain changes in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 resolution}, journal = {Journal of Neurology}, volume = {270}, year = {2023}, pages = {13-31}, abstract = {

Headache is among the most frequently reported symptoms after resolution of COVID-19. We assessed structural brain changes using T1- and diffusion-weighted MRI processed data from 167 subjects: 40 patients who recovered from COVID-19 but suffered from persistent headache without prior history of headache (COV), 41 healthy controls, 43 patients with episodic migraine and 43 patients with chronic migraine. To evaluate gray matter and white matter changes, morphometry parameters and diffusion tensor imaging-based measures were employed, respectively. COV patients showed significant lower cortical gray matter volume and cortical thickness than healthy subjects (p\thinspace\<\thinspace0.05, false discovery rate corrected) in the inferior frontal and the fusiform cortex. Lower fractional anisotropy and higher radial diffusivity (p\thinspace\<\thinspace0.05, family-wise error corrected) were observed in COV patients compared to controls, mainly in the corpus callosum and left hemisphere. COV patients showed higher cortical volume and thickness than migraine patients in the cingulate and frontal gyri, paracentral lobule and superior temporal sulcus, lower volume in subcortical regions and lower curvature in the precuneus and cuneus. Lower diffusion metric values in COV patients compared to migraine were identified prominently in the right hemisphere. COV patients present diverse changes in the white matter and gray matter structure. White matter changes seem to be associated with impairment of fiber bundles. Besides, the gray matter changes and other white matter modifications such as axonal integrity loss seemed subtle and less pronounced than those detected in migraine, showing that persistent headache after COVID-19 resolution could be an intermediate state between normality and migraine.

}, issn = {1432-1459}, doi = {10.1007/s00415-022-11398-z}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-022-11398-z}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Guerrero, {\'A}ngel L. and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez, Santiago and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo} } @article {977, title = {Toward deep learning replacement of gadolinium in neuro-oncology: A review of contrast-enhanced synthetic MRI}, journal = {Frontiers in Neuroimaging}, volume = {2}, year = {2023}, issn = {2813-1193}, doi = {10.3389/fnimg.2023.1055463}, url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnimg.2023.1055463}, author = {Moya-S{\'a}ez, Elisa and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo and Alberola-L{\'o}pez, Carlos} } @article {980, title = {Viability of AMURA biomarkers from single-shell diffusion MRI in clinical studies}, journal = {Frontiers in Neuroscience}, volume = {17}, year = {2023}, pages = {1106350}, abstract = {

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is the most employed method to assess white matter properties using quantitative parameters derived from diffusion MRI, but it presents known limitations that restrict the evaluation of complex structures. The objective of this study was to validate the reliability and robustness of complementary diffusion measures extracted with a novel approach, Apparent Measures Using Reduced Acquisitions (AMURA), with a typical diffusion MRI acquisition from a clinical context in comparison with DTI with application to clinical studies. Fifty healthy controls, 51 episodic migraine and 56 chronic migraine patients underwent single-shell diffusion MRI. Four DTI-based and eight AMURA-based parameters were compared between groups with tract-based spatial statistics to establish reference results. On the other hand, following a region-based analysis, the measures were assessed for multiple subsamples with diverse reduced sample sizes and their stability was evaluated with the coefficient of quartile variation. To assess the discrimination power of the diffusion measures, we repeated the statistical comparisons with a region-based analysis employing reduced sample sizes with diverse subsets, decreasing 10 subjects per group for consecutive reductions, and using 5,001 different random subsamples. For each sample size, the stability of the diffusion descriptors was evaluated with the coefficient of quartile variation. AMURA measures showed a greater number of statistically significant differences in the reference comparisons between episodic migraine patients and controls compared to DTI. In contrast, a higher number of differences was found with DTI parameters compared to AMURA in the comparisons between both migraine groups. Regarding the assessments reducing the sample size, the AMURA parameters showed a more stable behavior than DTI, showing a lower decrease for each reduced sample size or a higher number of regions with significant differences. However, most AMURA parameters showed lower stability in relation to higher coefficient of quartile variation values than the DTI descriptors, although two AMURA measures showed similar values to DTI. For the synthetic signals, there were AMURA measures with similar quantification to DTI, while other showed similar behavior. These findings suggest that AMURA presents favorable characteristics to identify differences of specific microstructural properties between clinical groups in regions with complex fiber architecture and lower dependency on the sample size or assessing technique than DTI.

}, issn = {1662-453X}, doi = {10.3389/fnins.2023.1106350}, url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1106350}, author = {Mart{\'\i}n-Mart{\'\i}n, Carmen and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Guerrero, {\'A}ngel L. and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Trist{\'a}n-Vega, Antonio and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo and Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez, Santiago} } @article {964, title = {Default mode network components and its relationship with anomalous self-experiences in schizophrenia: A rs-fMRI exploratory study}, journal = {Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging}, volume = {324}, year = {2022}, pages = {111495}, abstract = {

Anomalous self-experiences (ASEs) in schizophrenia have been under research for the last 20 years. However, no neuroimage studies have provided insight of the possible biological underpinning of ASEs. In this novel approach, the connectivity within the default mode network, calculated through a ROI-based analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data, was correlated to the ASEs scores assessed by the Inventory of Psychotic-Like Anomalous Self-Experiences (IPASE) in a sample of 22 schizophrenia patients. The Pearson{\textquoteright}s correlation coefficients between IPASE scores and intrahemispheric connectivity of the parahippocampal gyrus with the isthmus cingulate cortex in both hemispheres, and right parahippocampal gyrus with the right rostral anterior cingulate cortex were positive and significant suggesting a relation between hyperactive functional connectivity and anomalous self-experiences intensity. Prior literature reported these areas to have a role in self-processing and consciousness as well as being anatomically connected. Further research with larger sample size and comparison with controls are needed to confirm the relationship of this connectivity with anomalous self-experiences.

}, keywords = {Anterior cingulate cortex, Metacognition, Parahippocampal gyrus, Psychosis, functional magnetic resonance imaging}, issn = {0925-4927}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2022.111495}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925492722000567}, author = {Roig-Herrero, Alejandro and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Hern{\'a}ndez-Garc{\'\i}a, Marta and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo and Fern{\'a}ndez-Linsenbarth, In{\'e}s and Be{\~n}o-Ruiz-de-la-Sierra, Rosa M. and Molina, Vicente} } @conference {968, title = {Long-term grey matter structural changes in the transition from chronic migraine to episodic migraine}, booktitle = {8th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, abstract = {

Background and aims: The objective was to assess grey matter longitudinal changes in patients with chronic migraine (CM) who reverse to episodic migraine (EM) compared to those who do not reverse.

Methods: High-resolution 3D brain T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging data were obtained twice from migraine patients. The first acquisition was performed immediately after the first visit to the Headache Unit, before taking preventive treatments. The second timepoint was at least three years after the first acquisition. From the longitudinal pipeline of FreeSurfer (v6.0), the mean values of cortical thickness, surface area and grey matter volume of 68 cortical, 14 subcortical regions and the cerebellum were extracted. Longitudinal changes between patients with CM and those who reversed to EM were assessed with linear
mixed-effects models, setting p\<0.05 (false discovery rate corrected) as threshold for statistical significance.

Results: 22 patients were included, and 10 of them (45.5\%) reversed to EM. No statistically significant differences of age (42.0+-9.0 years) and sex (21 women, 95.5\%) were found between patient groups. Higher statistically significant values of the three parameters in patients who reversed to EM were found in the pericalcarine, parietal, orbitofrontal cortex, and amygdala (Table 1, Figure 1). In contrast, lower values were detected in the cingulum, caudal middle frontal cortex, cerebellum, caudate nucleus and pallidum (Figure 2). In the insula, higher thickness but lower area was appreciated in patients who reversed.

Conclusion: Patients with CM who reverse to EM present distinct patterns of increased and decreased morphometric parameters propagated in the orbital frontal cortex and the cingulum, respectively.

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Marchante-Re{\'\i}llo, Ginebra and Sierra, {\'A}lvaro and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Mart{\'\i}n-Mart{\'\i}n, Carmen and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo and Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez, Santiago and Moro, Ra{\'u}l and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Gonz{\'a}lez-Osorio, Y{\'e}sica and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero} } @article {954, title = {Moment-based representation of the diffusion inside the brain from reduced DMRI acquisitions: Generalized AMURA}, journal = {Medical Image Analysis}, volume = {77}, year = {2022}, pages = {102356}, abstract = {

AMURA (Apparent Measures Using Reduced Acquisitions) was originally proposed as a method to infer micro-structural information from single-shell acquisitions in diffusion MRI. It reduces the number of samples needed and the computational complexity of the estimation of diffusion properties of tissues by assuming the diffusion anisotropy is roughly independent on the b-value. This simplification allows the computation of simplified expressions and makes it compatible with standard acquisition protocols commonly used even in clinical practice. The present work proposes an extension of AMURA that allows the calculation of general moments of the diffusion signals that can be applied to describe the diffusion process with higher accuracy. We provide simplified expressions to analytically compute a set of scalar indices as moments of arbitrary orders over either the whole 3-D space, particular directions, or particular planes. The existing metrics previously proposed for AMURA (RTOP, RTPP and RTAP) are now special cases of this generalization. An extensive set of experiments is performed on public data and a clinical clase acquired with a standard type acquisition. The new metrics provide additional information about the diffusion processes inside the brain.

}, keywords = {AMURA, Diffusion anisotropy, Fast acquisition, diffusion MRI, white matter}, issn = {1361-8415}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2022.102356}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841522000093}, author = {Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez, Santiago and Pieciak, Tomasz and Mart{\'\i}n-Mart{\'\i}n, Carmen and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo and Trist{\'a}n-Vega, Antonio} } @article {934, title = {Accurate free-water estimation in white matter from fast diffusion MRI acquisitions using the spherical means technique}, journal = {Magnetic Resonance in Medicine}, volume = {87}, year = {2021}, month = {2022}, pages = {1028-1035}, type = {Techncial Note}, abstract = {

Purpose To accurately estimate the partial volume fraction of free water in the white matter from diffusion MRI acquisitions not demanding strong sensitizing gradients and/or large collections of different b-values. Data sets considered comprise 32-64 gradients near plus 6 gradients near . Theory and Methods The spherical means of each diffusion MRI set with the same b-value are computed. These means are related to the inherent diffusion parameters within the voxel (free- and cellular-water fractions; cellular-water diffusivity), which are solved by constrained nonlinear least squares regression. Results The proposed method outperforms those based on mixtures of two Gaussians for the kind of data sets considered. W.r.t. the accuracy, the former does not introduce significant biases in the scenarios of interest, while the latter can reach a bias of 5\%{\textendash}7\% if fiber crossings are present. W.r.t. the precision, a variance near , compared to 15\%, can be attained for usual configurations. Conclusion It is possible to compute reliable estimates of the free-water fraction inside the white matter by complementing typical DTI acquisitions with few gradients at a lowb-value. It can be done voxel-by-voxel, without imposing spatial regularity constraints.

}, keywords = {diffusion MRI, free water, spherical means, white matter}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28997}, author = {Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Guillem Par{\'\i}s and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @conference {941, title = {Clinical course of migraine during the COVID-19 Lockdown}, booktitle = {International Headache Congress 2021}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, publisher = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, organization = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, address = {Virtual Congress}, abstract = {

Objective: Previous studies have demonstrated that migraine can worsen due to stress, changes in lifestyle habits or infections. We hypothesize that changes during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown might have worsened the clinical course of migraine.
Methods: Retrospective survey study collecting demographic data, clinical variables related to headache (frequency), migraine (subjective worsening, frequency, and intensity), lockdown, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress from migraine patients followed-up at three Headache Units between June-July 2020.
Results: 222 subjects were included. Among them, 201/222 (90.5\%) were women, aged 42.5 +- 12.0 (mean +- SD). Subjective improvement of migraine was reported in 31/222 participants (14.0\%), while worsening in 105/222 (47.3\%) and was associated with changes in migraine triggers such as stress related to going outdoors and intake of specific foods/drinks. Intensity of attacks increased in 67/222 patients (30.2\%), and it was associated with the subjective worsening, female sex, recent insomnia, and use of acute medication during a headache. An increase in monthly days with any headache was observed in 105/222 patients (47.3\%) and was related to symptoms of post-traumatic stress, older age and living with five or more people.

Conclusion: Approximately half the migraine patients reported worsening of their usual pain during the lockdown; worsening was related to changes in triggers and the emotional impact of the lockdown.

}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03331024211034005}, author = {Gonzalez-Martinez, Alicia and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Santos-Lasaosa, Sonia and P{\'e}rez-Navarro, Mar{\'\i}a P and Odriozola-Gonz{\'a}lez, Paula and Irurtia, Mar{\'\i}a Jes{\'u}s and Quintas, Sonia and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Ana B Gago-Veiga} } @article {952, title = {Effects of the onabotulinumtoxinA follow-up delay in migraine course during the COVID-19 lockdown}, journal = {Neurological Sciences}, volume = {42}, year = {2021}, pages = {5087-5092}, issn = {1590-3478}, doi = {10.1007/s10072-021-05180-8}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05180-8}, author = {Gonzalez-Martinez, Alicia and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Santos-Lasaosa, Sonia and Navarro-P{\'e}rez, Mar{\'\i}a Pilar and Odriozola-Gonz{\'a}lez, Paula and Irurtia, Mar{\'\i}a Jes{\'u}s and Quintas, Sonia and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo and Ana B Gago-Veiga} } @article {944, title = {Evaluation of the Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown in the Clinical Course of Migraine}, journal = {Pain Medicine}, volume = {22}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {2079-2091}, abstract = {

Objective: Previous studies have demonstrated that emotional stress, changes in lifestyle habits and infections can worsen the clinical course of migraine. We hypothesize that changes in habits and medical care during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown might have worsened the clinical course of migraine.

Design: Retrospective survey study collecting online responses from migraine patients followed-up by neurologists at three tertiary hospitals between June and July 2020.

Methods: We used a web-based survey that included demographic data, clinical variables related with any headache (frequency) and migraine (subjective worsening, frequency, and intensity), lockdown, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress.

Results: The response rate of the survey was 239/324 (73.8\%). The final analysis included 222 subjects. Among them, 201/222 (90.5\%) were women, aged 42.5 +- 12.0 (mean+-SD). Subjective improvement of migraine during lockdown was reported in 31/222 participants (14.0\%), while worsening in 105/222 (47.3\%) and was associated with changes in migraine triggers such as stress related to going outdoors and intake of specific foods or drinks. Intensity of attacks increased in 67/222 patients (30.2\%), and it was associated with the subjective worsening, female sex, recent insomnia, and use of acute medication during a headache. An increase in monthly days with any headache was observed in 105/222 patients (47.3\%) and was related to symptoms of post-traumatic stress, older age and living with five or more people.

Conclusions: Approximately half the migraine patients reported worsening of their usual pain during the lockdown. Worse clinical course in migraine patients was related to changes in triggers and the emotional impact of the lockdown.

}, keywords = {COVID-19, Headache, Lockdown, Migraine, SARS-CoV-2}, issn = {1526-4637}, doi = {10.1093/pm/pnaa449}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa449}, author = {Gonzalez-Martinez, Alicia and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Santos-Lasaosa, Sonia and Navarro-P{\'e}rez, Mar{\'\i}a Pilar and Odriozola-Gonz{\'a}lez, Paula and Irurtia, Mar{\'\i}a Jes{\'u}s and Quintas, Sonia and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Ana B Gago-Veiga} } @conference {937, title = {Gray matter cortical changes in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 infection: an exploratory study}, booktitle = {International Headache Congress 2021}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, publisher = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, organization = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, address = {Virtual Congress}, abstract = {

Objective: To evaluate gray matter alterations in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 resolution.
Methods: Exploratory case-control study. Highresolution 3D brain T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging data were acquired in patients with persistent
headache after COVID-19 infection and healthy controls (HC). FreeSurfer (version 6.0) was employed to segment the T1-weighted images and extract the mean values of the cortical curvature (CC) and thickness (CT), surface area (SA) and gray matter volume (GMV) of 68 cortical regions. GMV comparisons were adjusted for intracranial volume. Significant results were considered with p \< 0.05 (False Discovery Rate corrected).
Results: Ten patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 (mean age: 53.8 +- 7.8 years; nine women) and 10 HC balanced for age and sex (mean age: 53.1 +- 7.0 years; nine women) were included in the study. Significant higher mean SA and GMV values were found in patients with persistent headache compared to HC in the bilateral medial orbitofrontal cortex, left rostral middle frontal gyrus, and right pars opercularis and superior frontal gyrus. In the patients, significant higher GMV in the right caudal anterior cingulate gyrus and SA values in five temporal, frontal and parietal regions were observed. No CC or CT changes were found.
Conclusions: Persistent headache after COVID-19 infection is related to gray matter cortical changes defined by higher GMV and SA values mainly localized in frontal regions.

}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03331024211034005}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Moro, Ra{\'u}l and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @conference {942, title = {Has onabotulinumtoxinA follow-up delay during COVID-19 lockdown affected the migraine course?}, booktitle = {International Headache Congress 2021}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, publisher = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, organization = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, address = {Virtual Congress}, abstract = {

Objective: During the COVID-19 pandemic face-to-face procedures have been postponed. We aim to evaluate the impact of onabotulinumtoxinA follow-up delay in migraine during COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Subjective worsening, intensity of migraine attacks and frequency of headache and migraine were retrospectively compared between patients with unmodified and interrupted onabotulinumtoxinA follow-up in Headache Units.
Results: We included 67 patients with chronic migraine or high-frequency episodic migraine under onabotulinumtoxinA treatment, 65 (97.0\%) female,
44.5 +- 12.1 years old. Treatment administration was voluntarily delayed in 14 (20.9\%) patients and nine (13.4\%) were unable to continue follow-up. Patients with uninterrupted follow-up during lockdown presented 8.4 and 8.1 less monthly days with headache (adjusted p = 0.011) and migraine attacks (adjusted p = 0.009) compared to patients whose follow-up was interrupted, respectively.
Conclusion: Involuntary delay of onabotulinumtoxinA follow-up in patients with migraine due to COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a higher frequency of headache and migraine attacks. Safe administration of onabotulinumtoxinA during lockdown should be promoted.

}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03331024211034005}, author = {Gonzalez-Martinez, Alicia and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and Santos-Lasaosa, Sonia and Navarro-P{\'e}rez, Mar{\'\i}a P and Odriozola-Gonz{\'a}lez, Paula and Irurtia, Mar{\'\i}a Jes{\'u}s and Quintas, Sonia and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Ana B Gago-Veiga} } @article {947, title = {Magnetic Resonance Simulation in Education: Quantitative Evaluation of an Actual Classroom Experience}, journal = {Sensors}, volume = {21}, year = {2021}, pages = {6011}, abstract = {

Magnetic resonance is an imaging modality that implies a high complexity for radiographers. Despite some simulators having been developed for training purposes, we are not aware of any attempt to quantitatively measure their educational performance. The present study gives an answer to the question: Does an MRI simulator built on specific functional and non-functional requirements help radiographers learn MRI theoretical and practical concepts better than traditional educational method based on lectures? Our study was carried out in a single day by a total of 60 students of a main hospital in Madrid, Spain. The experiment followed a randomized pre-test post-test design with a control group that used a traditional educational method, and an experimental group that used our simulator. Knowledge level was assessed by means of an instrument with evidence of validity in its format and content, while its reliability was analyzed after the experiment. Statistical differences between both groups were measured. Significant statistical differences were found in favor of the participants who used the simulator for both the post-test score and the gain (difference between post-test and pre-test scores). The effect size turned out to be significant as well. In this work we evaluated a magnetic resonance simulation paradigm as a tool to help in the training of radiographers. The study shows that a simulator built on specific design requirements is a valuable complement to traditional education procedures, backed up with significant quantitative results.

}, author = {Trece{\~n}o-Fern{\'a}ndez, Daniel and Calabia-del-Campo, Juan and Matute-Teresa, F{\'a}tima and Bote-Lorenzo, Miguel L and G{\'o}mez-S{\'a}nchez, Eduardo and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Alberola-L{\'o}pez, Carlos} } @article {907, title = {Multimodal fusion analysis of structural connectivity and gray matter morphology in migraine}, journal = {Human Brain Mapping}, volume = {42}, year = {2021}, pages = {908-921}, abstract = {

No specific migraine biomarkers have been found in single-modality MRI studies. We aimed at establishing biomarkers for episodic and chronic migraine using diverse MRI modalities. We employed canonical correlation analysis and joint independent component analysis to find structural connectivity abnormalities that are related to gray matter morphometric alterations. The number of streamlines (trajectories of estimated fiber-tracts from tractography) was employed as structural connectivity measure, while cortical curvature, thickness, surface area, and volume were used as gray matter parameters. These parameters were compared between 56 chronic and 54 episodic migraine patients, and 50 healthy controls. Cortical curvature alterations were associated with abnormalities in the streamline count in episodic migraine patients compared to controls, with higher curvature values in the frontal and temporal poles being related to a higher streamline count. Lower streamline count was found in migraine compared to controls in connections between cortical regions within each of the four lobes. Higher streamline count was found in migraine in connections between subcortical regions, the insula, and the cingulate and orbitofrontal cortex, and between the insula and the temporal region. The connections between the caudate nucleus and the orbitofrontal cortex presented worse connectivity in chronic compared to episodic migraine. The hippocampus was involved in connections with higher and lower number of streamlines in chronic migraine. Strengthening of structural networks involving pain processing and subcortical regions coexists in migraine with weakening of cortical networks within each lobe. The multimodal analysis offers a new insight about the association between brain structure and connectivity.

}, keywords = {Brain, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, connectome, diffusion magnetic resonance imaging, migraine disorders}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25267}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hbm.25267}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {923, title = {Neurobiological underpinnings of cognitive subtypes in psychoses: A cross-diagnostic cluster analysis}, journal = {Schizophrenia Research}, volume = {229}, year = {2021}, pages = {102-111}, abstract = {

Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder include patients with different characteristics, which may hamper the definition of biomarkers. One of the dimensions with greater heterogeneity among these patients is cognition. Recent studies support the identification of different patients{\textquoteright} subgroups along the cognitive domain using cluster analysis. Our aim was to validate clusters defined on the basis of patients{\textquoteright} cognitive status and to assess its relation with demographic, clinical and biological measurements. We hypothesized that subgroups characterized by different cognitive profiles would show differences in an array of biological data. Cognitive data from 198 patients (127 with chronic schizophrenia, 42 first episodes of schizophrenia and 29 bipolar patients) were analyzed by a K-means cluster approach and were compared on several clinical and biological variables. We also included 155 healthy controls for further comparisons. A two-cluster solution was selected, including a severely impaired group and a moderately impaired group. The severely impaired group was associated with higher illness duration and symptoms scores, lower thalamus and hippocampus volume, lower frontal connectivity and basal hypersynchrony in comparison to controls and the moderately impaired group. Moreover, both patients{\textquoteright} groups showed lower cortical thickness and smaller functional connectivity modulation than healthy controls. This study supports the existence of different cognitive subgroups within the psychoses with different neurobiological underpinnings.

}, keywords = {Cognition, Connectivity, Modulation, Volume, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia}, issn = {0920-9964}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2020.11.013}, url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920996420305521}, author = {Fern{\'a}ndez-Linsenbarth, In{\'e}s and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and D{\'\i}ez, {\'A}lvaro and Arjona-Valladares, Antonio and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Mart{\'\i}n-Santiago, {\'O}scar and Benito-S{\'a}nchez, Jos{\'e} Antonio and P{\'e}rez-Laureano, {\'A}ngela and Gonz{\'a}lez-Parra, David and Montes-Gonzalo, Carmen and Melero-Lerma, Raquel and Fern{\'a}ndez Morante, Sonia and Sanz-Fuentenebro, Javier and G{\'o}mez-Pilar, Javier and N{\'u}{\~n}ez-Novo, Pablo and Molina, Vicente} } @conference {939, title = {Resting-state functional alterations in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 infection: an exploratory study}, booktitle = {International Headache Congress 2021}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, publisher = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, organization = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, address = {Virtual Congress}, abstract = {

Objective: To evaluate resting-state functional alterations in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 resolution.
Methods: Exploratory case-control study. Highresolution brain resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging data were acquired in patients with
persistent headache after COVID-19 infection and healthy controls (HC). CONN toolbox (version 17) was employed to assess the resting-state functional connectivity between 84 cortical and subcortical gray matter regions of interest. Significant results were considered with p \< 0.05 (Family Discovery Rate and seed-level corrected).
Results: Ten patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 (mean age: 53.8 +- 7.8 years; nine women) and 10 HC balanced for age and sex (mean age: 51.9 +- 6.6 years; nine women) were included in the study. Statistically significant higher functional connectivity was observed in the patients with persistent headache compared to HC in 10 connections. These connections were composed of an occipital region and another region that included the isthmus cingulate gyrus, a frontal or a parietal area. In the patients, significant lower functional connectivity was found in 12 connections between the cingulate and hippocampal gyri, parietal, temporal and frontal regions.
Conclusions: Patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 infection present strengthened functional connectivity with occipital regions and weakened functional connectivity between frontal, temporal and parietal regions.

}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03331024211034005}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Moro, Ra{\'u}l and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {953, title = {Search for schizophrenia and bipolar biotypes using functional network properties}, journal = {Brain and Behavior}, volume = {11}, year = {2021}, pages = {e2415}, abstract = {

Introduction: Recent studies support the identification of valid subtypes within schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using cluster analysis. Our aim was to identify meaningful biotypes of psychosis based on network properties of the electroencephalogram. We hypothesized that these parameters would be more altered in a subgroup of patients also characterized by more severe deficits in other clinical, cognitive, and biological measurements.

Methods: A clustering analysis was performed using the electroencephalogram-based network parameters derived from graph-theory obtained during a P300 task of 137 schizophrenia (of them, 35 first episodes) and 46 bipolar patients. Both prestimulus and modulation of the electroencephalogram were included in the analysis. Demographic, clinical, cognitive, structural cerebral data, and the modulation of the spectral entropy of the electroencephalogram were compared between clusters. Data from 158 healthy controls were included for further comparisons.

Results: We identified two clusters of patients. One cluster presented higher prestimulus connectivity strength, clustering coefficient, path-length, and lower small-world index compared to controls. The modulation of clustering coefficient and path-length parameters was smaller in the former cluster, which also showed an altered structural connectivity network and a widespread cortical thinning. The other cluster of patients did not show significant differences with controls in the functional network properties. No significant differences were found between patients{\textasciiacute} clusters in first episodes and bipolar proportions, symptoms scores, cognitive performance, or spectral entropy modulation.

Conclusion: These data support the existence of a subgroup within psychosis with altered global properties of functional and structural connectivity.

}, keywords = {Biotypes, bipolar disorder, diffusion, electroencephalogram, network, schizophrenia}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2415}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/brb3.2415}, author = {Fern{\'a}ndez-Linsenbarth, In{\'e}s and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Be{\~n}o-Ruiz-de-la-Sierra, Rosa M. and D{\'\i}ez, Alvaro and Arjona, Antonio and P{\'e}rez, Adela and Rodr{\'\i}guez-Lorenzana, Alberto and del Valle, Pilar and de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a, Rodrigo and Mascialino, Guido and Holgado-Madera, Pedro and Segarra-Echevarr{\'\i}a, Rafael and Gomez-Pilar, Javier and N{\'u}{\~n}ez, Pablo and Bote-Boneaechea, Berta and Zambrana-G{\'o}mez, Antonio and Roig-Herrero, Alejandro and Molina, Vicente} } @conference {938, title = {White matter microstructural alterations in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 infection: an exploratory study}, booktitle = {International Headache Congress 2021}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, publisher = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, organization = {International Headache Society \& European Headache Federation}, address = {Virtual Congress}, abstract = {

Objective: To evaluate white matter alterations in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 resolution.
Methods: Exploratory case-control study. Highresolution brain diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging data were acquired in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 infection and healthy controls (HC). Tract-Based Spatial Statistics was used to compare fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), mean diffusivity (MD), radial diffusivity (RD) and the return-to-axial (RTAP), return-to-origin (RTOP) and return-to-plane probability (RTPP) between the groups. RTAP, RTOP and RTPP were obtained with a new approach called AMURA (https://www.lpi.tel.uva.es/AMURA). Significant results were considered with p \< 0.05 (Family-Wise Error corrected) and region size larger than 30 mm3.
Results: Ten patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 (mean age: 53.8 +- 7.8 years; nine women) and 10 HC balanced for age and sex (mean age: 53.1 +- 7.0 years; nine women) were included in the study. Significant higher AD and lower RTPP values were found in patients with persistent headache compared to HC in five regions from the corona radiata, and the external and internal capsule. In the patients, significant lower RTPP values were identified in six additional areas from the same tracts and the superior longitudinal fasciculus. No additional changes were found.
Conclusions: White matter axonal alterations are present in patients with persistent headache after COVID-19 infection.

}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/03331024211034005}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Moro, Ra{\'u}l and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {946, title = {A deep learning approach for synthetic MRI based on two routine sequences and training with synthetic data}, journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine}, volume = {210}, year = {2021}, pages = {106371}, issn = {0169-2607}, doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106371}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106371}, author = {Moya-S{\'a}ez, Elisa and {\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Alberola-L{\'o}pez, Carlos} } @proceedings {856, title = {AMURA with standard single-shell acquisition can detect changes beyond the Diffusion Tensor: a migraine clinical study}, volume = {4549}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, abstract = {AMURA (Apparent Measures Using Reduced Acquisitions) is an alternative formulation to drastically reduce the number of samples needed for the estimation of diffusion properties related to the Ensemble Average diffusion Propagator (EAP). Although these measures were initially intended for medium-to-high b-values, in this work we evaluate their performance in DTI-like acquisitions. Fifty healthy controls, 54 episodic migraine (EM) and 56 chronic migraine (CM) patients were compared, using a single-shell diffusion scheme at b=1000 s/mm2. We compare AMURA measures (return-to-origin, return-to-axis and return-to-plane probabilities) to traditional DTI measures. Differences between EM and controls were only detectable using the return-to-origin probability.}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @inbook {895, title = {Alternative Diffusion Anisotropy Metric from Reduced MRI Acquisitions}, booktitle = {Computational Diffusion MRI}, year = {2020}, pages = {13{\textendash}24}, publisher = {Springer, Cham}, organization = {Springer, Cham}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Derek K. Jones} } @article {891, title = {Alternative Microstructural Measures to Complement Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Migraine Studies with Standard MRI Acquisition}, journal = {Brain Sciences}, volume = {10}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {711}, abstract = {The white matter state in migraine has been investigated using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures, but results using this technique are conflicting. To overcome DTI measures, we employed ensemble average diffusion propagator measures obtained with apparent measures using reduced acquisitions (AMURA). The AMURA measures were return-to-axis (RTAP), return-to-origin (RTOP) and return-to-plane probabilities (RTPP). Tract-based spatial statistics was used to compare fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity, axial diffusivity and radial diffusivity from DTI, and RTAP, RTOP and RTPP, between healthy controls, episodic migraine and chronic migraine patients. Fifty healthy controls, 54 patients with episodic migraine and 56 with chronic migraine were assessed. Significant differences were found between both types of migraine, with lower axial diffusivity values in 38 white matter regions and higher RTOP values in the middle cerebellar peduncle in patients with a chronic migraine (p \< 0.05 family-wise error corrected). Significantly lower RTPP values were found in episodic migraine patients compared to healthy controls in 24 white matter regions (p \< 0.05 family-wise error corrected), finding no significant differences using DTI measures. The white matter microstructure is altered in a migraine, and in chronic compared to episodic migraine. AMURA can provide additional results with respect to DTI to uncover white matter alterations in migraine.}, issn = {2076-3425}, doi = {10.3390/brainsci10100711}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/10/711}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @article {904, title = {Deep Phenotyping of Headache in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients via Principal Component Analysis}, journal = {Frontiers in Neurology}, volume = {11}, year = {2020}, pages = {1751}, abstract = {

Objectives: Headache is a common symptom in systemic infections, and one of the symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The objective of this study was to characterize the phenotype of COVID-19 headache via machine learning.Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study nested in a retrospective cohort. Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 confirmed diagnosis who described headache were included in the study. Generalized Linear Models and Principal Component Analysis were employed to detect associations between intensity and self-reported disability caused by headache, quality and topography of headache, migraine features, COVID-19 symptoms, and results from laboratory tests.Results: One hundred and six patients were included in the study, with a mean age of 56.6 {\textpm} 11.2, including 68 (64.2\%) females. Higher intensity and/or disability caused by headache were associated with female sex, fever, abnormal platelet count and leukocytosis, as well as migraine symptoms such as aggravation by physical activity, pulsating pain, and simultaneous photophobia and phonophobia. Pain in the frontal area (83.0\% of the sample), pulsating quality, higher intensity of pain, and presence of nausea were related to lymphopenia. Pressing pain and lack of aggravation by routine physical activity were linked to low C-reactive protein and procalcitonin levels.Conclusion: Intensity and disability caused by headache attributed to COVID-19 are associated with the disease state and symptoms. Two distinct headache phenotypes were observed in relation with COVID-19 status. One phenotype seems to associate migraine symptoms with hematologic and inflammatory biomarkers of severe COVID-19; while another phenotype would link tension-type headache symptoms to milder COVID-19.

}, issn = {1664-2295}, doi = {10.3389/fneur.2020.583870}, url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2020.583870}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Trigo, Javier and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Porta-Etessam, Jes{\'u}s and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David} } @proceedings {857, title = {Fewer number of gradient directions in diffusion MRI can be counterbalanced with higher sample size: a migraine clinical study}, volume = {4550}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, abstract = {The effect of changes in the acquisition parameters on Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) has been studied, but for very specific situations. A whole-brain comparison of 54 episodic migraine (EM) and 56 chronic migraine (CM) patients, using diffusion schemes of 61, 40 and 21 gradient orientations, was performed. Statistical comparisons were repeated reducing the sample size until no significant differences were found. Higher number of regions with significant lower axial diffusivity in CM compared to EM were found using 61 gradient directions. With a larger sample size, results with 40 and 21 directions were equivalent to results acquired with 61 directions.}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {892, title = {Gray Matter Structural Alterations in Chronic and Episodic Migraine: A Morphometric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study}, journal = {Pain Medicine}, volume = {21}, year = {2020}, pages = {2997-3011}, abstract = {

This study evaluates different parameters describing the gray matter structure to analyze differences between healthy controls, patients with episodic migraine, and patients with chronic migraine.Cohort study.Spanish community.Fifty-two healthy controls, 57 episodic migraine patients, and 57 chronic migraine patients were included in the study and underwent T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging acquisition.Eighty-four cortical and subcortical gray matter regions were extracted, and gray matter volume, cortical curvature, thickness, and surface area values were computed (where applicable). Correlation analysis between clinical features and structural parameters was performed.Statistically significant differences were found between all three groups, generally consisting of increases in cortical curvature and decreases in gray matter volume, cortical thickness, and surface area in migraineurs with respect to healthy controls. Furthermore, differences were also found between chronic and episodic migraine. Significant correlations were found between duration of migraine history and several structural parameters.Migraine is associated with structural alterations in widespread gray matter regions of the brain. Moreover, the results suggest that the pattern of differences between healthy controls and episodic migraine patients is qualitatively different from that occurring between episodic and chronic migraine patients.

}, issn = {1526-2375}, doi = {10.1093/pm/pnaa271}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnaa271}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {843, title = {Identificacion of MRI-based psychosis subtypes: Replication and refinement}, journal = {Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry}, volume = {100}, year = {2020}, pages = {109907}, abstract = {

The identification of the cerebral substrates of psychoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder is likely hampered by its biological heterogeneity, which may contribute to the low replication of results in the field. In this study we aimed to replicate in a completely new sample and supplement the results of a previous study with additional data on this topic. In the aforementioned study we identified a schizophrenia cluster characterized by high mean cortical curvature and low cortical thickness, subcortical hypometabolism and progressive negative symptoms. Here, we have used magnetic resonance images from 61 schizophrenia and 28 bipolar patients, as well as 51 healthy controls and a cluster analysis to search for possible subgroups primarily characterized by cerebral structural data. Diffusion tensor imaging (fractional anisotropy, FA), cognition, clinical data and electroencephalographic (EEG) modulation during a P300 task were used to validate the possible clusters. Two clusters of patients were identified. The first cluster (29 schizophrenia and 18 bipolar patients) showed decreased cortical thickness and area values, as well as lower subcortical volumes and higher cortical curvature in some regions, as compared to the second cluster. This first cluster also showed decreased FA in frontal lobe connections and worse cognitive performance. Although this cluster also showed longer illness duration, there were first episode patients in both clusters and treatment doses and types were not different between clusters. Both clusters of patients showed decreased EEG task-related modulation. In conclusion, our data give additional support to a distinct biologically based cluster encompassing schizophrenia and bipolar disorder patients with cortical and subcortical alterations, hampered cortical connectivity and lower cognitive performance.

}, keywords = {Biotypes, Cortical thickness, Curvature, Subtypes, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia}, issn = {0278-5846}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.109907}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278584619309595}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Lubeiro, Alba and N{\'u}{\~n}ez-Novo, Pablo and Gomez-Pilar, Javier and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and del Valle, Pilar and Mart{\'\i}n-Santiago, {\'O}scar and P{\'e}rez-Escudero, Adela and Vicente Molina} } @article {854, title = {Integration of an Intelligent Tutoring System in a Magnetic Resonance Simulator for Education: Technical Feasibility and User Experience}, journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine}, year = {2020}, pages = {105634}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105634}, url = {https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bM7z_3sJeWiZh}, author = {Trece{\~n}o-Fern{\'a}ndez, Daniel and Calabia-del-Campo, Juan and Bote-Lorenzo, Miguel L and G{\'o}mez-S{\'a}nchez, Eduardo and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Alberola-L{\'o}pez, Carlos} } @article {890, title = {Longitudinal evaluation of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Spain}, journal = {Journal of Affective Disorders}, volume = {277}, year = {2020}, pages = {842-849}, abstract = {Background: Strict confinement and social distancing measures have been imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries. The aim was to assess the temporal evolution of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown from two surveys, separated by one month, performed in Spain. Methods: Symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress, and the psychological impact of the situation were longitudinally analyzed using the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) and the Impact of Event Scale (IES) respectively. Results: There was a total of 4,724 responses from both surveys. Symptomatic scores of anxiety, depression and stress were exhibited by 37.22\%, 46.42\% and 49.66\% of the second survey respondents, showing a significant increase compared to the first survey (32.45\%, 44.11\% and 37.01\%, respectively). There was no significant longitudinal change of the IES scores, with 48.30\% of the second survey participants showing moderate to severe impact of the confinement. Constant news consumption about COVID-19 was found to be positively associated with symptomatic scores in the different scales, and daily physical activity to be negatively associated with DASS-21 scores. Conclusions: Results indicated a temporal increase of anxiety, depression and stress scores during the COVID-19 lockdown. Factors such as age, consumption of information about COVID-19 and physical activity seem to have an important impact on the evolution of psychological symptoms.}, keywords = {Anxiety, COVID-19, Depression, Longitudinal study, Post-traumatic, Psychological, Stress, Stress disorders}, issn = {0165-0327}, doi = {10.1016/j.jad.2020.09.018}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032720327130}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Odriozola-Gonz{\'a}lez, Paula and Irurtia, Mar{\'\i}a Jes{\'u}s and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {844, title = {Micro-structure diffusion scalar measures from reduced MRI acquisitions}, journal = {PLOS ONE}, volume = {15}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {1-25}, abstract = {

In diffusion MRI, the Ensemble Average diffusion Propagator (EAP) provides relevant micro-structural information and meaningful descriptive maps of the white matter previously obscured by traditional techniques like Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). The direct estimation of the EAP, however, requires a dense sampling of the Cartesian q-space involving a huge amount of samples (diffusion gradients) for proper reconstruction. A collection of more efficient techniques have been proposed in the last decade based on parametric representations of the EAP, but they still imply acquiring a large number of diffusion gradients with different b-values (shells). Paradoxically, this has come together with an effort to find scalar measures gathering all the q-space micro-structural information probed in one single index or set of indices. Among them, the return-to-origin (RTOP), return-to-plane (RTPP), and return-to-axis (RTAP) probabilities have rapidly gained popularity. In this work, we propose the so-called {\textquotedblleft}Apparent Measures Using Reduced Acquisitions{\textquotedblright} (AMURA) aimed at computing scalar indices that can mimic the sensitivity of state of the art EAP-based measures to micro-structural changes. AMURA drastically reduces both the number of samples needed and the computational complexity of the estimation of diffusion properties by assuming the diffusion anisotropy is roughly independent from the radial direction. This simplification allows us to compute closed-form expressions from single-shell information, so that AMURA remains compatible with standard acquisition protocols commonly used even in clinical practice. Additionally, the analytical form of AMURA-based measures, as opposed to the iterative, non-linear reconstruction ubiquitous to full EAP techniques, turns the newly introduced apparent RTOP, RTPP, and RTAP both robust and efficient to compute.

}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0229526}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229526}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Maryam Afzali and Molendowska, Malwina and Tomasz Pieciak and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega} } @article {850, title = {Psychological effects of the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown among students and workers of a Spanish university}, journal = {Psychiatry Research}, volume = {290}, year = {2020}, pages = {113108}, abstract = {The aim of this study was to analyze the psychological impact of COVID-19 in the university community during the first weeks of confinement. A cross-sectional study was conducted. The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) was employed to assess symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. The emotional impact of the situation was analyzed using the Impact of Event Scale. An online survey was fulfilled by 2530 members of the University of Valladolid, in Spain. Moderate to extremely severe scores of anxiety, depression, and stress were reported by 21.34\%, 34.19\% and 28.14\% of the respondents, respectively. A total of 50.43\% of respondents presented moderate to severe impact of the outbreak. Students from Arts \& Humanities and Social Sciences \& Law showed higher scores related to anxiety, depression, stress and impact of event with respect to students from Engineering \& Architecture. University staff presented lower scores in all measures compared to students, who seem to have suffered an important psychological impact during the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown. In order to provide timely crisis-oriented psychological services and to take preventive measures in future pandemic situations, mental health in university students should be carefully monitored.}, keywords = {Anxiety, Depression, Psychological impact, Stress, University students}, issn = {0165-1781}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113108}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178120313147}, author = {Odriozola-Gonz{\'a}lez, Paula and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Irurtia, Mar{\'\i}a Jes{\'u}s and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {889, title = {Psychological symptoms of the outbreak of the COVID-19 confinement in Spain}, journal = {Journal of Health Psychology}, year = {2020}, pages = {1359105320967086}, abstract = {We studied the short-term psychological effects of the COVID-19 crisis and the quarantine on 3550 adults from the Spanish population in a cross-sectional survey. Symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress were analyzed using the 21-item version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale. Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder were analyzed using the Impact of Event Scale. Symptomatic scores of anxiety, depression, and stress were observed in 20\% to 30\% of respondents. Symptomatic scores indicating psychological stress were found in 47.5\% of respondents. Similar to the findings of other multiple studies, confinement has been found to have significant emotional impact in the Spanish population.}, issn = {1359-1053}, doi = {10.1177/1359105320967086}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320967086}, author = {Odriozola-Gonz{\'a}lez, Paula and {\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Irurtia, Mar{\'\i}a Jes{\'u}s and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {903, title = {Response prediction for chronic migraine preventive treatment by gray matter morphometry in magnetic resonance imaging: a pilot study}, journal = {Revista de Neurologia}, volume = {71}, year = {2020}, pages = {399-406}, doi = {10.33588/rn.7111.2020488}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Ant{\'o}n-Juarros, Saray and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {826, title = {Structural connectivity alterations in chronic and episodic migraine: A diffusion magnetic resonance imaging connectomics study}, journal = {Cephalalgia}, volume = {40}, year = {2020}, pages = {367-383}, abstract = {

OBJECTIVE:

To identify possible structural connectivity alterations in patients with episodic and chronic migraine using magnetic resonance imaging data.

METHODS:

Fifty-four episodic migraine, 56 chronic migraine patients and 50 controls underwent T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging acquisitions. Number of streamlines (trajectories of estimated fiber-tracts), mean fractional anisotropy, axial diffusivity and radial diffusivity were the connectome measures. Correlation analysis between connectome measures and duration and frequency of migraine was performed.

RESULTS:

Higher and lower number of streamlines were found in connections involving regions like the superior frontal gyrus when comparing episodic and chronic migraineurs with controls (p \< .05 false discovery rate). Between the left caudal anterior cingulate and right superior frontal gyri, more streamlines were found in chronic compared to episodic migraine. Higher and lower fractional anisotropy, axial diffusivity, and radial diffusivity were found between migraine groups and controls in connections involving regions like the hippocampus. Lower radial diffusivity and axial diffusivity were found in chronic compared to episodic migraine in connections involving regions like the putamen. In chronic migraine, duration of migraine was positively correlated with fractional anisotropy and axial diffusivity.

CONCLUSIONS:

Structural strengthening of connections involving subcortical regions associated with pain processing and weakening in connections involving cortical regions associated with hyperexcitability may coexist in migraine

}, keywords = {Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Migraine, chronic migraine, connectomics, diffusion-weighted imaging, tractography}, doi = {10.1177/0333102419885392}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {841, title = {A Web-Based Educational Magnetic Resonance Simulator: Design, Implementation and Testing}, journal = {Journal of Medical Systems}, volume = {44}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {9}, author = {Trece{\~n}o-Fern{\'a}ndez, Daniel and Calabia-del-Campo, Juan and Bote-Lorenzo, Miguel L and S{\'a}nchez, Eduardo G{\'o}mez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Alberola-L{\'o}pez, Carlos} } @article {837, title = {White matter changes in chronic and episodic migraine: a diffusion tensor imaging study}, journal = {The Journal of Headache and Pain}, volume = {21}, year = {2020}, pages = {1}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

BACKGROUND:

White matter alterations have been observed in patients with migraine. However, no microstructural white matter alterations have been found particularly in episodic or chronic migraine patients, and there is limited research focused on the comparison between these two groups of migraine patients.

METHODS:

Fifty-one healthy controls, 55 episodic migraine patients and 57 chronic migraine patients were recruited and underwent brain T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted MRI acquisition. Using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS), fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity, radial diffusivity and axial diffusivity were compared between the different groups. On the one hand, all migraine patients were compared against healthy controls. On the other hand, patients from each migraine group were compared between them and also against healthy controls. Correlation analysis between clinical features (duration of migraine in years, time from onset of chronic migraine in months, where applicable, and headache and migraine frequency, where applicable) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging measures was performed.

RESULTS:

Fifty healthy controls, 54 episodic migraine and 56 chronic migraine patients were finally included in the analysis. Significant decreased axial diffusivity (p \< .05 false discovery rate and by number of contrasts corrected) was found in chronic migraine compared to episodic migraine in 38 white matter regions from the Johns Hopkins University ICBM-DTI-81 White-Matter Atlas. Significant positive correlation was found between time from onset of chronic migraine and mean fractional anisotropy in the bilateral external capsule, and negative correlation between time from onset of chronic migraine and mean radial diffusivity in the bilateral external capsule.

CONCLUSIONS:

These findings suggest global white matter structural differences between episodic migraine and chronic migraine. Patients with chronic migraine could present axonal integrity impairment in the first months of chronic migraine with respect to episodic migraine patients. White matter changes after the onset of chronic migraine might reflect a set of maladaptive plastic changes.

}, keywords = {Diffusion tensor imaging, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Migraine, Tract-based spatial statistics, chronic migraine}, doi = {10.1186/s10194-019-1071-3}, url = {https://thejournalofheadacheandpain.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s10194-019-1071-3}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {817, title = {Optimized Diffusion-Weighting Gradient Waveform Design (ODGD) formulation for motion compensation and concomitant gradient nulling}, journal = {Magnetic resonance in medicine}, volume = {81}, year = {2019}, pages = {989{\textendash}1003}, author = {{\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Zhang, Yuxin and Wang, Xiaoke and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Holmes, James H and Hernando, Diego} } @proceedings {809, title = {Reduced Eddy Current induced image distortions and Peripheral Nerve Stimulation based on the Optimal Diffusion-weighting Gradient Waveform Design (ODGD) formulation}, volume = {3488}, year = {2019}, abstract = {

Diffusion-Weighted MRI (DW-MRI) often suffers from signal attenuation due to long TE, motion-related artefacts, dephasing due to concomitant gradients (CGs), and image distortions due to eddy currents (ECs). Further, the application of rapidly switching gradients may cause peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS). These challenges hinder the progress, application and interpretability of DW-MRI. Therefore, based on the Optimized Diffusion-weighting Gradient waveforms Design (ODGD) formulation, in this work we design optimal (minimum TE) nth-order moment-nulling diffusion-weighting gradient waveforms with or without CG-nulling able to reduce EC induced distortions and PNS-effects. We assessed the feasibility of these waveforms in simulations and phantom experiments.

}, author = {{\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Yuxin Zhang and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and James H. Holmes and Diego Hernando} } @conference {815, title = {Single-Shell Return-to-the-Origin Probability Diffusion Mri Measure Under a Non-Stationary Rician Distributed Noise}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2019)}, year = {2019}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Tomasz Pieciak and Bogusz, Fabian and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @conference {821, title = {White Matter Alterations in Chronic Migraine: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Structural Connectivity Study}, booktitle = {19th International Headache Congress International Headache Society}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, publisher = {Cephalalgia}, organization = {Cephalalgia}, address = {Dublin, Ireland}, abstract = {

Objective: White matter alterations have been observed in patients with migraine. However, no microstructural white matter alterations have been found particularly in Episodic Migraine (EM) with respect to Chronic Migraine (CM) patients. In this study, we investigated whether there are significant differences between EM and CM, and between these groups and healthy controls, using diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) data.
Methods: We acquired high-resolution 3D brain T1-weighted and dMRI from 51 Healthy Controls (HC), 55 EM patients and 57 CM patients. Using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics, we compared Fractional Anisotropy (FA), Mean Diffusivity (MD), Radial Diffusivity (RD) and Axial Diffusivity (AD) between the different groups. We also obtained structural connectome matrices for each subject employing both dMRI and T1-weighted acquisitions. Number of streamlines, mean FA and mean AD for each white matter connection were compared between the three groups.
Results: Significant decreased AD (p \<.05 Family Wise Error corrected and volume \>30 mm3) were found in CM compared to EM in 38 white matter regions. Significant differences in the number of streamlines were found in 18 connections from the connectome when comparing migraine patients with healthy controls (p \<.05 False Discovery Rate corrected); significant differences were also found between CM and EM in one of these connections. Furthermore, significant differences in FA and AD were found in three and four connections from the connectome respectively (p \<.05 False Discovery Rate corrected); significant differences were also found between CM and EM in two of AD connections.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest global white matter structural differences between EM and CM, and structural connectivity alterations in migraine patients with respect to healthy controls, and in CM compared to EM.
Disclosure of Interest: None Declared.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0333102419859835}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0333102419859835}, author = {{\'A}lvaro Planchuelo-G{\'o}mez and Garc{\'\i}a-Azor{\'\i}n, David and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Margarita and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {794, title = {Longitudinal Connectomes as a Candidate Progression Marker for Prodromal Parkinson{\textquoteright}s Disease}, journal = {Frontiers in Neuroscience}, volume = {12}, year = {2018}, pages = {967}, author = {{\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Ellmore, Timothy Michael and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Suescun, Jessika and Schiess, Mya Caryn and Giancardo, Luca} } @conference {804, title = {Mapping Raw Acceleration Data on ActiGraph Counts: A Machine Learning Approach}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality}, year = {2018}, publisher = {ACM}, organization = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {ActiGraph, Actimetry, Microsoft Band 2, counts}, isbn = {978-1-4503-6518-5}, doi = {10.1145/3284179.3284260}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3284179.3284260}, author = {Mart{\'\i}n-Gonz{\'a}lez, Elena and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera and Garmendia-Leiza, J. R. and Jesus Maria Andres-de-Llano and Alberola-L{\'o}pez, Carlos} } @proceedings {760, title = {Optimal Diffusion-weighting Gradient Waveform Design (ODGD): Formulation and Experimental Validation}, year = {2018}, pages = {685}, address = {Paris, France}, author = {{\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Yuxin Zhang and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and James H. Holmes and Diego Hernando} } @article {793, title = {Optimized Diffusion-Weighting Gradient Waveform Design (ODGD) formulation for motion compensation and concomitant gradient nulling}, journal = {Magnetic resonance in medicine}, year = {2018}, author = {{\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Zhang, Yuxin and Wang, Xiaoke and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Holmes, James H and Hernando, Diego} } @proceedings {759, title = {Return-to-the-origin probability calculation in single shell acquisitions}, year = {2018}, pages = {1414}, address = {Paris, France}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Malwina Molendowska and Tomasz Pieciak and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {781, title = {Scalar diffusion-MRI measures invariant to acquisition parameters: A first step towards imaging biomarkers}, journal = {Magnetic Resonance Imaging}, volume = {54}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {194 - 213}, issn = {0730-725X}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2018.03.001}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0730725X18300262}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Tomasz Pieciak and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Gonzalo Vegas-S{\'a}nchez-Ferrero and Vicente Molina and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @article {761, title = {Topography of activation deficits in schizophrenia during P300 task related to cognition and structural connectivity}, journal = {European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience}, year = {2018}, month = {Feb}, issn = {1433-8491}, doi = {10.1007/s00406-018-0877-3}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-018-0877-3}, author = {Vicente Molina and Bachiller, Alejandro and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Lubeiro, Alba and Poza, Jes{\'u}s and Hornero, Roberto and Alonso, Joan Francesc and Ma{\~n}anas, Miguel Angel and Marqu{\'e}s, Patricia and Romero, Sergio} } @article {749, title = {Vortical Features for Myocardial Rotation Assessment in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy using Cardiac Tagged Magnetic Resonance}, journal = {Medical Image Analysis}, volume = {In Press}, year = {2018}, month = {04/2018}, type = {Original Article}, abstract = {

Left ventricular rotational motion is a feature of normal and diseased cardiac function. However, classical torsion and twist measures rely on the definition of a rotational axis which may not exist. This paper reviews global and local rotation descriptors of myocardial motion and introduces new curl-based (vortical) features built from tensorial magnitudes, intended to provide better comprehension about fibrotic tissue characteristics mechanical properties. Fifty-six cardiomyopathy patients and twenty-two healthy volunteers have been studied using tagged magnetic resonance by means of harmonic phase analysis. Rotation descriptors are built, with no assumption about a regular geometrical model, from different approaches. The extracted vortical features have been tested by means of a sequential cardiomyopathy classification procedure; they have proven useful for the regional characterization of the left ventricular function by showing great separability not only between pathologic and healthy patients but also, and specifically, between heterogeneous phenotypes within cardiomyopathies.

}, doi = {10.1016/j.media.2018.03.005}, author = {Santiago Sanz-Est{\'e}banez and Lucilio Cordero-Grande and T. Sevilla-Ruiz and A. Revilla-Orodea and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and M Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {723, title = {Determination of the optimal set of b-values for ADC mapping under a Rician noise assumption}, year = {2017}, pages = {3341}, address = {Honolulu, HI, USA}, abstract = {

Mapping of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), estimated from a set of diffusion-weighted (DW) images acquired with different b-values, often suffers from low SNR, which can introduce large variance in ADC maps. Unfortunately, there is no consensus on the optimal b-values to maximize the noise performance of ADC map. In this work, we determine the optimal b-values to maximize the noise performance of ADC mapping by using a Cram{\'e}r-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) approach under realistic noise assumptions. The strong agreement between the CRLB-based analysis, Monte-Carlo simulations, and ADC phantom experiment, suggests the utility of this approach to optimize DW-MRI acquisitions.

}, author = {{\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Diego Hernando and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @conference {689, title = {Effect of sampling on the estimation of the apparent coefficient of diffusion in MRI}, booktitle = {ICASSP 2017}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, publisher = {IEEE signal processing Society}, organization = {IEEE signal processing Society}, address = {New Orleans, LA}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and {\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @conference {700, title = {Groupwise Non-Rigid Registration on Multiparametric Abdominal DWI Acquisitions for Robust ADC Estimation: Comparison with Pairwise Approaches and Different Multimodal Metrics}, booktitle = {International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (ISBI2017)}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, address = {Melbourne, Australia}, abstract = {

Registration of diffusion weighted datasets remains a challenging\ task in the process of quantifying diffusion indexes.\ Respiratory and cardiac motion, as well as echo-planar characteristic\ geometric distortions, may greatly limit accuracy on\ parameter estimation, specially for the liver. This work proposes\ a methodology for the non-rigid registration of multiparametric\ abdominal diffusion weighted imaging by using\ different well-known metrics under the groupwise paradigm.\ A three-stage validation of the methodology is carried out on\ a computational diffusion phantom, a watery solution phantom\ and a set of voluntary patients. Diffusion estimation\ accuracy has been directly calculated on the computational\ phantom and indirectly by means of a residual analysis on\ the real data. On the other hand, effectiveness in distortion\ correction has been measured on the phantom. Results have\ shown statistical significant improvements compared to pairwise\ registration being able to cope with elastic deformations.

}, author = {Santiago Sanz-Est{\'e}banez and {\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {724, title = {Optimal design of motion-compensated diffusion gradient waveforms }, year = {2017}, pages = {3340}, address = {Honolulu, HI, USA}, abstract = {

Diffusion-Weighted MRI (DW-MRI) often suffers from motion-related artifacts in organs that experience physiological motion. Importantly, organ motion during the application of diffusion gradients results in signal losses, which complicate image interpretation and bias quantitative measures. Motion-compensated gradient designs have been proposed, however they typically result in substantially lower b-values or severe concomitant gradient effects. In this work, we develop an approach for design of first- and second-order motion-compensated gradient waveforms based on a b-value maximization formulation including concomitant gradient nulling, and we compare it to existing techniques. The proposed design provides optimized b-values with motion compensation and concomitant gradient nulling.

}, author = {{\'O}scar Pe{\~n}a-Nogales and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Yuxin Zhang and James H. Holmes and Diego Hernando} } @article {de2014attention, title = {Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Medication with Stimulants in Young Children: A DTI Study}, journal = {Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry}, volume = {57}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Elsevier}, chapter = {176}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.10.014}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Cab{\'u}s-Pi{\~n}ol, Gemma and Imaz-Roncero, Carlos and Daniel Argibay-Qui{\~n}ones and Gonzalo Barrio-Arranz and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {567, title = {Impact of MR Acquisition Parameters on DTI Scalar Indexes: A Tractography Based Approach}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, volume = {10}, year = {2015}, pages = {e0137905}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0137905}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371\%2Fjournal.pone.0137905}, author = {Gonzalo Barrio-Arranz and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Marcos Mart{\'\i}n-Fern{\'a}ndez and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @article {476, title = {Localized abnormalities in the cingulum bundle in patients with schizophrenia: A Diffusion Tensor tractography study}, journal = {NeuroImage: Clinical}, volume = {5}, year = {2014}, pages = {93{\textendash}99}, abstract = {

The cingulum bundle (CB) connects gray matter structures of the limbic system and as such has been implicated in the etiology of schizophrenia. There is growing evidence to suggest that the CB is actually comprised of a conglomeration of discrete sub-connections. The present study aimed to use Diffusion Tensor tractography to subdivide the CB into its constituent sub-connections, and to investigate the structural integrity of these sub-connections in patients with schizophrenia and matched healthy controls. Diffusion Tensor Imaging scans were acquired from 24 patients diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia and 26 matched healthy controls. Deterministic tractography was used in conjunction with FreeSurfer-based regions-of-interest to subdivide the CB into 5 sub-connections (I1 to I5). The patients with schizophrenia exhibited subnormal levels of FA in two cingulum sub-connections, specifically the fibers connecting the rostral and caudal anterior cingulate gyrus (I1) and the fibers connecting the isthmus of the cingulate with the parahippocampal cortex (I4). Furthermore, while FA in the I1 sub-connection was correlated with the severity of patients{\textquoteright} positive symptoms (specifically hallucinations and delusions), FA in the I4 sub-connection was correlated with the severity of patients{\textquoteright} negative symptoms (specifically affective flattening and anhedonia/asociality). These results support the notion that the CB is a conglomeration of structurally interconnected yet functionally distinct sub-connections, of which only a subset are abnormal in patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, while acknowledging the fact that the present study only investigated the CB, these results suggest that the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia may have distinct neurobiological underpinnings.

}, author = {Whitford, Thomas J and Lee, Sun Woo and Oh, Jungsu S and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Savadjiev, Peter and Alvarado, Jorge L and Carl-Fredik Westin and Niznikiewicz, Margaret and Nestor, Paul G and McCarley, Robert W} } @article {de2014white, title = {White matter abnormalities in chronic migraine patients are located in anterior corpus callosum: study using a new automatic tractography selection method}, journal = {EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY}, volume = {21}, year = {2014}, pages = {51{\textendash}51}, publisher = {WILEY-BLACKWELL 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA}, author = {De la Cruz, C and {\'A}ngel L. Guerrero and Penas, ML and Daniel Argibay-Qui{\~n}ones and Jose M Sierra and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @conference {vegas2013anisotropic, title = {Anisotropic diffusion filtering for correlated multiple-coil MRI}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2013}, pages = {2956{\textendash}2959}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Gonzalo Vegas-S{\'a}nchez-Ferrero and Gabriel Ramos-Llorden and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez} } @conference {de2013atlas, title = {Atlas-based segmentation of white matter structures from DTI using tensor invariants and orientation}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2013}, pages = {503{\textendash}506}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Gonzalo Vegas-S{\'a}nchez-Ferrero and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {de2013geometrical, title = {Geometrical constraints for robust tractography selection}, journal = {NeuroImage}, volume = {81}, year = {2013}, pages = {26{\textendash}48}, publisher = {Academic Press}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {aja2013noise, title = {Noise estimation in magnetic resonance SENSE reconstructed data}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2013}, pages = {1104{\textendash}1107}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Gonzalo Vegas-S{\'a}nchez-Ferrero and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega} } @conference {aja2013quantitative, title = {Quantitative Diffusion MRI in the Presence of Noise: Effects of Filtering and Fitting Technique}, booktitle = {Quantitative Medical Imaging}, year = {2013}, pages = {QTu2G{\textendash}2}, publisher = {Optical Society of America}, organization = {Optical Society of America}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Hernando, Diego} } @conference {aja2013robust, title = {Robust estimation of MRI myocardial perfusion parameters}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2013}, pages = {4382{\textendash}4385}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Lucilio Cordero-Grande and Gonzalo Vegas-S{\'a}nchez-Ferrero and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @inbook {de2012choice, title = {On the choice of a tensor distance for DTI white matter segmentation}, booktitle = {New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields}, year = {2012}, pages = {283{\textendash}306}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @article {de2011gaussian, title = {Gaussian mixtures on tensor fields for segmentation: Applications to medical imaging}, journal = {Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics}, volume = {35}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, pages = {16{\textendash}30}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carl-Fredik Westin and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {cordero2011groupwise, title = {Groupwise myocardial alignment in magnetic resonance perfusion sequences}, year = {2011}, pages = {437{\textendash}440}, author = {Lucilio Cordero-Grande and S. Merino-Caviedes and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {de2010tractography, title = {Tractography clustering for fiber selection in ROI-based diffusion tensor studies}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2010}, pages = {5665{\textendash}5668}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {martin2009automatic, title = {Automatic articulated registration of hand radiographs}, journal = {Image and Vision Computing}, volume = {27}, number = {8}, year = {2009}, pages = {1207{\textendash}1222}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Miguel Angel Martin-Fernandez and Rub{\'e}n C{\'a}rdenes-Almeida and Emma Mu{\~n}oz-Moreno and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {478, title = {Automatic segmentation of white matter structures from DTI using tensor invariants and tensor orientation}, booktitle = {Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med}, year = {2009}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Lopez, C Alberola and Kindlmann, G and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @inbook {de2009segmentation, title = {Segmentation of tensor fields: Recent advances and perspectives}, booktitle = {Tensors in Image Processing and Computer Vision}, year = {2009}, pages = {35{\textendash}58}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Carl-Fredik Westin} } @book {aja2009tensors, title = {Tensors in image processing and computer vision}, year = {2009}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Tao, Dacheng and Li, Xuelong} } @article {477, title = {A multidimensional segmentation evaluation for medical image data}, journal = {Computer methods and programs in biomedicine}, volume = {96}, year = {2009}, pages = {108{\textendash}124}, abstract = {

Evaluation of segmentation methods is a crucial aspect in image processing, especially in the medical imaging field, where small differences between segmented regions in the anatomy can be of paramount importance. Usually, segmentation evaluation is based on a measure that depends on the number of segmented voxels inside and outside of some reference regions that are called gold standards. Although some other measures have been also used, in this work we propose a set of new similarity measures, based on different features, such as the location and intensity values of the misclassified voxels, and the connectivity and the boundaries of the segmented data. Using the multidimensional information provided by these measures, we propose a new evaluation method whose results are visualized applying a Principal Component Analysis of the data, obtaining a simplified graphical method to compare different segmentation results. We have carried out an intensive study using several classic segmentation methods applied to a set of MRI simulated data of the brain with several noise and RF inhomogeneity levels, and also to real data, showing that the new measures proposed here and the results that we have obtained from the multidimensional evaluation, improve the robustness of the evaluation and provides better understanding about the difference between segmentation methods.

}, author = {Rub{\'e}n C{\'a}rdenes-Almeida and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Bach-Cuadra, Meritxell} } @proceedings {sosa2008strain, title = {Strain index: a new visualizing parameter for US elastography}, year = {2008}, pages = {69200W{\textendash}69200W}, publisher = {International Society for Optics and Photonics}, author = {Dario Sosa-Cabrera and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Juan Ruiz-Alzola} } @proceedings {sosa2008strain, title = {Strain index: a new visualizing parameter for US elastography}, volume = {6920}, year = {2008}, pages = {6920}, publisher = {International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999}, author = {Dario Sosa-Cabrera and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Juan Ruiz-Alzola} } @article {de2008texture, title = {Texture and color segmentation based on the combined use of the structure tensor and the image components}, journal = {Signal Processing}, volume = {88}, number = {4}, year = {2008}, pages = {776{\textendash}795}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Deriche, Rachid and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {de2007p6d, title = {Analysis of Ultrasound Images Based on Local Statistics. Application to the Diagnosis of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip}, booktitle = {Ultrasonics Symposium, 2007. IEEE}, year = {2007}, pages = {2531{\textendash}2534}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rub{\'e}n C{\'a}rdenes-Almeida and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {luis2007general, title = {General Medical Image Computing{\textendash}I-Mixtures of Gaussians on Tensor Fields for DT-MRI Segmentation}, volume = {4791}, year = {2007}, pages = {319{\textendash}326}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973-}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @inbook {de2007mixtures, title = {Mixtures of gaussians on tensor fields for DT-MRI segmentation}, booktitle = {Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention{\textendash}MICCAI 2007}, year = {2007}, pages = {319{\textendash}326}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {480, title = {Multimodal evaluation for medical image segmentation}, booktitle = {Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Rub{\'e}n C{\'a}rdenes-Almeida and Bach, Meritxell and Chi, Ying and Marras, Ioannis and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Anderson, Mats and Cashman, Peter and Bultelle, Matthieu} } @conference {479, title = {Ultrasound Based Intraoperative Brain Shift Correction}, booktitle = {Ultrasonics Symposium, 2007. IEEE}, year = {2007}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Gonz{\'a}lez, Javier and Dario Sosa-Cabrera and Ortega, Mario and Gil, Jose Antonio and Antonio Trist{\'a}n-Vega and Emma Mu{\~n}oz-Moreno and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a} } @conference {de2006parametric, title = {Parametric 3D hip joint segmentation for the diagnosis of developmental dysplasia}, booktitle = {Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS{\textquoteright}06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE}, year = {2006}, pages = {4807{\textendash}4810}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {de2005hip, title = {Hip joint segmentation from 2D ultrasound data based on dynamic shape priors}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS international conference on Electronics, control and signal processing}, year = {2005}, pages = {245{\textendash}250}, publisher = {World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)}, organization = {World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {munoz2005image, title = {Image registration based on automatic detection of anatomical landmarks for bone age assessment}, journal = {WSEAS Transactions on Computers}, volume = {4}, number = {11}, year = {2005}, pages = {1596{\textendash}1603}, author = {Emma Mu{\~n}oz-Moreno and Rub{\'e}n C{\'a}rdenes-Almeida and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Miguel Angel Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {luis2005poster, title = {Poster Presentations 2-Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Applications-Tensor Processing for Texture and Colour Segmentation}, journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {3540}, year = {2005}, pages = {1117{\textendash}1127}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1973-}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Deriche, Rachid and Rousson, Mikael and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {de2005pull, title = {Pull-Push Level Sets: A new term to encode prior knowledge for the segmentation of teeth images}, booktitle = {Medical Imaging}, year = {2005}, pages = {598{\textendash}605}, publisher = {International Society for Optics and Photonics}, organization = {International Society for Optics and Photonics}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Raul San Jose-Estepar and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @inbook {de2005tensor, title = {Tensor processing for texture and colour segmentation}, booktitle = {Image Analysis}, year = {2005}, pages = {1117{\textendash}1127}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Deriche, Rachid and Rousson, Mikael and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {429, title = {Weaning from mechanical ventilation: feature extraction from a statistical signal processing viewpoint}, booktitle = {Proc. 13th Signal Processing Conf., EUSIPCO}, year = {2005}, author = {Pablo Casaseca-de-la-Higuera and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Federico Simmross-Wattenberg and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {aja2004computational, title = {A computational TW3 classifier for skeletal maturity assessment. A Computing with Words approach}, journal = {Journal of Biomedical Informatics}, volume = {37}, number = {2}, year = {2004}, pages = {99{\textendash}107}, publisher = {Academic Press}, author = {Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Miguel Angel Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @article {de2003biometric, title = {Biometric identification systems}, journal = {Signal Processing}, volume = {83}, number = {12}, year = {2003}, pages = {2539{\textendash}2557}, publisher = {Elsevier}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Carlos Alberola-Lopez and Aghzout, Otman and Juan Ruiz-Alzola} } @conference {luis2003fully, title = {A fully automatic algorithm for contour detection of bones in hand radiographs using active contours}, booktitle = {Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on}, volume = {3}, year = {2003}, pages = {III{\textendash}421}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and J I Arribas and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @conference {luis2003fully, title = {A fully automatic algorithm for contour detection of bones in hand radiographs using active contours}, booktitle = {Image Processing, 2003. ICIP 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on}, volume = {3}, year = {2003}, pages = {III{\textendash}421}, publisher = {IEEE}, organization = {IEEE}, abstract = {This paper presents an algorithm for automatically detecting bone contours from hand radiographs using active contours. Prior knowledge is first used to locate initial contours for the snakes inside each bone of interest. Next, an adaptive snake algorithm is applied so that parameters are properly adjusted for each bone specifically. We introduce a novel truncation technique to prevent the external forces of the snake from pulling the contour outside the bones boundaries, yielding excellent results.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2003.1247271}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1247271}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and J I Arribas and Carlos Alberola L{\'o}pez} } @conference {414, title = {A fully automatic algorithm for contour detection of bones in hand radiographs using active contours}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing}, year = {2003}, address = {Barcelona}, abstract = {

This paper1 presents an algorithm for automatically detecting bone contours from hand radiographs using active contours. Prior knowledge is first used to locate initial contours for the snakes inside each bone of interest. Next, an adaptive snake algorithm is applied so that parameters are properly adjusted for each bone specifically. We introduce a novel truncation technique to prevent the external forces of the snake from pulling the contour outside the bones boundaries, yielding excelent results.

}, keywords = {Active contours, Algorithms, Bone, Cocentric circumferences, Contour measurement, Medical imaging, Object recognition, Radiography}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0344271749\&partnerID=40\&md5=5fcf06edb482cc1527b2e8d3a940065b}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and J I Arribas and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {de2003model, title = {A model-based algorithm for the automatic segmentation of metacarpals in handwrist radiographs using active contours}, year = {2003}, pages = {80{\textendash}81}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and Marcos Martin-Fernandez and Miguel Angel Martin-Fernandez and Carlos Alberola-Lopez} } @proceedings {de2002neural, title = {A neural architecture for bone age assessment}, year = {2002}, pages = {161{\textendash}166}, author = {Rodrigo de Luis-Garc{\'\i}a and J I Arribas and Santiago Aja-Fern{\'a}ndez and Lopez, C Alberola} }