Maria Altbach

Director, MRI Innovation | Professor, Medical Imaging | Professor, Biomedical Engineering | Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs | Member of the Graduate Faculty

Medical Imaging

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RFGA2023-008 New Investigator Awards (NIA)
Active·2024·$32.5K / $250K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
grant funding, early career researchers, government funding, research awards, academic support
Quantitative MRI and Deep Learning Technologies for Classification of NAFLD
Active·2022·$427.4K / $610.5K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
quantitative mri, deep learning, nafld classification, medical imaging, machine learning
Extracranial Carotid Atherosclerosis Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Risk
Active·2021·$403.7K / $5.1M·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
atherosclerosis, cognitive impairment, alzheimer's disease, carotid, extra-cranial
Development of MRI Biomarkers for Improved Risk Stratification of Patients with Carotid Atherosclerosis to Prevent Stroke
Active·2021·$277.5K / $749.9K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
mri biomarkers, risk stratification, carotid atherosclerosis, stroke prevention, medical imaging
Multi-Center Implementation and Validation of Efficient Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Analysis of Atherosclerotic Disease of the Cervical Carotid
Active·2021·$257.4K / $571.9K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
mri, atherosclerosis, disease analysis, validation

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Recent

Reducing annotation burden in MR: A novel MR-contrast guided contrastive learning approach for image segmentation

2023

mri image segmentation, contrastive learning, medical imaging, annotation efficiency, mr image analysis

Abstracts submitted in 2023

2023

conference, academic, research, submission

Imaging of osteoarthritis from the ankle through the midfoot

2023

imaging, osteoarthritis, ankle, midfoot, medical

Cancellation of streak artifacts in radial abdominal imaging using interference null space projection

2022

artifact cancellation, radial imaging, abdominal imaging, interference null space projection, streak artifacts

Rapid high-resolution volumetric T mapping using a highly accelerated stack-of-stars Look Locker technique

2021

magnetic resonance imaging, medical imaging, quantitative imaging, image reconstruction, accelerated imaging

Improving subspace constrained radial fast spin echo MRI using block matching driven non-local low rank regularization

2021

mri, image processing, medical imaging, signal processing, data regularization

Improved Slice Coverage in Inversion Recovery Radial Balanced-SSFP using DeeLearning

2021

mri, medical imaging, deep learning, cardiology, signal processing

A Stacked Generalization of 3D Orthogonal DeeLearning Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Detection of White Matter Hyperintensities in 3D FLAIR Images

2021

neural networks, medical imaging, deep learning, image processing, medical diagnostics

Abdominal T2-Weighted Imaging and T2 Mapping Using a Variable FliAngle Radial Turbo Spin-Echo Technique

2021

abdominal imaging, t2 mapping, spin echo technique, mri, radiology

Presentation at the Annual ISMRM Meeting

2021

medical imaging, conference presentation, radiology, mri, healthcare technology

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Study Looks at Cancer-Preventive Effects of Anti-Diabetes Drug
2014

Contrast Agents, Molecular Imaging, and Kinetics

Tissue Characterization with Partial Volume Correction Using Highly Undersampled Data and a Joint Fitting Algorithm
2020·Patent
System and Method for Streak Reduction in MRI
2020·Technology
System and Method for Image Processing with Highly Undersampled Imaging Data
2019·Patent
Radial Streaking Artifact Reduction Using Phased Array Beamforming
2018·Technology
T2 Relaxometry with Indirect Echo Compensation from Highly Undersampled Data
2012·Technology

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Maria Altbach

Research Area

Grants(16)

RFGA2023-008 New Investigator Awards (NIA)

Quantitative MRI and Deep Learning Technologies for Classification of NAFLD

Extracranial Carotid Atherosclerosis Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease Risk

Development of MRI Biomarkers for Improved Risk Stratification of Patients with Carotid Atherosclerosis to Prevent Stroke

Multi-Center Implementation and Validation of Efficient Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Analysis of Atherosclerotic Disease of the Cervical Carotid

Publications(104)

Reducing annotation burden in MR: A novel MR-contrast guided contrastive learning approach for image segmentation

Abstracts submitted in 2023

Imaging of osteoarthritis from the ankle through the midfoot

Cancellation of streak artifacts in radial abdominal imaging using interference null space projection

Rapid high-resolution volumetric T mapping using a highly accelerated stack-of-stars Look Locker technique

Improving subspace constrained radial fast spin echo MRI using block matching driven non-local low rank regularization

Improved Slice Coverage in Inversion Recovery Radial Balanced-SSFP using DeeLearning

A Stacked Generalization of 3D Orthogonal DeeLearning Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Detection of White Matter Hyperintensities in 3D FLAIR Images

Abdominal T2-Weighted Imaging and T2 Mapping Using a Variable FliAngle Radial Turbo Spin-Echo Technique

Presentation at the Annual ISMRM Meeting

Collaborations(56)

H-H. Sherry Chow

Cynthia Thomson

Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz

Denise Roe

Janko Nikolich

News(1)

Study Looks at Cancer-Preventive Effects of Anti-Diabetes Drug

Courses(1)

Contrast Agents, Molecular Imaging, and Kinetics

Techs/Patents(8)

Tissue Characterization with Partial Volume Correction Using Highly Undersampled Data and a Joint Fitting Algorithm

System and Method for Streak Reduction in MRI

System and Method for Image Processing with Highly Undersampled Imaging Data

Radial Streaking Artifact Reduction Using Phased Array Beamforming

T2 Relaxometry with Indirect Echo Compensation from Highly Undersampled Data